I don’t like being force-fed Windows 10
The nagware announcements are gone, but Microsoft, along with AMD and Intel, has made darn sure you’ll be running Windows 10 and not Windows 7 on the next PC you buy.
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Microsoft sees silver lining in clouded Windows
The company is in the midst of a great transition, and current indications are that it is going well.
Google's takedown policy: Celebrity nudes today, your right to know tomorrow?
Google last week did something that is really hard to find objectionable: It said it deleted quite a few ("tens of thousands") nude pictures stolen from celebrities. But as with anything that involves such an influential company as Google, this move creates a precedent, and it's a dangerous one.
The trouble with trolls (and how to beat them)
A vulnerable person. A sociopath or two on social media tormenting that person without consequence. That's trolling in a nutshell.
Facebook is a school yard bully that's going down
Facebook has grown and evolved in recent years. In addition to connecting people online, it bombards users with unnecessary ads and useless sponsored stories. And it runs experiments on its users. Columnist Alex Burinskiy is not amused.
Inside Facebook's brilliant plan to hog your data
Facebook's Anonymous Login is designed to create scarcity in the user data market, which increases the value of that data, and forces more small companies to get that data through Facebook's ad network, rather than from the users directly.
Why the social networks are falling apart
The social networks are falling apart -- breaking up into multiple sites and apps that do in a scattered way what used to happen centrally.
LinkedIn: membership age, privacy and skills endorsement
How are your freestyle llama wrestling skills? Worthy of endorsement by members of your LinkedIn network?
