Category: public

Comcast’s public WiFi hotspots will remain free for the rest of 2020

Post author By Randall
Post date June 19, 2020
Categories In comcast, connectivity, coronavirus, covid-19, free, gear, hotspots, Internet, internet essentials, News, pandemic, public, Tech, thebuyersguide, Wifi, xfinity

[ad_1] According to Comcast, hundreds of thousands of non-Xfinity customers have taken advantage of the free hotspots. Last month, Senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Ron Wyden urged Comcast to make all of its WiFi hotspots (including Xfinity customers’ routers) open to students who don’t have internet access at home. In response to Engadget’s inquiry […]

DuckDuckGo shares a list of thousands of web trackers that gather your data

Post author By Randall
Post date March 5, 2020
Categories In data, duckduckgo, gear, Internet, open source, Privacy, public, search history, Security, Tech, tracker, tracker radar, web tracking

[ad_1] Tracker Radar includes the most common cross-site trackers, plus detailed info on things like their prevalence, ownership, cookie behavior and privacy policy. According to CNET, the data set contains details on 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies to track users online. DuckDuckGo hopes that developers will use Tracker Radar to block online tracking and […]

Facebook will rank comments to make conversations more meaningful

Post author By Randall
Post date June 14, 2019
Categories In comments, conversation, Facebook, gear, Internet, moderate, pages, popular, posts, public, rank, Tech

[ad_1] The changes will apply to comments on public posts from Pages and people with a lot of followers, but anyone can opt-in to comment ranking feature through their settings. Facebook will base the rankings on how people interact with the comments, whether they like, react or reply. Users will still be able to moderate […]

Facebook revives ‘View As Public’ profile feature

Post author By Randall
Post date May 14, 2019
Categories In Cybersecurity, data security, edit public details, Facebook, feature, gear, Internet, Privacy, profile, public, Security, Tech, view as public

[ad_1] Today, Facebook announced two changes that could make it easier to manage your publicly visible info. First, Facebook is bringing back the “View As Public” feature that allows users to preview their profiles as they appear to the general public. The company is also adding an “Edit Public Details” button directly on profiles. [ad_2] […]

Samsung leak exposed source code, passwords and employee data

Post author By Randall
Post date May 8, 2019
Categories In aws, Bixby, business, credentials, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, gitlab, Home, Internet, keys, leak, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, public, Samsung, Security, smartthings, source code, Tech

[ad_1] The exposed files contained source code for projects like Samsung’s SmartThings platform and Bixby services. They also contained credentials that provided access to the Amazon Web Service account that was being used, as well as several employees’ GitLab tokens, which provided further access. A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company “quickly revoked” all […]