Minnov8 Gang 341 – Flash: The Missing Superhero?

Flash will be the missing superhero soon since even Adobe says not to use it anymore and confirms that the open standard, HTML5, has “won”. Learn more in this week’s Security Tip of the Week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: Tom & Smitty Play the Blues by Smitty under a Creative Commons License
Photo credit: Duty (Tomfoolery-in-chief)

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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Target
  • Target’s digital fumble shows why we should kill Cyber Monday
  • Cyber Monday marks Target’s best day of online sales ever
  • Target, Banks Reach $39M Settlement For Data Breach Costs
• Minneapolis start-up wins federal grant to develop educational biology game
• Code42 Hires Two New Execs
• New Maker Space Slated for Anderson Student Center

Other Top Tech Stories

• Cyber Monday Beat Forecasts With A Record $3.07 Billion In Sales, 26% From Mobile Devices
• Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service
• IDC: Wearables grew 197.6% in Q3 2015, Fitbit beats Apple again while Samsung drops out of top 5
  • Half a year later, the Apple Watch feels like a stalled platform
  • Analyst doubles Apple Watch sales prediction to 12 million sold in 2015
• Ford Sync car owners to get Apple’s Siri Eyes-Free
• Transformation at Yahoo Foiled by Marissa Mayer’s Inability to Bet the Farm
  • Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has an Insane Severance Package
• EFF’s free HTTPS tool ‘Let’s Encrypt’ enters public beta

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

TIP REVISITED: Uninstall Flash!

• Adobe’s Shift Away from Flash
  • Announces a new name for Flash Professional (Animate CC) and changes their corporate stance on Flash: Flash, Html5 and Open Web Standards
  • Adobe Primetime’s Commitment to HTML5
• Flash Security Issues
  • ThreatPost: Flash’s Farewell is Under Way 
  • Adobe’s 14 Flash security updates in 2015
• How to Uninstall Flash
  • Windows
  • Mac OS
  • “But I have to use Flash for a few sites!” Use the Google Chrome browser and Enable/Disable Flash as needed
• What started it all: Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Agonose Arm
• Tim: Skala Preview
• Steve: Google Street View of Machu Picchu
  • Google Street View Gallery
  • Google Street View app: Android |  iOS

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