The Daily Populous

Tuesday September 19th, 2017 evening edition

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iOS 11, the latest version of Apple’s operating system for mobile devices, will hit users’ phones and tablets on Tuesday.

The tracking prevention system will also arrive on Apple’s computers 25 September, as part of the High Sierra update to macOS.

Safari is used by 14.9% of all internet users, according to data from StatCounter.

Tracking of users around the internet has become crucial to the inner workings of many advertising networks.

But advertisers also use “first-party” cookies, loaded by a site the user does visit but updated as they move around the net.

This information is collected without permission and is used for ad re-targeting, which is how ads follow people around the internet.”.

In 2015, it led that year’s update for iOS with a feature that allowed widespread mobile ad blocking on the platform for the first time. »

Lifelock offers to protect you from the Equifax breach — by selling you services provided by Equifax

Authored by latimes.com

Here’s what Lifelock isn’t advertising so widely: When you buy its protection, you’re signing up for credit reporting and monitoring services provided by, yes, Equifax.

Lifelock signed a four-year contract with Equifax in December 2015, with the services to start the following April.

At the time, Lifelock said it would “purchase certain credit products and services from Equifax” that would then “comprise a part of LifeLock’s identity theft protection services for consumers.”. »

Sudden Death During Triathlons: Risks Higher Than Expected

Authored by methodsman.com
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And the majority of deaths, 67%, occurred in the swimming portion of the race – which is usually the first part of the triathlon.

That may seem like a vanishingly small number, but realize that the rate of sudden death in otherwise healthy athletes is 0.5 per 100,000 individuals per year.

Put another way, running a triathlon elevates the risk of sudden death by a factor of more than 1000. »