A witless insult on slashdot? I'm shocked!

Apparently the concept that companies pay other companies for things so that they don't have to do them has come as a shock to you. Don't worry, you'll get used to it.

That's because that's where they make their profit. They make very little on the price of the ticket itself.

It's also one of the things you normally don't have to worry about when you're fronted by Akamai.

Could've been lots of things. Unlikely to have been a db hack a few years back but I heard they moved a load of their website stuff to a new system. I'd have guessed their B2B system a much more likely vector.

They're testing a few things. The meat of the trials though is the vaccine itself, which is a modified version of another Oxford University produced vaccine that is used to treat another SARS variant.

Important point here though is there is no mining going on in your browser. You are simply paid in cryto for viewing ads. You can opt out of the system and remove the button from the UI if you wish.

You're confused. You can earn rewards for viewing selected ads, that's the Brave rewards system. That is not crypto mining in your browser.

Since I have it running on multiple machines and it does no such thing.

Possibly you haven't tried Brave in quite a while but:
(i) All the ads I've seen from Brave themselves are turn off-able.
(ii) And the home page is configurable to any page you like.

You possibly should also read how Brave sends the least amount of telemetry of the browsers.

Except that the large majority of companies don't own the hardware their websites sit on. That's always been the case, even before the cloud was "a thing".

Guess this was an article released directly from one of the agencies involved then. They're just laying the foundations of the argument as to why they should have back door access to everyone's end to end encrypted communications.

I'm just waiting for the "why won't someone think of the children" to be rolled out.

Facebook doesn't do "reasonable" or "fair", they only speak lawyer.

I detest the recent MacBook keyboards. I've gone back to my 2013 MBP after having the keyboard fail on my newer one, oh and then the screen went too. Oh and it also had the issue with the newer keyboard style marking the screen, but that's another story.

Anyway, the travel on the newer keyboards is horrible. Some things need feedback, key presses on a laptop is just one of them.

I've already decided that I won't buy another Mac unless they get rid of the butterfly crap and if this news is anything to go by, then they can say goodbye to a 10 year+ customer of their laptops.

Whilst good intentioned, I'm not sure they always think about what sort of effect this sort of tech could possibly have on society (sounds dramatic eh?), even if this is a natural path for it to take. I can easily see this pushing nation states further down the MITM road of mandated locally installed https certs etc.

Yes I know some have already started doing this, I just think this sort of tech could speed up the adoption of such techniques.

It might help if they allowed easy custom configuration so that you could choose who your upstream DNS handler was (e.g. a pihole running locally etc), but given Google's business model and track record, I wouldn't be surprised if they dictate it should all goto their servers.

Whilst they might try to do this for the masses, they'll need to leave a bypass option there for the enterprise customers. Otherwise they'll very quickly watch their browser share in the corporate controlled environments nose dive.