The White house announces and executive order allowing sanctions against cyber war threats, some downsides of the Galaxy S6 Edge, an April Fools roundup & more!

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A New Tool Against Cyber Threats — Medium

It’s one of the great paradoxes of our Information Age — the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used by adversaries to inflict great harm. The same technologies that help keep our military strong are used by hackers in China and Russia to target our defense contractors and systems that support our troops. Networks that control much of our critical infrastructure — including our financial systems and power grids — are probed for vulnerabilities by foreign governments and criminals.

Cyber intrusions and attacks — many of them originating overseas — are targeting our businesses, stealing trade secrets, and costing American jobs. Iranian hackers have targeted American banks. The North Korean cyber attack on Sony Pictures destroyed data and disabled thousands of computers. In other recent breaches that have made headlines, more than 100 million Americans had their personal data compromised, including credit card and medical information.

Living life on the S6 Edge | The Verge

The Galaxy S6 Edge also doesn’t play too nicely with Google’s Material Design. Samsung has my eternal appreciation for following Google’s lead in moving to a cleaner, more minimalist interface, but Material Design emphasizes flatness and geometric regularity, which the Edge’s warping side screens disturb. They create a sort of vignette effect on white pages and are a hindrance rather than a help when editing photos.

Meet the Asus Chromebook Flip, a $249 Chrome OS tablet with a 360-degree hinge | PCWorld

The Chromebook Flip squeezed an adequate supply of connectivity into its slender profile. On one side, you’ll see two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, HDMI, and an audio jack. On the other, you’ll see power and volume buttons, plus the DC power port.

Under the hood you’ll find 2GB of RAM and the Rockchip 3288 CPU. Rockchip, a new partner for Google, brings less expensive, more power-efficient CPUs to the Chromebook lineup. Google also announced new Chromebooks from Haier and Hisense with the same chip. Benchmarks from our hands-on with the new Hisense Chromebook indicate that this processor holds up well compared to older ARM chips.

Google pushes Chrome OS software, with or without Chromebooks – CNET

To that end, one of Google’s newest additions to the lineup of devices, the Chomebit, hawks Chrome OS without even trying to sell a Chromebook laptop.

RadioShack co-branding of stores with Sprint wins court approval | Reuters

A plan to salvage RadioShack Corp’s RSHCQ.PK business by co-branding most of its 1,740 surviving stores with cellular phone provider Sprint Corp (S.N) earned U.S. bankruptcy court approval on Tuesday, ending four days of contested court hearings.

The stores are what survived of more than 4,000 outlets after RadioShack went bankrupt in February. Founded in 1921, the chain was a go-to retailer for electronics before becoming increasingly irrelevant in the digital age.

Gentoo announces total website makeover – Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux today announced the launch of its new totally revamped and more inclusive website which was built to conform to the CGA Web(tm) graphics standards.

Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today – YouTube

We’re excited to introduce Smartbox—a better, smarter mailbox that fuses physical mail with everything you love about the electronic kind.

Smartbox is currently in field trial—stuck in the ground, in a field—for Inbox by Gmail customers. If you’re not yet using Inbox, simply email inbox@google.com any time before April 2 to be invited, and to reserve your spot on the Smartbox waitlist.

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It’s a special roundtable edition of Coder Radio. Our panel discussed the advantages of Go development over PHP, creating a flat-file website with no database, and the real secret to finishing that last 10%.

Then we discuss the black magic Google is using to share 70% of their new Inbox’s apps code across the Web, Android, and iOS. And if Google’s new approach is a quiet condemnation of HTML5 applications.

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• Why Not Start a Campaign to Give Lennart Poettering Positive Feedback

• My Experience into GoLang thus far.

• Docker based development environments

• joschi127/tugger · GitHub

Dev Hoopla:

Maintaining Motivation

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web

Official Gmail Blog: Going under the hood of Inbox

• Welcome to TypeScript

• TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more

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Google is re-thinking email and launches Inbox, a new gmail that’s not gmail, but is connected to your gmail. We’ll explain. Apple Pay hits a few glitches & PC World takes a bold step.

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Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google | The Verge

The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn’t technically just an email app, at least if you ask them. It’s called “Inbox,” and it’s being released as an invite-only system that works on the Chrome browser, Android phones, and iPhones. It feels completely native and fast on all of those systems. But it’s a native and fast app that does something 10 degrees away from what you’d expect an email app to do. My first impression of Inbox is that it’s really great, but a little weird.

The basic idea is this: it’s still a Gmail app, but instead of giving you the traditional list of emails, it tries to intelligently give you more information so you don’t have to even open them. Google Now-style info cards appear right in line with your message list, including things like flight times, package tracking, and photos.

It also tries to intelligently “bundle” emails into groups that you can quickly dismiss.

Apple Pay glitch sees some early adopters hit with duplicate charges

APPLE PAY has got off to a shaky start in the US after some shoppers reported that the NFC mobile payments service had charged them twice for purchases.

The Apple Pay problem largely affects Bank of America customers, according to a report on Bloomberg.

The report claims that around 1,000 Bank of America debit transactions on Apple Pay were mistakenly duplicated, seeing some people charged twice.

The problem was blamed on a processing error that occurred between the bank and at least one payments network, according to Bloomberg‘s inside source, who added that the glitch is likely to be fixed today.

Chromebook shipments leap by 67 percent | ZDNet

ABI Research found that, in the most recent quarter, Chromebook shipments increased by 67 percent quarter over quarter. The research company expects that year over year, Chromebooks shipments will double.

Specifically, ABI found that Acer is continuing to maintain its lead over other vendors in the market, including Samsung, HP, and Dell. By ABI’s count, the top three leading vendors, Acer, Samsung, and HP, accounted for 74 percent of all Chromebooks shipped during the first half of 2014. ABI doesn’t see the top three changing in the waning months of 2014.

ABI also found that vertical markets — especially education — are a driving force. In emerging markets, especially in Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe, business-purchasing entities account for 75 percent of Chromebook sales. Google is also making an enterprise push for Chromebooks with its Chromebooks for Work initiative.

PCWorld begins weekly column on Linux and other non windows OSes.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2825493/meet-world-beyond-windows-the-new-pcworld-column-dedicated-to-linux-chrome-os-and-anything-but-wind.html

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