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better to re-install os ..

windows corruption??

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2019/?ref=infosec-conferences.com The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security will be held in London, United Kingdom from November 11 – 15, 2019 at the Hilton Metropole. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is a flagship yearly conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference will bring together information practitioners, security researchers, developers, and users from all over the world to explore cutting-edge ideas and results. The event will provide an environment to conduct intellectual discussions. From its inception, CCS has established itself as a high standard research conference in its area. New artificial intelligence system automatically evolves to evade internet censorship New work led by University of Maryland computer scientists could shift the balance of the censorship race. The researchers developed a tool called Geneva (short for Genetic Evasion), which automatically learns how to circumvent censorship. Tested in China, India and Kazakhstan, Geneva found dozens of ways to circumvent censorship by exploiting gaps in censors' logic and finding bugs that the researchers say would have been virtually impossible for humans to find manually. The researchers will introduce Geneva during a peer-reviewed talk at the Association for Computing Machinery's 26th Conference on Computer and Communications Security in London on November 14, 2019. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191113124822.htm

@David H. Lipman will use normalized fonts from now on.. Can Cloudflare be trusted? Well, you conection is really encrypted, but only until the CloudFlare's servers. ... Or still can be encrypted (between CloudFlare servers and website servers) but the contents of what you're viewing and sending on that website remains visible toCloudFlare, even in the so-called full strict SSL. there David has nailed Cloudflare and it seems Firefox is not going to stick only with Cloudflare but add other reslovers too in future.. OTHER DOH RESOLVERS TO BE ADDED IN THE FUTURE, BESIDES CLOUDFLARE But most importantly, the FAQ explains why Mozilla choose Cloudflare as its initial default DoH resolver and said that it plans to add other DoH resolvers in the future, as long as they adhere to the same requirements that Cloudflare also agreed. These requirements include a series of rules about user privacy and security, including a clause that "explicitly forbids" DoH resolvers like Cloudflare from monetizing DoH data they receive from Firefox users. source - Cloudflare doesn't pay us for any DoH traffic https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-cloudflare-doesnt-pay-us-for-any-doh-traffic/

hmm. DOH is not w/o issues as brought out in https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/ DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say DOH DOESN'T ACTUALLY PREVENT ISPS USER TRACKING One of the main points that DoH supporters have been blabbing about in the past year is that DoH prevents ISPs from tracking users' DNS requests, and hence prevents them from tracking users' web traffic habits. Yes. DoH prevents the ISP from viewing a user's DNS requests. However, DNS is not the only protocol involved in web browsing. There are still countless other data points that ISPs could track to know where a user is going. Anyone saying that DoH prevents ISPs from tracking users is either lying or doesn't understand how web traffic works.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Is-there-a-plan-to-implement-DNS-over-HTTPS/m-p/843645

Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry’s lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt – they’re dropping “factual inaccuracies” about “a plan that doesn’t exist,” it says. Both of the entities behind those browsers – Mozilla and Google – have been moving to embrace the privacy technology, which is called DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Also backed by Cloudflare, DoH is poised to make it a lot tougher for ISPs to conduct web surveillance; to hoover up web browsing activity and, say, sell it to third parties without people’s consent; or to modify DNS queries so they can do things like inject self-promoting ads into browsers when people connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/11/06/mozilla-says-isps-are-lying-to-congress-about-encrypted-dns/

AMD Zen 3 CPU Architecture Rumored To Provide Significant IPC Uplift Over Zen 2 Summed up, we are looking at a new cache hierarchy, faster clockspeeds, and more than an 8 percent IPC uplift when Zen 3 arrives. Good stuff, if all of that comes true. https://hothardware.com/news/amd-zen-3-cpu-architecture-8-ipc

It's worth mentioning that starting with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903), Microsoft is providing a built in sandbox isolation program. Directions on how to enable the Windows 10 Sandbox for Pro and Enterprise versions are here , directions to enable Windows Sandbox in the Home edition of Windows 10 are here https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/sandboxie-released-freeware-soon-be-open-source.htm.

Sandboxie becomes freeware, soon-to-be open source https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/09/13/sandboxie-windows-sandbox/ Comments on the announcement were both positive and negative. Some say that this might be the end of Sandboxie because not a lot of developers will choose aid in its development for free. Others have more faith in the open source community, have welcomed Sophos’ decision and hoped that the company will complete the shift to open source soon. They also pointed out that the code, once open source, might go on to be integrated in other software and “knowledge won’t be lost.”

AMD Zen 3 Landing in 2020, Zen 4 by 2022, Zen 5 post 2022 https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-3-launching-2020-zen-4-zen-5-in-development/

AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-unveils-worlds-most-powerful-desktop-cpus/ Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors. In the never ending war between the chip giants, AMD has released a salvo by unveiled what are the world's most powerful desktop processors -- the new 24-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. These 3rd-generation Ryzen Threadripper Processors are built using AMD's 7-nanometer "Zen 2" core architecture, and both chips feature 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes with extraordinary power efficiency. On the performanced front, AMD claims that the new 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 3970X offers up to 90 percent faster performance over the competition. And you don't have to wait months for these processors to land, as they both will be available starting Tuesday, November 19.

https://www.sandboxie.com/ IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SANDBOXIE VERSIONS Sophos is excited to announce that we are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to an open source tool. This new evolution of Sandboxie is one we are enthusiastic about, but that does not mean this was an easy decision to make. Sandboxie has never been a significant component of Sophos’ business, and we have been exploring options for its future for a while. Frankly, the easiest and least costly decision for Sophos would have been to simply end of life Sandboxie. However, we love the technology too much to see it fade away. More importantly, we love the Sandboxie community too much to do that. The Sandboxie user base represents some of the most passionate, forward thinking, and knowledgeable members of the security community and we didn’t want to let you down. After thoughtful consideration we decided that the best way to keep Sandboxie going was to give it back to its users – transitioning it to an open source tool. We will release more information about the open source project as we continue to work on the details. Until the open source transition is completed we have decided to make all restricted features of Sandboxie completely free.

Though it's 28 years since he left his fans forever, his music will live forever..

The Greatest Showman on Earth - Freddie Mercury - "The Queen"

A man is sitting at the bar in his local tavern, furiously imbibing shots of whiskey. One of his friends happens to come into the bar and sees him. "Lou," says the shocked friend, "what are you doing? I've known you for over fifteen years, and I've never seen you take a drink before. What's going on?" Without even taking his eyes off his newly filled shot glass, the man replies, "My wife just ran off with my best friend." He then throws back another shot of whisky in one gulp. "But," says the other man, "I'm your best friend!" The man turns to his friend, looks at him through bloodshot eyes, smiles, and then slurs, "Not anymore! ... He is!"