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Tuesday News

July 27, 2021, 16:31(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Audacity 3.0.3
Windows version is now 64-bit, Multiple bugs fixed, and other fixes and improvements.
Download | Release Notes

PerfView 2.0.71
“PerfView is a free performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues.”
Download & Info

Dell won’t ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
“This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states,” the website says. “Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.”

NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have ‘nothing to be afraid of’
“The CEO of NSO Group, whose spyware tools have reportedly been used to target journalists and activists, says that people who aren’t criminals shouldn’t be afraid of being surveilled.
Shalev Hulio, 39, recently spoke to Forbes after investigations indicated that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used by authoritarian governments to hack and surveil the mobile devices of world leaders, high-profile journalists, and activists.
”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

Grrrrrrr…

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  1. Curtiss Clarke says

    July 27, 2021, 16:41(EDT) at 16:41

    Well, here’s one slant on Audacity being spyware. Sheesh (as John C Dvorak would exclaim), real news or not? https://news.yahoo.com/the-morning-after-the-nerve-of-audacity-111535622.html

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      July 27, 2021, 17:07(EDT) at 17:07

      Audacity got bought out and the new owners didn’t have an f’ing clue as to what they were doing.
      As of a few days ago the issues seem to have been addressed:
      https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/23/audactiy_apology/

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