Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 19, 2025
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On the way home yesterday, testing out the new Garmin C-330 I got for Christmas, a couple of things occurred to Angela and I. One, we wondered if our niece, is recently turned 2, would grow up in a world with turn by turn Google Map directions and GPS units and never need to know…
Maybe those easy-to-spot ones are lulling us into a sense of overconfidence. What will we do when something is done with more effort and better quality? Heck, enough folks are being fooled by the poor ones because they display something they want to believe. None of us should assume we’d always know.Â
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…
It’s time for cybersecurity to go pro bono Who says You Can’t Bates Number Native Productions? What Will the E-Discovery Team of the Future Look Like? Data privacy basics – what type of information is regulated? Why Managers Design Jobs to Be More Boring Than They Need to Be How Tech Competence Can Help Attract…
This is an interesting story, because it demonstrates just how much information smart home devices may have, and how various government interests are going to try and access, and interpret, that data. It also raises some interesting questions about how that data could be hacked by non-official parties. Are we really going to believe that…
“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…