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  1. Hello, These kind of attacks require dedicated, specialized hardware as well as direct access to the device by an adversary for enough time in order to perform the attack. If an attacker has that kind of access to the device then there are other higher-priority concerns that need to be addressed, such as why an attacker has unfettered access to the hardware. Thunderbolt controllers have security levels since at least 2013 (https://thunderbolttechnology....t%203%20and%20Security.pdf) and Microsoft themselves implemented DMA attack protection two years ago (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...rotection-for-thunderbolt). As far as I know, Microsoft has never documented the proprietary interfaces used by the Surface to connect docks, keyboards or other Microsoft accessories. Nobody can tell if these have DMA-accessible interfaces or other attack vectors as a result. This reads more like an attempt to justify design limitations of the Surface line as security benefits. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    8 points
  2. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    Do not have to sell anything for it to be an ad
    6 points
  3. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    It's not an "ad" since it is neither paid third-party content, nor are you being sold anything by Microsoft. More accurately it's an informational or promotional message. By using that terminology sans quotes, you are feeding a particular narrative. Not a solid journalistic practice, in case that matters.
    4 points
  4. "Megyn Kelly Today" canceled after blackface comments

    Give the man a break. He must have been busy researching the subject for a year and a half. 🤣
    4 points
  5. qBittorrent 4.2.5 [Update]

    I've never had any serious issues, let alone crashes or BSODs, with qBittorrent. I guess I'm one of those lucky guys.
    4 points
  6. I don't know Rick, it looks fake. Let me call a buddy of mine who is an expert on lame excuses.
    3 points
  7. COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital poverty in the UK

    Some good could come out of it. Broadband is being tested in every developed country right now, and I guess it is time for governments and companies to make good on all the promises and claims about superfast fibre-connections they made more than a decade ago, let alone some places that are still not even connected!
    3 points
  8. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    Start10, Startisback, Open-Shell. Don't have to put up with this nonsense.
    3 points
  9. The global economy will take a big hit and most people will suffer from it, directly or indirectly and it includes the tech market. But Apple knows its customers, and a big number of them don't know the word: "common sense". It is not the time to spend on a new phone, nor Apple of any other brand, but people will buy it anyways.
    3 points
  10. Program loads at startup despite being told not to

    Great tool for finding this stuff and removing it from starting up. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns Free, and a MS tool even. Been using it for years, even before it was MS, use to be non MS, and then they bought them out.. The sysinternals site as lots of great little utils like that. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
    3 points
  11. Correct yes. I wonder if USB4 shares the same insecurities.. Since USB4 will practically be TB3
    2 points
  12. amazon

    https://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us
    2 points
  13. Screw Qualcomm and its proprietary standards.
    2 points
  14. 2K Games announces WWE 2K Battlegrounds due out this fall

    Reminds me of MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch
    2 points
  15. Start10, Startisback, Open-Shell. Don't have to put up with this nonsense. If only every single one of them did not suck more than the Windows Start menu Classic shell is snappy and more complete.
    2 points
  16. MS simply started doing what Google's been doing for years; fair is fair. PS. it's not an "ad", it's a "nag".
    2 points
  17. Agreed. I had planned on upgrading my Galaxy S8+ this year (before the pandemic started), and I just broke the screen on it this weekend. Blech, it sucks. I am now using an old iPhone 6. I have an emergency fund to last me a year, but with this weak / uncertain economy, I'm not buying any unnecessary tech until the economy recovers.
    2 points
  18. yay for gamepass look forward to trying this. The gif of you knocking the enemy off the cliff was a nice touch too.
    2 points
  19. Teams still uses a year-old version of Electron built on a two-year old version of Chromium. I really have to question the wisdom of that.
    2 points
  20. I don't see governments and agencies with pitchforks and torches claiming to ban it as we saw with Zoom. China-phobia? ps: I still think China is guilty of everything but I like Zoom. ps2: China-phobila is called sinophobia. 🤷
    2 points
  21. I think there is pros and cons to both. I was a big lover of Blu Ray's - Had over 400 to my collection over the years but sold them all last year. I stream some, download some. But then Netflix for example never keeps the same film for long. So having that copy on Blu Ray would be the better option. With today so many streaming services i think Blu Ray will lose out, I can see 8K being more and more expensive and less popular. Streaming will be the new way of film watching.
    2 points
  22. Program loads at startup despite being told not to

    So Autoruns found it loading via the registry, a simple uncheck and it is gone! Thanks all for the help.
    2 points
  23. 2FA (at least SMS) should be mandatory these days
    2 points
  24. Let's see: a physical, tangible product that needs to change hands several times in the supply chain before it gets transported to a retail store vs digital. Hmm...🤔
    2 points
  25. What if it is the remote that's missing?
    1 point
  26. COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital poverty in the UK

    We are in an age where the price of education is hitting rock bottom but people find a way to be dumb. For example, I can buy a el-cheapo tablet ($50), find a free hotspot, and I can get access to +1 million books.
    1 point
  27. COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital poverty in the UK

    TsarNikky - This situation is *everywhere* - it's not unique to developed nations. The reasons it exists is that it costs to deploy broadband; nobody - even governments - deploy for free; the deployment costs need to be recovered. (What is REALLY meant is that the size of the "bill" is showing up - and nobody wants to pay it.)
    1 point
  28. I have no problem with it on a website, it is in the OS, be it windows or Android that i have a problem with it.
    1 point
  29. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    Wow, won’t use it then
    1 point
  30. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    My view is that it prompts users to download something that they do not currently have. Though it's not a paid promotion, it also isn't informational in saying "hey, we have this feature/tool in the OS that you aren't using". If the browser was already installed, like it probably would be with the May 2020 update, then this wouldn't be an add, IMO. Is this double standard? So how haven't I heard you say anything about the fact that Google does the same thing in this article. Google has been doing it for years and I think it's about high time Microsoft start doing it too. But why didn't you mention that part in your article? It's evidence you're not being objective. Yup. Chrome not being easily uninstallable on Android devices (ADB does not count here), Chrome ads in Search, Youtube and GDocs etc. Why is MS not allowed to advertise their services in their products? Nobody said it's wrong. To be honest, you pay for most of Microsoft's software, unlike Google. Google has a completely different revenue model.
    1 point
  31. I noticed Chrome does the same nagging thing in Edge, telling you that you should download Chrome.
    1 point
  32. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    My view is that it prompts users to download something that they do not currently have. Though it's not a paid promotion, it also isn't informational in saying "hey, we have this feature/tool in the OS that you aren't using". If the browser was already installed, like it probably would be with the May 2020 update, then this wouldn't be an add, IMO. Is this double standard? So how haven't I heard you say anything about the fact that Google does the same thing in this article. Google has been doing it for years and I think it's about high time Microsoft start doing it too. But why didn't you mention that part in your article? It's evidence you're not being objective.
    1 point
  33. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    What is the point of the one in Search when Edgium is supposed to roll out to everyone anyway?
    1 point
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    1 point
  35. AMD may not be debuting DDR5 memory support before 2022

    Awesome. Hopefully 2 x 32GB will be decently priced by then.
    1 point
  36. What the Font

    Brill - thanks 😄 I need to start looking at the details a bit more.
    1 point
  37. Gtx 1650 or rx 560x with ssd

    Yes more detail is needed to what you want to do. Please always give as much detail as possible when asking questions as we have no clue what you want.
    1 point
  38. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    On to mounting three Raptor engines and a static fire... "SN4 PASSED CRYO PROOF! :D"
    1 point
  39. New build; no display.

    At least it was a simple fix. 🙂
    1 point
  40. HP Elite Dragonfly with Sure View Reflect unboxing

    The 'secure view' screen is terrible and makes the laptop feel like something from the 1990s TFT era. The battery hit from needing to increase the brightness is also not good. It also makes for bright spots if not looking at the screen dead on. Save yourself the money and go the normal screen, or at least look at the 'secure view' side by side with a normal screen before forking out the extra
    1 point
  41. New build; no display.

    Don't feel stupid, we've all been there ....A LOT! Can't count the amount of times i've done that. I still do it on occasion.
    1 point
  42. New build; no display.

    Well sorry for wasting everyone's time, I feel incredibly stupid but I indeed plugged my hdmi cable into the motherboard and not the gpu. Thanks Jim K for mentioning it, I didn't even know motherboards had hmdi ports and just assumed it was in the gpu. For the boot however, I thought that using old ssd/hdd for Windows was doable and the only con was that you run into the risk of losing some files (which isn't an issue for me). I don't currently have any usb's or external hard drives and I no longer have access to my old pc to modify my drives which is why I'm doing what I'm doing. Thanks everybody for replying, I appreciate it a ton.
    1 point
  43. Recover Chrome passwords

    Yep! Exactly! But he is pretty much out of options at the moment. I just hope he doesn't have an Indian accent. lol
    1 point
  44. WinSCP 5.17.5 [Update]

    winscp, putty, vnc and remote desktop are my toolbelt.
    1 point
  45. Yes, Human.Online is 100% correct and it's something I probably should've highlighted more specifically in the article -- once the drive is decrypted (entirely done on the thumb drive itself), it works exactly like any regular USB thumb drive and so can be used on any system. All the processing is done on the drive, so there's no drivers to install on any system. I just added clarification to the specifications section to address your question - thanks for the feedback. "The USB drive contains a rechargeable battery. This lets you type in the PIN and unlock the device before connecting the datAshur PRO2 to a USB port on your computer. Since all of the encryption and decryption is done on the thumb drive itself, the datAshur PRO2 can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux without the need to install any drivers. If the battery dies from lack of use, you can still plug it into a computer and unlock the drive while it's charging."
    1 point
  46. Super Mario 3D World for Switch spotted on Best Buy database

    Which will affect almost no one, really. For better or worse, the Wii U did terribly, and it's no surprise that Nintendo believes they can make more money from games that originally came out on the Wii U. I never owned one, so I already have 3 Wii U games on my Switch, and I'll definitely get this one too.
    1 point
  47. What the Font

    That image is a bit too blurry for WTF to recognise with any degree of accuracy. But the devil is in the details: The stem of the h is higher than the T The circular letters are truly circular The crossbar of the f is the same height as the top of the o It absolutely is a variant of the Avenir family, and I would suggest Pro 65 Medium. Can you please show what you feel is different, genuinely curious? I've taken a better quality version of the Dunelm logo and used said font and it fit perfectly. Hope it helps
    1 point
  48. What the Font

    Certainly looks like Avenir, for reference Neowin's logo text is Avenir 65 medium and I am seeing a lot of resemblance in bold format.
    1 point
  49. Newbie C++ Help

    The C# Yellow Book.
    1 point