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1. Netflix’ Original Content Over thei past few years, we’ve seen Netflix shift away from licensed content to producing its own content. Remember when Netflix dropped half of its catalog to free up funds? A reasonable move, considering how much Netflix spends on original content. To be fair, the original TV series on Netflix are a little hit and miss. For every  Narcos ,  Stranger Things , and  Mindhunter , you get duds like  The Get Down ,  Gypsy , and  Hemlock Grove . The original movies are way better in general, including masterpieces like  Beasts of No Nation  and  Mudbound , with the occasional eye-rollers like  Death Note  and  The Discovery . But hit and miss content is okay. The fact that Netflix experiments with ideas and stories that Hollywood won’t touch? That alone is worth the price of admission. And the amount of exclusive content on Netflix is only going to skyrocket in the years t...

Overview If you’ve been keeping up with computer news over the last few days, you might have heard about Meltdown and Spectre, and you might be wondering what they are and what they can do. Basically, Meltdown and Spectre are the names for multiple new vulnerabilities discovered and reported for numerous processors. Meltdown is a vulnerability for Intel processors while Spectre can be used to attack nearly all processor types. The potential danger of an attack using these vulnerabilities includes being able to read “secured” memory belonging to a process. This can do things like reveal personally identifiable information, banking information, and of course usernames and passwords. For Meltdown, an actual malicious process needs to be running on the system to interact, while Spectre can be launched from the browser using a script. Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and other vendors have been releasing patches all day to help protect users from this vulnerability. Some of th...