Neowin News Feed for: Monitoring

OpenAI caught Chinese accounts using ChatGPT for a social media surveillance project

Hamid Ganji — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:30:01 +0000

Chinese-linked accounts were reportedly using ChatGPT to draft proposals for tools aimed at social-media surveillance and the tracking of Uyghur Muslims. Read more...

Windows 11/10 is flagging "Winring0" on your PC monitoring, fan control apps, here's why

Sayan Sen — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:04:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender has been flagging Winring0 in system monitor and fan control apps on Windows 10 and 11 PCs, and it is not quite a false positive. Read more...

Intel PresentMon gets updated to version 2.0.0, brings new features and optimizations

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:02:01 +0000

Intel has updated PresentMon to version 2.0.0 bringing non-zero average static, and histogram plots for better visual representation of data, and other features. Read on for release notes. Read more...

Russia Ukraine war now threatening an unsuspected victim in MSI Afterburner

Sayan Sen — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:56:01 +0000

MSI has confirmed that there is indeed a funding-related issue due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. As a result, the development of the extremely popular MSI Afterburner tool has been stalled. Read more...

Snapchat introduces controls for parents to monitor teenage kids

Hemant Saxena — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:20:02 +0000

Snapchat's new parental controls try to mimic real-life parenting without compromising privacy. Parents just need to link their accounts to their teens through an opt-in invite process. Here's how! Read more...

LAPD wants its officers to collect social media data of civilians

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:00:01 +0000

The Los Angeles Police Department is pushing its officers to engage in the collection of social media data of civilians including those who are not arrested or accused of a crime. Read more...

Free download: "A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes Monitoring" eBook

News Staff — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:46:01 +0000

In this free to download guide, you'll learn the importance and benefits of software container monitoring in container vendors today like Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, or Amazon EKS. Read more...

4 Steps to Monitoring Employees in a Remote Workplace - Free white paper

News Staff — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:00:01 +0000

70% of employees work remotely at least one day a week, there is a new dynamic to how employees see the organization. Get this white paper to learn how to monitor employees in remote workplace. Read more...

ECHR says companies have to tell employees if they're checking their email

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:42:01 +0000

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that employers should warn employees if they plan to check their work-related email accounts. In the past, courts usually sided with employers' monitoring. Read more...

Social Media presence will be monitored by the UK Government

Adrian Potoroaca — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 08:44:01 +0000

In a move that resembles the Russian policy on tracking their citizens' online activity and identity, the U.K. government is reportedly working on keeping track of what you post online. Read more...

Two weeks with the Xiaomi Mi Band, the wearable for people who don't like wearables

Steven Johns — Sat, 09 May 2015 07:18:01 +0000

The Xiaomi Mi Band will impress you in a number of ways, if not just for the months-long battery life then for the ridiculously low $14.99 price tag. Check out our full review of the wearble! Read more...

Face scanning cameras installed at 450 UK Tesco petrol stations

Steven Parker — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:09:56 +0000

No less than 450 Tesco petrol stations around the UK have been fitted with face scanning cameras that enable them to beam tailor-made advertising to you, while you fill up. Read more...

FBI: Monitoring Skype and Gmail are "top priority" in 2013

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:08:43 +0000

FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, has said that real time surveillance on Gmail and Skype is a "top priority" in 2013... but the FBI cannot sift through information in real time. Yet. Read more...

Google: Government surveillance inquiries 'spiking'

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:31:13 +0000

Google's twice-yearly Transparency Report is out, and this time there isn't much good news to go around: worldwide, government inquiries and takedown requests are spiking at unprecedented levels. Read more...

Republican calls for email and IM monitoring

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:17:12 +0000

Republican congressman Lamar Smith from Texas, introduced a bill, which he dubbed the Safety Act, to the US House of Representatives. If it goes through, the bill would require ISPs to record all users' surfing... Read more...

Companies Ramping up E-mail Monitoring

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:44:40 +0000

The boss is getting serious about e-mail snooping. A new study has found that 63 percent of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read... Read more...

BayTSP Launches Automated Piracy Monitoring Tool

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:37:28 +0000

BayTSP, a Californian company specialising in on-line information monitoring and compliance services for a variety of industries has announced a new tool to monitor piracy on-line. The software, called FirstSource, allows ISP's... Read more...

Alchemy Eye: Server Monitoring Tool For Corporate Networks

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:06:51 +0000

Alchemy Lab announces the release of Alchemy Eye version 6.4 for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, a network monitoring tool that checks the server accessibility and server state, and sends server malfunction alerts using e-mail, cellular phone,... Read more...

Ultrasound - Monitoring and Troubleshooting tool for FRS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:39:44 +0000

Ultrasound is a monitoring and troubleshooting tool for the File Replication service (FRS). FRS is used to replicate files and folders in the SYSVOL file share on domain controllers and files in Distributed File System... Read more...

U.S. monitoring attacks against Internet providers

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:29:54 +0000

The federal government said that early Tuesday it detected a series of electronic attacks against U.S. Internet providers, launched hours after the FBI alerted technology companies and others of potential trouble. The... Read more...

FBI Says It's Monitoring Internet Vulnerability

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:01:29 +0000

The FBI said on Tuesday it was monitoring "potential vulnerabilities" in computer networks that could leave portions of the Internet open to disruption by hackers. "We're aware of potential vulnerabilities ... and... Read more...

DOJ Already Monitoring Cable Internet Traffic

Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:39:28 +0000

Found this over on /. this morning, I just wonder what will the goverment get up to with their new extended computer snooping powers! According to a Wired News article, the Justice Department... Read more...