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Checkout my latest post: Twitch's Redesigned Mobile App Adds Social Features http://www.pcmag.com//twitchs-redesigned-mobile-app-adds-s Twitch’s Facebook-like social feed is coming to the mobile app, along with the ability to broadcast live video directly from your phone’s camera. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: Purism aims to push privacy-centric laptops, tablets and phones to market http://www.computerworld.com//purism-aims-to-push-privacy- A San Francisco-based start-up is creating a line of Linux-based laptops and mobile devices designed with hardware and software to safeguard user privacy. Purism this week announced general availability of its 13-in. and 15-in. Librem laptops, which it says can protect users against the types of cyberattacks that led ...to the recent Intel AMT exploits and WannaCry ransomware attacks. The laptop and other hardware in development has been meticulously designed chip by chip to work with free and open source software. It’s really a completely overlooked area, said Purism CEO Todd Weaver. We also wanted to start with laptops because that was something we knew we’d be able to do easily and then later get into phones, routers, servers, and desktops as we expand. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: A Chromebook can increase the protection of air gapped computers http://www.computerworld.com//a-chromebook-can-increase-th I used to think that the best way to protect a computer hosting sensitive data was by not connecting it to any network, a process known as air gapping. Ah, the good old days. WikiLeaks recently revealed that when the computer with the sensitive data is running Windows, even air gapped protection is insufficient. The CIA, using... a software system codenamed Brutal Kangaroo, first infects a Windows computer connected to the Internet, then infects any USB flash drive (a.k.a. thumb drive) plugged into that computer, in the hope that the flash drive will eventually be plugged into the air-gap protected machines. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series 2-in-1 (3179) http://www.pcmag.com//dell-inspiron-11-3000-series-2-in-1- The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series 2-in-1 is a convertible-hybrid laptop that has a better processor and subsequently higher performance than rivals, but makes a few compromises to meet its relatively inexpensive price. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: Editor's Note: Unicorn-Making Machines https://www.wired.com//editors-note-unicorn-making-machines Behind the scenes of Backchannel’s incubator week. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: No, Donald Trump Isn't Calling For an Internet Tax https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-internet-tax-amazon Reading too much into vague tweets (or anything, really) won’t get you very far. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: This Cell Phone Can Make Calls Even Without a Battery https://www.wired.com//this-cell-phone-can-make-calls-even University of Washington researchers have made a phone that draws what little power it needs from thin air. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: The Petya Ransomware Is Starting To Look Like a Cyberattack in Disguise https://it.slashdot.org//the-petya-ransomware-is-starting- Further research and investigation into Petya ransomware which has affected computers in over 60 countries suggest three interesting things: 1. Ukraine was the epicentre of the attack. According to Kaspersky, 60 percent of all machines infected were located within Ukraine. 2. The attackers behind the attack have made... little money around $10,000. Which leads to speculation that perhaps money wasn’t a motive at all. 3. Petya was either incredibly buggy, or irreversibly destructive on purpose. An anonymous reader shares a report: Because the virus has proven unusually destructive in Ukraine, a number of researchers have come to suspect more sinister motives at work. Peeling apart the program’s decryption failure in a post today, Comae’s Matthieu Suiche concluded a nation state attack was the only plausible explanation. Pretending to be a ransomware while being in fact a nation state attack, Suiche wrote, is in our opinion a very subtle way from the attacker to control the narrative of the attack. Another prominent infosec figure put it more bluntly: There’s no fucking way this was criminals. There’s already mounting evidence that Petya’s focus on Ukraine was deliberate. The Petya virus is very good at moving within networks, but initial attacks were limited to just a few specific infections, all of which seem to have been targeted at Ukraine. The highest-profile one was a Ukrainian accounting program called MeDoc, which sent out a suspicious software update Tuesday morning that many researchers blame for the initial Petya infections. Attackers also planted malware on the homepage of a prominent Ukraine-based news outlet, according to one researcher at Kaspersky. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds https://news.slashdot.org//seattles-15-minimum-wage-may-be As companies look for ways to cut costs, Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law may be hurting hourly workers instead of helping them, according to a new report. From a USA Today article: A report (PDF) from the University of Washington (UW), found that when wages increased to $13 in 2016, some companies may have responded by cutting lo...w-wage workers’ hours. The study, which was funded in part by the city of Seattle, found that workers clocked 9 percent fewer hours on average, and earned $125 less each month after the most recent increase. If you’re a low-skilled worker with one of those jobs, $125 a month is a sizable amount of money, Mark Long, a UW public-policy professor and an author of the report told the Seattle Times. It can be the difference between being able to pay your rent and not being able to pay your rent. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: More Than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to Not Repeal Network Neutrality https://yro.slashdot.org//more-than-40-isps-across-the-cou An anonymous reader shares a report: One excuse FCC Chairman Ajit Pai regularly offers to explain his effort to gut net neutrality protections is the claim that open Internet rules have harmed ISPs, especially small ones. During a speech earlier this year, he stressed that 22 small ISPs told him that the ...2015 Open Internet Order hurt their ability to invest and deploy. In reality, though, many more ISPs feel very differently. Today, more than 40 ISPs told the FCC that they have had no problem with the Open Internet Order (PDF) and that it hasn’t hurt their ability to develop and expand their networks. What is more, that they want the FCC to do its job and address the problem Congress created when it repealed the broadband privacy rules in March. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules https://tech.slashdot.org//google-must-delete-search-resul The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether judges can apply their own country’s laws to all of the internet. From a report: In a 7-2 decision, the court agreed a British Columbia judge had the power to issue an injunction forcing Google to... scrub search results about pirated products not just in Canada, but everywhere else in the world too. Those siding with Google, including civil liberties groups, had warned that allowing the injunction would harm free speech, setting a precedent to let any judge anywhere order a global ban on what appears on search engines. The Canadian Supreme Court, however, downplayed this objection and called Google’s fears theoretical. This is not an order to remove speech that, on its face, engages freedom of expression values, it is an order to de-index websites that are in violation of several court orders. We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of the unlawful sale of goods, wrote Judge Rosalie Abella. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree https://tech.slashdot.org//a-new-kind-of-tech-job-emphasiz Steve Lohr, writing for the New York Times: A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring. Yet while Mr. Bridges had no work history, he had certain skills.... He had built and sold some stripped-down personal computers, and he had studied information technology at a community college. When Mr. Bridges heard IBM was hiring at a nearby operations center in 2013, he applied and demonstrated those skills. Now Mr. Bridges, 25, is a computer security analyst, making $45,000 a year. In a struggling Appalachian economy, that is enough to provide him with his own apartment, a car, spending money and career ambitions. I got one big break, he said. That’s what I needed. Mr. Bridges represents a new but promising category in the American labor market: people working in so-called new-collar or middle-skill jobs. As the United States struggles with how to match good jobs to the two-thirds of adults who do not have a four-year college degree, his experience shows how a worker’s skills can be emphasized over traditional hiring filters like college degrees, work history and personal references. [] On Wednesday, the approach received a strong corporate endorsement from Microsoft, which announced a grant of more than $25 million to help Skillful, a program to foster skills-oriented hiring, training and education. The initiative, led by the Markle Foundation, began last year in Colorado, and Microsoft’s grant will be used to expand it there and move it into other states. We need new approaches, or we’re going to leave more and more people behind in our economy, said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source

Checkout my latest post: As Predicted, Cox's Latest Appeal Points To SCOTUS' Refusal To Disconnect Sex Offenders From Social Media https://www.techdirt.com//as-predicted-coxs-latest-appeal- Last week the Supreme Court managed to hold its nose long enough to properly assert that banning convicted sex offenders from social media was plainly an infringement on their First Amendment rights. While much of the media coverage focused on the question of sex offenders having access ...Continue reading

Checkout my latest post: BrandPost: Wonder What’s in that Hot Dog? Data Analytics Has Your Answer http://www.infoworld.com//wonder-what-s-in-that-hot-dog-da Could data analytics make for a safer, more transparent food supply? Maria Fernandez Guajardo, VP of Products at Clear Labs, answered that question with an unequivocal Yes! when she presented at the recent Intel Analytics Summit. Collaboration Drives Better Data... Clear Labs exists at the intersection of genetic analysis and data science, analyzing food at the molecular level to generate information for the food industry about the authenticity and safety of their ingredients and finished products. In her Analytics Summit talk, Maria demonstrates how the company employs a combination of database and analytics technologies to analyze the food supply, including an unbiased and universal DNA test, machine learning probabilistic species identification, and a proprietary reference database with millions of sequences. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Go to Source