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Anthony Daniels poses with C-3PO at a Japanese Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan event on December 11, 2019.Photo: Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images)There are Star Wars collections—and then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. A very rare trove of franchise memorabilia is now up for sale at Los Angeles auction house called Propstore, and it’s direct from the collection of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO for over 40 years.Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Daniels admitted he felt…

“How will the internet operate without cookies?”“When are they going?”“Which ones are getting eliminated?”For the last six months, Rinku Ghosh has been fielding queries like these from clients panicking about the phasing out of third-party cookies. Ghosh is the COO of Lemnisk, a Bengaluru-based customer data platform. In her line of work, a cookie isn’t a sweet treat; it is a text file spawned by a web browser when a user visits a site, capturing their login details, preferences and browsing history. Elevate Your Tech…

'CyberGuy': Big Brother in the Big Apple NYC drivers face a $15 daily congestion fee for entering the toll congestion zone south of 60th Street, monitored by license plate readers. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson gives the details. A new exploit threat lets hackers access your Google account using expired cookies that contain your login information. The exploits, which were discovered late last year, target session cookies, which only have a limited lifespan. However, they can "revive" those cookies, putting your personal…

Just days after Google killed third-party cookies on its Chrome browser, Amazon has forged a new kind of a deal with the UK's largest publisher, Reach to acquire customer data for targeted ads In response to Google’s…

A dancer in her twenties tragically died from a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts after eating cookies that had been incorrectly labeled.25-year-old Órla Baxendale, a professional dancer from East Lancashire, UK, moved to New York, USA, to train as a scholarship student at the Ailey School in 2018. Her dancer dreams were cut short on January 11, after she went into anaphylactic shock from a severe allergic reaction to a Vanilla Florentine cookie, which she had bought from the popular supermarket Stew Leonard’s.Attorney…

It should be fairly common knowledge at this point how the internet seems to know, to an uncanny degree, exactly what products you’re looking for with its ads. Tracking cookies live in your browser, and tell the internet what products and pages you click on, alongside what you do on them — all accessible the moment you tick that ‘allow cookies’ box.Recently, there has been some effort to make these cookies less of a privacy risk, with the aforementioned ‘allow cookies’ window becoming a requirement before websites can…

Google accounts are considered safe if the password is strong enough. Well, that is old news, at least that is what this new report is saying. According to CloudSek, hackers have found a way to access Google accounts without passwords! So, is your Google account safe from hackers? The report says that hackers have used a form of malware that utilises third-party cookies to illegally enter users' Google accounts and they have free run on whatever data that it has. In effect, the potential to compromise private and…

Google has started disabling cookies, starting with 30 million Chrome users. Without cookies third party advertisers will no longer be able to track a user's move. However, Google still has the ability to track everything that a Chrome user does…

Google is initiating tests in its Chrome browser to disable third-party cookies. It reportedly impacts analytics data collection, personalized online ads, and browsing monitoring. Initially, this feature will be available to 1% of Chrome users across the globe, approximately 30 million people, with plans for a full rollout later in the year. Google will randomly select users and ask if they want to “browse with more privacy.” Google asserts that the changes are part of a test phase, and it plans a full rollout to…

Google has just disabled third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users, years after it first introduced its Privacy Sandbox project. The company announced late last year that it will kick things off by disabling cookies for a random one percent of Chrome users globally on January 4. Chrome owns more than half of the worldwide browser market share, and according to Gizmodo, that means Google has killed cookies for 30 million users.People included in this rollout will see a notification when they launch their browser…