Proprietary Leftovers
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7 hidden tricks for your Chromebook trackpad
Here are seven Chromebook trackpad gestures that'll work wonders for your productivity. And note, too, that some of these shortcuts — the ones related to the web, specifically, with browser-level functions that aren't connected directly to ChromeOS — will work within the Chrome browser on other operating systems as well.
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Pulsar: A Community-Led Open Source Code Editor to Continue the Legacy of Atom [Ed: Helping Microsoft bloatware as volunteers would be a terrible career choice; there are many good editors that aren't Microsoft residue.]
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Australia sixth most targeted for ransomware in November: Flashpoint report [iophk: Windows TCO]
Lockbit, Royal, and Play lead the top 10 ransomware groups globally, the report showed.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell, and a dangerous flaw in Windows 11 systems that was detailed publicly prior to this week’s Patch Tuesday.
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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services.
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Open Question: How will Apple keep sideloading in Europe?
"If similar laws are passed in additional countries, Apple’s project could lay the groundwork for other regions, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is private. But the company’s changes are designed initially to just go into effect in Europe."
I have one question: How?