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  1. Windows 10 Your Phone app could soon show what music is playing on your phone

    maybe one day it'll connect reliably. One can always dream.
    5 points
  2. sooooooo... they did nothing wrong...
    4 points
  3. I was able to do this with Office 95, took them long enough.
    4 points
  4. So...non-news then.
    3 points
  5. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    2FA should be used for everything. Security should be the #1 priority for everyone.
    3 points
  6. That's not the point. They want to encourage users to use 2FA to protect entire account, whether you just hoard their free games or buy stuff with them. Also, as far as I can tell, you only need to use 2FA to login to EGS, not to claim individual free games. They just make it mandatory to secure your account before you can claim free games. And for a change I can say something encouraging about EGS, they don't force you to use some stupid 2FA method like Steam's dumb ass clumsy proprietary authenticator app. With EGS you can use standard OTP generator, SMS authentication or e-mail authentication. E-mail authentication is the least intrusive, doesn't require any app and you don't have to give away your phone number. For e-mail authentications, you really only need to keep your e-mail mailbox secured properly and you're good.
    3 points
  7. Fedora 32 launches with new GNOME 3.36 desktop environment

    Finally, some Linux news. Lot's more to write about on that side. Maybe I should apply...
    3 points
  8. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    FACT CHECK MY ARSE. Everything about the official news about Coronavirus was misleading and it is still misleading. And right now, we do know nothing but we have a long list of myths debunked where we need the opposite.
    3 points
  9. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    Great! I've had this enabled for months now.
    3 points
  10. EA needs to contact Hasbro and make a Battlefield game based on the 80s G.I. Joe Real American Hero cartoon series. I would only play as Cobra just to hear the Cobra Commander yell "COBRA RETREAT!" if we lose or the Cobra song from the movie intro if the team wins.
    3 points
  11. Retrieve Windows installation key on HP notebook

    windows 10 you shouldn't need to extract the key. just skip the key on install and have him log back in with the same Microsoft account afterwords and it should reactivate based on the digital key. if it's dual booted with Windows 8.1 and you wish to keep both installs you can use Magical Jelly Bean to extract that key. I believe you said upgraded to 10 but figured I'd put this part as well just in case it's useful to you. 🙂
    2 points
  12. Lenovo's ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II is now available

    The issue with these is that you are stuck with swapped FN and CTRL, at least on Thinkpads you can change that in the BIOS.
    2 points
  13. Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta 3 with contact tracing API

    I trust apples implementation of an api more than governments attempts at contact tracing app
    2 points
  14. This release is a bit buggy but fun. And yeah, still alpha. Here's my referral if anybody wanna try out: STAR-LBQC-SCTK It's referal bonus week, so we'll both get a surprise! Freeeeebie
    2 points
  15. Windows 10 Login - Don't show last logged in user

    Finally got round to trying this, and hadouken, it works!
    2 points
  16. Mmhmm you were running that on iPadOS.
    2 points
  17. I just don't find this app useful. My phone is ALWAYS with me. And the performance of ANYTHING on Your Phone is decidedly bad compared to doing things on my phone. And if I'm playing music on my phone (why wouldn't I be playing it on my PC or tablet, seriously?) already KNOW what's playing...why would I bring up an app on my PC to tell me? This just makes no sense.
    2 points
  18. What sense does this make? It's not like my phone doesn't already show me what's playing. I have absolutely no desire for my phone to connect to my computer anyway! Have blocked that stupid app from even starting on my 2 Windows 10 computers.
    2 points
  19. Serious question: Have any of these clustered computing initiatives resulted in the accelerated development of any treatment/cure? I don't follow the subject, but I don't ever remember coming across any articles crediting folding@home etc. to the development of whatever blah blah blah...
    2 points
  20. CPU-Z 1.92

    Setup version: https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.92-en.exe
    2 points
  21. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    So basically you're saying that your accounts are secure because you used a password generator. That's not going to help if the password is leaked from a website being hacked!!
    2 points
  22. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Exactly right. Millions of lives have been destroyed over a computer simulation. They're finding out now that the death rate is similar to that of past flu seasons. A.I. sounds all neat and futuristic but when it fails so miserably in predicting the future we need to seriously start asking lots of questions. Like who wrote the software. That's my first question.
    2 points
  23. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    I'm glad to see a company like Epic going on the offensive end instead of "we f'd up, everyone needs to protect their accounts'
    2 points
  24. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    I just turned this on for my account, good move.
    2 points
  25. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Oh my God. You actually aren't ashamed to admit that you voted for Hillary Clinton? I admire you sir. Fact checking is fine, censorship is not. When the only truth that can be published is that which your government allows you have no freedoms left. Considering the ###### show we have in there now? No, I'm not ashamed whatsoever. 65,853,514 others did too. Also, YouTube isn't a government organization. First amendment freedoms do not apply. What did the President do that you hate so much? Was it all the job creation? Good point you made in the tail end of your post. Still, we have to be very careful when any 1 person or company claims to have a monopoly on what is truth for everybody else. If people get the idea that YouTube is only allowing what they believe to be true on their platform people will lose faith in the integrity of YouTube. And it will become known as propaganda.
    2 points
  26. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Cue upset conservatives in 3...2...1 Fact checking is apparently a trigger word for them for an otherwise common sense thing to do.
    2 points
  27. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    What's next? No Windows 10 on Surface devices because ... security?
    2 points
  28. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    Not since 2013, at least. There are numerous, very secure methods of limiting Thunderbolt’s (et al) DMA access, including using Intel’s VT-d to virtualize devices.
    2 points
  29. Can not use full capacity of installed ram

    I am glad that is your largest concern in life and computers. In other words: Don't worry, be happy.
    1 point
  30. NHS I.T. suddenly creating 85k new email accounts.
    1 point
  31. Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta 3 with contact tracing API

    So they release this but don't fix the message crashing bug... Those priorities are really working well...
    1 point
  32. Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta 3 with contact tracing API

    Contract tracing? 😝
    1 point
  33. Epic now requires two-factor authorization to claim free games

    And why is it a stupid move? 2FA should be required for EVERYTHING.
    1 point
  34. Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta 3 with contact tracing API

    Shocker: Your phone's been tracking you since you got it
    1 point
  35. Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta 3 with contact tracing API

    I always update asap. This time might not be the case. This tracking garbage is not going on my phone and I hope I'll find a way to block it before I'll actually update it. One stupid virus and everyone just ###### their pants and just hands over any last privacy left. This garbage won't help or solve anything, but just gives everyone another parameter to track ######. And I don't care how much they repeat how anonymous it is, my confidence and trust level these days about stuff like this is somewhere around total and absolute zero.
    1 point
  36. Google Pixel 4a could launch on May 22

    That squared camera bump looks ugly as hell, especially with only one sensor in it.
    1 point
  37. i am looking for the newest cpu in the intel i5 series

    You're looking for the low power CPUs like the i5-9600t. Which I'm not sure you can get retail. The CPUs you listed don't feature Configurable TDP. This is a feature for lower power Intel CPUs (like mobile). Most of them are going to be FCBGA aside from the "t" series which are socketed...but I don't think you can get them retail.
    1 point
  38. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Because youtube only shows bias against conservatives? Nope. Because conservatives believe a fallacy that only they get victimized on these platforms. Errr.. that was kind of my point. Youtube shows bias against a wide variety of demographics and no one should trust them (and by extension google) to fact check. It's weird how you hyper focus on conservatives though.
    1 point
  39. Fedora 32 launches with new GNOME 3.36 desktop environment

    With the bias you have shown? Good luck, LOL.
    1 point
  40. OneDrive now supports differential sync for all files and all customers

    K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...data-for-some-subscribers/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...-data-for-some-subscribers/ https://petapixel.com/2014/07/...ently-deleted-8000-photos/" rel="external nofollow">https://petapixel.com/2014/07/...nently-deleted-8000-photos/ I can vouch for this—I lost a ton of data too due to it. Do I trust Dropbox? About as much as any cloud drive. A hashing algorithm like SHA256 can fix the problem.
    1 point
  41. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    This should be the case on a lot of media online and offline as well as governments to back up what is being said with facts, evidence and many sources because it's too easy not to do disinformation and the problem with that is that too many people buy into it without researching to see if there is any truth in it and that is really damaging to the fabric of democracies. So your message to the world is "Sit down, shut up and believe what your government tells you? Did I get it about right?" I think you used a double-negative somewhere in your post. Can you restate your message in a different way please? To easy not to do disinformation? What?
    1 point
  42. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Because youtube only shows bias against conservatives? Nope. Because conservatives believe a fallacy that only they get victimized on these platforms. It's not a fallacy if it's well established that many of these sources have a heavy left bias... The problem is that a lot of politics is based on opinion and not so much on true facts. Words are very easily twisted, and sources like Politifact and Washington Post are notorious for doing just that. This isn't some big secret...
    1 point
  43. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Oh my God. You actually aren't ashamed to admit that you voted for Hillary Clinton? I admire you sir. Fact checking is fine, censorship is not. When the only truth that can be published is that which your government allows you have no freedoms left.
    1 point
  44. MediaTek? LMFAO My 7T still looking good as ever.
    1 point
  45. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    This is needed, there are way too many BS vids on youtube that look and sound fancy but have very little facts in them. I won't go into the whole conspiracy theory bit but many times these vids try to connect the dots between random coincidence to match their bias. Very few people bother to fact check this stuff and just share it around. Hell, lots of stuff starts out as simple trolling and people latch on to it like a real thing. It's kind of funny and sad to, but many things that have more or less snowballed out of control started as a troll fest from our good old friends over at 4chan.
    1 point
  46. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    They do this so that it meets DoD security requirements, because they want those contracts. In which case, where the theoretical threat is a hostile nation state, the dedicated and specialized hardware is not out of the question. But, to your point, I am not sure why they don't just have a model for DoD purchase that lacks a Thunderbolt port.
    1 point
  47. Welcome to the tech world! Hardware: Made in China to spy on you. Software: Made in USA to spy on you.
    1 point
  48. Does it have built in capabilities to upload all your data to the Chinese government?
    1 point
  49. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    Last time I opened BIOS was 10 years ago. I'm not paying $2k+ to tinker with my work tool. Wow, you are either stupid or lazy. How hard is it to go into UEFI and change one setting?
    1 point
  50. Finally! It takes a Coronavirus epidemic and its accompanying cloud burden to force Microsoft into optimizing its bandwidth use.
    1 point