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How the FBI Versus Apple Could Make 1984 a Reality

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Amicus briefs in support of Apple in its <a href="http://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-care-about-apple-s-fight-with-the-fbi-1759639200" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">court battle with the FBI</a> <inset id="1759639200"></inset>are rolling in today, and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Technology's<a href="https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/blogs/CIS%20Technologists%20Apple%20Brief%20Final.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">contribution</a> is a horror story of impending dystopia, with eerie parallels to<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1984</span>.</div>
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The CIT technologists lay out a scenario in which the FBI uses the Apple ruling as precedent to force tech companies to turn televisions, computer monitors, and other internet-connected devices into a web of in-home surveillance hubs.</div>
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The FBI wants Apple to create a special software to help it unlock the iPhone of a San Bernardino mass shooting suspect. Apple is arguing that conscripting it to write code that will weaken its security will <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-227-year-old-statute-being-used-to-order-apple-into-1759736160" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set a chilling legal precedent</a> <inset id="1759736160"></inset>to allow the government to strong-arm tech companies into weakening their security measures.</div>
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In CIT's projected scenario, it's not just police pressuring Apple to turn on iPhones-it's law enforcement turning Amazon Echo and Samsung's smart TVs into <a href="https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/blogs/CIS%20Technologists%20Apple%20Brief%20Final.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">surreptitious listening devices</a>:</div>
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iPhones and other mobile phones are not the only common consumer appliances that this Order sets a precedent for converting to surveillance devices. Amazon distributes an appliance called the Echo that captures spoken voice.15 While Amazon designed the Echo only to send voice data to Amazon if it "hears" the word "Alexa," that limitation, like the iPhone passcode limitations, is encoded in software. Similarly, smart TVs, like those sold by Samsung, capture and transmit owners' voices in an effort to identify natural language commands and search requests. In responding to consumer privacy concerns, Samsung assured the public that TV owners' voice data would only be collected if the TV user clicks the activation button and speaks into the microphone on the remote control.</div>
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Again, like the iPhone passcode limitations, this privacy safeguard is a function of software. If the government is allowed compel Apple to change its software to enable decryption and forensic access here, will it also be allowed to compel Amazon to update the Echo, or Samsung to update its Smart TVs, to always collect some customers' conversations?</div>
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I know <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1984</span> is a pretty stale literary reference for describing a terrifying surveillance state, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the clever people crafting this brief deliberately worded this section to remind readers of the always-listening gadgets surrounding the people in George Orwell's novel. But the CIT writers did a hell of a job.</div>
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You can read the full brief here:</div>
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How the FBI Versus Apple Could Make 1984 a Reality

Amicus briefs in support of Apple in its court battle with the FBI are rolling in today, and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet...

The Next Version of DisplayPort Will Drive 8K Monitors With HDR Video

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You probably take the DisplayPort on your laptop for granted, but the folks that develop the standard have been working hard to make it perform way better-and the next version will allow you to drive an 8K display with HDR video, if you<a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-8k-tv-will-cost-133-000-1730974518" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ever happen to own one</a> <inset id="1730974518"></inset>.</div>
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This will be the first spec bump to the DisplayPort standard since it was updated in 2014. Back then, the upgrade to version 1.3 provided support for running two 4K monitors. Version 1.4 of DisplayPort, however, will bring an extra dose of future-proofing.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.vesa.org/featured-articles/vesa-publishes-displayport-standard-version-1-4/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">new standard</a> will support 8K monitors and High Dynamic Range content through both DisplayPort or USB-C connectors, allowing you to blast out 8K content at 60Hz in HDR deep color or 4K footage at 120Hz in HDR deep color. To do that, it uses the <a href="http://www.vesa.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Video Electronics Standards Association</a>'s new Display Stream Compression to compresses footage while being visually lossless. Elsewhere, the new standard will allow DisplayPort to carry 32 separate audio channels at sample rates of 1536kHz.</div>
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It should be a while before you need anything more impressive.</div>
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The Next Version of DisplayPort Will Drive 8K Monitors With HDR Video

You probably take the DisplayPort on your laptop for granted, but the folks that develop the standard have been working hard to make it p...

Samsung's 16TB SSD Is Now an Actual Thing People Can Buy

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Last year, Samsung made the rest of the world feel mighy inadequate by announcing a world-record 16TB SSD. Turns out that was more than just talk-Samsung is shipping drives to (very wealthy) customers today.</div>
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Making the largest-capacity drive/SD card/memory stick is a continual dick-measuring contest that most storage manufacturers engage in, routinely announcing "world first" products that ship two years later, if at all. Samsung's managed to follow through on its promise this time round, making the 15.36TB drive the flagship of its new enterprise PM1633a SSDs. The rest of the range come in more realistic sizes, from 8TB all the way down to a mere 480GB.</div>
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The price is still being kept quiet, but as it's aimed at the most demanding enterprise customers, you can expect it to be north of $5,000. Even if this won't be the drive you find in your next MacBook, it's a good look at what's coming down the road in a few years' time.</div>
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Last year, Samsung made the rest of the world feel mighy inadequate by announcing a world-record 16TB SSD. Turns out that was more than j...

Former Google CEO Is Helping the Pentagon, Just as a Personal Thing, Yep, Definitely Not for Any Other Reason

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The Pentagon <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-pentagon-wants-you-to-hack-it-1762344035" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a><inset id="1762344035"> an unusual new program calling for hackers to test its digital security today, as well as a "Defense Innovation Advisory Board." Google CEO and Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt will head the board-but, if you'll believe <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wall Street Journal </span>sources, this is all for his own personal gratification, not a "company initiative."</inset></div>
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Hmmm. The <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wall Street Journal </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-announces-new-push-to-silicon-valley-1456947671" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> on the tech mogul's new after-work gig:</div>
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Mr. Schmidt's appointment to the board isn't a company initiative, but rather a personal move, according to a person familiar with the tech giant. Mr. Schmidt is expected to advise the Pentagon on best practices in innovation, rather than speak for the company, the person said.</div>
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As <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WSJ</span> <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-announces-new-push-to-silicon-valley-1456947671" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a>, things haven't always been so chummy between Google and the Pentagon:</div>
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that he'd known Mr. Schmidt for a long time. Mr. Schmidt's appointment comes after a period of cooler relations between the Pentagon and the Google parent that he helps lead.</div>
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The company pulled out of a Pentagon-sponsored robotics contest two years ago and, while it still bids on federal contracts and supplies some equipment to the military, Google has been sensitive about how its technology is ultimately used.</div>
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Hey, I guess if this alliance leads to a mutually beneficial relationship between the Pentagon and the fucking enormous technology company Schmidt heads, that's just a super great byproduct of an incredibly rich and powerful corporate figurehead helpin' out as a personal thing.</div>
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Former Google CEO Is Helping the Pentagon, Just as a Personal Thing, Yep, Definitely Not for Any Other Reason

The Pentagon announced an unusual new program calling for hackers to test its digital security today, as well as a "Defense Innovati...

If the IRS Actually Cares About Not Getting Hacked, It Has a Funny Way of Showing It

TechnoGadgetsWorld 0 05:12

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Hackers stole sensitive records from<a href="http://gizmodo.com/over-700-000-people-got-screwed-in-last-years-irs-data-1761565531" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> over 700,000 people</a><inset id="1761565531"> by breaching the Internal Revenue Service in 2015. You'd think that kind of horrific security breach would prompt some soul-searching, but [insert joke about soulless taxman here] nope. The IRS continues to use an impressively bad PIN authentication process to protect people from fraud.</inset></div>
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People who were hacked last year have been reassured that they'll be safe this time around, and the IRS has sent out "IP PINS"- "internet protection" PINs meant to add an extra layer of security against hackers. The IP PINs were basically secret codes that taxpayers were required to use on their taxforms to prevent fraud in the future. The problem is, as security researcher Brian Krebs reported this week, these IP PINs are authenticated <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/03/thieves-nab-irs-pins-to-hijack-tax-refunds/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">using the same dumb process</a> that hackers broke last year:</div>
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The IRS killed the Get Transcript function in May 2015 after it was revealed (<a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/03/sign-up-at-irs-gov-before-crooks-do-it-for-you/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">first on this blog</a>) that crooks were abusing it to hijack consumer identities and refunds. But here's the problem: the agency requires IP PIN holders seeking a copy of their PIN to jump through the exact same flawed authentication process that afflicted its now-defunct Get Transcript service.</div>
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The hackers stole all those files because they figured out how to cheat the authentication process that gives people access to their PINs. This year, they may be able to do the same damn thing.</div>
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Quartz <a href="http://qz.com/628761/the-irs-is-using-a-system-that-was-hacked-to-protect-victims-of-a-hack-and-it-was-just-hacked/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spoke to the IRS</a> about this problem. The answer was not comforting:</div>
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In a statement given to Quartz, the IRS said that although it's been reviewing the authentication process for IP PIN retrieval, &quot;most taxpayers receive their IP PIN via mail and never use the tool.&quot; It also pointed out that &quot;unlike Get Transcript, the IP PIN tool is available to a limited number of taxpayers who must have special markers on their tax accounts to successfully access the tool.&quot;</div>
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It added: &quot;The IRS has a number of protections to monitor traffic on IRS.gov, and we continue to closely monitor the IP PIN situation.&quot;</div>
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This is sort of like if you got robbed, so an alarm company gave you an extra alarm, but didn't bother to change the code pattern thieves had already previously figured out.</div>
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[Brian Krebs via <a href="http://qz.com/628761/the-irs-is-using-a-system-that-was-hacked-to-protect-victims-of-a-hack-and-it-was-just-hacked/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Quartz</a>]</div>
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If the IRS Actually Cares About Not Getting Hacked, It Has a Funny Way of Showing It

Hackers stole sensitive records from over 700,000 people by breaching the Internal Revenue Service in 2015. You'd think that kind of ...

Why Scientists Think the Planet Is Heating Up So Fast Right Now

TechnoGadgetsWorld 0 05:09

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Wasn't it just yesterday that we learned <a href="http://gizmodo.com/january-broke-the-record-for-record-hot-month-again-1759653887" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January was the hottest month in recorded history</a> <inset id="1759653887">? Not anymore. The official numbers aren't in for February yet, but <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/03/01/february-was-earths-warmest-month-in-satellite-record/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">meteorologists are already calling it</a>: Last month destroyed January's global temperature record, adding another 0.2 to 0.3 degrees Celsius to the planetary thermostat.</inset></div>
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The reason, scientists say, has a lot to do with how the oceans store heat.</div>
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NOAA will put out its February 2016 climate report in a few weeks, but in the meanwhile, there are many unofficial temperature datasets that can be used to build a picture of our global heat wave. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slate</span> meteorologist Eric Holthaus <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">did some digging this week</a>, and he found that February was somewhere between 1.15 and 1.4 degrees Celsius above the long-term average-<a href="http://gizmodo.com/january-broke-the-record-for-record-hot-month-again-1759653887#_ga=1.190537643.1031241721.1425068057" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">higher than the all-time global temperature record set in January</a>. Even prominent climate skeptic Roy Spencer <a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/2016/03/uah-v6-global-temperature-update-for-feb-2016-0-83-deg-c-new-record/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">says that last month was record hot</a>, with temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere a "whopping" 1.46 degrees Celsius above the long-term average.</div>
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The recent pace of warming is by all accounts astonishing-but why? Yes, we all know it has to do with climate change, and yes, we've also heard a lot about how we're on the tail end of a very strong El Nino year, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/this-years-godzilla-el-nino-could-be-the-worst-ever-rec-1743300907" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">perhaps the strongest on record</a> <inset id="1743300907">. But to really understand why the planet's thermostat has kicked into overdrive, we need to look at what's happening underwater.</inset></div>
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The oceans are a tremendous energy conveyor belt, absorbing heat from the atmosphere and redistributing it around the world. For the past two decades, the Pacific Ocean has been <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n3/full/nclimate2106.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sequestering heat like crazy</a>, due to a combination of stronger-than-usual trade winds and a lack of major El Nino events. After heat is absorbed at the ocean's surface, it's driven down to deeper layers by circulation.</div>
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In fact, so much heat entered the deep Pacific from 1998 to 2014 that temperatures at the surface of the Earth stopped rising, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-global-warming-pause-never-actually-happened-1716701502#_ga=1.219922329.1031241721.1425068057" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fueling claims of a global warming "hiatus."</a> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/we-know-exactly-where-all-the-heat-from-the-global-warm-1753818194#_ga=1.198205103.1031241721.1425068057" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I covered a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nature Climate Change</span> study </a>describing this massive heat sink back in January. Here's what I wrote at the time:</div>
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Pulling together data from diverse sources, including the 19th century <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Challenger</span> expedition and a new fleet of monitoring devices called deep Argo floats, climatologist Peter Gleckler and his colleagues have now tracked changes in the energy balance of the ocean over the past 150 years, creating the longest continuous record of what's happening at different depths.</div>
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Overall, they found that nearly half of the industrial era-increase in global ocean heat has accumulated in the last 18 years....What's more, a full 35 percent of that heat has sunk to below 700 meters in depth- eluding measurements and inciting claims of a warming "hiatus."</div>
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But just because heat <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">enters</span> the deep ocean doesn't mean it has to stay there. Which brings us to why climate scientists and meteorologists think we've been breaking temperature records nonstop for the past year: deep ocean heat is starting to rise.</div>
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In 2014, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-a recurring climate pattern that you can think of as a longer-term version of El Nino-<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/10/the-pacific-ocean-may-have-entered-a-new-warm-phase-and-the-consequences-could-be-dramatic/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shifted from a cool phase to a warm phase</a>. Around the same time, the trade winds began to settle down. The result? Warm water started circulating back to the ocean's surface. "Then in 2015, with the onset of El Nino, wind, cloud, and ocean circulation patterns all shifted significantly, resulting in more of that warm water surfacing," NOAA climatologist Gregory Johnson explained to Gizmodo in an email.</div>
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As for whether global temperatures will continue to surge? Over short term, that depends on whether the PDO remains in a warm phase-something that's notoriously difficult to predict. (Since the early 20th century, the <a href="http://climate.ncsu.edu/climate/patterns/PDO.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PDO has completed two, roughly 25 year-long warm phases</a>, and both of them were associated with a burst of planetary warming.)</div>
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Over the longer term, it depends on whether we continue pumping fossil carbon into our atmosphere, a habit that leaders of 195 countries <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-paris-climate-agreement-has-been-adopted-1747460706#_ga=1.228807324.1031241721.1425068057" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">recently agreed to kick</a>by the end of the century. Greenhouse gases are the master switch behind our planetary thermostat-and by fiddling with their atmospheric concentrations, we've already locked ourselves in to decades of future warming.</div>
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Here's hoping that a freakishly hot winter motivates us to double down on those promises we made in Paris.</div>
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Why Scientists Think the Planet Is Heating Up So Fast Right Now

Global temperature anomalies for February 2016, another record-smashing month, via Ryan Maue / Weatherbell Analytics / Slate Wasn't i...

The Best Touchscreen Gloves For Your Hands And Phone, From Wirecutter

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Over the past four winters, we've <a href="http://wrctr.co/1WQwZSZ" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tested more than 30 pairs of touchscreen gloves</a> while moving half a ton of tree stumps, ice climbing, standing in a walk-in fridge for nearly three hours, and simply walking and biking around town. The <a href="http://www.moshi.com/touch-screen-gloves-digits" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moshi Digits</a> are easy to type with and should keep most people's fingers toasty, though we also have picks for more extreme climates since using touchscreen gloves involves a trade-off between maneuverability and warmth.</div>
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After testing so many gloves over a span of years, we've found a few pairs that hit most of the important requirements, so long as you have realistic expectations. A lot of gloves lack enough conductive material in them to activate the touchscreen reliably, or use low-quality conductive thread that degrades quickly. And some have no rubber grip to speak of, which makes for a losing combination when paired with a slick smartphone. Basically, a lot can go wrong in a pair of touchscreen gloves.</div>
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Our picks are better than most other gloves, but they're not perfect. Since they need to be thick to keep you warm, you can't expect to type as well as you would without gloves, and they won't last forever. Even high-quality conductive thread and nanoparticle treatments will degrade over time. You can expect a good pair of conductive gloves to last at least a winter-anything after that is gravy.</div>
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For most hands: A warm tactile middle ground<br /><a href="http://www.moshi.com/touch-screen-gloves-digits" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moshi's Digits</a></h4>
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<a href="http://www.moshi.com/touch-screen-gloves-digits" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moshi's Digits</a> gloves, which offer the right combination of warmth, dexterity, and grip, are our favorite touchscreen gloves for most people. First and foremost, they're very good knit winter gloves, as they kept our hands pretty warm in even subfreezing weather. On top of that, we found ourselves able to thumb-type with little issue; with autocorrect turned on, we had zero typos in our typing tests. The Digits are warmer than anything that's better at handling touchscreens, and better at handling touchscreens than anything that's warmer.</div>
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The typing experience with the Digits is excellent because their material and construction offer good dexterity, and they have a nice gripping compound on the palms and fingers to prevent accidents. Furthermore, they have no seams in the fingertips, which makes typing more predictable and reliable than with most other knit gloves. All of the fingers on both gloves have conductive fiber sewn in, so you can type text messages with your thumbs or poke with your pinky. We were very impressed with the responsiveness in our testing. Despite the gloves' slightly bulky feeling, we found typing easy, even with our thumbs.</div>
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The Digits aren't the warmest gloves you can wear, but they are a lot warmer than single-layer models. It's like upgrading from a thin sweater to a fleece jacket. During our testing in below-freezing temperatures, the level of insulation was perfect when we kept warm with high-energy activities such as snow shoveling, but it didn't get so hot that we started sweating. Walking the dog didn't generate much heat, but the Digits were plenty warm for 15 minutes at a stretch.</div>
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Also crucial, a rubberized grip on the palm helps to keep your phone from slipping away, and the light gray (in small/medium size) and dark gray (in large) colors won't clash with most outfits.</div>
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We have much more information about the Moshi's Digits in our <a href="http://wrctr.co/1oG0PhV" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">full guide</a>.</div>
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For colder hands and climates: A thick pick<br /><a href="http://www.6pm.com/the-north-face-mensthermoball-etip-glove-monterey-blue-tnf-black" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The North Face's ThermoBall Etip gloves</a></h4>
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If you live in a climate where the temperature or wind chill consistently stays below 20°F, you might consider grabbing The North Face's ThermoBall Etip gloves (available in both <a href="http://www.6pm.com/the-north-face-mensthermoball-etip-glove-monterey-blue-tnf-black" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">men's</a> and <a href="http://www.6pm.com/the-north-face-womens-thermoball-etip-glove" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">women's</a> sizes and styles). While this pair's full-finger and palm touchscreen technology (licensed from U|R Powered) works very well, the insulation makes the fingers a bit stiffer, so these gloves are not the best for detailed tasks-you'll be happier when you're checking a bus schedule than when you're typing emails.</div>
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Like the popular North Face Denali, the ThermoBall Etip is a thick, fleece glove design. Unlike the Denali, it actually offers a decent amount of accuracy for typing. In addition to a fleece exterior and interior, the ThermoBall Etip gloves feature a layer of ThermoBall down-alternative insulation. This material not only makes the gloves warmer but also gives them a snugger fit that makes typing surprisingly predictable and accurate considering how thick the gloves are. Unfortunately, they aren't waterproof, but they are the only non-knit gloves that proved to be anywhere near as precise in our testing as the Moshi Digits. Though they still aren't as easy to type in as our top pick.</div>
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We have much more information about The North Face's ThermoBall Etip gloves in our <a href="http://wrctr.co/1oOCNBR" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">full guide</a>.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For warmer hands and climates: Thinner and more maneuverable<br /><a href="http://wrctr.co/1UufitB" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Glider Gloves Urban Style Touchscreen Gloves</a></span></h4>
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On the other hand, if you live in a warmer climate where temperatures rarely drop below 40°F, or if you're looking for a touchscreen-compatible glove liner, you could get away with the cheaper, less insulated <a href="http://wrctr.co/1UufitB" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Glider Gloves Urban Style Touchscreen Gloves</a>. These gloves are basically the same as our previous favorite, the Glider Gloves Winter Style, but they lack a fleece lining. That means they fit a bit more loosely if you have shorter fingers, and they can stretch a little better, so consider sizing down if you're not sure which size to get. The Urban pair is also a better option than our other picks if, for instance, you work in a cold office and need something thin for all-day use.</div>
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We have much more information about the Glider Gloves in our <a href="http://wrctr.co/1Rfx4vx" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">full guide</a>.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For stylistas: Leather looks with fleece warmth<br /><a href="http://www.urpowered.com/touchscreen-gloves/for-him/aiden-leather-tech-stretch-touchscreen-glove.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Aiden Leather & Tech Stretch Gloves (for men) </a><br /><a href="http://www.urpowered.com/touchscreen-gloves/for-her/sasha-ladies-fashion-leather-spandex-mobile-tech-touch-gloves.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sasha Leather & Tech Stretch Gloves (for women)</a></span></h4>
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If you're willing to pay for a more stylish glove, we recommend U|R Powered's<a href="http://www.urpowered.com/touchscreen-gloves/for-him/aiden-leather-tech-stretch-touchscreen-glove.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Aiden Leather & Tech Stretch Gloves</a> (for men) and <a href="http://www.urpowered.com/touchscreen-gloves/for-her/sasha-ladies-fashion-leather-spandex-mobile-tech-touch-gloves.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sasha Leather & Tech Stretch Gloves</a> (for women). They look like normal leather gloves at first, but they're actually made of a warm, spandex-like material with real leather stitched onto the back. This design gives them the warmth and the tight fit of a technical glove and the exterior appearance of a classy leather glove. They also feature traction lines on the palm to keep you from dropping your phone, whereas all-leather gloves can be a bit slippery.</div>
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If you examine them closely, the Aiden and Sasha styles aren't as fancy looking as our previous all-leather pick from Glove.ly, but chances are, most people won't notice the difference unless you point it out to them, since the fleece is color-matched to the leather. We think the increased warmth and the improved grip and touchscreen controllability give the U|R Powered designs the edge.</div>
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We have more information about these leather touchscreen gloves in our <a href="http://wrctr.co/21DKGrO" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">full guide</a>.</div>
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The Best Touchscreen Gloves For Your Hands And Phone, From Wirecutter

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The Pentagon Wants You to Hack It

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Fancy a challenge? The Pentagon has announced that it's seeking "vetted outside hackers" to test the security of U.S. Defense Department websites.</div>
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-pentagon-idUSKCN0W40H8?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reuters reports</a> that the project-called Hack the Pentagon- is the first time the federal government will have tried to test its defenses in this way. While the exact details are yet to be finalised, the Pentagon has said that monetary rewards might be up for grabs.</div>
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Before you get busy, there are some caveats. To hack the Pentagon without landing yourself in trouble you must be a US citizen, register your intent, and undergo a background check. Only then will you be given the go-ahead to take on its security systems with impunity. Those of a nervous disposition will be comforted by the fact that the most sensitive networks and weapon programs won't be included in the testing.</div>
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It's not a new idea, of course-big companies already invite security experts and hackers to compromise their systems-but it is the first time the Pentagon has given it a whirl. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a statement that he hopes it "will strengthen our digital defenses and ultimately enhance our national security." Hopefully without proving too embarrassing along the way.</div>
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The Pentagon Wants You to Hack It

Fancy a challenge? The Pentagon has announced that it's seeking "vetted outside hackers" to test the security of U.S. Defen...

Kanye, Champion of Paid Streaming Music, Got Caught Trying to Torrent Software

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Kanye has tried <a href="http://gizmodo.com/not-even-kanye-can-save-tidal-1759177765" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">repeatedly</a> <inset id="1759177765"></inset>and <a href="http://gizmodo.com/kanye-continues-to-try-and-make-tidal-happen-1759306231" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">often</a> <inset id="1759306231"></inset>to made artist-friendly streaming service Tidal happen. The premise is that <a href="http://gawker.com/the-worlds-most-famous-musicians-just-hosted-a-bonkers-1694627052" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tidal is a "fair" way to stream music</a> <inset id="1694627052"></inset>, an artist-friendly experience that gives back money to the creators. Which is great, but it appears Kanye can't be bothered to pay $200 for music software.</div>
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A tweet earlier in the day from Kanye showed a photo of his music listening habits (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGODTySH0E" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sufjan Stevens</a>, in case you're wondering). Unfortunately (for him), that same picture showed a few of his open tabs, including a Pirate Bay search for Serum. That's a software synthesizer plugin which <a href="https://www.xferrecords.com/products/serum" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">currently sells</a> for $189.00.</div>
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Fellow artist Deadmau5 called West out Twitter for his actions, before suggesting a "small Kickstarter" to help buy the software and allow Kanye's creative juices free reign. (It's <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/kanyesmedicis" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #11afea; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">already been done</a>, by the way.)</div>
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Kanye, Champion of Paid Streaming Music, Got Caught Trying to Torrent Software

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Windows 10 Is Trying Really Hard to Kill Extra Antivirus

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Windows already ships with some built-in antivirus called Windows Defender. Currently, it's a defensive program that looks at websites and downloads to try and stop you from getting hacked. Unfortunately, in the day and age of social engineering and spear-phishing, antivirus needs to be a little more proactive.</div>
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Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (shortened to WDATP, because there's no way I'm typing that out more than once) is supposed to be that protection for large, company-wide networks. WDATP move the focus from monitoring individual files to the machine's behaviour as a whole-rather than searching for the actual virus, it keeps an eye on symptoms.</div>
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If your machine starts connecting to weird ports or executing unusual PowerShell commands-behavior that's out of the ordinary for the vast majority of users-WDAPT will flag it to administrators, providing an overview of current and past behavior for admins to look at.</div>
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Microsoft's also trying to take advantage of the vast Windows install base to kickstart its antivirus program. Millions of suspicious files found on machines worldwide will be run on the cloud, building a giant centralized database of malicious files, but also malicious behavior.</div>
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WDAPT will launch later this year as an optional service for companies. But if the benefits of networked antivirus works out-and Microsoft can figure a way to make it work without needing trained IT professionals in the loop-it's easy to see it make its way to consumers in the future. Hopefully, there'll be enough time to come up with a better name.</div>
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Windows 10 Is Trying Really Hard to Kill Extra Antivirus

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Remove Recent Google Searches on Your Mobile Device With This Hidden Trick

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</div><p data-end="396" data-start="96">Smartphones make it incredibly easy to search for information within seconds. Whether you’re checking sports rules, researching a product, or looking up quick facts, your phone’s search bar becomes a daily tool. However, while convenience is great, not every search needs to remain in your history.</p>
<p data-end="826" data-start="398">On devices running <strong data-end="458" data-start="417"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Android</span></span></strong>, recent search queries are automatically saved and displayed as suggestions in the <strong data-end="583" data-start="542"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Google Search</span></span></strong> bar. This feature can help speed up future searches, but it can also become cluttered or reveal information you’d rather keep private. Fortunately, Android offers simple ways to remove individual searches or manage your entire search history.</p>
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<h2 data-end="875" data-section-id="gpfsc6" data-start="833">Why Android Stores Your Recent Searches</h2>
<p data-end="1150" data-start="877">Search history is stored primarily to enhance user experience. When you search using Google on your smartphone, those queries are linked to your <strong data-end="1063" data-start="1022"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Google Account</span></span></strong>. This allows Google to provide personalized suggestions and faster search predictions.</p>
<p data-end="1215" data-start="1152">Some of the main reasons Google stores recent searches include:</p>
<p data-end="1453" data-start="1217"><strong data-end="1249" data-start="1217">1. Faster Search Suggestions</strong><br data-end="1252" data-start="1249" />
Google uses previous queries to predict what you might want to search next. For example, if you searched for hockey rules yesterday, related suggestions may appear the next time you tap the search bar.</p>
<p data-end="1582" data-start="1455"><strong data-end="1482" data-start="1455">2. Personalized Results</strong><br data-end="1485" data-start="1482" />
Your search history helps tailor recommendations, making results more relevant to your interests.</p>
<p data-end="1782" data-start="1584"><strong data-end="1619" data-start="1584">3. Cross-Device Synchronization</strong><br data-end="1622" data-start="1619" />
Because the data is tied to your Google account, the same search history may appear across multiple devices such as smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers.</p>
<p data-end="1893" data-start="1784">While these features improve convenience, they also mean that your search history follows you across devices.</p>
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<h2 data-end="1940" data-section-id="1jufsjv" data-start="1900">How Recent Searches Appear on Android</h2>
<p data-end="2113" data-start="1942">On most Android devices, the Google search bar is placed at the top of the home screen. When you tap inside this search box, Google displays a list of your recent queries.</p>
<p data-end="2147" data-start="2115">These suggestions often include:</p>
<ul data-end="2268" data-start="2149"><li data-end="2178" data-section-id="884g2m" data-start="2149">
Previous searches you typed
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Related topics based on past activity
</li><li data-end="2268" data-section-id="1yv6t8z" data-start="2219">
Predicted searches based on your usage patterns
</li></ul>
<p data-end="2377" data-start="2270">Although helpful, these suggestions may sometimes display searches that are outdated or no longer relevant.</p>
<hr data-end="2382" data-start="2379" />
<h2 data-end="2423" data-section-id="1jvsoyv" data-start="2384">Removing Individual Searches Quickly</h2>
<p data-end="2528" data-start="2425">Android provides a simple shortcut for deleting individual search queries directly from the search bar.</p>
<h3 data-end="2565" data-section-id="1xah2zl" data-start="2530">Steps to Delete a Recent Search</h3>
<ol data-end="2776" data-start="2567"><li data-end="2622" data-section-id="or4u95" data-start="2567">
Tap the <strong data-end="2599" data-start="2578">Google search box</strong> on your home screen.
</li><li data-end="2666" data-section-id="1n38613" data-start="2623">
A list of recent searches will appear.
</li><li data-end="2723" data-section-id="1nyuuvu" data-start="2667">
Press and hold the search query you want to remove.
</li><li data-end="2757" data-section-id="159rp7h" data-start="2724">
A pop-up option will appear.
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Tap <strong data-end="2775" data-start="2765">Delete</strong>.
</li></ol>
<p data-end="2843" data-start="2778">Once removed, the search will disappear from the suggestion list.</p>
<hr data-end="2848" data-start="2845" />
<h2 data-end="2903" data-section-id="8d1gvm" data-start="2850">Important: Deleting a Search Removes It Everywhere</h2>
<p data-end="3142" data-start="2905">One important detail many users overlook is that deleting a search suggestion does not only remove it from your phone. Because searches are stored in your Google account, deleting one entry removes it from your <strong data-end="3141" data-start="3116">entire Google history</strong>.</p>
<p data-end="3199" data-start="3144">This means the deleted search will no longer appear in:</p>
<ul data-end="3317" data-start="3201"><li data-end="3239" data-section-id="j87nnn" data-start="3201">
Google search suggestions on desktop
</li><li data-end="3267" data-section-id="1ik64hz" data-start="3240">
Chrome search suggestions
</li><li data-end="3317" data-section-id="mj2mkf" data-start="3268">
Other Google services connected to your account
</li></ul>
<p data-end="3386" data-start="3319">This synchronization ensures consistent privacy across all devices.</p>
<hr data-end="3391" data-start="3388" />
<h2 data-end="3433" data-section-id="uc94z8" data-start="3393">Viewing Your Complete Google Activity</h2>
<p data-end="3613" data-start="3435">If you want to see a full record of your digital activity, Google provides a detailed dashboard through your account settings. This page shows much more than just search queries.</p>
<p data-end="3656" data-start="3615">Your Google activity history may include:</p>
<ul data-end="3763" data-start="3658"><li data-end="3672" data-section-id="14gqt7k" data-start="3658">
Web searches
</li><li data-end="3689" data-section-id="1h8fgkq" data-start="3673">
Voice commands
</li><li data-end="3701" data-section-id="16m8tbg" data-start="3690">
App usage
</li><li data-end="3721" data-section-id="fqb7ge" data-start="3702">
Browsing activity
</li><li data-end="3744" data-section-id="a542h0" data-start="3722">
YouTube interactions
</li><li data-end="3763" data-section-id="ig0nuf" data-start="3745">
Location history
</li></ul>
<p data-end="3889" data-start="3765">Reviewing this data can help you understand how much information is being stored and decide what you want to keep or delete.</p>
<hr data-end="3894" data-start="3891" />
<h2 data-end="3939" data-section-id="1hbxu0g" data-start="3896">How to Turn Off Search Activity Tracking</h2>
<p data-end="4015" data-start="3941">If you prefer greater privacy, you can disable activity tracking entirely.</p>
<h3 data-end="4058" data-section-id="1ndw8an" data-start="4017">Steps to Disable Web and App Activity</h3>
<ol data-end="4308" data-start="4060"><li data-end="4139" data-section-id="1vjkzhz" data-start="4060">
Open the <strong data-end="4113" data-start="4072"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Google app</span></span></strong> on your Android device.
</li><li data-end="4171" data-section-id="13jsvpf" data-start="4140">
Tap your <strong data-end="4168" data-start="4152">profile icon</strong>.
</li><li data-end="4197" data-section-id="f5ivob" data-start="4172">
Select <strong data-end="4194" data-start="4182">Settings</strong>.
</li><li data-end="4230" data-section-id="1pvxw3q" data-start="4198">
Tap <strong data-end="4227" data-start="4205">Accounts & Privacy</strong>.
</li><li data-end="4272" data-section-id="r2pjrx" data-start="4231">
Choose <strong data-end="4269" data-start="4241">Google Activity Controls</strong>.
</li><li data-end="4308" data-section-id="3tf857" data-start="4273">
Turn off <strong data-end="4307" data-start="4285">Web & App Activity</strong>.
</li></ol>
<p data-end="4393" data-start="4310">Once disabled, Google will stop recording new search activity tied to your account.</p>
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<h2 data-end="4450" data-section-id="17fmlpe" data-start="4400">What Happens When Activity Tracking Is Disabled</h2>
<p data-end="4539" data-start="4452">Disabling activity tracking improves privacy but may affect some features. For example:</p>
<p data-end="4554" data-start="4541">You may lose:</p>
<ul data-end="4650" data-start="4555"><li data-end="4588" data-section-id="1h4h6kz" data-start="4555">
Personalized search suggestions
</li><li data-end="4615" data-section-id="1ogkn4u" data-start="4589">
Tailored recommendations
</li><li data-end="4650" data-section-id="1f0kyh8" data-start="4616">
Faster predictive search results
</li></ul>
<p data-end="4747" data-start="4652">However, your searches will no longer be stored in your Google activity history moving forward.</p>
<hr data-end="4752" data-start="4749" />
<h2 data-end="4792" data-section-id="3vv49v" data-start="4754">Why Managing Search History Matters</h2>
<p data-end="4970" data-start="4794">Controlling your search history is an important part of maintaining digital privacy. Over time, search records can reveal personal interests, habits, and sensitive information.</p>
<p data-end="5007" data-start="4972">Managing your search data can help:</p>
<ul data-end="5171" data-start="5009"><li data-end="5037" data-section-id="1h09wzh" data-start="5009">
Protect personal privacy
</li><li data-end="5089" data-section-id="1mz0kby" data-start="5038">
Keep your search suggestions clean and relevant
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Prevent others from seeing past searches
</li><li data-end="5171" data-section-id="717xgy" data-start="5135">
Reduce unnecessary data collection
</li></ul>
<p data-end="5287" data-start="5173">Even simple actions like deleting individual searches can make your browsing experience more organized and secure.</p>
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<h2 data-end="5311" data-section-id="114wazr" data-start="5294">Final Thoughts</h2>
<p data-end="5549" data-start="5313">Android’s integration with Google services makes searching fast and efficient, but it also means your activity is continuously logged. Fortunately, the platform provides straightforward tools to review, delete, or disable this tracking.</p>
<p data-end="5735" data-start="5551">Whether you want to remove a single query or completely stop activity tracking, taking control of your search history helps you maintain a cleaner and more private digital environment.</p>
<p data-end="5892" data-start="5737">By regularly reviewing your Google activity settings, you can strike the perfect balance between convenience and privacy in your daily smartphone use. 🔐📱</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />

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