Lenovo has shipped PCs with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections. We’ll go into the details & this discuss if this is a deal breaker for our panel.

A great article points out its not just Samsung that’s listening to you & an unboxing and first impressions of the $70 WinBook TW700 tablet.

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Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections [Updated] | Ars Technica

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said.

The critical threat is present on Lenovo PCs that have adware from a company called Superfish installed. As unsavory as many people find software that injects ads into Web pages, there’s something much more nefarious about the Superfish package. It installs a self-signed root HTTPS certificate that can intercept encrypted traffic for every website a user visits. When a user visits an HTTPS site, the site certificate is signed and controlled by Superfish and falsely represents itself as the official website certificate.

It’s not just Samsung TVs — lots of other gadgets are spying on you — Fusion

But Samsung’s televisions are far from the only seeing-and-listening devices coming into our lives. If we’re going to freak out about a Samsung TV that listens in on our living rooms, we should also be panicking about a number of other emergent gadgets that capture voice and visual data in many of the same ways.

Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car | 9to5Mac

In the last few weeks we’ve heard about a poaching war between Apple and Tesla, a couple hires by Apple from the auto industry, and a whole lot of speculation followed by reports that Apple has a team of hundreds working on an electric vehicle. But who exactly is working on the project at Apple?

Winbook TW700 Tablet – Windows 8.1 with full-size USB port, IPS Display, and one year of FREE Microsoft Office 365

• HD IPS Display
• Bluetooth/Wifi
• 2 USB Ports – 1 full size, 1 micro.2 Megapixel front and back camera
• MicroHDMI port and MicroSD slot
• Includes One year of Office 365 – for your TW700 AND a PC or Mac

Ubuntu on the Winbook TW700

I recently stopped by Houston’s new MicroCenter (they recently moved into a new store), and walked out of the store with their WinBook TW700 tablet for about $40. This tablet is built around Intel’s Bay Trail Atom architecture, sporting a 1.33GHz quad core Atom processor, Windows 8.1, and a free (1) year subscription to Office 365. This little tablet only has a 7″ screen, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage, but the Micro-SD slot and a full sized USB 2.0 port sealed the deal for me.