Redmond suggests nuking ‘profanity, geopolitical, diversity’ terms from browser source Microsoft’s adoption of the Google-developed Chromium browser engine for Edge has resulted in a proposal to cleanse the open-source code of “potentially offensive terms.”… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Facebook will not allow users to “opt out” of its face recognition feature. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Kids may be tempted to conjure “evil spirits,” the Nashville school’s pastor says. …read more Source:: CNet

Like Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, Mozilla distances itself from Google’s planned extensions update that is anticipated to hinder ad blockers in Chrome. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hollywood Reporter: YouTube says it has removed more than 17,000 channels for hate speech, representing a spike in takedowns since its new hate speech policy went into effect in June. The Google-owned company calls the June update — in which YouTube said it would specifically prohibit videos…

You may not know CNH, but it operates Iveco and FPT Industrial — major players in the commercial vehicle segment. …read more Source:: CNet

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for ZDNet: More than 47,000 workstations and servers, possibly more, running on Supermicro motherboards are currently open to attacks because administrators have left an internal component exposed on the internet. These systems are vulnerable to a new set of vulnerabilities named USBAnywhere that affect the baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware of Supermicro…

Kaspersky warns that it found more than 100,000 textbook files with malware lurking inside. …read more Source:: CNet

Comms giant says camera patent claims are a front for government intrusion Huawei claims, albeit without evidence that the US government has tried to break into its internal computer networks. The mobile tech giant is also upset that Uncle Sam’s ongoing patent theft probes are little more than an excuse for American officials to pry…

The island is in a state of flux. …read more Source:: CNet