Avoid and remove potentially unwanted programs (PUPs)

Avoid and remove potentially unwanted programs

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Dodge toolbars, browser add-ons and other unwanted programs when installing free software What are potentially unwanted programs? We’re sure you’ve experienced it – You download a piece of free software, then open your browser to discover a strange toolbar has been added, your default search provider has been changed, or your homepage has been hijacked. You’ve picked up a PUP, …

iOS 9 features and news

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Here are the iOS 9 features for Apple’s iPhone and iPad update iOS 9 is Apple’s latest update that’s now available to download your iPhone and iPad, and it bringing a smarter Siri, Apple Maps transit directions, true multitasking and new built-in apps. iOS 9 officially launched Wednesday, September 16 and can be loaded onto your Apple device through the …

Windows 10: release date, price, news and features

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You have to wonder if Microsoft’s been a little bit Machiavellian with Windows. By giving everyone the much-derided Windows 8, which managed to be a bit rubbish and annoying on touch-screen and desktops alike, it’s now reinstating a whole bunch of features for Windows 10, making it feel like the company’s saving Windows and listening to what we want. Whatever …

iOS 7.1 jailbroken but only on the iPhone 4

iOS 7.1 jailbroken but only on the iPhone 4

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Demoed in a YouTube video, the untethered jailbreak works on the latest version of iOS, though devices with A5 chips or higher apparently are out of the running for now. An enterprising hacker has jailbroken iOS 7.1, at least as seen on a YouTube video. Posted by self-dubbed “insane programmer” winocm, the silent video shows a jailbroken iPhone 4 powering up in …

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Flappy Bird to be grounded by its creator?

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Dong Nguyen, creator of the app that’s been making $50,000 a day in ad revenue (and that some have called the worst smartphone game ever), tweets that he’s pulling the game. Dong Nguyen, creator of the app that’s been making $50,000 a day in ad revenue (and thatsome have called the worst smartphone game ever), tweeted Saturday that he’ll be pulling the game …

Apple, Google, Microsoft unite against NSA spying program

Apple, Google, Microsoft unite against NSA spying program

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The tech giants, along with Yahoo, Facebook, and AOL, call upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to substantially reform the US government’s mass surveillance practices. The top tech companies are sharpening their blades in their battle with the National Security Agency. While they’ve been doggedly asking for transparency on the agency’s mass surveillance program for months, they’re now calling for reform. …

Adobe hacked, 3 million accounts compromised

Adobe hacked, 3 million accounts compromised

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The massive attack exposes customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders. Adobe announced on Thursday that it has been the target of a major security breach in which sensitive and personal data about millions of its customers have been put at risk. Brad Arkin, senior director of security for Adobe …

Samsung to launch 'faster' version of Galaxy S4

Samsung to launch ‘faster’ version of Galaxy S4

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Samsung to launch ‘faster’ version of Galaxy S4 SOUTH KOREA: Samsung Electronics plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday. JK Shin, also co-chief executive of the world’s biggest technology firm by revenue, said the phone would be sold in …

NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

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NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests Facebook, which recently opened a massive data centre in Sweden, said it had “aggressively” protected its user data from the US government Facebook received 9,000-10,000 requests for user data from US government entities in the second half of 2012. The social-networking site said the requests, relating to between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, …

New Android Trojan app exploits previously unknown flaws.

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The malware is the most sophisticated Android Trojan program found to date, researchers from Kaspersky Lab said A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices. Security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab named the new malicious application Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a and labeled …