Hello. Today, I want to share that the site has undergone numerous changes since the last posts in 2020. First, the site has been refocused as a central website and portfolio for myself, with contact information and resources for all of my assets under company Sean Staffiery Holdings. I have Read more…
On Wednesday, January 29, 2020, Facebook reached a 550 USD million settlement from users over alleged misuse of their personal data from Facebook’s tag suggestion facial recognition, a feature that allowed Facebook users to recognize other people in uploaded photographs. The lawsuit originated in Illinois in 2015 from user complaints Read more…
News has recently broken out about the spread of a SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) like coronavirus in the city of Wuhan, China. The name of this coronavirus is called the 2019 Novel Coronavirus or the 2019nCoV, and it has already spread fast enough that it has surpassed SARS in Read more…
Today, Google has released version 79 of the Chrome web browser. The browser update added new features like tab freezing, a new user interface for the Chrome profile menu and AR (Augmented Reality) support through the WebXR API. It also added security features like integrated data breach notifications with Google Read more…
Last Thursday, police in Paraná, Brazil raided buildings in Sao Paulo, Curitiba and other locations within Paraná. The buildings belonged to a single unnamed organization that was believed to be associated with a fraudulent Bitcoin cryptocurrency scheme. The raid required SWAT teams and over 50 police officers. Nine people were Read more…
As of today, Google has started their rollout in the United States of RCS Messaging for Android, formally known as Rich Communication Services. RCS was created in 2007 and is currently managed by the GSM Association. However, it has not found success until recently. RCS messaging allows for numerous benefits Read more…
Amazon was supposed to build a second Headquarters, in Queens, New York City, New York, for the company that would allow for 25,000 new jobs. According to The Washington Post, Amazon was given $3 billion in New York state and New York City tax incentives to build their HQ, while Read more…
It is now known that South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (South Korea DAPA) was hacked in October of 2018. The hackers were able to gain internal access through a server that controlled security software (Data Storage Prevention software) similar to Deepfreeze, which prevents data from being kept on the Read more…
Alexa Guard went live today according to CNET, but will gradually roll out to the United States. Alexa Guard is a new feature announced in September 2018, which scans certain frequencies for sounds like breaking glass to detect break ins within your home and alert you. The feature also scans Read more…
Interestingly enough, Putin said this about a music genre born in 1973, according to the New York Post, “rap is based on three pillars: sex, drugs and protest,’ which will lead to ‘ the degradation of the nation.” Yes, it is true that rap and hip hop music does contain a Read more…