Free Antivirus Selling Your Info, YouTube Poaching Twitch Streams, No Rocket League Linux
Channel: Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Date: 09/02/2020

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Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

08:10 - Some of the biggest Call of Duty, Overwatch and Hearthstone e-sport leagues will be streamed exclusively on YouTube.

14:59 - Just three and bit years after it debuted on the platform, Rocket League is ending support for Linux and Steam OS.

20:06 - We're in an Antarctica frenzy as a Google Earth user has found a ‘2,000ft structure’ emerging from the snow.

25:35 - It turns out free security solutions may come at the cost of all your browsing data: Avast's free antivirus tracks users' online behavior and mines the data for companies like Microsoft, Pepsi, and Google.

Honorable Mentions:

00:53 - The good old FreeDB CD database service and it's services will be shut down on march 31, 2020.

03:02 - In an odd turn of events, Microsoft has had to push out an update to Windows 7 — despite the operating system reaching end of support — to fix a bug it introduced.

04:16 - At FOSDEM this week, PINE64 have announced what they're up to for the first half of 2020.

Full Stories: https://category5.tv/shows/newsroom/episode/641/