I'm Danial Payne I’ve been a freelance writer, video, and web person since 1988. My passion is technology, whether it’s the latest cameras or cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine Contact me: danielpaynetech@gmail.com
After my old website (domain name really) was lost, and turned into a health blog I started looking for new solutions for a personal home page. And while I could turn this into a discussion about backing things up if you want to get them back, that’s old hat atContinue Reading
Pornhub removes all unverified videos from its platform “Today, Pornhub said that the third-party Internet Watch Foundation had reported 118 incidents of child sexual abuse material on the Pornhub platform, compared to 84 million instances self-reported by Facebook. Pornhub also pointed out that, as of today, every piece of content onContinue Reading
Cellebrite became broadly known in 2016 after an offer to hack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone for the FBI. They are one of a handful of companies that make universal forensic extraction devices to access encrypted data on cell phones. These sorts of tools are used by government agencies aroundContinue Reading
Today the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that they were the victim of a sophisticated hack. The hackers accessed FireEye’s internal network and seem to have stolen hacking tools FireEye uses to text client’s networks. In a disclosure published on the FireEye website, CEO Kevin Mandia said a “highly sophisticated threat actor”Continue Reading
DeepMind’s Improved Protein-Folding Prediction AI Could Accelerate Drug Discovery “DeepMind now asserts that AlphaFold has outgunned competing protein-folding-predicting methods for a second time. In the results from the 14th CASP assessment, a newer version of AlphaFold — AlphaFold 2 — has average error comparable to the width of an atomContinue Reading
Research Shows iOS Covid Apps Are A Privacy Mess “Jonathan Albright, director of the Digital Forensics Initiative at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, recently released analysis he did into 493 COVID-19 related iOS apps across dozens of countries. The results are…not great, and highlight how such apps routinely hoover up farContinue Reading
First reported by Variety the November 18th update of YouTube’s terms of service, adds a section saying users grant the service “the right to monetize your Content on the Service (and such monetization may include displaying ads on or within Content or charging users a fee for access).” However, the agreement “does notContinue Reading
You Might Want To Hold Off On Upgrading MacOS To Big Sur If You Have An Older MacBook Pro If you have an older MacBook Pro, you’ll probably want to hold off trying to upgrade to Big Sur for the time being. That’s because owners of late 2013 and mid-2014 MacBook ProContinue Reading
Google Webmasters is re-branding to Google Search Central. That’s it, that’s the news. Google explains the change in a blog post, saying that the term “webmaster” is not widely used. “A user experience study we ran revealed that very few web professionals identify themselves as webmasters anymore. They’re more likelyContinue Reading
Zoom settles with FTC after making ‘deceptive’ security claims “The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Zoom, after it accused the video calling giant of engaging in “a series of deceptive and unfair practices that undermined the security of its users,” in part by claiming the encryption was stronger thanContinue Reading