With the release of Google Chrome 80, Google quietly slipped in a new feature that allows users to create a link directly to a specific word or phrase on a page. A Brave Browser researcher, though, sees this as a potential privacy risk and is concerned Google added it too quickly. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Methane is being extracted from Lake Kivu in Rwanda to generate electricity. Source:: BBC News – Technology
“Mad” Mike Hughes, 64, wanted to launch himself into space to prove that the Earth was flat. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Ministers and their officials are staking a claim for what they need to stave off several crises. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Buying your own email address from a dedicated UK web hosting provider is cheap (c.£1-3 a month), unless you’re a former broadband ISP customer of BT (£7.50) or TalkTalk (£5) where in order to keep your address you can end up being charged significantly more for an often inferior product. Ofcom isn’t happy. The issue…
Until Microsoft releases a permanent solution for the troublesome KB4532693 update, enterprises with Windows 10 1903 and 1909 are forced to delay applying the security fixes that come with it. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Until Microsoft releases a permanent solution for the troublesome KB4532693 update, enterprises with Windows 10 1903 and 1909 are forced to delay applying the security fixes that come with it. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Researchers at Brown University found bots were far more likely to post tweets denying climate change. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Ofcom is asking why broadband firms charge people to keep old email addresses after switching providers. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Whilst the ‘Church of Full Fibre‘ is now operating a broader admissions policy (cable and 5G are both firmly welcome) the race to build Full Fibre Britain is well and truly on. With around thirty operators planning or actively building, there are real ‘first mover’ advantages for the fleet -footed operator. The challenge for the…
AWS Security Hub has added 7 new external partner integrations bringing its total 54 integrations, including 48 external partner integrations and 6 AWS service integrations. Security Hub now supports integrations with Cloud Custodian (cloud compliance and remediation), FireEye Helix (Security Information Event Management, or SIEM), Forcepoint CASB (cloud access security broker), Forcepoint DLP (data loss…
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and January 2020 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c and 19c. Source:: Amazon AWS
A developer has created a new extension for Microsoft Edge that restores Internet Explorer’s menu bar, which gives you options like File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Window, and Help menu right below the address bar. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Amazon RDS for MariaDB has been updated to support release 10.3.20 of the MariaDB database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Source:: Amazon AWS
Today AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabled you to control access for requests made on your behalf by AWS services. For example, using the new control, you can now grant your IAM principals the ability to launch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, but only through AWS CloudFormation, without granting direct access to EC2.…
A security researcher has stated that they have allegedly hacked SlickWraps and after receiving no response to emails, publicly disclosed how they gained access to the site and the data that was exposed. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
A security researcher has stated that they have allegedly hacked SlickWraps and after receiving no response to emails, publicly disclosed how they gained access to the site and the data that was exposed. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
I keep a very detailed budget. I have for the last 7 years. I manually input every expense into a spreadsheet app and use a combination of sumifs functions to track spending. Opening the spreadsheet app, and then the specific spreadsheet, every time that I want to submit an expense is a little clunky. I’m…
I keep a very detailed budget. I have for the last 7 years. I manually input every expense into a spreadsheet app and use a combination of sumifs functions to track spending. Opening the spreadsheet app, and then the specific spreadsheet, every time that I want to submit an expense is a little clunky. I’m…
Openreach (BT) has today revealed how much it will charge UK ISPs to use the new 500Kbps (0.5Mbps) “low bandwidth speed tier” on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and SOGEA (standalone FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband lines, which might sound silly by modern standards but it has a specific purpose. Much as we reported last year, when…