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Only a little while back, Phoronix got the chance to test-drive one of Nvidia's upcoming Arm-based…Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them
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