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Google is killing Google Cloud Print
“It’s almost December, but Google’s 2019 product bloodbath isn’t done yet! The latest product to receive a death sentence this year is Google Cloud Print, an excellent printer-to-cloud bridge service that launched in beta in 2010.”
With Patch Tuesday arriving tomorrow, get Windows Automatic Update under control
“December was a remarkable patching month. For those of you who use Windows Update, there were few surprises. (Manual updaters had it rough, though.) If you’ve been following along, you’ve already installed the December updates. Great.”
The NFL Is Cracking Down on VPN Users
“For years VPNs have promoted their services as a way to watch content from outside their home market.”
Quickly Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 for Free With This PowerShell Script
“If you’re reading this, you probably know how to upgrade one version of Windows to another. Even though it’s an easy process, it’s still tedious and boring to watch Windows download and install, and then you have to spend more time moving through screens and tweaking settings. Meh.”
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Privacy Investigation With A $4 Billion Sting
“Windows 10 users have more than just updates that break things and critical security warnings to worry about. There’s also the small matter of user data privacy to consider.”
Google shutting down Xiaomi access to Assistant following Nest Hub picking up strangers’ camera feeds (Update: Xiaomi statement)
“So-called “smart” security cameras have had some pretty dumb security problems recently, but a recent report regarding a Xiaomi camera linked to a Google account is especially disturbing.”
Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G smartphones in 2019
“The world’s biggest smartphone maker is widening its lead over rivals in the race to put 5G devices in customers’ hands.”
DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
“The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months.”
More than 1 million T-Mobile customers exposed by breach
“T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor. The company alerted the affected customers but did not provide many details in its official account of the hack.”
