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Lenovo's chief technology officer admitted that Superfish adware is a security vulnerability during an interview with Mashable Friday. He maintains, however, that the software has not been used to attack any users — and that it was preinstalled on machines for the benefit of customers
"It's important to understand that not all pieces of software are going to be interesting to all people," Lenovo's Peter Hortensius said. "We did this because we thought it would be interesting to some people. Obviously, it had a lot of side effects that were undesirable, so we started taking steps to remove it. And then a security vulnerability became clear." ...
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Lenovo has released instructions — amid backlash — for getting rid of the Superfish adware that was preinstalled on some of the company's devices
Step-by-step instructions for removing both the software and the root certificate (widely decried by privacy advocates as a serious security risk on Thursday) can be found here.
To uninstall Superfish on Windows 8.1, search for "remove programs," then select "add or remove programs." Select "Superfish Inc. Visual Discovery." (If it isn't there, you're among those without the software preinstalled on your device.) Select "Uninstall." After several seconds, the program is gone. ...
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IFTTT is taking its automating superpowers to a whole new level.
The company expanded its automation platform in a big way on Thursday with three new standalone apps and a rebranded flagship app.
IFTTT, which stands for "if this, then that" (pronounced like "gift" without the "g"), allows users to create "recipes" that link various apps and services with very specific triggers. (For example, I can set up a recipe that saves any picture I post on Instagram to my Dropbox account.)
The company's three new apps more closely integrate its automation with the core functions of your smartphone. Do Button, Do Note and Do Camera — all of which are for iOS and Android — alyo low users to create recipes around specific themes. But unlike the traditional IFTTT app, which is set up to constantly run in the background (i.e., "If there's rain in the forecast, then send me an email the night before") the Do apps' recipes require users to initiate the recipe. ...
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It all started, as many institutions in our modern world did, with a bunch of Star Wars-loving geeks
John Knoll, a supervisor at George Lucas' visual effects house, Industrial Light and Magic, was intrigued by an image-editing Mac app his academic brother Thomas was working on as a hobby, and started showing it around ILM. The computer graphics folks loved how it did most everything their high-end Pixar machines could do, but for a fraction of the price. It was used in the special effects for James Cameron's The Abyss
The Knolls realized they had a hot piece of software on their hands, and set about developing it for release. John had originally called it "Display." The brothers eventually renamed it ...
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