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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.

A new twist on quantum communication in fiber https://phys.org/news/2020-01-quantum-fiber.html New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, has exciting implications for secure data transfer across optical fiber networks. The team have demonstrated that multiple quantum patterns of twisted light can be transmitted across a conventional fiber link that, paradoxically, supports only one pattern. The implication is a new approach to realizing a future quantum network, harnessing multiple dimensions of entangled quantum light.

Hmm. I find that beta 9 was released on Nov'11 while the pcmag article is after a month in Dec. So beta 9 release was missed out by PCmag during review..

The article is a year old and if improvements take care of any shortfall well & good, and may be check on time of release of beta 9 whether before or after article?

@Living_ComputerBut you must know the source of notification to disable permission for the site?? if in case you have allowed notifications for multiple sites, then how do you zero in on the source of malicious notification ?? Any inadvertent permission could be trouble..

@Living_Computer read https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/push-notifications-security-risks-how-to-disable/

MB is pushed to 3rd in PC mag review. https://in.pcmag.com/software/114107/the-best-ransomware-protection

0patch releases micropatch for Internet Explorer vulnerability -- including for Windows 7 https://betanews.com/2020/01/22/internet-explorer-vulnerability-0patch/ At the end of last week, a serious vulnerability was discovered in Internet Explorer, affecting all versions of Windows. Not only is the bug (CVE-2020-0674) being actively exploited, but for Windows 7 users the vulnerability was exposed right after their operating system reached the end of its life. Even for users of newer versions of Windows, and despite the severity of the security flaw, Microsoft said it would not be releasing a patch until February. Stepping in to plug the gap comes 0patch with a free micropatch for all versions of Windows affected by the vulnerability. This is not the first time 0patch has stepped up to the plate and addressed a security issue before Microsoft. Although the Windows-maker says it will not release a fix until February's Patch Tuesday, the company did publish details of a workaround to help mitigate against the vulnerability. But, as 0patch notes, the workaround was not without issues. Because the provided workaround has multiple negative side effects, and because it is likely that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users without Extended Security Updates will not get the patch at all (their support ended this month), we decided to provide a micropatch that simulates the workaround without its negative side effects. The vulnerability is in jscript.dll, which is the scripting engine for legacy JScript code; note that all "non-legacy" JScript code (whatever that might be), and all JavaScript code gets executed by the newer scripting engine implemented in jscript9.dll. Microsoft's workaround comprises setting permissions on jscript.dll such that nobody will be able to read it. This workaround has an expected negative side effect that if you're using a web application that employs legacy JScript (and can as such only be used with Internet Explorer), this application will no longer work in your browser. 0patch points out that there are other unwanted side effects of using Microsoft's workaround: Windows Media Player is reported to break on playing MP4 files. The sfc (Resource Checker), a tool that scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions, chokes on jscript.dll with altered permissions. Printing to "Microsoft Print to PDF" is reported to break. Proxy automatic configuration scripts (PAC scripts) may not work. For anyone using the 0patch platform, the patch is available right now. It is compatible with the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 10 v1709, Windows 10 v1803, Windows 10 v1809, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2019. The company has produced a video showing the patch in action: https://youtu.be/ixpBN_a2cHQ It's also worth reading through the accompanying blog post for an explanation of how the patch works.

Taxpayers money is used in many such proojects and many could be secretive operations , so can't help it, unless one can prove that it's blatant abuse of public money.

Why physicists are determined to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong https://www.livescience.com/physicists-drop-objects-satellite-prove-galileo-correct.html

Yes. In China they have gone with it amid protests. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/business/china-pajamas-facial-recognition.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/a2c8b966-3ea9-11ea-a01a-bae547046735

Oh. I didn't check that . The video was poor but good track.

I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html Should you get your DNA tested? None of this means an ancestry kit from 23andMe or AncestryDNA or Nat Geo is worthless, Stoneking and Platt agreed. "I view these things as more for entertainment than anything else," Stoneking said. The real science of population genetics, he explained, is used to figure out how large groups of people moved and mixed over time. And it's good for that purpose. But figuring out whether 3 to 13 percent of my ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula or Italy isn't part of that project. Platt said that he had gotten himself commercially tested, and that while he hadn't found anything surprising, it's always possible for someone to learn something new and interesting — particularly if they're of non-Jewish European ancestry and vague on the details. A white non-Jew might learn something specific and interesting about their background, because their ancestors likely come from highly isolated reference populations on which the companies have lots of data. But folks from other places have lower odds, simply because the data from other places is more limited, fuzzy, and difficult to interpret. When I contacted the companies and asked them to comment on this story and to address the question of why my results may have differed — even when the test was performed by the same company — both Ancestry and 23andMe responded. Here's what Ancestry said: "We're confident in the science and the results that we give to customers. The consumer genomics industry is in its early stages but is growing fast and we tell customers throughout the experience that their results are as accurate as possible for where the science is today, and that it may evolve over time as the resolution of DNA estimates improve. We will always work to harness evolutions in science to enhance our customers' experience. For example, recent developments in DNA science allowed us to develop a new algorithm that determines customers' ethnic breakdown with a higher degree of precision." And here's the comment from 23andMe, which the representative requested Live Science attribute to Robin Smith, a Ph.D. who holds the title of group project manager at the company: "Our ancestry reports are a living analysis and are ever-evolving, and as our database grows we will be able to provide customers with more granular information about their ancestry and ethnicity. We are constantly making improvements to both our reference datasets, and the overall pipeline we use to compute customers' Ancestry Composition reports. In fact, we recently rolled out a comprehensive ancestry update earlier in the year, increasing the countries and regions we report on — in order to provide more in-depth information to populations that are underrepresented in the study of genetics. "In regards to the Ashkenazi reference populations, our precision for calling AJ [Ashkenazi Jewish] ancestry, has indeed improved from 97 percent to 99 percent over the past two years for these reasons. Our recall, meaning of all the Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in the dataset, how much do we call AJ has improved to 97 percent, up from 93 percent two years ago. "There may be inconsistencies across DNA ancestry tests due to differing algorithms and reference panels that differ in key respects." Nat Geo did not respond to multiple requests for comment by press time.

OMG. frightening prospects, when the testing is not controlled and rampant abuse could be trouble. There have been many cases of varying DNA results for individuals and unreliable.. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/23/what-i-learned-from-home-dna-test-kits-are-they-accurate-or-worthwhile

@exile360 Since MS doesn't want to annoy corporates by withdrawing IE11, it has kept a compatibility mode for IE11 in Chromium edge which should serve dual purpose of modern & legacy sites to work on. And which you can also check out for your media viewing/playing.

The EU might ban facial recognition in public for five years https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615068/facial-recognition-european-union-temporary-ban-privacy-ethics-regulation/ The news: The European Commission is considering a ban of facial recognition in public places for up to five years, with exceptions for research and security projects, according to a white paper draft obtained by Politico. (The paper does not specify what these projects might be.) The idea is that the temporary ban would give researchers and policymakers time to study the technology and figure out how best to regulate it. The background: Activists on both sides of the Atlantic have been concerned about facial recognition, saying that the technology isn’t accurate for women and people of color and can be used to spy on people without their consent. The European data protection supervisor has written that turning a human face into an object for powerful companies and governments to measure may infringe on human dignity. A UK survey found that 46% of the public thought they should be able to opt out of facial recognition. In the US, cities such as San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts, have banned government use of facial recognition. Activists are working to ban private use of the technology as well though, interestingly, a Pew Research poll found that most Americans are more okay with police using the technology than companies.

@exile360 as you kept repeating "that it's wrong to write code to block IE" which no one said, that made me to give additional quotes voicing their disapproval of IE. And I'm taking time off from my trading which will be well served in concentrating in it. And also for the reason your quote, that IE is not too bad idea and that pages will still work inspite of its limitations, when in reality there is a performance degradation using IE which I had to highlight

@exile360 there are many voicing their disapproval of IE Quote - "As a developer, did you know if you support IE11, you have to compile all your JavaScript to ES5 instead of ES6? This increases the bundle sizes by 30% in many cases which can turn into a significant performance decrease" "IE11 isn't secure either… you can't secure a customer's data when they are using a tool that doesn't meet current security standards, which IE11 does not." umquote Stop Using Internet Explorer 11 https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/stop-using-internet-explorer-11/

@exile360 he never said about writing code to block IE but for websites to stop supporting it . And it's not one article but even first article (subject article) which is by an author, a developer involved in IE who moved on to Chrome and then to Chrome edge , also stating about retiring IE. Maybe you want IE to keep wrkg , for whatever reasons (even after MS itself calling for shifting from it) and want to make a case for it, but a lost cause, with overwhelming factors against it. IE 11 will work until windows 10 is around but websites would have moved away in toto from it, before we see it's inevitable end.

Ya. Rod stewart - Well loved being One of the best selling artists and knighted for his services to music and charity. And that track " l don't want to talk about" is so peppy no. I loved it.

@exile360May be the author has conveyed the frustrations of developers in wrkg with ie11 and called for shifting from it for the better, for even for die hard supporters to see the light like corporations of their attempt to stick around with a dying browser with falling mkt share. Maybe your soft corner for IE is hurt with his conclusions to find acceptance in the manner it was spelt out. But whatever the ack of shift from IE is good and practical given the problems with it.