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 NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR MEMBERS (REPLACES BITS & BYTES) 

Popular - General - Content

December 2023

 

Summer Stephan: Tech Scams are Financially Devastating Senior Citizens

  The author is the District Attorney for the County of San Diego.

November 2023

 

Dan Goodin: This Tiny Device is Sending Updated iPhones into a Never-ending DoS Loop

  The Flipper Zero device can cause havoc on nearby electronic devices.


 

Sara Morrison: Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.


 

Nelson Aguilar: Limit Your Dropped Calls: 10 Tips to Improve Your Cellphone Signal Strength This Holiday Season


 

Joanna Goodrich: Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years: The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide


September 2023

 

Emma Beddington: 50 of the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Corners of the Web

  Something for everyone, including: Music from selected decades and countries, Historical maps, Marine traffic, Word pronunciation, Live air traffic control chatter, Wildlife web cams, etc.


 

 

Karandeep Singh: Use Google Search like it’s 1998 to mark its 25th birthday


August 2023

 

Zachary McAuliffe: How to Clean Up Your Google Drive and Gmail to Save Space and Money

July 2023

 

Irene Okpanachi: How to remove viruses and malware from an Android phone

 

Adam Benjamin & Zachary McAuliffe: Do Your iPhone a Favor and Clear Your Cache


 Are You Using the WRONG Image Format?
ThioJoe explains the differences 


8 Risks and Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

June 2023

 

Joanna Goodrich: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

 Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation 

  Includes a photo of 13 computer graphics pioneers, from the 1960s and 1970s.  Younger generations take for granted what technology exists today, without a thought of how it came to exist. 


 

Fernanda Lopez Halvorson: New Grant to Help More San Diegans Get Online (Free Internet Access)


 The County is expanding its campaign to help more San Diegans get online.


May 2023

You can "Raise You Hand" in a Zoom Meeting by waving.


 

ZOOM CAN RECOGNIZE YOUR HAND RAISE GESTURE

If you enable one of its image analysis tools, Zoom itself can recognize when you physically raise your hand and turn that into a digital raised hand. Darn helpful, actually, and saves you having to remember where that “Raise Hand” button is located. To enable this feature, click on the tiny “^” adjacent to the Reactions button on your Zoom toolbar. A menu appears with one item:

zoom client - reactions raise hand - recognize hand gestures option.


 

Scott J Shapiro: On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
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George Musser: How AI Knows Things No One Told It
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April 2023

 

Jennifer Korn: 50 Years Ago, He Made the First Cell Phone Call
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Madhumita Murgia: OpenAI’s Red Team: The Experts Hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT
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David Zipper: The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
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March 2023

 

David C. Brock: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
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Connie Loizos: Worldcoin, co-founded by Sam Altman, is betting the next big thing in AI is proving you are human
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Yale News: An article about the use of  AI and ChatGPT in College Writing

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Samantha Murphy Kelly: The Way We Work is About to Change
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  This is about newer Generative AI Tools, such as the latest version of ChatGPT-4, and those planned on by Microsoft, Google and others. 


An AI Revolution (Article from 3/24 Honilulu Newspaper)

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Paresh Dave: ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It.
Click to Read

  This article describes competition and changes in search engines, due to chatbots and large language models.  Microsoft plans to significantly increase their fees to companies who use Bing-based search results in products those companies offer.

February 2023

 

Attila Tomaschek: Change Your LastPass Password Manager, Before It's Too Late
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/change-your-lastpass-password-manager-before-its-too-late/


 

  • Helping Protect Seniors from Fraud and Identity Theft

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Save Money by Cleaning out your Google Drive or GMail

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The Quiet Way Advertisers are tracking your Browsing

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January 2023

  

Kourtnee Jackson & Ty Pendlebury: Cable vs. Streaming: Which Is Cheaper?
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/is-cable-really-less-expensive-than-streaming/


Scharon Harding: Reviewer Buys 16TB Portable SSD for $70, Proves it’s a Sham
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/64gb-microsd-cards-are-posing-as-16tb-portable-ssds-on-amazon/


December 2022

 

Taras Buria: Top 11 apps every Windows 11 user should have

https://www.neowin.net/news/top-11-apps-every-windows-11-user-should-have/

  As the beginning of the article states, "they also work perfectly fine on Windows 10."

November 2022

 Kevin Purdy: A realistic roundup of what today's Matter launch means for your smart home 

 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/smart-home-firms-hype-matter-launch-with-lots-of-caveats-and-promises/ 


 

Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher: Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook


 

Sara Morrison: Holiday scam email season is here. Don’t fall for it.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/25/23473947/scam-phishing-yeti-cooler-kohls-emails

September 2022

Brian Krebs: How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/how-1-time-passcodes-became-a-corporate-liability



 

Barbara Krasnoff & Antonio G. Di Benedetto: Brand New iPhone Features that Android Already Has

https://www.theverge.com/23319739/apple-iphone-ios-16-android-features-google-apps-comparison

  This article is relevant to people owning either phone, as Android users may discover features they weren't aware exist./


 

Mike Sorrentino: Clear Your Android Phone's Cookies, Cache to Erase Junk Files

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/clear-your-android-phones-cookies-cache-to-erase-junk-files/

  That article also contains a link for iPhone users to do the same.


 

Jeremy Reimer: A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (Acorn RISC Machine)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/

  It contains a simple description of how the CPU (Central Processing Unit) in a computer operates, and tells the story of how a ground-breaking 32-bit CPU chip (ARM - Acorn RISC Machine) was designed by only ten people, for very little money, back in the 1980s, which significantly outperformed other CPU chips of that era.

  Alas (spoiler alert), it didn't have software in the way of an operating system and applications to match their competitors at the time, and so didn't triumph.

AUGUST 2022


 Dan Goodin: I'm a Security Reporter and Got Fooled by a Blatant Phish 


 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/im-a-security-reporter-and-got-fooled-by-a-blatant-phish/ 


 

Zack Whittaker: TheTruthSpy exposed: This spyware lookup tool says if your Android device was compromised

https://techcrunch.com/pages/thetruthspy-investigation/

  It describes how to find a smartphone's International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) 14-15 digit number (*#06#) and its Google advertising ID (16 or 32 characters), to see if they appear on a list of Android phones containing a specific form of Spyware, up to April 2022.

July 2022

Creative content


 Steve Dent: The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing the universe on a 68GB SSD 

 https://www.engadget.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-has-a-68-gb-ssd-095528169.html 


 Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng: Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?  

https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car

May 2022

Passwordless Sign-Ins soon to be implemented in all Major Platforms

 

Apple, Google, and Microsoft will soon implement passwordless sign-in on all major platforms

  It describes future sign-ins, using a Fast Identity Online (FIDO) process, which eliminates using a password.  Basically sounds like two-factor authentication, using a token on a smart phone, which has its pros and cons.


Why You Should Be Taking Security Advice from YOur Grandmother


The Financial Times reports that a joint study by Visa and Aston University’s Institute for Forensic Linguistics brings bad tidings for the young. One in four 18-34 year olds trust scam messages, which is “more than double” of those over 55.


Mike Sorrentino: You Can Clear Cache and Cookies on Your Android Phone for a Privacy Boost https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/you-can-clear-cache-and-cookies-on-your-android-phone-for-a-privacy-boost/


Will McCurdy: There may soon officially be no escape from Windows 11 on your PC https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-windows-11-no-escape-broad-deployment

April 2022

 Simon Hill: What's the Matter?  We Explain the New Smart Home Standard 


Matthew Hutson: Can Computers Learn Common Sense?  

It describes various scenarios where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can guess common sense responses to situations a certain percent of the time, and where it fails to do so (corner cases).  Humans are often better at reasoning out those situations.


Interesting Interview with IBM CEO

February 2022

The 3G Shutdown Will Affect Everyday Devices You Probably Own


SLEEP! IT’S WHY YOU SHOULD FILTER OUT BLUE LIGHT.


Chiori Hori, Anthony Vetro: At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself (Better communication)


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