Today in the Weekly News Roundup, Starbucks tests scanless payments and Tiny10 promises Windows for old computers. Is it safe? We look at several privacy, business, and tech news. #WeekyNewsRoundup
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While San Francisco is busy banning face ID in government work, New York City is using clear photos of famous people as stand-ins for botched FaceID jobs....and MAKING ARRESTS BASED ON THAT DATA!! Yet, it is time to ban FaceID!
#NYC #FaceID #SmartCity
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Tonight we look at several business articles including Tesla.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/huge-apple-maps-outage-prevents-all-users-from-searching-getting-directions/
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/tesla-lawsuit-target-called-horrible-human-being-by-ceo-elon-musk/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/tesla-sues-employee-alleged-to-have-stolen-gigabytes-of-data/
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Today we will look at Devuan vs Debian. These distros are nearly perfect clones with the only difference being Debian uses SystemD and Devuan uses SysVinit or OpenRC.
#Debian #Devuan #Distrowars
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GIMP is an excellent application on its own, but there are plugins. This video shows you where to place plugins you have found, how to make plugins on Linux, and where to find some plugins that may be useful for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Today we look at Dataspii and the network of data collected by many browser extensions which could include some very sensitive data.
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This week in the Weekly News Roundup, Privacy-focused cameras Eufy are not as private as advertised. We see Windows malware scaning phones and other attached devices for anything interesting, and Linus is being hard on the developers before the holiday festivities sets in. We also look at SillyVille.
#WeeklyNewsRoundup #Eufy #linux
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01:00 Website Trackers
03:24 Gmail AI Work
04:45 Eufy's Great Camera Lie
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12:21 Android SMS Scam
14:19 TikTok Malware
17:39 Lastpass Breach
18:47 Windows Attached Malware
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21:06 SFPD Robot Update
23:07 Tesla Gaslighting
27:26 AI Term Papers
31:14 Linux Before Festivities
32:16 Affiliate - Linode
32:49 Mac n Cheese Class Action
34:47 Violent Monopoly
36:00 Google Admonishes Google
36:47 Mozzila Metaverse
38:27 Uber Getaway
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Linux Mint 20 has been approved and wow is it a distro. It gives us the same Linux Mint feeling, restored the traditional panel, gave us Snap and Chromium documentation, and another smooth transition.
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