June 2023

No More Anonymously Viewing Tweets?

I was having an issue with one of my bank’s website and wanted to see if this issue was on my end (which turn out to be the case) or theirs. I went to Twitter to see if there was any reports and was prompted to login. Kind of hard to do when I deleted my Twitter account a couple months back. Closing the login prompt in hopes of still being able to view Tweets anonymously only takes the user to the Twitter home page. This was confirmed earlier today by Bleeping Computer.  However if it is insertional or a…

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A Surprising Reason Why People Don’t Update Firmware

When it comes to firmware updates some people simply don’t understand the need or process.  However, many people who do understand the need and process, are  getting into the bad habit of NOT installing firmware updates (or the very least allow automatic updates). The reason is surprising: They don’t trust the update. This is nothing new for software updates mainly Windows Updates. People have seen the horror stories on the Internet that a bad Windows Update bricked someone’s computer to the point they had to do a system restore and lost all their data. Now they have a fear that…

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