Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app, which Apple banned earlier this year after the app violated its rules. TechCrunch reports: The social media giant said in a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office — which TechCrunch obtained — that it collected data on 31,000 users in the U.S., including 4,300 teenagers….
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Firefox Starts Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today announced a slew of privacy improvements. The company has turned on Enhanced Tracking Protection, which blocks cookies from third-party trackers in Firefox, by default. Mozilla has also improved its Facebook Container extension, released a Firefox desktop extension for its rebranded Lockwise password keeper, and updated Firefox Monitor with a dashboard for multiple email addresses. Mozilla…
Maine Lawmakers Pass Bill To Prevent ISPs From Selling Browsing Data Without Consent
Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. From a report: The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives 96-45 in favor of the bill. The bill, if signed into law by state governor Janet Mills, will force the national and…
Mobile Chrome, Safari and Firefox Failed To Show Phishing Warnings For More Than a Year
An anonymous reader writes: For more than a year, mobile browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari failed to show any phishing warnings to users, according to a research paper published this week. “We identified a gaping hole in the protection of top mobile web browsers,” the research team said. “Shockingly, mobile Chrome, Safari, and Firefox failed to show any blacklist…
People are live-streaming new Game of Thrones episodes on Twitch every week
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18485658/game-of-thrones-season-8-twitch-stream-hbo-now…
Check if your browser uses Secure DNS, DNSSEC, TLS 1.3, and Encrypted SNI
Cloudflare’s Browsing Experience Security Check online tool tests the capabilities of the web browser in regards to certain privacy and security related features. For a subset of Internet users, privacy is of […]
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Our incel problem
Source: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/16/18287446/incel-definition-reddit…
AI is Helping Old Video Games Look Like New
Classic video games are getting a makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders. From a report: The technique being used is known as “AI upscaling.” In essence, you feed an algorithm a low-resolution image, and, based on training data it’s seen, it spits out a version that looks the same but has more pixels in…
Google Will Begin To Block Sign-ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June
To fight phishing, Google last year announced it would require users to enable JavaScript during Google Account sign-in so that it could run attack-detecting risk assessments, and this week, the company said it’ll begin to block all sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks like Chromium Embedded Framework starting in June. From a report: For the uninitiated, embedded browser frameworks enable developers to…
Long Lost ‘Zork’ Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It
With access to the source code, a group of dedicated fans is now tinkering with the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL).Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdk8/long-lost-zork-source-code-uploaded-to-github-but-few-people-understand-it…