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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.

FYI, Jacksonville is going to disarm all redlight cameras effective 01-01-18. They claim that they do not prevent accidents.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/red-light-cameras-getting-clos...
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/red-light-cameras-in-jack...

Happy New Year!

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

In danger of losing your windmill?

Maybe you can share the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you used it to seek out special places to go (like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.).

Anything to keep your windmill alive.

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

Factory Joke Thread – January 2018

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

It will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

Please read the forum rules before posting.

"POI Factory is not a forum for politically charged debate.

Voting has ended, and our general maintainers have selected Mahoney & Alandb as the 2017 POI Factory Maintainers of the Year!

If you own an Amazon Echo, you probably know its strange secret. The device records a lot of what you say. Deep inside that dark tower, Echo keeps a vast trove of recordings. Your voice is preserved. Your friends’ voices are preserved. Anyone who has ever been to your house and said, “Alexa!” has contributed to its great library of human sound.

Over the last few months, we've seen multiple reports of websites using cryptocurrency mining scripts that load along with the website and use visitors' CPU cycles to mine various cryptocurrencies.

DPC Watchdog Violation errors were very common when Windows 10 was first released—so much so that Microsoft had to release an update to tackle it. Originally it was caused by an SSD driver that was found to be incompatible with Windows 10, and it's actually a repeat of an issue that occurred in Windows 8 when that was released, too.