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Linked – Yahoo says half a billion accounts breached by nation-sponsored hackers

Given the wide range of personal information exposed, the possibility of attackers obtaining plaintext passwords is only one of the major concerns stemming from the breach. Yahoo users should be wary of communications that may use some of the compromised data to trick them into clicking on links, divulging information, or taking other actions. Glad…

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Linked – Google’s New Trips App Helps Simplify Travel-Planning

Google Trips allows you to sync your Gmail account, which will populate the app with all of your upcoming and past adventures — all flight, hotel and car rental information is available in one place for each trip. Before heading out on your journey, download the city you’re going to so you can access all of its…

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Linked – 10 New iOS 10 Settings You Should Change

iOS 10 is here, and it’s packing a number of very cool new features. To activate some of those features — like sending read receipts in Messages or having Siri announce calls — you’ll need to tweak a few settings. A few other new options will change how your device behaves with iOS 10. These…

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Linked – Delete Google Maps and Google Will Still Know Where You Are

Google Play is so insistent on tracking your location that some Android phone users have reported battery drain issues. You can laboriously go through all your apps and turn off the location feature. A very laborious process and not necessarily what you want. But if even one app has the ability to track you, so…

Linked – WADA says Russian hackers published athletes’ medical data

Linked – WADA says Russian hackers published athletes’ medical data

Russian hackers broke into a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted confidential medical data online Tuesday of some United States female athletes who competed at the Rio Olympics — including gymnast Simone Biles, tennis players Serena and Venus Williams and basketball player Elena Delle Donne. This is pretty much the world we live in now….