John Donabie Show, CFRB Toronto, 15 Dec 2007

I joined John Donabie Saturday morning, as I do most Saturdays, to talk about the hot tech news. Top stories for this week:

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TSMC Blog - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 18 August 2019

Moore's Law is about increasing density. Beyond the system level density achieved through advanced packaging, TSMC will continue to grow density at the transistor level. There are many paths available to TSMC for future transistor density improvements. One possible path forward is the use of transistors made of two-dimensional materials instead of silicon as the […]

Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk | c't Magazin 18 August 2019

In other words, any website can read the user's Kaspersky ID and use it for tracking. If the same Universally Unique Identifier comes back, or appears on another website of the same operator, they can see that the same computer is being used. If this assumption is correct, Kaspersky has created a dangerous tracking mechanism […]

Daring Fireball: Siri, Privacy, and Trust 18 August 2019

“What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone, except for some of your Siri recordings, which we listen to.”

Ikea goes all in on smart home tech - The Verge 18 August 2019

Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue. To do this, Ikea announced that it will invest heavily in a new “Ikea Home smart” business unit with end-to-end responsibility for its burgeoning portfolio of smart devices. […]

WebKit’s new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security | TechCrunch 18 August 2019

“We treat circumvention of shipping anti-tracking measures with the same seriousness as exploitation of security vulnerabilities,” adding: “If a party attempts to circumvent our tracking prevention methods, we may add additional restrictions without prior notice. These restrictions may apply universally; to algorithmically classified targets; or to specific parties engaging in circumvention.”

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