Profit over privacy? Google gives advertisers more personal info in major ‘fingerprinting’ U-turn

Google has reversed its policy on 'fingerprinting''Fingerprinting' is a technique used to collect personal user dataUsers have very little say over what information is given to advertisers Do you sometimes…

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Supreme irony: AMD got rid of GloFo’s predecessor to survive; Intel may now merge with the foundry to do the same

GlobalFoundries was spun off when AMD decided to go fabless 16 years agoThomas Caulfield’s leadership made GloFo profitable; now rumors link him to IntelA merger could help Intel, but regulatory…

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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS sees authentication bypass under attack from hackers

Palo Alto Networks fixes authentication bypass PAN-OS flawA day after the patch was released, criminals started looking for vulnerable endpointsThe flaw allows them to run different PHP scriptsA vulnerability in…

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Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access

A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine ImageIt allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people's AWS accountsA fix has been released, but many users are still…

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WordPress Foundation bid for greater trademark control halted, adding to more legal setbacks for CEO Matt Mullenweg

Unprotected.org successfully petitions USPTO against the application for Hosted WordPress and Managed WordPress However this is not an absolute denial for the trademarksMove leads some to call Matt Mullenweg's WordPress…

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Dynabook and NEC have just launched a series of laptops that pair 13th gen Intel processors with optical drives

Dynabook and NEC defy industry trends by bringing back optical drivesDynabook T series uses both Blu-ray Disc drive and DVD Super Multi-DriveNEC Lavie N16 opts for only DVD Super Multi-DriveIn…

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