An executive order is about to bring voluntary CISPA to the US, we’ll explain what we know. Linus takes it to a vote and asks the Internet if its time for Linux 4.0 & some great news from the OpenShot project.
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Obama Heads to Tech Security Talks Amid Tensions – NYTimes.com
PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Obama will meet here on Friday with the nation’s top technologists on a host of cybersecurity issues and the threats posed by increasingly sophisticated hackers. But nowhere on the agenda is the real issue for the chief executives and tech company officials who will gather on the Stanford campus: the deepening estrangement between Silicon Valley and the government.
The long history of quiet cooperation between Washington and America’s top technology companies — first to win the Cold War, then to combat terrorism — was founded on the assumption of mutual interest. Edward J. Snowden’s revelations shattered that. Now, the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent companies from greatly strengthening encryption in commercial products like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones has set off a new battle, as the companies resist government efforts to make sure police and intelligence agencies can crack the systems.
Obama to sign executive order on sharing cybersecurity threat information – The Washington Post
President Obama will sign an executive order Friday that urges companies to share cybersecurity-threat information with one another and the federal government.
The order is advisory in nature and comes as the White House will kick off its first summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University on Friday. The summit, which will focus on public-private partnerships and consumer protection, is part of a recent White House push to focus on cybersecurity.
It encourages the development of central clearinghouses for companies and the government to share data and creation of centers where data can be shared across specific geographic regions.
Apple Promoting “Great Games with No In-App Purchases” on App Store Front Page – MacStories
Apple has started promoting games that don’t have any In-App Purchases on the front page of the App Store. Currently featured in the UK App Store and likely expanding to the U.S. store later today as part of the App Store’s weekly refresh, the section is called ‘Pay Once & Play’ and it showcases “great games” that don’t require users to pay for extra content through IAPs.
Linus Torvalds – Google+
I was making noises about just moving to 4.0 some time ago. But let’s see what people think.
Galaxy 6 Exynos 7420 is 14nm SoC
The Exynos 7420 SoC will be a 14nm octa-core, with four Cortex-A57 cores and four slower Cortex-A53 cores. Most of the chips coming in 2015 will use ARM’s big.LITTLE approach, but in 20nm. Samsung Exynos 7420 is 14nm and is also using Mali-T760 GPU. We have the manufacturing node confirmed by multiple sources but you only need to wait for the March 1 to see the official announcement at the Mobile World Congress Galaxy S6 launch event.
OpenShot Video Editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux by Jonathan Thomas — Kickstarter
There are many challenges that go along with building any software. Some are obvious and some are more subtle. However, some challenges, as I’ve recently realized, aren’t related to computers at all. Sometime in late October, my wife and I decided that it would be fun to put our house on the market, and “test the waters”. We have been talking about moving out of Arlington, TX (a relatively big city) for years, and heading towards a bit more land, and less city. As fate would have it, we had an offer on our house within 1 week, and all of a sudden needed to find a new house, make repairs, pack, rent a moving truck, etc… etc… Needless to say, this required a lot of time and energy.
In App Mayhem | FauxShow 167
Angela and Chris talk about the different ways ads and in app purchases make it onto our mobile devices, what can be done about it, and how the community feels about it.