Trivia Plaza A long, long time ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there lived a young man who played Trivial Pursuit with anyone who would play it with him. It didn’t take long before everyone who played against him found his Achilles’ heal — the category was “Entertainment”. Yep, that young man was me and I was… Read More »
Repair scams: Let’s take a look at iYogi All Windows users iYogi is a remote support outfit whose home office is in India. They have “local headquarters” in the USA, United Kingdom, and elsewhere around the world. “Local Headquarters” is in quotes because iYogi does not have a physical presence anywhere other than India. Now before we get… Read More »
With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific registry, reached the 17 million (one “/8”… Read More »
Too Big to Comply? NSA Says It’s Too Large, Complex to Comply With Court Order In an era of too-big-to-fail banks, we should have known it was coming: An intelligence agency too big to rein in — and brazen enough to say so.In a remarkable legal filing on Friday afternoon, the NSA told a federal court that its… Read More »
Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online. On a bright April morning in Menlo Park, California, I became an Internet spy. This was easier than it sounds because I had a willing target. I had partnered with National Public Radio (NPR) tech correspondent… Read More »
Google unseats Microsoft as the U.S. browser powerhouse Google’s strength in mobile browsing pushes it past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Google has unseated rival Microsoft as the leading browser maker in the U.S. for the first time, Adobe said this week, citing data from its analytics platform. The rise in Google’s domestic fortunes followed Microsoft’s reduction to second fiddle… Read More »