How to stop those annoying website notification prompts
You’ve got ads and auto-playing videos popping up left and right, and you’ve even got pop-ups from sites asking you for permission to send more pop-ups in the form of notifications.
Microsoft to block crapware downloads in its Edge browser
Microsoft Edge has a new crapware blocker, but it isn’t enabled by default. It’s currently available in the beta version of Edge, but should arrive for everyone using the Chromium-based Edge browser with the stable release of Edge 80 .
The Complete Guide to Avoiding Online Scams
We know—you’re too tech-savvy to be fooled by an online scam. But even the smartest among us can fall victim to internet trickery, and we’ve all got those friends and relatives who could use a little extra help with digital security.
New Year, new website, new services, new packages, new prices!
2020 coming strong at Plegmahost. Our team is very proud to welcome you to our brand-new website. We decided to upgrade our website to ensure it continues to reflect our company’s commitment to utilizing the latest technology. The design of the new website and the structure of information improves its overview and usability and showcase […]
Microsoft issues patch to disable Spectre fix
Buggy microcode causes data loss and corruption. Microsoft has issued an update that disables mitigation against variant 2 of the Spectre hardware flaw in Intel processors. The company’s weekend advisory for the out-of-band KB4078130 update points to Intel’s earlier recommendation that customers stop deploying the current set of Spectre microcode firmware updates. Intel said the present set of firmware images […]
Complete design of a silicon quantum computer chip unveiled
A reimagining of today’s computer chips by UNSW engineers shows how a quantum computer can be manufactured – using mostly standard silicon technology. Artist’s impression of a silicon CMOS architecture for a spin-based quantum computer. (Illustration: Tony Melov) A reimagining of today’s computer chips by Australian and Dutch engineers shows how a quantum computer can […]
Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
tl;dr: one of the next versions of Chrome is going to force all domains ending on .dev (and .foo) to be redirected to HTTPs via a preloaded HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header. This very interesting commit just landed in Chromium: Preload HSTS for the .dev gTLD. This adds the following line to Chromium’s preload lists; { […]
Google Begins Campain Warning Forms Not Using HTTPS Protocol
Google has started sending warnings if your site uses forms that are not using HTTPS protocol. The warnings signal that starting in October they will be flagging your site as “not secure” in the address bar. If you’re still thinking about how HTTPS fits into your website architecture, might be time to get on that… […]
Pingdom’s Live Map Shows You The State Of The Internet As It Happens
When we talk about website outages, we usually think of when something really big happens, like when Facebook goes down or when an error in code took AWS Eastern US servers offline for hours. In reality, website incidents and outages are happening all the time. In fact, Pingdom registered over 225 outages in the time it took to write […]
Avid Brings Pro Level Video Editing For Free
Avid is well known to those involved in video editing. It’s the preferred tool of many in Hollywood and has been used to edit many of the biggest movies made. While pro level tools aren’t very cheap, Avid is providing a new gateway to those looking to boost their video-editing power. Media Composer | First […]
