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Amazon Devices Recorded Couple’s Home Chats Then Sent to Random Contact

How the Microsoft Email Case Could Affect Us All: American Prosecutors Want Your Data, even if Stored Outside the US.

This week we're recognizing, Sussamb!

While Sussamb has been a part of the greater POI/GPS community for a long, he's been with POI Factory for about 4 years.

He's a regular in our discussion forums, offering lots of tips and helpful suggestions. Just last week he provided insight to several conversations including;

If you shelled out $3,000 to $4,500 for a Surface Studio, you may be a bit disconcerted to discover that many don’t work with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803. Mice and keyboards keep disconnecting.

{can you say SaaS?}

Microsoft has bundled together Windows 10, Office 365 and a variety of management tools to create its newest subscription suite, Microsoft 365 (M365). Here's what the bundle includes, how much it costs and what it means for the software developer's future.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

by Lucian Armasu May 18, 2018 at 2:20 PM - Source: Robert Xiao

This looks like an ad.

It's got a small test in it and the webcast is somewhat interesting.

On average, 60% of Network traffic is unidentifiable by network firewalls*. Which means ransomware, advanced threats, and active adversaries are happily entering your network. Why? Because every firewall on the market uses application signatures to identify traffic passing through the firewall.

Lots of little Microsoft patches, but nothing for this month’s big bugs — and no Previews

The third Tuesday of the month brought a handful of fixes, but nothing that addresses the Win10 1803 solid-state drive fiasco, or the network clobbering in Windows 7 — and there are no Monthly Rollup Previews.

Here's what you need to know about each security update to Windows 10 as they roll out from Microsoft. Now updated for the 1803 feature release.

By Susan Bradley
Contributing Writer, CSO | May 14, 2018 11:09 AM PT

This week we’re recognizing, BarneyBadass.

He’s been with POI Factory for over 7 years.

Many members have found his posts cross-linking to Tomshardware and Computerworld informative and helpful. His recent posts regarding the new Gmail in particular.

Thanks for your contribution to our POI Factory community!

~Angela

Today I observed on City Line Ave. in Phila.

School bus stopped to pick up passengers, yellow lights, then red.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 cars simply went right by in the left lane.

The sixth car, stopped, with its front bumper lined up with the school bus.

I can't help but wonder if its ignorance, or totally wilful.

Because a red light bus conviction is a mandatory suspension in PA.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

May your day be filled with joy and happiness. Have a Happy Mother's Day!

Watch out for Gmail’s new Confidential Mode

It’s easy and useful, but Google’s new ‘secure email’ is neither secure nor email.

Most email can either be secure or easy to use. You can have one but not both.

That’s why people are so excited about a new feature in Google’s Gmail. It’s called Confidential Mode, and it’s an easy way to make email more private.

Last week, the German computer magazine Heise.de revealed that Intel’s chips are vulnerable to eight more Spectre flaws, which were called “Spectre Next-Generation” or Spectre NG. According to Heise, Intel had planned to release the patches yesterday, May 7, but Intel asked the researchers who uncovered the bugs for an extension.
Spectre NG Flaws

Microsoft has announced that it's blocking some systems with Intel SSDs from receiving the Windows 10 April 2018 update. Microsoft's April 2018 update began rolling out to Windows 10 systems on April 30, but the update has caused some systems with Intel SSDs to enter a UEFI screen reboot or crash repeatedly.

This week we’re recognizing, Johnnatash4!

Johnnatash4 has been with POI Factory for over 9 years! He’s a regular in the discussion forums and this week started a thread on Efiling which has been surprisingly popular. Who knew?!

Thanks for contribution, Johnnatash4!

~Angela

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

The online German computer magazine Heise.de is reporting that eight new Spectre-class vulnerabilities have been discovered. The vulnerabilities purportedly affect Intel and ARM processors, but the impact on AMD processors remain unknown. We reached out to Intel for comment, and the company provided this statement, which neither confirms nor denies the vulnerabilities: