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How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21112380/facebook-activity-tool-data Facebook to pay $550 million to settle privacy lawsuit over facial recognition tech https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21114358/facebook-550-million-settle-lawsuit-facial-recognition-technology-illinois

You're on the dot @nukecad. tks for the update on max flight timings.and not much speed (32.02 mph), slower than an automobile but still some technology of interest.

A long shot..

Google suspends all paid Chrome browser extensions https://www.techradar.com/in/news/google-suspends-all-paid-chrome-browser-extensions Chrome Web Store saw huge spike in fraudulent transactions Google has been forced to shut down all paid extensions after experiencing a sudden increase in fraudulent transactions on the official Chrome web store. As a precautionary measure, the company has now suspended publishing or updating of all the commercial extensions. The suspension includes all extensions which need an upfront payment, monthly recurring payments or offer in-app purchases. Surge Google’s engineers reported that these fraudulent transactions started earlier this month at a mass scale. The ban, a temporary fix to stop further fraudulent charges from happening, has impacted all the app developers including the premium ones like Dashlane, Comeet, etc. According to Simeon Vincent, Developer Advocate for Chrome Extensions at Google, "This is a temporary measure meant to stem this influx as we look for long-term solutions to address the broader pattern of abuse." Though there is no update on when the suspension will be removed. While Google has only announced the suspension late last week, app developers suggest that the search engine giant was been silently blocking updates for all the paid extensions. After the suspension, if a developer tries to push an update to an existing paid extension or publish a new paid extension, they are getting an error message that reads “Spam and Placement in the Store." The news comes shortly after Mozilla removed around shady 200 Firefox add-ons which were found to be involved in malicious activities or were stealing user data in a similar clean-up drive.

Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs' https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-urged-open-source-windows-7-to-undo-past-wrongs/ Group of free software advocates calls on Microsoft to release Windows 7 under a free software license. Windows 7 has reached end of life, meaning no more free feature or security updates. So what should Microsoft do next with the Windows 7 source code? Advocates at the Free Software Foundation (FSF) are demanding Microsoft "undo past wrongs" by releasing Windows 7 as free software. FSF, founded by Richard Stallman in 1985, has long agitated against Microsoft's use of proprietary software licenses. At Windows 7's launch, FSF urged customers to ditch the OS. However, the group's latest campaign asks Microsoft to "do the right thing" by open-sourcing Windows 7 under a free license like GNU Public License (GPL), which Stallman created. The new petition comes as Microsoft increasingly embraces open source and Linux, occasionally open-sourcing chunks of its software empire, and even shipping Windows 10 with a Linux kernel. But Microsoft is unlikely to cave into the Windows 7 demands that FSF outlined in a petition launched last week, asking Microsoft to "give it to the community to study and improve". FSF argues that Microsoft has "nothing to lose by liberating a version of their operating system that they themselves say has reached its end. The petition was aiming to gather at least 7,777 supporters and today has exceeded that by 1,000. The petition outlines three demands: We demand that Windows 7 be released as free software. Its life doesn't have to end. Give it to the community to study, modify, and share. We urge you to respect the freedom and privacy of your users – not simply strong-arm them into the newest Windows version. We want more proof that you really respect users and user freedom, and aren't just using those concepts as marketing when convenient. Windows 7 did reach end of life this month, but one reason Microsoft probably won't open-source Windows 7 is that for the next three years it will still provide security updates for businesses that pay for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU). Windows 7 ESUs are targeted at customers that haven't completed the migration to Windows 10. The German federal government, for example, reportedly will pay at least €800,000 ($886,000) this year to Microsoft for Windows 7 ESUs. Also, as The Register points out, there are still portions of Windows 7 code in Windows 10, so it's probably not in the company's best interests to release a free version of Windows 7. A free Windows has been a consistent demand of Stallman, who retired from FSF last year. He gave a speech at Microsoft Research last year outlining 10 demands, including thatMicrosoft "publicly take back Microsoft's attacks on copyleft made in the 2000s" and to release the source code of Windows under the GNU GPL.

@Pierre75 A pro license is $26 or so/pa . so not much compared to going in for a new laptop (may be $400-500 or cheaper with china one's). . so, you can decide which suits you, better.

New 'CacheOut' attack leaks data from CPUs, VMs and hardware enclaves https://www.itnews.com.au/news/new-cacheout-attack-leaks-data-from-cpus-vms-and-hardware-enclaves-537102 Intel drops processor microcode fixes again. Researchers at the universities of Adelaide and Michigan have come up with a new Spectre-style speculative execution attack against Intel processors that can be used to intercept data across several hardware security boundaries. Named CacheOut, the flaw is found in a large number of Intel processors released up until the fourth quarter of 2018. Several researchers have been working on the vulnerability [pdf], including Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide, discovering that it's possible to leak data from eviction of processor caches. While there's no known CacheOut exploits currently, exploitation of the vulnerability is undetectable. It could be used to intercept information on operating system kernel address space randomisation and secret "stack canaries" values, which in turn can enable full exploitation using other software attacks such as buffer overflows, the researchers said. Furthermore, CacheOut can leak data from hypervisors and co-resident virtual machines, and dump the contents of Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) hardware enclaves. CacheOut bypasses existing hardware mitigations by Intel against the earlier Spectre and Meltdown flaws. Microcode updates from Intel are available for vulnerable processors, and can be deployed via operating system and hypervisor updates. AMD processors do not contain similar features to Intel's Transactional Synchronisation Extensions (TSX) and are not vulnerabile to CacheOut. The researchers noted that ARM architecture and IBM processors have a feature similar to Intel TSX, but the reaserchers don't currently know if any of those products are affected by CacheOut.

But this was their policy, which Avast came out with it's jumpshot subsidiary division. https://press.avast.com/avast-software-acquires-jumpshot-to-work-magic-against-slow-pc-performance and the latest https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/it-infrastructure/security/8398/avast-expands-opt-out-after-data-sharing-investigation

Avast Data Drives New Analytics Engine https://blog.avast.com/2015/05/29/avast-data-drives-new-analytics-engine/ https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=171725.0 Here’s how Jumpshot works: Data is collected on computers and Android devices through the browser. Each record contains a set of fields that help Jumpshot algorithms assign the clickstream data appropriately. These fields include: - Installation identifiers (proprietary identifiers that do not contain any PII) - URL being visited - Referral URL (if this exists) - Window identifier - Tab identifier - Additional fields for processing purposes In reality, the information Avast passes on to Jumpshot looks like this: - Identifier: 00002437-705b-4bc6-b062-54b7ea511c93 - URL being visited: http://www.cnn.com/US/?hpt=sitenav - Referral URL: http://edition.cnn.com/ - Window identifier: 3 - Tab identifier: 42 Prior to processing, all records are automatically scanned for PII, and all PII parameter values are removed from the raw data. To strip PII, Jumpshot uses a proprietary algorithm that calculates multiple statistical features for parameters on all known websites. Based on these statistical values, only parameters that are proven not to be PII are whitelisted and their values are kept. All parameter values that are not whitelisted are stripped in the process, which leaves those parameter values overwritten by the word “REMOVED”. The stripping of PII is done on the Avast premises in Prague, to ensure that the PII never leaves our hands.

Gravity Jet Suit https://coolmaterial.com/gear/gravity-jet-suit/ But all that’s just splitting semantic hairs over one of the coolest inventions of the past couple millenia. This is true, untethered, individual human flight. You can put this on and fly wherever you want, just like you always pretended when you were a kid. We’ll nitpick a little more and say the suit’s a little on the slow side. It tops out around 32 m.p.h. That’s about the speed of a leisurely country drive or slightly faster than Usain Bolt’s fastest sprint. But what it lacks in stomach-dropping speed, it makes up for in vertigo-inducing height. The suit can achieve altitudes up to 12,000 feet, more than two miles up in the sky. That’s plenty high for us. Get your own 1,050-horsepower Iron Man jet suit for only US$447,000 https://newatlas.com/gravity-jet-suit-sale/55568/

Facial recognition scanners are already at some US airports. Here's what to know https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2019/08/16/biometric-airport-screening-facial-recognition-everything-you-need-know/1998749001/ Airports Are Normalizing Facial Recognition in the United States https://onezero.medium.com/airports-are-normalizing-facial-recognition-in-the-united-states-dd4c9659945d Facial Recognition At U.S. Airports. Should You Be Concerned? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/03/11/facial-recognition-to-be-deployed-at-top-20-us-airports-should-you-be-concerned/#3226f5547d48

But UK is also implementing it but for policing to scan for wanted suspects. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/305288-london-police-deploy-controversial-facial-recognition-cameras

Nature's beauty. excellent shot.

@Pierre75 need to note that Win 7 patches all fall under pro-patches. so, unless a paid licensee, will not receive these patches.

How to See What Data Windows 10 is Sending to Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/348699/how-to-see-what-data-windows-10-is-sending-to-microsoft/ Microsoft is making Windows 10’s telemetry more transparent with the April 2018 Update. You can now view the exact diagnostic information your Windows PC is sending to Microsoft. You can even delete it from Microsoft’s servers. A new Privacy Dashboard attached to your Microsoft account is now available, too. It provides a single place where you can view much of the information Microsoft knows about you—and delete it. How to Disable Telemetry and Data Collection in Windows 10 https://blogs.systweak.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/ 3 Ways to Disable Telemetry and Data Collection in Windows 10

Puncture-Proof Tires Are the Future https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a30653824/puncture-proof-tire/

Frequently Asked Questions https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200441471-Frequently-Asked-Questions

@Pierre75 though it's about pro licenses for businesses, shd give an idea of personal use too. How many PRO licenses do I need for my computers? https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020552934-How-many-PRO-licenses-do-I-need-for-my-computers- "https://tinyurl.com/tg46ex9" https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018692234-Am-I-allowed-to-use-0patch-for-free-without-purchasing-a-license-

@Pierre75 would suggest check for a system first and then move on to others (that the patches work and sans any problems).. And regarding licenses , have no idea, maybe @exile360 may be right but a confirmation with 0patch would be better.

Note that it is necessary to register a free account as you need to sign-in to the application. Once you are signed in data is synced between the local system and the server to determine the patch state of the system. The program lists patches that are available for free and for purchase in the interface; all it takes is to get the Internet Explorer 11 patch installed for the system to protect it against attacks that target the vulnerability. 0Patch states that its patch does not cause the side-effects that Microsoft's workaround is causing (web applications that make use of jscript.dll will not work anymore). Administrators who run the 0Patch Agent software on their devices may toggle patches on or off in the interface. source - https://www.ghacks.net/2020/01/23/0patch-releases-patch-for-internet-explorer-vulnerability-also-for-windows-7/

Meet the Filmmaker Who Is Installing Live Cams All Over the World https://mashable.com/2014/06/25/explore-live-cameras/?europe=true "Right now, as we're speaking, I’m looking at hippos at a watering hole in Africa," Charles Annenberg Weingarten says with a mix of salesmanship and genuine wonder. "Waves are breaking at Pipeline Beach." Weingarten isn't standing near any hippos in Africa nor is he dipping his toes in the sand at the beach. He's sitting on a green couch in a converted apartment in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by six barking dogs. In front of him, there's a screen showing just a few of the many live camera feeds he has helped to install around the world. Cameras are streaming footage of brown bears waiting patiently for salmon in Alaska, stingrays gliding past coral in the UK, closeups of honey bee colonies buzzing inside their hive in Germany, and yes, animals gathered around a remote watering hole in Kenya. Explore, the organization Weingarten started, has installed more than 75 high-definition cameras in parks and facilities on four continents since 2011 with plans to expand to at least one other continent in the near future. He expects to have as many as 150 cameras on the ground in the next year. The group is approaching 100 million hours of footage streamed online and its website, Explore.org, now gets about 30 million page views a month from just under one million visitors. Its reach would be significantly larger if you factored in all the outlets that carry the feeds, including Animal Planet, CNN and ABC News. For Weingarten, who describes himself as a thinker, entrepreneur, philanthropist and filmmaker, among other lofty titles, the goal isn't necessarily to build a media empire, and it's certainly not to lay the groundwork for Big Brother. The goal is to use technology as a gateway to nature rather than a barrier to it.

Hahaha.. tks for clearing the air @1PW.

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@Pierre75this is free, but to get it one has to register. to get free patches and pay for any paid patches.