Net Neutrality – Jupiter Broadcasting

define dependencies in one of the supported manifest file types, like package.json or Gemfile.
similar to FreeBSD vuxml database – uses dependencies already listed in each FreeBSD port

here are over a billion outdated Android devices in use

It’s common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean?
People sometimes compare Android to Windows XP because there are a large number of both in the wild and in both cases, most devices will not get security updates. However, this is tremendously unfair to Windows XP, which was released on 10/2001 and got security updates until 4/2014, twelve and a half years later.
Another difference between Android and Windows is that Android’s scale is unprecedented in the desktop world. The were roughly 200 million PCs sold in 2017. Samsung alone has been selling that many mobile devices per year since 2008.
If we look at the newest Android release (8.0, 8/2017), it looks like you’re quite lucky if you have a two year old device that will get the latest update. The oldest “Google” phone supported is the Nexus 6P (9/2015), giving it just under two years of support.
But even with the data we have, we can take a guess at how many outdated devices are in use. In May 2017, Google announced that there are over two billion active Android devices. If we look at the latest stats (the far right edge), we can see that nearly half of these devices are two years out of date. At this point, we should expect that there are more than one billion devices that are two years out of date! Given Android’s update model, we should expect approximately 0% of those devices to ever get updated to a modern version of Android.
Project Treble

Flight rules for git

A guide for astronauts (now, programmers using git) about what to do when things go wrong.

Flight Rules are the hard-earned body of knowledge recorded in manuals that list, step-by-step, what to do if X occurs, and why. Essentially, they are extremely detailed, scenario-specific standard operating procedures. […]
NASA has been capturing our missteps, disasters and solutions since the early 1960s, when Mercury-era ground teams first started gathering “lessons learned” into a compendium that now lists thousands of problematic situations, from engine failure to busted hatch handles to computer glitches, and their solutions.
What did I just commit?
I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message
I committed with the wrong name and email configured
I want to remove a file from a commit

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Dan announces he is leaving the show.
postgres and shared memory
containers vs VM

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Selling Your Soul | User Error 18

chris — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:23:35 +0000

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Fake Noah | User Error 14

chris — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:30:15 +0000

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#NotMyInternet | TechSNAP 322

chris — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:25:13 +0000

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Windows privacy not so private

zomato data breach – what happened?

https://www.zomato.com/about

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How to improve uptime and integrity of operations
Cloak & Dagger is a new class of potential attacks affecting Android devices
‘Major incident’ at Capita data centre: Multiple services still knackered : “I can’t say who I work for but let’s just say I did nothing for two days.”
83 percent of security staff waste time fixing other IT problems

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Kill Switch Engage | TechSNAP 320

chris — Tue, 23 May 2017 18:16:19 +0000

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Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group Blog: Player 3 Has Entered the Game: Say Hello to ‘WannaCry’

FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Anti-Net Neutrality Spam is Removed

Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Because of a procedural quirk, the FCC will not be considering any comments on the issue of net neutrality that are submitted over the next week or so.
https://youtu.be/qI5y-_sqJT0 — follow up video

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Trump’s Not Okay | Unfilter 235

chris — Wed, 03 May 2017 22:28:27 +0000

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PHP Steals Your Nuts | TechSNAP 316

chris — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:01:51 +0000

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SQUIRRELMAIL REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

improperly santized parameters
Invoking sendmail binary from with PHP
Dawid Golunski disclosed the vulnerability
FreeBSD version is newer than articles states is latest release

Anonymous domain purchases

Anonymity has long been practiced for activism. Many famous authors have published under a pseudonym.
Domain name is from Laos, but company is based in St Kitts.
What are the risks with trusting this group?

Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada: CRTC Crafts Full Code With Zero Rating Decision

Very strong decision and very postive for Canadian consumers.

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Advice on a virtualization server
Short oveview of DNS – phone book analogy

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Toll Free Exploitation | TTT 226

chris — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:21:22 +0000

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The open web is being locked down by the very companies that try to slice it up and sell it to you byte by byte. We discuss the major moves big telcos are taking to intrench the incumbents online.

Microsoft drops some more open source code & Tokyo’s rolling out the “drone squad”. Plus a very risqué Kickstarter of the week!

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Building the Steam Controller

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Hillary’s Got Mail | Unfilter 135

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:12:20 +0000

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Hillary Clinton’s latest email scandal sheds a terrifying light on the data security practices of top US officials, how they act above the law, and is likely to kick off a long series of political battles.

The latest ISIS propaganda, Snowden wants to come home, recent Net Neutrality developments & much more!

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Snowden Has Always Been ‘Ready’ to Return to the US

Edward Snowden’s Russian lawyer reiterated today that Snowden is willing to return to the US, so long as he is given a fair trial, according to the AFP.

“He is thinking about it. He has a desire to return and we are doing everything we can to make it happen,” said Anatoly Kucherena, the AFP reports.

It may seem particularly notable that arguably the biggest whistleblower in the history of the US—and one of the few whose life hasn’t been completely ruined by coming forward—wants to come home. But this has long been Snowden’s stance. In an interview with the New Yorker in October, for example, the NSA whistleblower said he tried to negotiate with the US government to ensure a fair and open trial.

“The question there was: would the American justice system be open to that?” Snowden told the New Yorker. “I have told the government again and again in negotiations that if they’re prepared to offer an open trial, a fair trial, in the same way that Dan Ellsberg got, and I’m allowed to make my case to the jury, I would love to do so.”

Insignificant ‘Putin critic’ gunned down by someone who hates Putin

Boris Nemtsov was shot in the back last night as he walked with his Ukrainian girlfriend near the Kremlin in Moscow. Nemtsov ran unsuccessfully for office in 1989 before eventually being elected to Russia’s parliament in 1990. As deputy minister for economic reform under Yeltsin, he failed to actually deliver economic reform amid the August 1998 economic crisis and it cost him his job.

In 1999 he founded the Union of Right Forces (SPS), along with fellow liberals Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar. The SPS was directly sponsored by the US government (via USAID) in 2002, after which it became openly critical of Russia’s new President Putin (surprise!). This fact alone establishes Nemtsov and SPS as agents of Western efforts to destabilize Russia and therefore not representative of any significant section of the Russian people. Indeed, in the 2003 election, the SPS failed to reach even the 5% threshold needed to enter parliament.

Virginia teen accused of being ISIS recruiter

A 17-year-old Virginia student has been charged with helping recruit for ISIS, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

The teen, whose name was not disclosed, was taken into custody last week, the officials said.

Prosecutors are seeking to charge him as an adult but currently have charged him as a juvenile, one of the law enforcement officials said.

The case remains under seal. It was first reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday.

The Post, citing officials and neighbors, reported that investigators spent more than a month watching the teen and his home before he was arrested. The teen is a “brilliant kid,” a man who hired him to write for a website told the Post. “His English wasn’t perfect, but I was willing to overlook that because the content was great.”

The teen, who lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, is accused of helping a slightly older adult travel to Syria. The adult is believed to have joined ISIS there, a separate law enforcement official said.

Hillary Clinton Ran Homebrew Computer System For Official Emails

It was not immediately clear exactly where Clinton’s computer server was run, but a business record for the Internet connection it used was registered under the home address for her residence as early as August 2010. The customer was listed as Eric Hoteham.

An aide to then-first lady Clinton was identified in a 2002 congressional report as Eric Hothem, whose name is spelled differently than in the Internet records. Hothem, a financial adviser in Washington, was not available to take an AP reporter’s phone call at his office Wednesday. He was a special assistant to Clinton as far back as 1997 and considered one of the family’s information technology experts.

Operating her own server would have afforded Clinton additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails. And since the Secret Service was guarding Clinton’s home, an email server there would have been well protected from theft or a physical hacking.

Security nightmare: Clinton ran state business from personal email account — RT USA

New revelations about Clinton’s personal email account are
continuing to complicate matters for the Democratic Party’s
presumed nominee for president. The New York Times first reported
on the “hdr22@clintonemail.com” email address used by Clinton
while secretary of state. This immediately prompted inquiries as
to why a government-sanctioned account wasn’t used. The Federal
Records Act requires government employees to use departmental
servers for communications.

By operating her own server, Clinton may have been able to take advantage of “additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails,” the AP journalists said.

House committee subpoenas Clinton emails in Benghazi probe

A House committee investigating the Benghazi, Libya, attacks issued subpoenas Wednesday for the emails of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who used a private account exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — and also used a computer email server now traced back to her family’s New York home.

Hillary Clinton email flap not likely to end soon – Josh Gerstein – POLITICO

The first public sign of the email imbroglio now enveloping former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have come more than a month ago in an obscure court filing in a lawsuit demanding details of Clinton’s response to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

But all signs Tuesday pointed toward a protracted legal morass as advocacy groups, the courts and Congress try to determine whether Clinton’s practice denied them access to critical information during her four years in the Obama Cabinet and thereafter.

Clinton aides and State Department officials argued that the impact of her use of personal email on the government’s permanent files was limited because she turned over 55,000 pages of the emails in December at the department’s request. They also contend that most of Clinton’s work-related emails were preserved on work accounts used by other officials.

Insignificant ‘Putin critic’ gunned down by someone who hates Putin — Puppet Masters — Sott.net

Of course, the suggestion that Putin, with an 85% approval rating, would have thought it necessary to publicly assassinate a non-entity former politician who couldn’t muster 5% of the vote, on the doorstep of the Kremlin no less, and one day before an opposition rally in which the deceased was scheduled to take part, is utterly ridiculous**. The point being, by killing Nemtsov in this way, the reaction of Western governments and their media was always going to be as if Putin himself pulled the trigger and posted a selfie of the event on FB. Ergo, if, as the ranks of Western yellow journalists claim, Putin is responsible… where’s the freaking selfie!?? Maybe US State Dept. muppet Jen Psaki has it on her Facebook page?

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Volcanoes of Jihad | Unfilter 123

chris — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:28:53 +0000

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After weeks of speculation we have new audio from ISIS’ leader Al Baghdadi calling for attacks in Saudi Arabia & we make the case that it’s still all about the oil. Plus the latest in the Net Neutrality debate, and our follow up thoughts.

Then we take a critical look at the attempts to scare kids in schools & the twists and turns for legal cannabis.

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Cops Decide Running Surprise School Shooter Drill During Class At A Middle School Is A Great Idea | Techdirt

We’re going to have to go over this again: if your drills to prevent school tragedy actually leave school children traumatized, then don’t do those damned drills. What began with terrorism drills on school buses and then devolved into unannounced school-shooting drills is getting to be so full-on crazy that I sort of can’t believe that _anyone _thinks any of this is a good idea. The latest story involves police running an unannounced “active shooter drill” at a local middle school while classes were in session. As a part of this insane exercise, police officers went around bursting into classrooms filled with terrified students, weapons out, as they acted out their fun little thespian experience of horror. And, to add insult to injury, school officials notified parents of the drill long after unknowing students were informing their parents that an actual shooting was taking place at the school.

According to Fox affiliate WTVT, officials at Jewett Middle Academy e-mailed parents to inform them of the drill, after it took place. By that point, WTVT reports, cellphones were already filling up with texts from frightened students, who thought there was a real shooter in the school.

US Senate falls two votes short of shutting down NSA phone spying | Ars Technica

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in 2013. Rubio was first to speak against the USA Freedom Act in today’s debate, saying it could slow the government from disrupting an ISIL cell.

The US Senate voted against reining in the NSA’s spying powers tonight, shooting down a proposal that was supported not just by intelligence reform groups, but by the director of the NSA himself.

The USA Freedom Act needed 60 Senate votes to pass its key procedural vote, and it failed to get them. The bill got 58 yes votes and 42 no votes.

The bill would have stopped the government from engaging in bulk phone surveillance. Instead, Americans’ phone information would have remained with the phone companies and could only be searched by request, with specific selection terms.

It would have also provided for a privacy advocate at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves such surveillance. Reformers hoped that would provide for a less one-sided debate at that court.

Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here’s What Matters Instead. – The Intercept

The “debate” among the Senators that preceded the vote was darkly funny and deeply boring, in equal measure. The black humor was due to the way one GOP senator after the next—led by ranking intelligence committee member Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (pictured above)—stood up and literally screeched about 9/11 and ISIS over and over and over, and then sat down as though they had made a point. Their scary script had been unveiled earlier that morning by a _Wall Street Journal _op-ed by former Bush Attorney General Mike Mukasey and former CIA and NSA Director Mike Hayden warning that NSA reform would make the terrorists kill you; it appeared under this Onion-like headline:

There is a real question about whether the defeat of this bill is good, bad, or irrelevant. To begin with, it sought to change only one small sliver of NSA mass surveillance (domestic bulk collection of phone records under section 215 of the Patriot Act) while leaving completely unchanged the primary means of NSA mass surveillance, which takes place under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, based on the lovely and quintessentially American theory that all that matters are the privacy rights of Americans (and not the 95 percent of the planet called “non-Americans”).

There were some mildly positive provisions in the USA Freedom Act: the placement of “public advocates” at the FISA court to contest the claims of the government; the prohibition on the NSA holding Americans’ phone records, requiring instead that they obtain FISA court approval before seeking specific records from the telecoms (which already hold those records for at least 18 months); and reducing the agency’s “contact chaining” analysis from three hops to two.

Net Neutrality

David Cameron Says People Aren’t Radicalized By Poverty Or Foreign Policy, But By Free Speech Online, So ISPs Agree To Censor Button | Techdirt

A few years ago, we mocked then Senator Joe Lieberman’s request that internet companies put “report this content as terrorist content” buttons on various types of online content. The plan went nowhere, because it’s a really bad idea, prone to massive abuse. Yet, over in the UK, some apparently think it’s such a grand idea that they’re actually moving forward with it. This isn’t a huge surprise — the current UK government has been going on for quite some time about banning “extremist” content, and just recently ramped up such efforts.

And now it appears that a bunch of big UK broadband access providers have agreed to play along:

The UK’s major Internet service providers — BT, Virgin, Sky and Talk Talk — have this week committed to host a public reporting button for terrorist material online, similar to the reporting button which allows the public to report child sexual exploitation.

They have also agreed to ensure that terrorist and extremist material is captured by their filters to prevent children and young people coming across radicalising material.

ISIS / ISIL / IS / CIA

ISIS: Baghdadi Is Alive and Saudi Arabia Is Our Next Target

After roughly a week of speculation over the fate of its leader, the Islamic State (ISIS) released what it says is a speech from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi today in which the head of the makeshift caliphate calls for attacks against Saudi Arabia, among other things.

“There will be no security, no rest for Al-Salul,” the ISIS leader purportedly says, referring to the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. “Draw your swords.”

In the 16-minute speech, which ISIS also translated into English and made available online, Baghdadi allegedly calls on his followers to first attack Shiites, then proceed to combat Saudi Arabia and the U.S., which has military bases on the Arabian Peninsula.

Can Saudi Arabia keep ISIS out? – CBS News

The U.S. military said Monday coalition forces conducted more than 30 airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since Friday. That coalition includes Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis are desperate to keep what’s happening in Iraq from happening in their country. CBS News was given an extraordinary look at what they’re doing.

We flew over the Arabian Desert to see the new, 600-mile long border fence that’s protecting Saudi Arabia from ISIS. On the other side is the chaos of Iraq, where ISIS is waging a brutal war.

The Saudis are using radar and infrared cameras to make sure it doesn’t spill across the frontier.

Saudi Funding of ISIS – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Today, Saudi citizens continue to represent a significant funding source for Sunni groups operating in Syria. Arab Gulf donors as a whole — of which Saudis are believed to be the most charitable — have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria in recent years, including to ISIS and other groups. There is support for ISIS in Saudi Arabia, and the group directly targets Saudis with fundraising campaigns

Video: Who is Jihadi John? – in 60 seconds – Telegraph

“Jihadi John”, the masked Isil executioner and alleged British national,
known for his role in the beheadings of hostages by the Islamic State has
become one of the world’s most wanted men

Jihadi John – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Second French suspect in Isis beheading video – The Local

A second Frenchman who appeared among Islamic State jihadists in a grisly execution video has been identified as a 22-year-old man from an eastern suburb of Paris, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

President Francois Hollande earlier confirmed a second Frenchman was spotted in the video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners, who the source said went by the name Abu Othman.

The two Frenchmen are seen in the brutal clip released by the IS group on Sunday which features the killing of 18 Syrian prisoners and a US aid worker.

High Note

First pot auction held in Washington state

History was made Saturday on a tiny farm outside Prosser. For the first time, marijuana was sold at an auction.

Those in the retail pot business say it’s a sign supply is slowly starting to meet demand.

Most of the U.S. could never do what Randy Williams and his Fireweed Farms pulled off – 500 pounds of pot were on sale.

Why Congress Probably Won’t Block Marijuana Legalization In Washington, D.C.

Initiative 71 cannot take effect until after D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson submits it to Congress for review, which he is expected to do when the new Congress is seated in January. “I will treat Initiative 71 in the same manner as I would any measure passed by the Council and transmit it to Congress without delay,” he said last week. Although Mayor-elect Bowser indicated that she would like to wait until the D.C. Council has approved legislation authorizing the licensing of commercial growers and retailers, the timing is up to Mendelson.

Once Mendelson submits the initiative, Congress has 30 legislative days to pass a resolution overriding it. If a resolution is not enacted by the end of that period, the initiative automatically becomes law. Getting a bill through both chambers in that amount of time will be a challenge, even with Republicans taking control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House. And that’s assuming Republicans—who, as Rohrabacher noted, often talk about the virtues of federalism and local control—think nullifying a policy endorsed by 69 percent of D.C. voters should be one of their first acts in the new Congress.

“I think a resolution of disapproval is unlikely,” says Bill Piper, director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. “Overturning a ballot measure passed by 70 percent of the voters doesn’t really look good for the incoming Republican Congress. If the council transmits [the initiative] in January, I think that pretty much reduces or eliminates the chance that Congress will overturn it outright. It just doesn’t fit with what they’re talking about doing, which is rebranding themselves as not being obstructionists.”

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Faux Talk | Tech Talk Today 88

chris — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:05:53 +0000

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Angela and Chris cover some Faux tech news that will bend your mind, then discuss the new Firefox developer browser, Obama’s plans for Net Neutrality & more!

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Pepsi Is Testing Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew, Which Means the End Is Near | E! Online

Reddit user pcmasterrace posted the above photo of a booth setup at his school with Pepsi employees handing out little cups filled with Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.

We repeat: Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. They’re calling it Dewitos.

Tagline suggestion: “Because stoners shouldn’t have to buy Mountain Dew and Doritos separately.”

Sharing Night-Time Photos Of The Eiffel Tower Is Illegal

Taking and sharing photos of the Eiffel tower at night is a copyright violation that could land you with a hefty fine (not that it’s stopped the selfie-snapping masses, of course).

Torrent Freak explains that although the building itself is in the public domain, the light show that illuminates it at night is an artistic work, and as such ‘reproducing’ it (i.e. snapping a photo) would require the permission of the artist. It’s the same law that stops you from filming a theatre show, just taken to a slightly absurd extreme.

vIt’s not just a theory, either: the website for the commercial use of the tower confirms that “the usage of these images is subject to prior request from the Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel.”

Selfies With Homeless People: The Latest Craze For Bored, Rich Kids

Net Neutrality: President Obama’s Plan for a Free and Open Internet

Mozilla launches Firefox Developer Edition with built-in tools for debugging apps and mobile browsers

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The New Payphone | Tech Talk Today 57

chris — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:36:21 +0000

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Gmail passwords may have been leaked, but there is some debate as to how bad the damage is. Google Voice gets rolled into Hangouts & we take a look at the results from “Internet Slowdown Day”.

Plus our thoughts on mobile payments, a great deal for Linux users & more!

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5 Million Gmail Usernames and Passwords Leaked

In what appears to be an unknown attack, hackers have dumped over 5,000,000 valid gmail username and passwords on the Internet early Wednesday morning.

Unknown hackers have leaked over five million valid credentials pertaining to Google Mail logins early this morning. The random dump of passwords first appeared on reddit’s netsec section linking to the another website hosting the leaked gmail accounts.

The .txt file of all leaked gmail usernames was found on BitCoin security (forum in Russian), where the leak is believed to be first offloaded. The file of leaked emails does not contain any passwords or other sensitive information, only full gmail email addresses.

As the leak was posted only hours ago, Reddit users are warning each other not to enter any email username or password combinations into any websites “to check if your password is secure.” It appears scams are already appearing or Reddit users are getting ready for the scams to come.

Google Says No Compromise

“The security of our users’ information is a top priority for us,” a Google spokesperson told TNW. “We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that accounts may have been, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts.”

Next, since the posting, the forum administrators have purged the passwords from the text file in question, leaving only the logins. Furthermore, tvskit, the forum user who published the file, claimed that some 60 percent of the passwords were valid.

Google Voice Integration Is Currently Rolling Out In Hangouts

Google Voice is finally being integrated into Hangouts, because God knows Hangouts needed to be even more confusing. You can enable Voice SMS and voicemail via a popup in the conversation list, so check the app. If you still don’t see it, hang on. It’s still rolling out.

“Internet Slowdown Day” sends over 111,000* new comments on net neutrality to FCC

The effort appears to have made a difference: According to the FCC*, by 6 PM ET the agency saw 111,449 new public comments added to the already record-setting total, with some 41,173 filed into the 14-28 docket of the FCC’s website since and another 70,286 sent to the openinternet@fcc.gov inbox, setting a new high water mark of some 1,515,144 to date, with more yet to come. As reported by Mike Masnick, citing ThinkProgress, the Internet slowdown generated 1000 calls per minute to Congress. *Update: Fight for the Future claims that more than 500,000 comments have been submitted through Battleforthenet.com and that the FCC hasn’t caught up. According to the nonprofit, “this happened during our last big push too when their site crashed. We are storing comments and will deliver all.”

IDG shutters Macworld Magazine, much of the editorial staff let go | 9to5Mac

International Data Group (IDG) is shutting down Macworld Magazine, the long time Apple periodical according to tweets by staff and conversations I’ve had with personnel.

The Macworld.com website will remain open [although as a shell of its former self -ed] with a reduced staff according to Dan Miller (editor), who himself is leaving in a month.

Why pay with your phone? : techtalktoday

Floppy-Bacon Writes

Is payment the stores in the US really as bad as Apple’s presentation made it look? When I pay with my debit card (or credit card), I don’t hand it to the cashier. I insert it into a small device and enter my 4-digit PIN code; fast and secure. I do not need to identify my self, I do not any detail about my card and I do not have 15 cards in my wallet or however many cards she had in the video. I know that I hate technology, but do you really want to pay with your phone rather than just fix the payment system to how it works elsewhere? For the time being you still need to have your wallet with your for all the other stuff. (And taking my phone with me with just be extra cumbersome.)

Crossover Linux 50% off : linux_gaming

I received an e-mail this morning from CodeWeavers that CrossOver Linux + 12 months of support is 50% off for the next 48 hours.

Promotional Code: FLASHME

For more information: https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux

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Big Brother Google | Tech Talk Today 37

chris — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:30:27 +0000

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Google says “think of the children” but does that justify fully analyzing the contents of everyones Gmail? A drone crashes carrying phones and drugs into a prison & “The Scourge Of Zero Rating”.

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Crashed drone carried contraband aimed at South Carolina prison | Reuters

A drone being flown in a novel attempt to smuggle phones, marijuana and tobacco into a South Carolina maximum security prison crashed outside its walls, authorities said on Wednesday.

Officials believe it was the first time an unmanned aircraft had been used in an effort to breach prison walls in the state, Givens said. Most cellphones are thrown over walls.

Authorities have arrested one man in the drone incident and are seeking another suspect. Brenton Lee Doyle, 28, appeared in court on Wednesday for a hearing. He faces charges of attempting to introduce contraband into a prison and possession of the drug flunitrazopam, a muscle relaxant known as “roofies.”

Doyle has said he has never seen a drone and that police said nothing about a drone at the time of his arrest, his attorney Wayne Floyd said.

Police Say A Google Tip About Child Abuse Led To Arrest – Business Insider

A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police.

The man was a registered sex offender, convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 1994, reports Tim Wetzel at KHOU Channel 11 News in Houston.

“He was keeping it inside of his email. I can’t see that information, I can’t see that photo, but Google can,” Detective David Nettles of the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce told Channel 11.

After Google reportedly tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the center alerted police, who used the information to get a warrant.

On one hand, most people would certainly applaud the use of technology to scan email in a case like this.

On the other, debate rages about how much privacy users can expect when using Google’s services like email. In a word: none.

A year ago, in a court brief, Google said as much. Then, in April, after a class-action case against Google for email scanning fell apart, Google updated its terms of service to warn people that it was automatically analyzing emails.

Google Said to Plan Separating Photo Service From Google+ – Bloomberg

The move would enable the photo service to stand more
independently and be accessible for consumers who aren’t part of
Google+, potentially spurring more growth, said the people, who
asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. The
service, called Google+ Photos, would still work with the social
network’s users and may be rebranded as part of the move, one of
the people said.

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Yummy! This savoury mass of source code has been tagged in Github
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The Scourge Of Zero Rating – AVC

Fred Wilson is a New York City-based venture capitalist since 1986, and a blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, with investments in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and others.

It seems like every week I read another article about a mobile carrier offering some incredible deal to eat the mobile data costs you rack up using certain apps.

The most recent was the news that Sprint will sell at data plan that “only connects to Facebook and Twitter”.

The pernicious thing about zero rating is that it is marketed as a consumer friendly offering by the mobile carrier — “we are not charging you for data when you are on Spotify”.

But what all of this zero rating activity is setting up is a mobile internet that looks a lot more like cable TV than our wide open Internet. Soon a startup will have to negotiate a zero rating plan before launching because mobile app customers will be trained to only use apps that are zero rated on their network.

I strongly encourage policy makers, policy wonks, internet activists, and anyone who cares about protecting an open internet for all to take a hard look at zero rating. Like all the best scourges, it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

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The first day of E3 2014 has come and gone, and it did not disappoint. All four major press conferences brought new games, footage, and excitement for PC gamers. Did you miss the fun? Don\’t worry: we\’re here to help. Here\’s our round-up of day one at E3 2014.

E3 2014: PlayStation TV Coming to North America

With support for PlayStation Now, Vita titles, and PS1 and PSP classics, PlayStation TV owners will have access to over 1000 games when it launches for $99 USD.

At E3 2014, Microsoft\’s Xbox One focus is all about games

The takeaway: Trust us, we\’ve listened and learned since last year — the Xbox One entertainment vision is in the backseat, and it\’s now all about the games.

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TheGodEmperor has an amazing List compiled of Platform Exclusives and multi-plat

No, A \’Supercomputer\’ Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better

Okay, almost everything about the story is bogus. Let\’s dig in:

It\’s not a \”supercomputer,\” it\’s a chatbot. It\’s a script made to mimic human conversation. There is no intelligence, artificial or not involved. It\’s just a chatbot.
Plenty of other chatbots have similarly claimed to have \”passed\” the Turing test in the past (often with higher ratings). Here\’s a story from three years ago about another bot, Cleverbot, \”passing\” the Turing Test by convincing 59% of judges it was human (much higher than the 33% Eugene Goostman) claims.
It \”beat\” the Turing test here by \”gaming\” the rules — by telling people the computer was a 13-year-old boy from Ukraine in order to mentally explain away odd responses.
The \”rules\” of the Turing test always seem to change. Hell, Turing\’s original test was quite different anyway.
As Chris Dixon points out, you don\’t get to run a single test with judges that you picked and declare you accomplished something. That\’s just not how it\’s done. If someone claimed to have created nuclear fusion or cured cancer, you\’d wait for some peer review and repeat tests under other circumstances before buying it, right?
The whole concept of the Turing Test itself is kind of a joke. While it\’s fun to think about, creating a chatbot that can fool humans is not really the same thing as creating artificial intelligence. Many in the AI world look on the Turing Test as a needless distraction.

The heat is on: Honeywell is finally challenging the Nest thermostat

It\’s a $279 Wi-Fi thermostat (available today to purchase through HVAC contractors; it\’ll be available in Lowe\’s stores by August) that is one of the most visually appealing products in the space, as well as an obvious response to the Nest Learning thermostat. But perhaps more importantly, Lyric is also a platform. The company\’s ambition is to launch a full suite of Lyric products that can all be controlled your smartphone.

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Getting a Handoff | Tech Talk Today 4

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The tech headlines of the day, like Intel’s fully wireless PC, Sprint buying T-Mobile, and Reset the Net.

Then we’ll look at the convergence strategies of Apple, Microsoft, and Canonical and debate if Apple nailed the most practical implementation at this year’s WWDC.

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First, get hundreds of sites & apps to add proven security (like
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Then on June 5, we\’ll run a splash screen everywhere to spread NSA-resistant
privacy tools.

Comcast plans to encrypt email exchanged with Google\’s Gmail | PCWorld

Comcast plans to work with Google to encrypt email exchanged between its own servers and Gmail, a Comcast spokesman said on Tuesday night.

Comcast supports Transport Layer Service encryption for email messages, and Comcast employees \”plan to ramp up with Gmail in next few weeks,\” a Comcast spokesman said via a Twitter message. More details will be revealed at the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting next week, he said, which will be held in Brussels. Comcast is a meeting sponsor.

UPDATE 3-Sprint agrees to pay about $40/shr to buy T-Mobile -source | Reuters

Sprint Corp has agreed to pay about $40 per share to buy T-Mobile US Inc, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, signalling progress in a long-contemplated deal to merge the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers.

At that price, about a 17 percent premium to the carrier\’s Wednesday close, T-Mobile would be worth more than $32 billion.

Deutsche Telekom owns 67 percent of T-Mobile and is expected to keep a 15 to 20 percent stake of the combined company as part of the deal, the source said on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private.

Intel aims to eliminate all PC cables in 2016 – CNET

On stage at the Computex, Intel\’s Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group, demonstrated wireless display, docking and charging features that will close the loop on the final few mandatory cables in the typical PC environment.

The high-speed WiGig standard will be used as the short range \”docking\” technology, instantly creating a connection to a screen and peripherals when a device is moved within range and then swapping back out to standalone usage by just picking up and walking away. WiGig delivers speeds of up to 7Gbps.

For power, Skaugen demonstrated Rezence, the magnetic resonance charging technology, promoted by the Alliance 4 Wireless Power (A4WP), that Intel is aligned with. The system can be installed under a table surface, with magnetic resonance capable of charging through 2 inches of wood.

With Skylake expected second half of 2015 it\’s likely devices based on Intel\’s reference designs would start to hit the market in 2016.

Microsoft: Software update unlocks more GPU bandwidth on Xbox One | Ars Technica

Microsoft says the new firmware will also help developers extract more power from the system\’s Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), even though the base hardware in the system is obviously staying the same.

\”In June we’re releasing a new SDK making it possible for developers to access additional GPU resources previously reserved for Kinect and system functions,\” a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars today. \”The additional resources allow access to up to 10 percent additional GPU performance. We\’re committed to giving developers new tools and flexibility to make their Xbox One games even better by giving them the option to use the GPU reserve in whatever way is best for them and their games.\”

Did Apple Nail Convergence?

NSA-Mocking Easter Egg Found In Google’s New Email Encryption Plug-In

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