Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
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I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p…
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At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep....
cross-posted from: covert.nexus/post/27235...
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
This is the problem with using VPN services in general, you have to have complete trust in the service provider.
(In the case that someone in Lemmy still use Google)
cross-posted from: covert.nexus/post/20450...
Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?...
This link is in French but as a summary: technical report shows that M365 Word and PPT contents leak to US servers (augloop.office.com) as soon as you open a document on a local installation of Powerpoint or Word, unbeknownst to users....
Link is in French: a dataleak on 200 million accounts on X.
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13408103