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This post was made possible by Bluehost through compensation. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author, who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. For more details, please read our disclaimer. How do you host your website? You might choose to host it on the bare-metal of a dedicated server, or on a cost-effective VPS Why You Should Use A VPS Instead Of Shared Hosting For WordPress Why You Should Use A VPS Instead Of Shared Hosting For WordPress Read More . If you’re anything like me, you probably choose to host your site on a managed, shared-hosting package, mostly out of pure laziness. After all, who wants to do server management in their spare time?The other day, my website was automatically upgraded to the latest and greatest WordPress; version 3.9. Not long after, everything broke.Suddenly, I was unable to create new blog posts. I couldn’t log in. I couldn’t see my Jetpack statistics How to Install and … [Read more...] about 4 Rules For Working With Tech Support When Your Site Goes Down

Further ReadingAnother court tells police: Want to use a stingray? Get a warrantA New York state judge has concluded that a powerful police surveillance tool known as a stingray, a device that spoofs legitimate mobile phone towers, performs a "search" and therefore requires a warrant under most circumstances. As a New York State Supreme Court judge in Brooklyn ruled earlier this month in an attempted murder case, New York Police Department officers should have sought a standard, probable cause-driven warrant before using the invasive device. The Empire State court joins others nationwide in reaching this conclusion. In September, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals also found that stingrays normally require a warrant, as did a federal judge in Oakland, California, back in August. According to The New York Times, which first reported the case on Wednesday, People v. Gordon is believed to be the first stingray-related case connected to the country’s largest city police … [Read more...] about If NYPD cops want to snoop on your phone, they need a warrant, judge rules

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers by harvesting personal information from tens of millions of Facebook users. A unanimous opinion issued by the FTC confirmed allegations made in July [PDF] that Cambridge Analytica, app developer Aleksandr Kogan, and then-CEO of Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix had worked together to enable Kogan's GSRApp "to collect Facebook data from app users and their Facebook friends" through a personality-testing app.  The regulator concluded that the app deceived users after stating to users it would not collect their names or other identifiable information despite it offering the collected data as part of voter-profiling, microtargeting, and other marketing services to US political campaigns and other US-based clients.  The FTC's opinion also confirmed that Cambridge Analytica violated a pact between the European Union and the US, known as the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which … [Read more...] about FTC rules Facebook users deceived by Cambridge Analytica

As Game of Thrones gets set to end for good Sunday night, the political/fantasy/zombie epic with several buddy and road movies embedded has reached that rare level of pop culture relevance where people who don't even watch the show are now talking about it. What's more, people are now regularly talking about how much people are talking about the show."It's been a wild ride and is clearly one of the most important of the cable appointment-viewing programs of its era," said Rick Stevens, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Appointment viewing is the rapidly disappearing concept of planning your schedule around when a particular show or event is available to watch. Before the advent of streaming, on-demand TV services and YouTube, almost all viewing was appointment viewing, but today it's a designation primarily enjoyed by live sports and one-off events like the Academy Awards.HBO's Thrones has managed to buck the trend and maintain … [Read more...] about Game of Thrones finale: Why the show ruled our lives for 8 long years

Holiday advice for ID theft prevention Adam Levin, chairman of Cyberscout, talks with Tonya Hall about how to protect your identity, especially as the holiday season quickly approaches. It's that time of year again... Featured Cyber Week 2019 deals: Business Bargain Hunter's top picks Must-have tech gadgets to start 2020 I went to Best Buy on Black Friday and it was shocking AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS Thanksgiving is a time of year which sees "the techies" and "the non-techies" come into contact. And chances are that you, being the techie, will be spotted an hunted down -- The Walking Dead style, albeit these zombies are slower and sleepier thanks to all the tryptophan -- by the non-techies in search of "help." And why not? Must read: Best gifts: IT pro toolbox & Tech gadgets for non-techies Don't doctors get asked for advice on boils and sores at every get-together they attend? Don't all lawyers help friends and … [Read more...] about Check out our Thanksgiving tech support survival guide (2019 edition)