Ad Analytics Security Breach

On Halloween night, one of our analytics providers (PageFair) suffered a security breach, allowing an attacker to take advantage of the hole and consequently serve an ad that claimed your Flash plugin was out of date and that you should update. This then lead to adware/malware installers that, well, then would attempt to attack you….

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Meet Rufus Cuff, a “Tablet” for Your Wrist

USA Today has posted an interesting write-up about Rufus Cuff, a communicator users wear on their wrist. The device sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen, making it bulkier than a smart watch but smaller than a tablet. Rufus Cuff’s overall dimensions are actually larger than that to make room for the 1175mAh rechargeable battery, speaker, front-facing camera,…

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Rumor: Windows 10 “Threshold 2” Finalized This Week

Unnamed insiders told Paul Thurrott that Microsoft is expected to green-light Threshold 2 this week. Unfortunately, they weren’t exactly forthcoming with a release date, but said that Microsoft is expected to finalize the “bits” this week and prepare the update for mass consumption. Microsoft is also not commenting on when the “upcoming update” will be…

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MPAA Claims Victory Against Popcorn Time

Official Popcorn Time fork shuts down The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is trumpeting a victory in the war against piracy and it wants the world to know about it. Specifically, it managed to shut down the official Popcorn Time fork and YTS, a torrent site serving up copyrighted movies and TV shows, through…

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Technolust: Eyes and Ears of the Beholder

A laptop like no other, a set of speaker like you’ve never seen before and a dream drone The laptop I’ve been waiting for isn’t even really a laptop, the speakers I want I could never afford, and the video-capable quadcopter I want is for professionals. All seems perfectly fair. Microsoft Surface Book Let me…

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