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Our tour of one of Germany's new content moderation centers gave us a look at Facebook’s content moderation—and what it means for the people who have to enforce its deletion rules.

"As of right now reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally.”

On Sunday night SpaceX launched the Zuma satellite into space. What we know for sure is that the first stage of the rocket behaved nominally enough such that it was able to safely return to Earth and make a land-based landing along the Florida coast.

In response to the Meltdown and Spectre exploits that potentially affect all CPUs released in the recent years, Intel on Monday created a new group that will focus on product assurance and security. The group will be headed by an Intel veteran, but its exact tactical and strategic goals remain unclear.

Microsoft has begun updating its Windows operating systems against the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, but not all users will be too happy about it. According to the company, machines running Windows 7 and 8, as well as computers based on Haswell chips or older, will see “significant slowdowns” from the update. Intel’s own findings largely confirm Microsoft’s results.

After a flaw was found in the WPA2 encryption protocol for Wi-Fi last year, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA3, a next-generation protocol that fixes the flaw and enhances its security.

Prease to read more here!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/wi-fi-alliance-wpa3-encrypt...

Our first Contributor of the week for 2018 is Phranc!

Phranc has been with POI Factory for over 10 years and 31 weeks!

He was our top poster last week helping in threads like Nuvi 1390T Auto-Zoom Issue and being the first to respond to the COY thread and the first Chit Chat of 2018.

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

I wonder how many 10-year-olds or more there are right now?

Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides can be powerful business tools. These extensions for the Chrome browser help you work smarter with Google Drive and its companion apps so you can get more done.

Migration watch: Windows 10's share of all Windows PCs is now expected to exceed Windows 7's by September 2018. Even so, large numbers of users will still be using the older OS when support ends in two years.

Windows 10 will replace the aged Windows 7 as the most popular version of Microsoft's operating system in September, according to the rise and fall of the two editions' user shares.

The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly severe flaws for Intel and some ARM chips—were originally revealed privately to chip companies, operating system developers, and cloud computing providers.

The company will replace the battery for free and send a technician to do so.

Class action lawsuits have been filed in California, Indiana, and Oregon.

Three class action complaints have been filed against Intel over the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws that were discovered by researchers earlier this year and widely publicized earlier this week.

Social media websites and online services, created to profit from connecting people and encouraging global conversations, have a deep and troubling dark side. Malicious users have exploited these forums for free speech in ways that weaken shared norms of civility, trust and openness.

Over the course of 2017, people in the U.S. and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their digital data are transmitted, stored and analyzed. As news broke that every Yahoo email account had been compromised, as well as the financial information of nearly every adult in the U.S., the true scale of how much data private companies have about people became clearer than ever.

Intel and Its Partners Have Made Significant Progress in Deploying Updates as Software Patches and Firmware Updates

A researcher going by the name “Siguza” unveiled a 15-year-old security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS operating system that could allow an attacker to fully compromise the system. The researcher also published proof-of-concept zero-day code to his GitHub page.

Prease to read more here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/macos-flaw-full-system-comp...

and here:

Update, 1/3/18, 1:00pm PT: Intel has responded to the reports and disputes claims of a bug.

Consumer Electronics Show 2018 is next week. Garmin is listed as an exhibitor.

https://www.ces.tech/

I'm not quite sure how to report this so I'll try a public post in hopes that Ajasaro reads this.