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The Tor Project has reiterated its absolutist commitment to free speech, saying that even though Daily Stormer recently moved to a Tor onion service, the organization wont do anything to stop the "hate-spewing website."

Various online services have begun to re-evaluate their willingness to do business with sites that publish obviously vile content in the wake of last weekends violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Earlier in the week, Google removed the Gab app on the Google Play store, andSquarespace said it would disablesome of the offensive sites that it hosts as identified as hateful by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most famously within the tech world, Daily Stormer itself was recently booted from CloudFlares CDN service after the company had initially said it would not do so.

As Steph, a member of the Tor organization, wrote in aThursday blog post:

We are disgusted, angered, and appalled by everything these racists stand for and do. We feel this way any time the Tor network and software are used for vile purposes. But we can't build free and open source tools that protect journalists, human rights activists, and ordinary people around the world if we also control who uses those tools. Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us.

Ironically, the Tor software has been designed and written by a diverse team including people of many religions, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and points on the (legitimate, non-Nazi) political spectrum. We are everything they claim to despise. And we work every day to defend the human rights they oppose.

For years, Tor has enabled various obviously illegal websites, ranging fromunderground drug marketplaces, including the recently shutteredAlphaBay,to child porn sites. However, the network also provides similar anonymization tools for innocuous websites likeProPublica, a news organization, andDuckDuckGo, a search engine.

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Tor can't build free and open source tools and stop racists from using them - Ars Technica

iTunes CPU Redux is a free software program for Microsoft Windows devices to tame the resource usage of Apple's iTunes software on Windows.

Apple's iTunes software is quite the heavyweight on Windows systems. The program installs a lot of services on the system, and may run a number of processes at the same time.

Some of these, for syncing data to Apple devices for instance, may not be needed on some systems. If you don't connect Apple devices to the Windows machine, there is no reason for these services to run in the background.

Tip: You can remove extra iTunes components that get installed during the installation of the software program. Note that you may remove only some and not all of the components as iTunes won't work anymore if you remove some of the components.

The iTunes CPU Redux software is a small program that is compatible with Windows 7 and newer versions of the windows operating system. It supports iTunes 10 or higher, and requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.

It needs to be installed on the Windows computer before you may run it. The program displays all options under Settings in its interface.

Two of the three remaining tabs highlight other products by the company that created iTunes CPU Redux. These are not included and commercial programs.

The application monitors Windows processes to find out if specific Apple processes are running. It scans the process list for "distnoted", "Sync Server", and for "MobileDeviceHelper". If it finds those running, it will close them automatically.

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These processes may run even if iTunes does not. Some may require that you run iTunes on the system though.

You may change the behavior for the last two processes by adding a rule that blocks the termination of the process if iTunes is open.

If you need any of the processes, you may also exclude the process so that it won't be touched by the application.

The application itself uses some resources since it needs to run in the background to do the scanning and killing of iTunes processes. It offers more flexibility when it comes to the iTunes processes however than the "don't install in first place" solution. This is important if you require the functionality that they provide at times. If you don't, you are better off removing the components and using iTunes without them instead.

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Amazon wants its Alexa digital voice assistant integrated into more devices.

But in order to do this, it needs help from third-party hardware makers. Thats why the company debuted new software on Thursday that is intended to make it easier for device manufactures to embed Alexa in their products.

Our vision is for Alexa to be everywhere, said Priya Abani, Amazons director and general manager of Alexa voice services. We are not going to manufacture every single device on the face of the Earth.

Amazon is pushing Alexa, the brains inside Amazon's Echo Internet-connected speaker, as one of the key elements in electronic devices of the future. The company's ambitions, however, face a stiff challenge from competing digital voice assistants like Apples ( aapl ) Siri and Google ( goog ) Assistant.

Amazon's new open source, or free, software toolkit builds on past efforts to encourage manufactures to add Alexa to their products. Previously, Amazon released its Alexa Voice Service (AVS) that connects its voice-recognition software, hosted in the company's cloud data centers, to devices in addition to introducing hardware toolkits and blueprints that companies could use to help build their Alexa-integrated products.

But despite those efforts, companies still had to manually modify software installed on their devices before those products could connect properly. The latest push, called AVS Device Software Development Kit, eliminates that step and, therefore, makes Alexa more attractive to integrate and, potentially, clears the path to creating better Alexa-based products, Abani explained.

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Some of third-party Alexa-based products offer customers an experience that isnt what end-users were expecting," Abani acknowledged.

Alexa's failure to recognize a user's voice or follow through on a command on a third-party devices risk tarnishing Amazon's reputation and prompting manufacturers to switch to integrating competing voice assistants instead. Providing Amazon-sanctioned software to outside hardware makers to install and build on top of could make Alexa function more smoothly on more third-party products.

Amazon said that over 50 companies are already using the new software toolkit on their devices, including entertainment and communications technology company Technicolor, which embedded Alexa into its modems and other home networking gear. People who own the devices can use their voices to configure their home networks.

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sageworks, a financial information company that specializes in the financial analysis of privately held companies, will make CashSage, its cash-flow solution for business owners, available for free to all U.S. small businesses, including convenience stores, bars and restaurants.

CashSage provides a dashboard in which business owners use sliders to immediately discern how changes in performance indicators can increase or decrease cash. These indicators include sales growth, overhead growth, net profit margin, accounts receivable days, accounts payable days and inventory days. CashSage also provides automated reports with industry-specific recommendations for improving each, including for c-stores.

From the beginning, Sageworks mission has been to help businesses succeed by giving them information they can use and understand, said Alex Pan, product manager for Sageworks. For years, we have been achieving this goal through our relationships with accounting firms, who rely heavily on Sageworks ProfitCents solution to consult small businesses on their financial performance. Now, with the free release of CashSage for business owners, were fulfilling this mission directly by providing small businesses a solution that shows them how much additional cash they could generate by making small changes in their financial metrics and how to go about doing that in their specific industries.

With CashSage, business owners can:

Raleigh, N.C.-based Sageworks is a financial information company that provides risk management, financial analysis and business valuation solutions to accounting firms, financial institutions and privately held companies.

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