Well I don't know about you, but I certainly won't be trusting them with my passwords for anything -

Dropbox Confirms Email Addresses Were Pilfered
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

Dropbox Is Urging Users To Reset Their Passwords
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60 Million Dropbox Users
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

IMHO, it's a purely political move by the US administration. Likewise the references to the "chinese" or "foreign" virus. And how the US administration can ban flights from Schengen countries, but the UK is fine given all our government has done so far is say "old people are going to die" and "wash your hands a lot".

Like this? https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...

Nearly as much as went into writing this comment.

"There's a new Native File System API that lets developers build web apps that interact with files on the user's local device"

Seriously? What are they thinking with this one?

I'm sure Chrome will ask permission from the user before this is allowed. I'm also sure that bad actors are already in the process of crafting pages designed to trick people into granting that access for their attacks.

"new program is free to join but that shops will be required to have an *Apple-certified technician who has taken a preparatory course provided by the company.*"

There's the razor blade in the candyfloss. How much does this preparatory course cost? Thousands of dollars by any chance?

They want to replace the revenue stream from all those repairs that are currently forced to come to them, with revenue from training other people to allow them to do it (even if they in fact already have the necessary skills).

The ECHR is not an EU construct. It was created by the Council of Europe and Turkey is a signatory to the ECHR.

Yeah - some ATMs in the UK still don't use magstripe, although the numbers are decreasing and their usually easy to identify (the displays look like something out of War Games).

Whenever I travel to the US, one of the first things that I notice is different is the lax approach to card security. In most of Western Europe, pretty much every card transaction uses the chip. I can disable the mag-stripe on some of my cards (through the banks' online systems), and using magstripe anywhere increases the chance of a transaction being picked up by the banks' automated fraud detection systems. Then when you get to the US, you go into a restaurant, settle up by card with no signature and no pin, and then the restaurant can manipulate the transaction later to add whatever tip you wrote on the bill. Madness!

Also free G-suite T&C's are different from paid/enterprise

Great! Build a storage service and sell it to us. See how far you get.

Go read the G-Suite T&Cs. They are not the same as the consumer Gmail product.

My girlfriend bought a new car and discovered the previous owner's Irish Folk Music CD in the CD player.

Anyone remember this, back in 2011?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

They decided to stop selling Yaoi manga. For anyone not aware of the term, it's male homo-erotic manga. However, they didn't stop selling Yuri - the female equivalent with homosexual relationships between women instead of men.

It struck me at the time as blatant homophobia on the part of Amazon, I never bought any yaoi or yuri from them in the first place, but after that (and various other shady practices, like their remote deletion of copies of 1984 that people had bought on Kindle) I stopped using Amazon at all.

Now you can of course argue that it's their business, and they are free to sell or not sell whatever they choose - and that's absolutely fine by me, in fact I'd disagree if you tried to force their hand in terms of what they can sell or not. By the same token though, I'm free to buy from them, or not. I don't.

"disables DDE only in Word, but not Excel or Outlook"

News from next week - cybercriminals switch to using malicious Excel sheets instead of Word documents in their malware spam.

Seriously, what are they thinking here?