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    Upcoming Chromium Update Could Make Ad Blockers Less Effective

    We deploy Firefox ESR on our domain. Mozilla was kind enough to provide GPO templates that allow the loading of extensions as well. Consequently every domain joined computer now has Firefox ESR with uBlock Origin installed and enabled.
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    Slightly Mad Studios Reveals the Final Design of the Mad Box

    That's the ugliest appliance I have seen since the Google rackmount search box.
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    The RetroArch Emulator Is in Development for the XBOX One

    That's not what the documentation says: "To switch to Retail Mode, open Dev Home. Under Quick Actions, select Leave Dev Mode. This will restart your console in Retail Mode." It's just a restart, NOT a factory reset.
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    Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Development Dumps Linux and Mac Support

    LOL. Vulkan, with its lack of support for ray-tracing or workload balancing across multiple chips from multiple different vendors? Vulkan that is still at least half a generation behind DX in development? Vulkan that still can't even match the performance of DX11 in some workloads? That...
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    Facebook Dilemma - What You Need to Know

    They seriously need to do one on Google. Google is a much bigger threat than Facebook.
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    The Evolution of the Windows Kernel

    What works well on Linux isn't performant on Windows. What works well on Windows isn't possible on Linux. When used right the Windows kernel is *scary* good at async io https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-gil-and-exploited-all-cores?slide=39
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    New Essential Phone an Essential Failure

    Sprint was the true weak point for this phone.
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    Your Chromecast or Google Home Might Be Screwing Up Your Wi-Fi

    Sums these speakers up nicely:
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    LG 4K OLED Rollable TV

    This looks like it would be a nice alternative to short throw projectors and screens in classroom settings. I wonder if it would be cost competitive.
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    Samsung Flip Sharing and Contributing Whiteboard

    I have done work with a college that has some devices like that they have been using for years that run on Windows 7. Of course Samsung has the better marketing, so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    Google Is Pulling YouTube off the Fire TV and Echo Show

    "Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad, but it has. Schmidt’s tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of U.S. power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation" -Julian Asange "A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google...
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    Google Is Pulling YouTube off the Fire TV and Echo Show

    Speaking of revisionist history... :eyeroll:
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    Microsoft Gets Security Disclosure Revenge on Google

    You've never seen a statcounter graph before? I find your denial amusing. :D
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    Microsoft Gets Security Disclosure Revenge on Google

    ??
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    Microsoft Gets Security Disclosure Revenge on Google

    Man, you got that right. "Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad, but it has. Schmidt’s tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of U.S. power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation" -Julian Asange "A monopoly both in search...
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