Netgear says sorry four weeks after losing customer backups on cloud and locally(!!!!) – yes the cloud can hurt you!

Neatgear has cocked up its cloud management service, losing data stored locally on ReadyNAS devices’ shared folders worldwide – and customers have complained to The Register about only being informed four weeks later. This week, the San Jose-based networking business sent an email to customers, seen by The Register, confirming that an “outage” affecting ReadyCLOUD, Read more about Netgear says sorry four weeks after losing customer backups on cloud and locally(!!!!) – yes the cloud can hurt you![…]

Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform – Thurrott.com

I put together a tool that scans files for PNG images containing Adobe metadata and was surprised that Windows is host to a lot of this gunk. […] Windows Explorer, for example, is a critical Shell component in the startup hot path. But despite its importance, it’s comprised of ~20% pure garbage. ApplicationFrame.dll, responsible for Read more about Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform – Thurrott.com[…]

Popular belief that saturated fat clogs up arteries is a myth, experts say – let the wars begin: others disagree!

Heart experts have been criticised for claiming it is “plain wrong” to believe that saturated fat clogs up arteries. Three specialists argued that eating “real food”, taking exercise and reducing stress are better ways to stave off heart disease than cutting out dietary saturated fat. Writing in a respected journal, they maintained that inflammation is Read more about Popular belief that saturated fat clogs up arteries is a myth, experts say – let the wars begin: others disagree![…]

iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war – and win!

Pear Technology, which produces digital mapping software and services, applied for the pear logo in 2014 and was almost immediately challenged by Apple, which claimed it was confusingly similar to its own apple-with-a-bite-out-of-it silhouette logo. The Cupertino intellectual property lawyers claimed that despite one being a picture of a pear and one being a picture Read more about iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war – and win![…]

FYI: You can blow Intel-powered broadband modems off the ‘net with a ‘trivial’ packet stream

This week, inquisitive netizens discovered that, when presented with even modest amounts of network packets – as little as 1.5Mbps spread across various TCP or UDP ports – modems equipped with a Puma 6 slow to an unusable crawl. According to one engineer who spoke to El Reg on the issue, the flaw would be Read more about FYI: You can blow Intel-powered broadband modems off the ‘net with a ‘trivial’ packet stream[…]

UK gov forces porn sites to gather personal info and allows gov depts to share citizens data despite being hugely unsafe

ISPs may be forced to block sites which fail to do so, and the fact that many such sites are not based in the UK nor subject to British law shall pose plenty of difficulties for the law’s implementation, as will its provisions forcing ISPs to prohibit access to “non-conventional sex acts”, which has provoked Read more about UK gov forces porn sites to gather personal info and allows gov depts to share citizens data despite being hugely unsafe[…]

How Did Unroll.me Get Users to Allow It to Sell Their Inbox Data?

But a New York Times profile of Uber this weekend revealed, in passing, that Unroll.me, which is owned by a company called Slice Intelligence, isn’t just in the business of tidying up customers’ inboxes. Slice makes money by scanning its users’ email for receipts, then packaging that information into intel reports on consumer habits. Uber, Read more about How Did Unroll.me Get Users to Allow It to Sell Their Inbox Data?[…]