PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Former President Sues Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube In Desperate Plea for Platform
After getting “cancelled” by them earlier this year, Donald Trump has announced a trifecta of class action lawsuits against Twitter, Google, and Facebook, thus generously giving Americans the opportunity to join our former POTUS in his valiant mission for personal revenge.
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Audacity’s Privacy Policy Doesn’t Make It ‘Spyware’ Because Everything Is Spyware Now
Ever since Audacity was acquired by tech conglomerate Muse Group in late April, fans of the free-to-use audio tool have been raising hell about some of the changes made to the software. First came plans to add telemetry capture. Then came a new contributor licence agreement. Then last week came a privacy policy update that…
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How to Avoid Windows’ ‘PrintNightmare’ Security Threat
Microsoft warns of a potentially major zero-day security flaw in Windows’ Print Spooler code. While Microsoft has not identified the severity of the vulnerability — dubbed “PrintNightmare” — it sounds pretty bad. The company says outside users could exploit PrintNightmare to gain elevated administrator privileges and execute code remotely. In other words, it’s an open…
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These Nine Android Apps May Have Stolen Your Facebook Login Information
Google has kicked nine Android apps with more than 5.8 million combined downloads off its Play Store after researchers discovered they contained malicious code used to steal users’ Facebook login credentials, according to the Russian anti-virus software firm Dr. Web.