A titan of tech and industrial innovation has been laid low by a mere speck of dust. Last week, Apple quietly announced that they were extending the warranty on their flagship laptop’s keyboard by four years. As it turns out, the initial run of these keyboards, described by Jony Ive as thin, precise, and “sturdy,” has been magnificently prone to failure.

In our eyes, the new design was a repairability flop. We downgraded Apple from a seven-out-of-ten to a two. The subsequent 2013 update sent the MacBook line into a freefall, earning a mere 1/10—the lowest a notebook had ever earned at that point. They haven’t recovered since.

An ethical crisis in the digital forensics industry came to a head last week with the release of new details on Microsoft’s undocumented “Activities” API. A previously unknown trove of access and activity logs held by Microsoft allows investigators to track Office 365 mailbox activity in minute detail. Following a long period of mystery and rumors... View Article

The scandal erupted after one company claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US "within seconds."

So-called ultrasonic beacons are becoming even more popular with marketers. Here's how to shut them out.

We had a hunch that no one ever actually wins those mall car giveaways. But we had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went…

While we're at it, might as well include the links of the other privacy suggested addons collected here:

I originally sourced from this comment

HTTPS Everywhere, Cookie AutoDelete, Don't touch my tabs, Link Cleaner, CanvasBlocker and MixedContentHunter. Edit: Links for uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, privacy badger

If you are concerned about privacy, then ghostery still isn't ideal, as it still seems to collect data on the user and has an 'opt-in' ad service which will put adds in.

As others have recommended, for android other browsers are better. As for extensions, there are better ones as well (privacy badger + ublock origins will do what it does, but better).

Nation-sponsored Slingshot is one of the most advanced attack platforms ever.

On May 16th, I found a vulnerability in the LocationSmart website which allowed anyone, with no prior authentication or consent, to obtain the realtime location of any cellphone in the US to within…

Another critical code injection vulnerability found in Signal Desktop app lets remote hackers steal your chats in plaintext

We analyze the information content of the digital footprint – information that people leave online simply by accessing or registering on a website – for predict

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