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Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10

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If you own a system with an Intel 6th generation Core processor—more memorably known as Skylake—and run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you'll have to think about upgrading to Windows 10 within the next 18 months. Microsoft announced today that after July 17, 2017, only the "most critical" security fixes...

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Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users

Yahoo's once-iconic San Francisco billboard, pictured here in 2011. (credit: Scott Schiller)

In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over their practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads. The cases, which were consolidated in federal court, all argued that the privacy rights of non-Yahoo users, who "did not consent to Yahoo's interception and...

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Microsoft will notify users of suspected government spying
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Microsoft said today that it will tell users if their account has been “targeted or compromised by an individual or group working on behalf of a country or nation state.” The announcement comes after Reuters reported how Microsoft did not notify thousands of Hotmail (now Outlook.com) users that their...
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Is cheater site Ashley Madison actually growing by over a million users per month?

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In one of 2015's most sensational hacks, a group called Impact Team dumped the real names and credit card information associated with 39 million accounts from cheater dating site Ashley Madison. And yet, despite the public shaming of prominent men who paid to join the site and several lawsuits against the company, Ashley Madison claims that it...

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Google lets users choose between the Dark Side and the Light Side with Star Wars tweaks to Gmail, Maps and more
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is less than a month away, and Google has teamed up with Disney to get fans in the mood. The search giant will let users choose the Dark Side or the Light Side for all their Google-based activities, from putting expansive Star Wars images as the background for Gmail windows to using...
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