From PC World: Very soon, the Android OS, Chrome browser and other Google products will stop trusting all digital certificates that are linked to a 20-year-old Verisign root certificate.
The announcement comes after Symantec unveiled plans to retire the Class 3 Public Primary Certification...
From CNET: The makers of MacKeeper, a suite of software that claims to make Macs more secure and stable, is cleaning up after a breach exposed the personal information for millions of its users.
Kromtech, which makes the software, acknowledged Monday that a hole in its security exposed the...
From CNET: Microsoft has back-pedalled on cuts it made to OneDrive cloud storage limits last month, giving back some of the data allowances it was set to take away and apologising for putting the blame on users for excessive use.
Customers will still need to opt-in to keep their bonus storage...
From PC World: Popup ads are, for better or worse, a fact of life on the Internet. They are not, however, something you'd expect to see in the App Store app for iOS. But as 9to5Mac reported late last week, Apple is apparently using a popup ad in the App Store to promote the iPhone 6s to owners of...
From ComputerWorld: Yahoo is looking to pull a whole lot of new users into its new Yahoo Mail app by adding support for Google's popular Gmail.
Yahoo, which has been in turmoil lately, launched its Mail app this past October, adding support for email services like Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail...
A story was told of a bunch of English scientists digging down a kilometer into the ground, and found traces of copper wires a thousand years old. For this, they came to the conclusion their ancestors had a telephone network a millennium ago. In response to that, Scottish scientists, not to be outdone by their English counterparts, dug two kilometers down, and found traces of fiber optic cables dating back to the time of Jesus. As such, the...
Winter in Calgary is very much like a roller coaster. The temperatures seem to rise or fall randomly, and it is possible to go from temperatures well below zero to temperatures above zero in one day. For me, this is the most frustrating part of winter, since it feels like it cannot decide if it wants to be warm or cold -- much like choosing which restaurant to go to for dinner. I have to wake up early in the morning, scrape the ice off of my car...
From InfoWorld: Google's PerfKit toolset for benchmarking cloud environments was originally released earlier this year in a pre-1.0 version. Today, it's officially been bumped to a 1.0 release, with expanded support for various cloud providers and automation of 26 different benchmarks, up from the...
From PC World: As we look forward to CES 2016, D-Link is finally shipping the last of the radical-looking Ultra-series routers it announced at last year’s CES. The 4x4 DIR-885L/R promises to deliver top speeds of 2167Mbps on the 5GHz frequency band and 1000Mbps on the 2.4GHz band.
As with most...
From CNET: According to newly revealed statistics from Valve, some 77,000 Steam accounts are hacked every month.
Valve revealed the figure this week as part of a blog post in which it pointed out that account theft is nothing new on Steam. It's been happening since the platform's first days. But...
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