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Thursday, December 15 at 7:00 PM

Quote Of The Day Week Month Year
“Saying an August release of Windows 10 is only now ready for businesses should be a warning sign to everyone who installed it back in August”

I Just Found It Hard To Believe
Last week “reports” surfaced around the net that Microsoft was giving customer telemetry data to a security company called FireEye.
I just couldn’t believe it was true even though I trust Microsoft about as far as I can throw an elephant.
The reports turned out to be bull squat.
Ed Bott takes aim at this fiasco: Fake news: It’s not just for politics anymore

Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 376.09 WHQL

Software Updates
EMDB (Eric’s Movie Database) 2.60
Mp3tag 2.80

Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, 54.0.2840.98 for Mac, and 54.0.2840.100 on Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.”
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Wise Disk Cleaner 9.32
“Improved…updated…bugfixes…”
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WOT Spyware
A German news organization discovered that the popular Web Of Trust (WOT) browser extension was spying on users and selling their data.
Both Google and Firefox have delisted WOT.
Info is a little hard to come by as no one properly sources their news anymore. There is a Github page that contains some info.

Windows 7 gained more new users than Windows 10 in the last 2 months

United Kingdom Readers
This is the first I have heard of this. Can some please explain Investigatory Powers Bill without getting too political?

Downloads
AMD Crimson Edition 16.11.2 Hotfix Drivers
Intel SSD Toolbox 3.4.0 – adds support for new Intel drives.

Off Topic

Geek + Redneck Toy Equals…
Billy Bass giving weather forecasts!

101 Facts About ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’

Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.87 for Windows, Mac, and 54.0.2840.90 for Linux.”
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Thanks Johan!

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I use it.

More Software Updates
EMDB 2.58 – Free movie collection software.
O&O ShutUp10 1.4.1384 – The Win10 privacy tamer I use.

Well Crap…
I’m looking at Linux as my main OS, specifically openSUSE. Most distros are running Linux 4.4 LTS kernel. There are so many improvements since then that I would love to run newer kernel. I tried the openSUSE rolling release called openSUSE Tumbleweed. It was running 4.8.6 I believe. I ran into a showstopper bug that involved my AMD Radeon RX 480 that is present in kernels beyond 4.4. Kinda sucks but openSUSE Leap 42.2 will be released on November 16. It is using the LTS 4.4 kernel so I will give that a shot. Or, I may try this if I have time.

Woohoo! It’s Friday!

Win10 Updated
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607: October 27, 2016
Win10 Update History
Latest Graphics Drivers (Windows)
AMD Crimson Edition 16.10.3 Hotfix (10/27/2016)
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 375.70 WHQL (10/28/2016)

MBRFilter
“a driver that allows the MBR to be placed into a read-only mode, preventing malicious software from writing to or modifying the contents of this section of the storage device.”
Hmmm… Anyone tried this?

Lenovo Computers
Military Warns Chinese Computer Gear Poses Cyber Spy Threat

Off Topic
Video – Gym Wildlife (NSFW)

See ya next week!

I…
I, just, can’t, believe it. I agree with Tim Cook on something.

In terms of the balance of privacy and AI, this is a long conversation, but at a high level, this is a false tradeoff. People would like you to believe you have to give up privacy to have AI do something for you, but we don’t buy that. It might take more work, it might take more thinking, but I don’t think we should throw our privacy away. It’s sort of like the age old argument between privacy and security. You should have both. You shouldn’t have to make a choice.

Well said sir. Well said.