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| | | Six-month-old Galaxy S10 Bug Lets Strangers Bypass Your Fingerprint Scan, Samsung Admits | | PCWorld | The Galaxy S10 should be free of bugs by this point, but Samsung has admitted that a pretty big one is still out there. According to the company, some third-party screen protectors could allow anyone to bypass your in-display fingerprint authentication. | | Germany's Cyber-security Agency Recommends Firefox as Most Secure Browser | | ZDNet | Germany's BSI tested Firefox, Chrome, IE, and Edge. Firefox was only browser to pass all minimum requirements for mandatory security features. | | Windows 10 November 2019 Update Review: Fewer Features Now, Bigger Changes Later | | PCWorld | Microsoft’s Windows 10 November 2019 Update is deliberately low-key, primarily designed to optimize Windows rather than pile on a boatload of new features. If nothing else, Microsoft is likely clearing the path for the bigger splash expected from the Windows 10 20H1 “feature update,” expected to ship around March 2020. | | Google Expands Chrome's Site Isolation Feature to Android Users | | ZDNet |Google Chrome's Site Isolation security feature is now also available in a limited fashion on Android devices. If Chrome for Android users visit a site where they enter passwords, Chrome will isolate that site from all the other tabs in a separate Android process, keeping the user's data safe from Spectre-like attacks. |
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| | | How to Fully Disable Google Location Tracking on Your Smartphone | | Android Police | With a new data breach or tech scandal seemingly every other week, it's easy to get disillusioned by the cavalier mishandling of user data by technology companies. At some point, it gets a little weird when a multi-billion dollar corporation knows more about your whereabouts than your significant other. And as data-collector-in-chief and Earth's unofficial cartographer, Google knows the most about your location. Luckily, the process of thwarting location tracking on your devices is easier than you think, albeit clunky and unintuitive (perhaps the way Google intended). | | 10 Useful Google Apps You Probably Aren't Using | | Computerworld | These easily overlooked Android apps are all made by Google—and they're all worth your while. |
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