Twitter’s night mode is all well and good if you’re checking your feed from your phone while in bed, but what if you prefer to burn the midnight oil at your PC? You’re set after today… or rather, tonight. Twitter has enabled night mode on the desktop web, giving your eyes a break when you just have to share your thoughts after dark. It’s not automatic, alas, but the quick toggle (it’s in the drop-down settings menu) means you can flick it on the moment the Sun goes down.

It’s a sad reality in 2017 that a data breach affecting 143 million people is dwarfed by other recent hacks—for instance, the ones hitting Yahoo in 2013 and 2014, whoch exposed personal details for 1 billion and 500 million users respectively; another that revealed account details for 412 million accounts on sex and swinger community site AdultFriendFinder last year; and an eBay hack in 2014 that spilled sensitive data for 145 million users.FURTHER READINGEquifax website hack exposes data for ~143 million US consumersThe breach Equifax reported Thursday, however, very possibly is the most severe of all for a simple reason: the breath-taking amount of highly sensitive data it handed over to criminals. By providing full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and, in some cases, driver license numbers, it provided most of the information banks, insurance companies, and other businesses use to confirm consumers are who they claim to be. The theft, by criminals who exploited a security flaw on the Equifax website, opens the troubling prospect the data is now in the hands of hostile governments, criminal gangs or both and will remain so indefinitely.

Logitech’s MX Ergo trackball provides ergonomics, multiple device control to Mac users

Logitech is revisiting ergonomics on the Mac, with the new MX Ergo wireless trackball, allowing users to customize angle for maximum comfort.The MX Ergo is Logitech’s first new trackball in nine years. Users can increase the angle on the MX Ergo up to 20 degrees from default to improve wrist posture. A sculpted shape of the device gives the user full palm and finger support, and a soft rubber helps with grip.Logitech claims that the 500 mAh rechargeable battery in the unit lasts for up to four months on a full charge. A one-minute charge gives a ”complete day of work,” according to the company.The MX Ergo is compatible with Logitech’s Easy-Switch and Flow features through the Logitech Options software, allowing users to switch between multiple computers, including macOS, with one keyboard and/or mouse.Tracking ranges between 320 dpi and 440 dpi. Eight buttons adorn the device, and are configurable in software.

Rikspolischef Dan Eliasson beslutade att ge ett privat företag åtkomst till hemlig och känslig information från Polismyndighetens personal- och lönesystem, vilket byter mot säkerhetsskyddsförordningen. Det avslöjar Ekot och P4 Stockholm.Polisens personal- och lönesystem, Palasso, innehåller namn, personnummer och löner på alla anställda. Det finns också uppgifter om anhöriga, barn och information om enskilda poliser resor, rapporterar Ekot.Ger unik inblick i polisenDen som har tillgång till Palasso-systemet får en unik inblick i hur polisen arbetar. Polisen har därför skött systemet själva men våren 2015 gick det inte längre och myndigheten tog då hjälp av ett utländskt företag, kanadensiska CGI.Företaget fick tillgång till systemet från sina egna lokaler.

An international cybersecurity awareness survey found that 65% of U.S. tech sector workers now use a virtual private network (VPN) on either work devices, personal ones or both …(want to try a VPN? Specials.9to5Toys.com has a wide selection starting from Free Trials to lifetime plans.)NordVPNWhile much of that usage will be because it’s installed as standard on work devices, a growing number of people are choosing to use a VPN on their own devices in response to past and proposed legislative changes.The Wombat Security survey found that 41% of those surveyed use a VPN on their personal laptop, with 31% doing so on mobile devices. NordVPN reports that it has seen a 300% increase in take-up of its services in both the USA and UK since legislative threats emerged in both countries.Back in March, both the Senate and the House overturned privacy rules created by the FCC, leaving Internet service providers free to sell your Internet browsing history and location data to advertisers.

Despite it being available for nearly three years, Apple has removed a popular alternative YouTube client —ProTube —from the App Store, allegedly bowing to pressure by Google.
Google, whoch owns YouTube, first asked Apple to pull ProTube over a year ago on the basis that it violates the company’s terms of service, developer Jonas Gessner said in a blog post. Similar takedown requests were reportedly directed against other YouTube clients.

Eventually Google insisted that Gessner stop making ProTube a paid title and disable all of its signature features, such as background playback and an audio-only mode. This would’ve rendered the app useless versus the official YouTube client, but since ProTube’s arrival Google has launched YouTube Red, a service whoch includes some of ProTube’s features —but for a monthly fee.