Hackers are now hacking Connected TV Sets

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Yup, it happened. Hackers have been able to hack TV sets.  The guy behind the hack called himself, The Hacker Giraffe, and managed to exploit a Google Chromecast vulnerability in devices and posted a privacy warning (and promoted PewDiePie, a YouTube celeb). According to Media Post, the hack takes advantage of router settings that make

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How Much of the Internet is Fake?

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Seriously.  If you haven’t read Max Reed’s article “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually” yet, stop what you’re doing and do it right now. Here are just a few of the gems Reed lays out: How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year

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