Wednesday, June 05, 2024

How to Clear Your History in Any Browser

 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claimed victory for his alliance in India'sgeneral election, despite a lackluster performance from his own party.

Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party party faced a stronger challenge from the opposition than expected after it pushed back against the leader's mixed economic record and polarising politics.

"Is Today's victory the victory of the world's largest democracy"?


How to Clear Your History in Any Browser

How To Geek: ”

Key Takeaways – Press Ctrl+Shift+Delete to clear your browsing history on a Windows PC, or press Command+Shift+Delete on a Mac. Check your browser’s settings to find this option on a mobile device. All web browsers remember a list of the web pages you’ve visited. You can delete this list at any time, clearing your browsing history and erasing the tracks stored on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. Each browser has its own separate history, so you’ll need to clear the history in multiple places if you’ve used more than one browser. In the future, you can use private browsing mode to browse sensitive websites without your browser saving any history.


You won’t have to clear your history afterward…”


X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content

TechCrunch: “The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.

 X (formerly Twitter) has long had many active NSFW (not safe for work) communities, and though the social network unofficially allowed people to post adult content, its rules have never forbidden or allowed such content outright. That’s changing now. Over the weekend, X added clauses to its rules, formally allowing users to post adult and graphic content on the platform — with a few caveats. 

Users can now post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such. The new rules also cover AI-generated videos and images. The tweak to the rules is not a complete surprise, since X, under Elon Musk, has already experimented with formally hosting adult content with NSFW communities

“We believe that users should be able to create, distribute, and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed. Sexual expression, visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression,” X’s page on “adult content” policies reads…”



Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

The Verge: “Microsoft is about to launch a new AI-powered Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on your PC. 

Recall is part of the new Copilot Plus PCs that are debuting on June 18th, but experts who have tested the feature are already warning that Recall could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity. Recall is designed to use local AI models to screenshot everything you see or do on your computer and then give you the ability to search and retrieve anything in seconds. There’s even an explorable timeline you can scroll through. Everything in Recall is designed to remain local and private on-device, so no data is used to train Microsoft’s AI models.

 Despite Microsoft’s promises of a secure and encrypted Recall experience, cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has found that the AI-powered feature has some potential security flaws. Beaumont, who briefly worked at Microsoft in 2020, has been testing out Recall over the past week and discovered that the feature stores data in a database in plain text. That could make it trivial for an attacker to use malware to extract the database and its contents…”