Tag: News & issues
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Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work
I was unable to explain that well how these vulnerabilities in the Intel chips was being exploited. On the plus side I didn’t say anything that was incorrect, but here’s a reasonably readable description of the problem and it’s implications to us all.
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Compromised Yahoo accounts
I think it might be a very good idea to change your password if you have an account associated with Yahoo, and that includes Flickr and Tumblr. Yahoo also provided the eMail service for BTinternet. After this breach I made a decision to move away from using my BTinternet eMail account. Just about done for me, but not for others in the family. What a pain!!
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Ever wanted to keep a TV programme from ITV or the BBC longer than the standard download allows?
Well you can using “iPlayer Automator”. It’s been around a while for the Mac but unfortunately, having just done some research, I’ve found out that it is not available on a Windows PC (sorry for the mis-information this afternoon). There is a similarly titled piece of software, but I wouldn’t want to recommend it as I don’t know anything about it.
The software has been produced as OpenSource, supported and developed by enthusiastic “coders” and is Free. Don’t be put off by the rather austere interface you’re presented with at this link …
https://github.com/Ascoware/get-iplayer-automator
… select Clone or Download; then Download Zip and follow instructions. Enjoy … if you’ve got a Mac!