Malwarebytes has been one of my go-to resources for years when helping people clean up infected machines. Interesting to see them dip into a tool for Macs, which obviously can, and do, get malware as well!
Malwarebytes releases Mac security software to get rid of Apple malware, adware
I installed Opera 6.0 last night, and I’ve been playing with it a little bit today. I haven’t played enough to really give it a full review, but here’s a few notes: Things I like (and that separate it from IE 6): The built-in ability to not accept pop-ups. The zoom feature so I can…
It’s exhausting to go to work every day for people who refuse to stand behind you as a human being and treat you like an expense they would do anything to be rid of.
Sadly, that is the state of the workplace for many people. It’s not just at the library, and it won’t be fixed by pizza, yoga, or any other lunchtime activity.
Seth has some keen insight into the way social media works, and I think these paragraphs are spot on, and also something we, as users of social media, need to remind ourselves of daily:
“And so the social networks created a game, a game in which you ‘win’ by being notorious, outrageous or, as they coined the phrase, “authentic.” The whole world is watching, if you’re willing to put on a show.
That’s not how the world actually works. The successful people in your community or your industry (please substitute ‘happy’ for successful in that sentence) don’t act the way the influencers on Twitter, YouTube or Facebook do. That’s all invented, amplified stagecraft, it’s not the actual human condition.”
I can’t imagine anything that condemns the current state of corporate intranets more than LinkedIn thinking they could do a better job of connecting coworkers with each other from the outside than companies do internally. Then again, in many cases they probably can! LinkedIn’s Lookup App Helps You Find Your Coworkers More Easily Follow these…
Yeah, you really can’t do this: The ACLU alleged in its charges that Facebook earned revenue from job ads that were delivered selectively based on age and gender, adding that most of the employers’ ads targeted males in fields that are traditionally dominated by men, excluding women and older potential applicants. But, the question I…
This. Just this. There are no “safe” backdoors. “Once again, this reinforces why we should not allow backdoors to encryption or any other such vulnerability. Over and over again, the proponents of backdooring encryption have insisted that it can be built in a “safe” way, where only government will get the backdoor access to encryption….