• Chromium-based browsers do not support user styles
• Chromium-based browsers can’t block data URI-based requests through the webRequest API.
• Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).
• I am not aware of any anti-fingerprinting initiative taken up with Chromium, unlike with Firefox.
• Etc.

There is much more I could list here. It baffles me that some people thinks Firefox is becoming a “Chrome clone”, it’s just not the case, it’s just plain silly to make such statement.

This demo showcases a reverse image search algorithm which performs 2D affine transformation-invariant partial image-matching in sublinear time. The algorithm compares an input image to its database of preprocessed images and determines if the input matches any image in the database. The database need not contain the original image as inputs can be matched to any 2D affine transformation of the original. This means that images which have been scaled (uniformly or non-uniformly), skewed, translated, cropped or rotated (or have undergone any combination of these transformations) can be identified as coming from the same source image (Figure 1).

The algorithm runs in sublinear time with respect to the number of images in the database regardless of the number of transformations applied. Note that if image-matching could not be done in sublinear time it would not function at the scale that the likes of Google or Microsoft require.

Facebook uses an internal database to track rivals, including young startups performing unusually well, people familiar with the system say. The database stems from Facebook’s 2013 acquisition of a Tel Aviv-based startup, Onavo, which had built an app that secures users’ privacy by routing their traffic through private servers. The app gives Facebook an unusually detailed look at what users collectively do on their phones, these people say.

The tool shaped Facebook’s decision to buy WhatsApp and informed its live-video strategy, they say. Facebook used Onavo to build its early-bird tool that tips it off to promising services and that helped Facebook home in on Houseparty.

The autonomous province of Trento (Italy) is revitalising its promotion of the use of free and open source software in education. In the coming months, the province will provide schools with training on free software and open standards.

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You've probably been buying way more things from Amazon than you realize.

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In the beginning, things were simple: you had two strings (a username and a password) and if someone knew both of them, they could log in. Easy. But the ecosystem in which they were used was simple too, for example in MIT's Time-Sharing Computer, considered to be the first computer

Trop d'abandons en cours de route

Du moment que l'interface est agréable, que le logiciel a de bonnes critiques, est bien noté sur les tests, je me résous à l'installer. Sans savoir si mes données partent en Chine (Qihoo360, CM...), en Roumanie (Bitdefender), en République Tchèque (Avast, AVG...), en Allemagne (Avira) ou en Angleterre (Sophos)...

C'est vrai que m'a toujours un peu dérangé de devoir confier toutes les clefs de ma vie numérique, à de parfaits inconnus, qui arrivent avec juste marqué "Antivirus" sur le front. Sans vraiment savoir à quoi ils ont accès sur ordinateur personnel.

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The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

kp-documentation - Documentation for all of Korora

Krita.org

The text messages looked innocuous enough — but they actually contained links to a specially crafted webpage designed to silently infect smartphones with powerful surveillance software.