Facebook's automated blocking systems went into overdrive recently when it caused a woman to be blocked from a local Facebook after she set the collection point to a historical part of Plymouth, UK.
Filtering RSS
Steam now lets you select specific words you want to be removed from your chat experience, either individually or by uploading a list of words. The chat filtering feature is still available in beta.
Valve has decided to add a number of filtering options for search results, ranging from price to including and excluding specific tags. You are also able to now show only discounted titles.
With today's highlighted deal, you can efficiently manage your inbox with only a few clicks with this email cleaner's filters, groups and segments and save hundreds of dollars off the normal cost.
The popular UK price comparison website Ciao.co.uk has been deeply affected by Google's recent changes to it's search system. According to BBC News, Ciao's parent Company, Microsoft, claims that Google is involved in rigging searches...
All internet porn is to be blocked at the ISP level under a UK Government plan. According to a Sunday Times story being republished around the globe the plan, to be discussed next month with major...
Reuters reports that Google is entirely blocked in China today, with only a very small percentage of users able to access the web service. As a result, Google shares have plummeted by 1.4 percent, and...
The Financial Times is reporting that ISPs in Afghanistan will start filtering the internet starting May 1. According to a senior official in the Afghanistan government the goal is to block sites about gambling, promoting...
Ever since Google was attacked by hackers based out of China, it has been deciding on if the company should pull out of China. As previously reported on Neowin, Google would soon announce that...
The New Zealand Government has quietly implemented a country-wide internet filtering system, designed to filter illegal content from the public, such as Beastiality and Child Pornography. The filter is opt-in by ISP's, and is governed...
As if an ISP filtering what content gets to you wasn't enough, Cary Sherman of the infamous RIAA says that the only way to really defeat piracy is via a client-side monitoring service, much like...
U2's manager might love the idea of legally-mandated filtering, but the head of the RIAA says that there's no need for such an approach in the US. The RIAA still wants to see a thousand...
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday. A coalition of consumer groups and...
An update for the company's Norton Antivirus software has yet again caused problems with its customers' computers. While Symantec is saying it was just a mistake involving a routine software update, the problems caused by...
Either Microsoft missed the memo regarding why YouTube is such a hit, or the software giant watched the Google-Viacom lawsuit and decided it would rather not have similar problems. After a two-month hiatus, Microsoft has...
Video sharing site YouTube has reportedly reached a deal to automatically filter out copyrighted material. Digital 'fingerprinting' technology from content protection firm Audible Magic will be used to pre-screen user-submitted videos for copyrighted work, according...
In order to address concerns raised by revelations about its adaptive trilinear filtering algorithm, ATI yesterday dispatched a pair of reps to talk about the issue in an online chat. Bjorn3D has the chat log....
Flaws in the filtering technology used by Web-based email services make it possible for hackers to smuggle viruses past defences. Israeli security outfit GreyMagic Software warned today that this "severe security" vulnerability could allow attackers...
KaZaA, the media desktop, has been one of the most successful replacements for file sharing, allowing its users a way of sharing music, video, documents, images, and software. But six per...
Microsoft's new AI creates super-realistic talking-head deepfakes, and it made Mona Lisa rap
Windows tweaking app WinToys gets a big update with new features and improvements
Windows 10 will soon start nagging you to switch from local account to Microsoft Account
Five cool features coming soon to Windows 11
Recommended by 
We're on Mastodon!
We're on Mastodon!