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21/02/2015

Google Rails Against Proposal to Give Feds Remote Hacking Authority
Google is fighting a proposed amendment to Rule 41 of the U.S. Criminal Code that might allow authorities to hack into computers abroad. The amendment seeks to empower a magistrate in a district where activities related to a crime may have occurred to issue a warrant for remote search of computers, as well as seizure or copying of their files, when a target computer's physical location is unknown, or when multiple computers in several districts are used simultaneously to carry out complex criminal schemes. [More...]

17/02/2015

Facebook Lets Members Prepare for the Digital Above & Beyond
Facebook on Thursday announced a new feature for members who want to plan for their passing into the digital beyond. The feature allows Facebook members to appoint a "legacy contact" to administer their account when they die. Legacy contacts will, among other powers, have the authority to download an archive of the deceased member's public information, including photos, posts and profile information. [More...]

17/02/2015

Facebook Launches ThreatExchange to Stymie Cybercrime
The launch of Facebook ThreatExchange "is about Facebook being one of the larger threat vectors for phishing attacks and looking to share this threat information so companies can be aware and be proactive to prevent cybercriminals using its platform as the threat du jure," said Frank Dickson, network security program director at Frost & Sullivan.

29/01/2015

POS Terminals Rich Vein for Gold-Digging Hackers
Hackers are like gold miners. Once they find a rich vein for their malware, they mine it until it's dry. Point-of-sale terminals are such a vein, and it doesn't appear that it's one that's about to run dry any time soon. Following the success of the Target breach in 2013, the hacker underground was quick to rush more POS malware to market. [More...]

27/01/2015

Walk Like a Man: The DARPA Robotics Challenge
Atlas will be entered into the DARPA Robotics Challenge in June. The challenge aims at developing robots for use in disaster response, and participants will face conditions simulating a real disaster, such as degraded communications. "It isn't unusual to lose more lives after a disaster because of some problem with the rescue than were at risk in the first place," said tech analyst Rob Enderle. [More...]

27/01/2015

Microsoft's Windows Reboot Could Be Legendary
In companies filled with engineers, products tend to become science projects more than things for real people. Folks do things because they can -- because they want to see what will happen or simply because they want to showcase they have the authority. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is a very different company, though. People are working together again, and the product looks amazing as a result. [More...]

26/01/2015

Gadget Ogling: A Microsoft Marvel, an Eensy Keyboard and an Ingenious Desk
Microsoft's HoloLens seems at once fantastical and feasible. It's a shame it looks like a motorcycle visor, since that will limit how many people will use it outside of their homes and offices, but at least it's far less obnoxious than Google Glass. I'll be especially eager to try it out once Xbox One starts using the technology in games. I'm all in, Microsoft. [More...]

26/01/2015

Acer Designs Chromebooks for Students' Rough Handling
Chromebooks have found a home in the classroom, thanks to their low cost, multiple user-friendly features, and construction that can take some hard knocks. Acer's latest models, the Chromebook C910 (pictured here) and the Chromebook C740, are integrated with Google Docs, the company's free or low-fee productivity apps. Documents are automatically stored in Google's cloud. [More...]

24/01/2015

The Brave New World of Windows 10
Microsoft wants Windows 10 to be its most-loved OS release, and it appears to be off and running. Making it a free upgrade, for starters, is one way to curry favor. Windows 10 "will be our best enterprise platform ever, simplifying management and deployment for IT and working seamlessly with existing enterprise applications," said Terry Myerson, EVP of Microsoft's Operating Systems Group. [More...]

24/01/2015

Ford R&D Facility Rolls Into Silicon Valley
Its new Palo Alto research center "shows Ford's commitment to be part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem -- anticipating customers' wants and needs, especially on connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles," said CEO Mark Fields. "We are working to make these new technologies accessible to everyone, not just luxury customers." Fields is pictured here speaking at CES earlier this year. [More...]

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