A while back some “bored developers and designers” started uploading their ideas for the worst volume control interface in the world. But now Slashdot reader dryriver asks a more serious question: You follow a news story on CNN or BBC or FoxNews or Reuters. The frontpage of the news site changes so frequently that you wish there was a “News Timeline”…
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Google Just Stopped Displaying ‘www’ and ‘https’ In Chrome’s Address Bar
“Google has finally chopped the ‘www’ from Chrome’s address bar after delaying the controversial move due to a backlash,” reports TechRepublic: The move to remove ‘www’ was initially planned for last year, when Google announced it would cut “trivial subdomains” from the address bar in Chrome 69. Now Google has begun truncating the visible URL in Chrome for desktop and Android,…
Hackers Stole 7.5TB of Secret Data From Russia’s Intelligence Agency
Hackers have reportedly stolen about 7.5 terabytes of data from a major Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) contractor, thus exposing the secret projects the agency was working on to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape data from social media, and cut off Russia’s internet from the rest of the world. Fossbytes reports: Russia’s FSB is the successor agency to the infamous KGB and…
Thousands of pornography sites leak data to Google and Facebook
More than 90 per cent of pornography sites leak data on people browsing them to third party companies including Google and Facebook Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2210599-thousands-of-pornography-sites-leak-data-to-google-and-facebook/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Google and Facebook Might Be Tracking Your Porn History, Researchers Warn
Researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed 22,484 porn sites and found that 93% leak user data to a third party. Normally, for extra protection when surfing the web, a user might turn to incognito mode. But, the researchers said, incognito mode only ensures that your browsing history is not stored on your computer. CNET reports:…
How America’s Tech Giants Are Helping Build China’s Surveillance State
“An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens,” the Intercept reports. The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up a collaboration between IBM, Chinese company Semptian,…
This Horrifying App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click
The $50 DeepNude app dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women’s bodies.Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzm59x/deepnude-app-creates-fake-nudes-of-any-woman…
House Lawmakers Demand End To Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Data
Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally collect data of Americans. TechCrunch reports: The bipartisan amendment — just 15 lines in length — would compel the government to not knowingly collect communications — like emails, messages and browsing data…
Google Launches Chrome Extension For Flagging Bad URLs To the Safe Browsing Team
Google today launched a new Chrome extension that will simplify the process of reporting a malicious site to the Google Safe Browsing team so that it can be analyzed, reviewed, and blacklisted in Chrome and other browsers that support the Safe Browsing API. From a report: Named the Suspicious Site Reporter, this extension adds an icon to the Google Chrome toolbar…
A New Hidden Way of Web Browser Profiling, Identification and Tracking
Researchers from Austria’s Graz University of Technology “have devised an automated system for browser profiling using two new side channel attacks that can help expose information about software and hardware,” reports The Register. The researchers recently presented a paper titled “JavaScript Template Attacks: Automatically Inferring Host Information for Targeted Exploits,” which The Register says “calls into question the effectiveness of anonymized…