Our digital world ……
“Windows 10 users are reporting that a second Windows update included in this month’s Patch Tuesday is causing problems. According to reports, a bug in the KB4532693 update is hiding user profiles and their respective data on some Windows 10 systems.”
“Microsoft continues to secretly offer Windows 10 free, and you can see why. Despite new attempts to overhaul Windows upgrades, the platform continues to anger users with poor quality updates and questionable transparency.”
“Before Google saved us all from the tyranny of the carriers, some enterprising folks worked out a sort of “hack” that enabled Google’s RCS/chat services, letting us all send messages with the futuristic protocol, even if we weren’t in one of the few supported markets.”
“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.”
“For years VPNs have promoted their services as a way to watch content from outside their home market.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The world’s biggest smartphone maker is widening its lead over rivals in the race to put 5G devices in customers’ hands.”
“The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months.”
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