Google’s Free VPN Is Gone, But Now Dark Web Monitoring Is For Everyone
If you used the VPN by Google One you likely noticed it was discontinued a few weeks back. If you miss that functionality you have two options. If you can get a…
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Quickly Stop Google Chrome’s Blue AI Box Ruining Your Search
It has been about two weeks since Google injected AI into the search results of many of their users, in the form of a blue box with AI powered results you need…
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How To Check If You Are In Google Chrome’s Cookie Phaseout Test
Google Chrome is testing a third-person cookie phaseout, adopting something many other browsers have offered for some time. Google is implementing it in a different way, which they believe will provide better…
Read MorePodcast #752 – Threadripper OC Blows a Fuse, TSMC 1.4nm, USB4 SSDs, RIP E3, 20Gbps Fiber, Flexispot & MORE
Stop! Once again for the 750th plus time, we gather, virtually, to discuss a wide array of topics, listed below in the time stamps. Also, Josh eats one of the messiest looking…
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YouTube’s Continuing War Against Adblockers
Slashdot linked to a story that has come up on Hacker News, 404 Media and others; the five second delay some Firefox users encounter when loading YouTube videos. As you...
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Mozilla Knows You’ve Been Naughty, Google, Amazon, Microsoft And Other Privacy Grinches
Just in time for the holiday season, Mozilla released a rather depressing list of insecure devices and services sold by a number of companies which now includes Google. The Privacy Not Included…
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Google Bard’s Voyeurism Expands To All Your Google Apps
Google Bard's reach has extended to include all your Google apps, from your Gmail and Drive to their hotel booking service. The good news is you can now use Bard as…
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The Internet of Sh … SEO Optimization
You may have noticed that it is getting harder and harder to find answers to questions on the internet, or to find things for sale by local vendors recently. You can blame…
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Tracking To Be The Default In Google’s Open Source Go Programming Language
It can be very handy for designers to be able to track how users use their software. You can track what features your users actually use, and which they either don't find…
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Malwarebytes Were Flagging Both Google And YouTube As Malware
It would depend on what you were doing this morning as to whether or not you were amused by MalwareBytes this morning. Until recently the antimalware program's web filtering feature was blocking…
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Google Decided To Drop The Silly Answers, Not The Evil
Google have decided to nix one of the small amusements on the web, trying to confuse their snippets by asking bizarre questions. It seems that they have been spending a...
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Google And Glance Are Looking To Monetize Your Lock Screen
Glance is a subsidiary of a huge Indian advertising company called InMobi who focuses on mobile ads. They have massive market penetration in the Android market in Asia, somewhat of a presence…
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A Detailed Look At Avoiding Secure Boot On A Google Nest Hub
The bad news for those wanting to try this process is that Google found and patched the vulnerability used to bypass the secure boot on the Google Nest Hub, so chances are…
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Running Android 10+ and Microsoft Teams? Hope You Don’t Need 911
It is not often that a software bug on your phone is life threatening, unfortunately that is very much the case on at least some Android phones running version 10 or higher…
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Sixth Time’s The Charm For Alphabet, Meet The Pixel 6
The rarity of new hardware is nothing new right now and of course affects the new Pixel 6 but that is not the only challenge as there are only a dozen countries…
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Android Still Gathers Personal Data And Sends It To The Mothership
Android phone vendors like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme have been in the news several times over the years as researchers published their findings about the amount of data that the handsets…
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Google’s EPYC Tau VMs
Google's new Tau VMs will be powered by third generation EPYC processors from AMD and the specifications are impressive. There will be up to to 60 vCPUs per virtual machine with each…
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Want To Play With A Spectre Exploit For Yourself?
The Spectre exploit certainly lives up to it's name, living on to haunt older hardware like Intel's Skylake family of CPUs but the news is not all horrible. Google have released proof-of-concept…
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