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Twitter's filter for offensive messages now rolling out across Android, iOS and web

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:12:01 +0000

The new feature will categorize DM requests that contain offensive content under "additional messages" in the inbox. From there, users will be able to delete the messages without opening them. Read more...

FaceApp goes beyond gender and age with new race-changing filters

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:44:01 +0000

FaceApp is a selfie app best known for its ability to transform the user into an older or younger version of themselves, and even has the option to change gender. Now, something new has been added. Read more...

TalkTalk becomes latest UK ISP to block adult content by default

Usama Jawad — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:54:01 +0000

As the battle between Internet service providers and their customers who want to view adult content on the web rages on, TalkTalk has become the latest UK ISP to filter such material by default. Read more...

UK ISPs "hijacking" browsing sessions to force porn filter block choice

Steven Parker — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:48:01 +0000

With the UK government directive on making the internet "family friendly" by the end of the year, some ISPs are stepping up the requirement to opt in or out, by hijacking your browser. Read more...

AdBlock Plus Firefox plugin could be sucking up gigabytes of your RAM

James Walker — Fri, 16 May 2014 12:10:40 +0000

Mozilla has revealed that one of the most popular Firefox plugins, AdBlock Plus, can potentially consume megabytes, or even gigabytes, of RAM on users' machines during browsing. Read more...

Microsoft removes sharpening filter in latest Xbox One update

Shreyas Gandhe — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:00:00 +0000

In the latest update, Microsoft has removed the highly criticized sharpening filter used on the Xbox One console, giving users better quality graphics when upscaling to 1080p resolution. Read more...

CAPTCHA technology could become a thing of the past

Phi Ha — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:29:54 +0000

Your favourite band is touring and you know tickets will sell out in an instant, so every second counts. But there is only one thing in the way, and it threatens to make your life miserable. Read more...

Apple filtering certain words from iCloud emails

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:13:22 +0000

iCloud, the successor to MobileMe, has been found to censor emails which include the words "barely legal teen", a move which has raised questions about the reliability to Apple's email service. Read more...

China fires back at Google by blocking Hong Kong search results

Brad Sams — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:06:01 +0000

When Google took the first step and stopped filtering its results for China, the world knew that China would not sit back and take no action. Early on Tuesday morning China began blocking access... Read more...

China: Google is â€˜totally wrong' to stop censoring its results

Brad Sams — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:08:35 +0000

China has responded to Google re-routing its Chinese based search services to unfiltered results based out of Hong Kong. An official, whose name was not mentioned, who is in charge of the Internet bureau... Read more...

AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:51:09 +0000

For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. But I.S.P.’s may... Read more...

Australian teen disables government's porn filter

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:49:44 +0000

Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a multi-million dollar pornography filter along with several other measures to make the Internet safer for children and families, including an information and education campaign and... Read more...

YouTube to use copyright filter

Steven Parker — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:21:14 +0000

YouTube will start using technology to recognise copyright-infringing videos on its site by this Autumn, according to one of its lawyers. Recently three major content owners- Viacom, music publisher Bourne and the Premier League- have... Read more...

Will ISPs begin to filter their networks for illicit music?

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:01:47 +0000

They might after a ruling in Belgium, where the local ISP, Scarlet (which was once part of Tiscali) has been given six months to begin filtering out infringing peer-to-peer content on its network. The court... Read more...

Arm Adult Filter 1.0

Razvan Serea — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:44:54 +0000

Arm Adult Filter will safeguard web surfing of your children by restricting access to web pages with obscene material, gambling sites and any other resources you consider improper. It can block web contents, including search... Read more...

Updates for Outlook 2003/2007 Junk Email Filter (March 2007)

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:15:42 +0000

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB931764) This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.... Read more...

Forefront Client Security Filter Manager QFE for Windows XP

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:28:10 +0000

The Filter Manager rollup package contains a required hotfix for client computers running Windows XP SP2. Before installing the Client Security agent, ensure that client computers running Windows XP SP2 have the filter manager rollup... Read more...

Spammers go island hopping to bypass filter

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:42:29 +0000

Anti-spam researchers at security company McAfee have discovered a new spamming trend nicknamed 'spam island-hopping'. The new trend involves spammers using the domain names of small islands as website links in spam campaigns. McAfee has... Read more...

Microsoft's Phishing Filter for IE7 Clears Audit

Steven Parker — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:21:00 +0000

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a thumbs up on the sensitive issue of user privacy. Jefferson Wells... Read more...

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter (KB906173)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:51:19 +0000

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released on October 18 2005. ... Read more...

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB894384)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 11 May 2005 07:53:01 +0000

This optional update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in May 2005. ... Read more...

ISA Server 2000 RPC Filter Update

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:27:09 +0000

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 makes significant changes to the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service with the addition of registry keys, including the ability to enable users to modify the behavior of all RPC... Read more...

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB890854)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:44:43 +0000

Witness assaults Kazaa filter claims

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:19:12 +0000

Overriding severe objections from Sharman Networks, an Australian judge allowed an antipiracy company to testify at the trial against the owners of the peer-to-peer software Kazaa. Tom Mizzone, vice president of data... Read more...

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB873362)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:49 +0000

Peeping Tom filter lets phones see through bikinis

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:45:01 +0000

A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on for Vodafone handsets that's meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark. Unfortunately,... Read more...

Exchange Intelligent Message Filter

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:15:41 +0000

Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter provides server-side message filtering, heuristics-based message analysis, and support for per-message spam confidence level ratings. Note: Intelligent Message Filter can only be installed on a server running Exchange Server 2003... Read more...

RadLight OptimFROG DirectShow Filter v1.0.0.1

Thu, 06 May 2004 14:43:11 +0000

"OptimFROG is a lossless audio compression program. Its main goal is to reduce at maximum the size of audio files, while premitting bit identical restoration for all input. It is similar with the ZIP compression,... Read more...

ISA Server 2000 - Vulnerability in H.323 Filter

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:25:17 +0000

Overview A critical security vulnerability exists in the H.323 filter for Microsoft ISA Server 2000 that could allow an attacker to overflow a buffer on the Microsoft Firewall Service in Microsoft ISA Server 2000.... Read more...

Serial ATA starts to filter into enterprise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:33:40 +0000

MARKET RESEARCH firm iSuppli said that Serial ATA is beginning to make inroads into the corporate marketplace. But such systems may only represent one third of enterprise class data systems even by 2007, iSuppli cautioned.... Read more...

RadLight APE DirectShow Filter v1.0.0.0

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:45:32 +0000

This source filter will allow any DirectShow based player to playback Monkey's Audio (APE) encoded content (lossless). Initial release compiled against 'MACLib 3.98a1'. It's based on the same model as our MPC sourcefilter... Read more...

Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter Update: KB832333

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:33:31 +0000

Overview Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. This update enhances the junk e-mail filter in Outlook to help provide a... Read more...

RadLight Filter Manager v1.3

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:26:46 +0000

RadLight Filter Manager is a small open-source tool which allows you to change merit of DirectShow filters. The latest version introduces several bugfixes and improvements contributed by Griga. Screenshot: >> Click... Read more...

RadLight MPC DirectShow Filter released

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:17:28 +0000

Quoting DAvenger : "After long hours of persuading, bribery and other illegal activities I managed to convince RadScorpion to create a DirectShow filter which would allow me to playback my MPC (MusePack) encoded... Read more...

MSN Messenger's forbidden word filter getting lazy

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:58:08 +0000

Remember when you weren't allowed to use 'remember' in your MSN Messenger nickname? Same thing with words like 'admin', 'webmaster' or almost any nasty four-letter-word. Well, it seems like those words aren't blocked from your... Read more...

Hotmail to use Brightmail SMTP filter to stop junk mail!

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:02:06 +0000

Microsoft today signed up to use the Brightmail Solution Suite SMTP gateway to tackle the junk mail bombarding Hotmail accounts. This is intended to hoover up some of the vast amounts of junk mail before... Read more...

Audiogalaxy agrees to filter songs

Steven Parker — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:39:43 +0000

Thanks eth3l for the heads up on this one. Audiogalaxy, a popular Internet file-swapping service, agreed Monday to filter copyrighted works as part of a legal settlement with the recording industry. Under the settlement,... Read more...

VIA USB Filter Patch v1.10

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:14:43 +0000

Via has released a new patch, this filter patch is version 1.10 of the VIA USB filter patch. This patch is for any system, with any Microsoft operating system that supports USB, that has a... Read more...

The new battleground: displaying ad's vs ad filter software!

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:59:45 +0000

Dusseldorf, Germany-based MediaBeam last month said it's testing a product that aims to detect ad-blocking software and charge the people using it a fee to view a Web site's content. The product, called AdKey, is... Read more...