Apple stops patching QuickTime for Windows despite 2 active vulnerabilities
If your Windows computer is running Apple’s QuickTime media player, now would be a good time to uninstall it. The Windows app hasn’t received an…
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First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the roadside police “textalyzer”
We’re all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver’s blood-alcohol level. It has been in…
H.R. 2666, the so-called No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act
This is how the cable and phone companies will destroy online video competition and rip you off in the process. Later this week, the House…
Adobe rolls out emergency update to counter ransomware threat
Got Adobe Flash Player? Update it now. Adobe(ADBE) has released an emergency update to its Flash Player after security researchers discovered a bug that allows…
Microsoft re-releases KB 3035583 Get Windows 10 installer… again!
On Wednesday afternoon Microsoft once again rolled KB 3035583 out the Automatic Update chute. If you’re running a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC that isn’t…
Seagate Demonstrates World’s Fastest SSD
Today Seagate Technology unveiled its production-ready unit of the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second…
Verizon Wireless to pay $1.35 million fine to settle U.S. privacy probe
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) will pay a $1.35 million fine and agreed to a three-year consent decree after the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday…
Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, has died
Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the creator of email, has died, his employer, Raytheon, told CNN on Sunday. He was 74. Tomlinson invented direct email…
Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firm ISS Recommends SanDisk Stockholders Vote FOR the Merger with Western Digital Corporation
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, announced that Institutional Shareholder Services, ISS, an independent proxy advisory research firm, has recommended…
Cyber hack got access to over 700,000 IRS accounts
A 2015 cyber hack of the IRS potentially gained access to personal data from more than 700,000 taxpayer accounts, more than double the total previously estimated, the tax agency said…