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Apple users beware: Complete strangers could be listening to your ‘private’ conversations.

Posted on July 31, 2019

If you use an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch you know how handy Siri can be at times.

But what you might not know is Siri is constantly snooping on your conversations, and that even includes face-to-face conversations that don’t involve a phone call!

What happens is Siri records your conversations for use in training Siri to better understand how you speak and how it should respond to the things you say.

But Siri doesn’t do this “learning” all on it’s own. It has help from human contractors that Apple pays to listen to their customers’ recorded conversations and then provide feedback to help Siri improve.

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Heads-Up, Bloggers: The next version of Firefox will drop the final hammer on your blog if it’s still unencrypted.

Posted on July 19, 2019

Do you write a blog that’s still serving its pages to your visitors’ web browsers in a non-secure (i.e. unencrypted) state?

If you’re not sure, it’s very easy to find out. Simply visit your blog with any web browser and look that the URL in the address bar.

If the URL starts with https:// instead of https:// that means your blog is not being served to your visitors’ browsers in encrypted format.

If that turns out to be the case, your blog’s traffic is likely to drop to pretty close to zero after Mozilla releases the Firefox 70 update in October.

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Q&A: I need to replace the power supply in my PC. Which brand do you recommend?

Posted on July 15, 2019

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Question from Michael:  The power supply in my computer has gone bad and I need to replace it.

I looked on Amazon and a couple of other sites and there are so many brands to choose from.

Which is the best brand of power supply for someone on a limited budget (hopefully less than $100)?

Rick’s answer:  [Read more…]

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Posted on July 15, 2019

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Heads-Up: These Windows 7 games will stop working in January

Posted on July 10, 2019

Do you still use a Windows 7 PC to play Microsoft’s popular Internet-based games?

If so, I’m afraid you’ll no longer be able to play them after January rolls around.

Microsoft has just announced they’ll be shutting down their Windows 7 Internet Games servers on January 22, 2020.

That means the following games will stop working on that day: [Read more…]

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