August 3, 2016
Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. What happens when a technology gets as good as it can?
It’s an interesting question, and not necessarily as far-fetched or ill-timed as you may imagine.
Consider the world of digital audio. As a musician, music lover, former music equipment industry journalist and self-professed audiophile, I admit to caring a lot more about audio than most, but there are certain facts ...
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In my very first post to this site, I linked to an article about how the original “Star Trek” USS Enterprise model had been moved out of the Smithsonian for a loving restoration. Seeing that model was the highlight of my childhood trip to the Air & Space Museum, despite all the historic, non-fictional stuff on display there.
Anyway, the ...
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Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. Apple has, for a while now, offered two separate additional security measures to protect your Macs, iOS devices, and iCloud account, but thanks to some inexpert nomenclature, it can be a little difficult to tell them apart I’m glad Dan Moren figured this out and wrote it up, because Apple sure didn’t make it easy to even know ...
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Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case called United States v. Nosal, held 2-1 that using someone else’s password, even with their knowledge and permission, is a federal criminal offense. This dangerous ruling threatens to upend a good decision that the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc—i.e., with 11 judges, not just 3—made in 2012 in ...
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Mac OS X firewall Little Snitch is vulnerable to local escalation of privileges attacks that could give criminals the ability plant rootkits and keylogger on some Mac OS X El Capitan systems. Read more at Threatpost | The first stop for security news
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Adobe today pushed out an updated Flash Player today that patched 52 vulnerabilities, most of which led to remote code execution on compromised machines. Read more at Threatpost | The first stop for security news
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Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. We all know how software is really never done. There are always new updates to refine, fix and add another feature. But what about hardware? Are there some products you can say are mature and need no more changes? They are done, finished?
That’s not something we frequently encounter when it comes to high-tech products. We’ve lived in an environment ...
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This could be a big deal for Lightroom users who want to edit photos while away from a computer.
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Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. In the science fiction of yesteryear, artificial agents were presented as helpful, local companions. The scope of the internet and its ability to drill into our private lives wasn’t a pervasive theme. Nowadays, we have AI agents built by giant technology companies that want to build AI agents to learn about us, store that data, and sell things instead ...
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Khürt WilliamsFeatured articles from around the web. On the surface, Apple TV seems increasingly focused on cable subscribers instead of cord cutters.
Since its launch last fall, the fourth-generation Apple TV has added several features that provide more convenient access to “TV Everywhere” apps (such as WatchESPN, FX Now, and HBO Go) that require a cable or satellite login to access. Siri is becoming more effective at ...
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