Tag: microsoft
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#MorningMonarchy: July 6, 2016
Pillo the robot, American breasts and more poison water + this day in history w/the Homestead Strike and our song of the day by Thee Oh Sees on your Morning Monarchy for July 6, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 21, 2016
Facebook matrix, NATO networks and emo UFO’s + this day in history w/Mississippi Burning and our song of the day by Thalia Zedek Band on your Morning Monarchy for June 21, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 31, 2016
Floppy nukes, professional trolls and phone jamming + this day in history w/”The Karnival Kid” and our song of the day by Capyac on your Morning Monarchy for May 31, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 24, 2016
Invisibility cloaks, Olympic meteors and BangFit + this day in history w/the first Eurovision contest and our song of the day by Adia Victoria on your Morning Monarchy for May 24, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 10, 2016
‘E.T. Candidate’, selective leaks and Lego hacks + this day in history w/the Astor Place Riot and our song of the day by Land Of Leland on your Morning Monarchy for May 10, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 29, 2016
Cracked iPhone, Kimmel disclosure and Tay tweets + this day in history w/the Dow 10,000 and our song of the day by Caveman on your Morning Monarchy for March 29, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 22, 2016
Face2Face, humanoids and hacks + this day in history w/Hale–Bopp and our song of the day by Aesop Rock on your Morning Monarchy for March 22, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 23, 2016
Space music, dumb phones and the ‘Mobile World’ order + this day in history w/Gitmo and our song of the day by Mavis Staples on your Morning Monarchy for February 23, 2016.
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#Microsoft Backs Down, Fix #IE Vulnerability Even on #WindowsXP
from pcworld.com: Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is over. It really is. But because of the company’s sense of responsibility, it will fix and Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects XP — just this once. That was the message that Microsoft sent in a blog post on Thursday, when it said it would fix all versions…
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New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer
from gizmodo.com: According to a confirmation by Microsoft late last night, a new zero day vulnerability has been found to affect every version of Internet Explorer. In other words—over a quarter of the entire browser market. Attacks taking advantage of the vulnerability are largely targeting IE versions 9, 10, and 11 in something called a…
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Skype TX Promising Pro-Level Broadcast Service
from theregister.co.uk: TV journalists weary of trying to gather acceptable audio from Skype, your time to celebrate is now: Microsoft is rolling out a high-quality service designed for the broadcast market. If it does what it says on the box, Skype TX (transmitter, geddit?) will stick Microsoft’s elbows in the ribs of the expensive platforms…
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#Microsoft Snooped on #Hotmail to Track Leak
from usatoday.com: Microsoft Corp., which has skewered rival Google Inc. for going through customer e-mails to deliver ads, acknowledged it had searched e-mails in a blogger’s Hotmail account to track down who was leaking company secrets. John Frank, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, said in a statement Thursday that the software company…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
