security
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You Might Want To Uninstall VLC. Right Now. Immediately.
Because of its free and open-source nature, VLC is one of, if not the most popular cross-platform media player in the world. Unfortunately, a newfound and potentially very serious security flaw discovered in VLC means you might want to uninstall it until the folks at the VideoLAN Project can patch the flaw.
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Mozilla’s Tweaking Firefox’s Password Manager To Tell You When Saved Logins Have Been Stolen
You can’t spend hours combing through archives of breached data to see if your login credentials were leaked, so Mozilla’s rebranded in-browser password manager, Lockwise, will soon notify users if their saved usernames or passwords were exposed in a data breach, and recommend that they change them.
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Google Very Angry After Contractor Leaks Over A Thousand Assistant Recordings
Just in case you were holding out any hope that Google didn’t let humans listen voice recordings from Google Home and Google Assistant, stop doing that. One of the humans that Google hired to review voice recordings recently leaked over a thousand Assistant recordings to a Belgian news organisation, which published a story and video…
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Park Officials Criticised For Installing Devices That Blare High-Frequency Noise At Young People
There is growing criticism of Philadelphia officials’ decision to install sonic devices called ‘the Mosquito’ across the city that constantly emit extremely loud, high-frequency noise from 10pm to 6am every night designed to be audible only to persons aged 13 to 25, according to a Saturday report by NPR’s Morning Edition.