Why Google is Phasing Out Third-party Cookies - Marketplaceupstart writes:Google will roll out a set of new tools that still track your behavior online - so we'll still be getting those targeted ads:
canopic jug writes:The OpenWRT project is turning 20 years old this year. During that time they have adapted to existing hardware products. Now the team has the idea to produce their own, fully supported hardware to run their software on:
An Anonymous Coward writes:One of the Windows updates in the current cycle is for KB5034441, which addresses CVE-2024-20666. From what I can tell, exploiting this vulnerability requires physical access, so there's no risk of this being used in remote attacks. The actual risk to most users is probably very low. Still, it allows security features to be bypassed, so it should be fixed.The problem is that this update is failing for many users with error code 0x80070643. Microsoft claims that this is due to the recovery partition not being large enough on some systems, though the error code is cryptic and unhelpful. Here's what Microsoft said about that:
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 21:00 UTC (4pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information have a page on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceExpected topics include the formation of a new corporation and the peaceful transfer of assets. Committee members, you don't want to miss this one!The community, welcome to observe and participate, is also encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes:Being fully anonymous is next to impossible-but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules:
upstart writes:Wickr is DeadThe app was a privacy-championing startup, before becoming an app of choice for drug traffickers and being acquired by Amazon Web Services:
canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on 13-year-old Tetris player, Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti, who played until the NES version gave out. New play methods, such as rolling and hypertapping, were needed to reach a skill level where one can play as long as endurance and the software hold out. In his case it took over half an hour on the NES using rolling:
fliptop writes:Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame to the victims themselves in an attempt to absolve itself from any responsibility, according to a letter sent to a group of victims seen by TechCrunch:
Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/gentoo_starts_offering_binaries/I'm not one of these Nancy-Boys who just downloads some binaries and call it an operating system. I compiled my Gentoo, right here on my own computer, but now that's history.In what many thought might be a prank, The geeks at Gentoo announced they will now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.Although this is exactly how basically all other current Linux distributions work, it is a significant departure for Gentoo, which previously was an almost entirely source-based distro. With Gentoo, the install disk that gets you started must by definition be pre-compiled, up to now, when you install Gentoo, it fetches the source code and compiles it on your machine for your machine, specifically optimized for your computer's specific CPU and the individual functionality and configuration you chose.For now, the full range of pre-compiled binary packages will focus on x86-64 and Arm64.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
New antibiotic family kills superbugs in a way they can't resisttaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/antibiotic-polymer-family-kills-superbugs-resistance/
canopic jug writes:System administrator and prolific blogger, Chris Siebenmann, has a brief note that e-mail addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts.