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According to an announcement posted yesterday, The Old Reader will most probably become a private site within two weeks, the only accounts that will be transferred being those created before March 13, when it was first announced that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1, and those belonging to people who have recently […]

As announced back in March, Google Reader was shut down today. According to the message currently displayed when attempting to access the service, which also links to a list of alternatives, users who haven’t done so already will still be able to use Google Takeout to download a copy of their Google Reader data, likely […]

I have to wonder, why do major sites that are also available in the official language of the country they detect you’re in automatically switch to it, regardless of your preferences? For example, lately I see YouTube switching my location, and the site version I see, to Romania instead of Worldwide every so often even […]

While I currently see no particular reason to subscribe to certain conspiracy theories that have been floating around over the past few days, the immediate response to the event, as well as past experience, makes it clear that certain elements are now overjoyed at being able to use the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings […]

Since I was on their forums again recently, to report a weird false positive, I ended up posting the most complete version of my wishlist for the next version of BitDefender, which can easily apply to antivirus software in general. A part of it had to do with proper testing and a solid, stable and […]