by jnelson | May 17, 2016 | How the Net Works, News
This week, the Web exploded over charges that the content of Facebook’s Trending topics feature is decided by humans – including a bunch of young, college-educated contractors in Knoxville, Kentucky. Who, despite their location, according to the Gizmodo report,...
by jnelson | Apr 9, 2016 | News, Security, Warnings
The more that technical types examine Windows 10, the less of a good thing it seems to be. For ordinary users, that is. For the software giant of Redmond and the National Security Agency, however, Windows 10 might be the answer to a dream. Researchers have found, for...
by jnelson | Mar 16, 2016 | News, Warnings
What do the NY Times, the BBC, Newsweek, The Hill, MSN, AOL, the Weather Network, the NFL, and Realtor.com all have in common? Their popular websites recently served up ads that stealthily try to infect visitors computers with ransomware and other nastiness. The...
by jnelson | Feb 27, 2016 | News, Warnings
In its burning ambition to get everyone to use Windows 10, Microsoft has now gone so far as to actually hide a splash advertisement for the new operating system within a security update for Internet Explorer. Not only that, once installed, the ad is not listed in the...
by jnelson | Feb 13, 2016 | News
UPDATE, Feb. 17 – There have been no new changes to the law, but we’ve been informed that the New Mexico Internet tax situation is a bit more complicated and confusing than the articles linked to below indicate. Even the tax rate quoted may not be exactly...
