Your security apps do NOTHING!?
TechLinked
·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,080 words · ~5 min read
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the tech news comes for us all
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in the end without much fanfare two new ipads
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appeared on the online apple store today one model is a new ipad air featuring a
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bigger 10 and a half inch screen and apple's new a12 bionic soc which is
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supposed to be up to 70 faster than the previous generation the other is a new
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ipad mini a device that's been very overdue for a refresh it comes with the
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same a12 chip as the ipad air but with a 7.9 inch display in case the full fat
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version is a little too unwieldy for you the devices start at 399 for the mini
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and 4.99 for the air but no matter which one you pick you'll get support for the
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apple pencil and smart keyboard folio covers just like the ipod pro the ipad
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so you'll be able to get all your work done on these no problem why don't you
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just get a computer though what's your computer
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although malware protection is a mainstay on computers it's not as common
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for people to have it installed on their phones and to make matters worse it
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turns out that lots of antivirus apps for Android might be completely useless
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a recent test from av comparatives found that less than one third of 250
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antivirus apps had a catch rate of over 30 still not even that high while also
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not flagging any false positives it turns out that part of the issue is that
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many apps weren't using actual malware detection algorithms and we're instead
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just checking your phone's app against a blacklist of known malware
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weak the report indicated that your best bet is to just use an app from one of
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the big well-known brands and of course stay away from shady links and pop-ups
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telling that you've won a hot date or something it's not worth it guys trust
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me no dating not until you're 16. facebook has taken
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one black eye after another over its methods of delivering news to its users
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and a report published today by facebook itself puts the spotlight on another
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glaring problem where the heck is all the news specifically local news which
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is supposed to be the focal point of the platform's today in feature seems to be
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dying in many places around the us although the decline of the newspaper
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industry has been widely covered already the fact that advertisers have shifted
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dollars from newspapers to online media such as facebook appears to have
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directly contributed to facebook's news gathering struggles to be fair facebook
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has tried to pump quite a bit of this revenue back into local journalism but
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personally i wouldn't mind getting my news from a town crier standing on a
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soapbox again with a big bell you know
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the way it's supposed to be those are the good old days hey you're standing on
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a soap box time for the quick bits
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quickbooks i really hope you weren't using myspace as your primary method of
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cloud storage for some reason as due to our recent server migration project all
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music photos and videos uploaded between 2003 and 2015 are gone they're just
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they're gone although most of us probably don't care
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about them anymore myspace isn't the only storage provider this could happen
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to so remember there's nothing wrong with keeping offline backups there is
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something wrong with still using myspace yeah they used to be four percent of all
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internet traffic wow fun fact i read an xbox magazine
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back in 2005. wow it wasn't too long ago that tesla
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announced an electric suv that would cost under 40 grand but maybe a bit of
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competition will drive prices down even more fisker has thrown its hat into the
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ring with the news that it will be launching its own electric suburban
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child mover at a similar price point with an even longer range of 300 miles
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or 483 kilometers you'll probably have to wait until
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2021 to see it but that's okay you might start getting better matches in the near
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future if you're a frequent swiper on tinder the company has moved away from a
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ranking system that's based on how many desirable users you match with and
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toward one that primarily depends on how much you use the app
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so keep on swiping you might meet the partner of your dreams or at least get a
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cheap fleeting ego boost i don't understand this i swipe i get hotter
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yes they get hotter and hotter the more you swipe that's a dark incentive yeah
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lyft is set to go public ahead of rival uber as the ride sharing company just
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announced it's raised over 2 billion for its initial public offering or ipo which
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may take place next week okay a share will run you 62 to 68 if
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you're interested investing with the company hoping to raise its value by
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over 5 billion with this ipo hopefully
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the expected uptick in value will help lyft provide cheaper rides in more
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places as i'm kind of tired of paying steak dinner prices for the taxi ride
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equivalent of street meat street meat can be really good sometimes not in this
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country and in the wake of google's announcement that it'll be shutting down
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its unpopular social media service google plus the internet archive is
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scrambling to preserve public google plus pages for posterity instead of
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dying a proper death it's embarrassing carcass will be preserved and displayed
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for all to see man i hate the internet archive it's dirty and it gets
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everywhere oh and that reminds me i gotta go take care of something send
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people see ya