Security Bits – 5 October 2018 Followups 🇺🇸 The CA IoT security law discussed previously has been signed into law — www.theverge.com/… Google have announced plans to further limit what browser plugins can do in an attempt to crack down on the explosion in plugin-based malware we talked about last time — arstechnica.com/… & nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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NC #695a Melodics, QR Codes for WiFi Passwords, Ethics in Reviews, iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler
The audio of this episode was originally posted with several minutes missing. If you hear a jump from talking about Amazon reviews to the end of BANDIMAL, you have the old version. My apologies! The NosillaCastaways will be hanging out in the live chat room during the Apple announcement on September 12th at 10am Pacific […]
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Free Products in Return for an Amazon Review
ReviewMate shows incentivized reviews boost ratings significantly I’ve always tried to be ethical in my reviews that I do for the NosillaCast. If I’ve received a unit or software for free, I tell you that up front. I also tell you that I believe my reviews are not influenced by whether I paid for a […]
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Followups Spectre & Meltdown Details have been released of a new Spectre variant named Speculative Store Bypass, or SSB. The vulnerability affects AMD, ARM & Intel chips. Thankfully it can be mitigated quite easily, so it’s just a matter of applying software, OS, firmware, and microcode updates as they are released — arstechnica.com/…
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Random CES 2018 Observations
CES was a complete blast this year. We got to hang out with Dave Hamilton, John F. Braun, and Jeff Gamet. Oh, and Chuck Joiner was there too. We stayed at the same hotel, and traveled to the special press events together but then we pretty much scattered to do our own thing. We also […]
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Hue Motion Sensor – Guest Post by Denise Crown
CCATP #486 – Joe Dugandzic on New Amazon Echo Devices
This week I’m joined by the awesome Joe Dugandzic from Smarter Home Life (smarterhomelife.com) to talk about the huge set of product and capability announcements from Amazon about their Echo line of devices. We talk Echo Show, Echo Look, ecobee4, and the new voice calling in the Alexa app for your existing Echo devices. Joe […]
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CCATP #473 Joe Dugandzic on The Smarter Home
Steve and I had the great pleasure of meeting Joe Dugandzic in the Home Automation pavilion at CES and I was lucky enough to get him on as a guest for Chit Chat Across the Pond. Joe runs the website and YouTube channel Smarter Home Life at smarterhomelife.com and youtube.com/smarterhomelife, We talked about the complexities […]
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Mikah Sargent, senior editor at Mobile Nations and podcaster at RelayFM joins us to compare and contrast how Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon help with home automation and other tasks around the house. He has a vast array of Home Automation devices from Hue lights to Eve sensors to an Ecobee thermostat to […]
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With Time Machine on the Mac and File History for Windows, it’s pretty easy to just plug in a drive and the OS does the rest to keep you backed up locally. They’ve pretty much gotten rid of all the excuses not to do a local backup. We’ve also got offsite backup services like CrashPlan […]
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