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Freeablo

A work-in-progress free and open-source replacement for the Diablo I engine. Simply import the Diablo assets, and enjoy the same old game with faster performance and modern resolutions, and first class support for mods.

Android phones rooted by “most serious” Linux escalation bug ever

I__ndependent security researcher David Manouchehri told Ars that this _proof-of-concept code that explo__its Dirty Cow on Android_gets devices close to root. With a few additional lines, Manouchehri’s code provides persistent root access on all five of the Android devices he has tested.

• Dirty COW and clean commit messages [LWN.net]

Dirty COW (which, naturally, has its own logo and web page, though this one is a
bit on the satirical side) is a race condition in the kernel’s memory-management
subsystem. By timing things right, a local attacker can exploit the
copy-on-write mechanism to turn a read-only mapping of a file into a
writable mapping; with that, a file that should not be writable can be
written to. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how the ability to
overwrite files could be used to escalate privileges in any of a number of
ways.

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing | Ars Technica

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving

What’s your data archive strategy?

After Chris talked about wanting a Volt meter CPU monitor before LUP, so i made one

• ioangogo/CPUMeter: The Files needed for a analog cpu meter

Loving deepin 15.3

Hi guys. Long term Linux user (+- 12 years), and huge openSuse and Arch Linux (Manjaro) fan. Been running Manjaro for the last couple of months. I’m always looking for a polished desktop experience. I installed the latest Deepin Linux version on my notebook. I’m blown away at how well polished this distro is.

The software store is amazing! Been running for two weeks, and loving it. I’ve never used WPS Office, always been Open Office user, and was blown away on how polished WPS Office were! Even the built in ‘guake’ like drop down terminal impressed me. I think I’ve found my new favorite distro. It almost feels ‘Apple’ like polished to me.

The one ‘niggle’ was that the default deepin file manager application is very basic. Probably the average user want’s it simple, but I quickly installed Nautilus from the app store, and replaced the dock on the bar.

Would be great if you guys did a review on Deepin 15.3. I’m stumped.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Coming around to home automation… On my terms.

• How we built a truly Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi

Such a huge project cannot start without a good, long workshop about our needs and requirements. After a thorough workshop we decided to have the following features:

• light control,
• conference and call room occupancy signalization,
• individual access codes for the main doors for each team member in a centralized database, * audio system with a wireless music streaming option,
• separate, manageable audio experience in the restroom,
• five TVs with the ability to manage the content displayed on them,
• kitchen LED lamp color management,
• ability to control everything via a web application (desktop, mobile, phone and panels mounted on the walls).

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists

The Model 01 is the best keyboard we can make. It’s not like other keyboards. We mill the Model 01’s enclosure from two blocks of solid maple that are a joy to rest your hands on. Instead of shallow, uncomfortable keyswitches, we use gloriously tactile mechanical keyswitches similar to those found in the original Apple II. We’ve custom-sculpted each of the 64 individual keycaps on the Model 01 to gently guide your fingers to the right keys. After putting it all together, the result is a keyboard that is a pleasure to type on all day and all night.

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The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip.

And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, we ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they’d audit if given the means & why.

Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge!

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• Starbound officially released! | GamingOnLinux

• How to host a Starbound server on Ubuntu

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Surround 360 is now open source

Today we officially open-sourced the specs for Surround 360, our high-quality 3D-360 hardware and software video capture system. The open source project includes the hardware camera design and software stitching code that makes end-to-end 3D-360 video capture possible in one system — from shooting to video processing.

We believe making the camera design and stitching code freely available on GitHub will accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem — developers will be able to leverage the code, and content creators can use the camera in their productions. Anyone will be able to contribute to, build on top of, improve, or distribute the camera based on these specs.

The fall of Open Source

The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement. It is no longer an ideology. It is no longer about fairness, freedom, equality, rights, or the greater good.

DigitalOcean

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ArchStrike Ethical Hacking Linux Operating System Gets Its First ISO Builds

_The ArchStrike 20__16.07.21__ISOs are __available for download today, distributed for 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures, and are the first of their kind,_

OpenBSD 6.0 tightens security by losing Linux compatibility

ost significant among the latest security-related changes for OpenBSD is the removal of Linux emulation support. Prior versions of OpenBSD made it possible to run Linux applications via a compatibility layer, but the release notes for OpenBSD 6.0 indicate the Linux subsystem was removed as a “security improvement.”

DRM Shame and New Rig Troubles | Rover Log 16

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TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Tales from the Sprint

• GNOME Software 3.22 Will Support Installation of Snaps, Flatpak Repository Files

it looks like GNOME Software now supports installation of Flatpak repository files in the .flatpakrepo format, launching of apps using the appstream:// URL, as well as installation of universal binary apps as Snaps.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

• Making a Difference at Linux Academy – Linux Academy Blog

KeePass Password Manager is getting a code audit – gHacks Tech News

In light of KeePass and Apache Web server getting an audit, we ask our virtual LUG which projects they’d audit if given the means.

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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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Live streaming site Justin.tv shuts down, and we reflect on the early days of our broadcasting on the service.

Plus the crypto-malware spreading to NAS boxes, Sprint pulls out of the T-Mobile deal and why Tech Talk Today might soon have a party mode.

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Goodbye from Justin.tv

Justin.tv was created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in March 2007.

Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014, all resources are now focused on Twitch.tv.

• Twitch Shuts Down Justin.tv, Google Acquisition to Blame?

The news today will almost certainly further fuel the rumors that Google is acquiring, or has already acquired, Twitch. Purchases are often followed by consolidation, as well as cutting off any excess limbs.

SynoLocker demands 0.6 Bitcoin to decrypt Synology NAS devices – CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives

The new attack on Synology kit comes within a year of Synology NAS devices being struck by fraudulent Bitcoin mining operators, with several owners on Sunday reporting that they had found a message from the “SynoLocker Automated Decryption Service” — when accessing the main page of the Web-server for their NAS device — stating that “all important files on this NAS have been encrypted using strong cryptography”.

As one victim on Synology’s English user forum commented, the SynoLocker “service” asks for 0.6 Bitcoins to unlock the encrypted files

• News – Synology – Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Report: Sprint abandons bid for T-Mobile because US would block merger | Ars Technica

Sprint owner SoftBank has been talking about buying T-Mobile US for months, but is reportedly abandoning the plan because US regulators would likely object.

AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011 but gave up in the face of opposition from the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission. While AT&T had to pay a $4-billion breakup fee, which helped T-Mobile build out its LTE network, Sprint apparently wouldn’t suffer that fate because no deal was ever finalized.

Exclusive: Sprint to Name Brightstar’s Marcelo Claure as CEO | Re/code

Sprint plans to name Marcelo Claure, one of its board members and head of wireless distributor Brightstar, as its new CEO, Re/code has learned from a number of sources.

Japan’s Softbank, which owns a controlling stake in Sprint, also acquired a majority stake in Brightstar last year.

Apple is Making Progress | Jonathan Zdziarski’s Domain

• Shortly after my talk at HOPE/X, citing my paper, “Identifying Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices”, along with a proof of concept, Apple released Beta 5, and a number of the “high value forensic services” I’d outlined in my paper have now been disabled wirelessly, including the packet sniffer service that got many upset

• Apple’s fixes are clearly still a work in progress, and not all of my security concerns have been addressed yet

• Given that a number of my threat models involved government spying, it feels good to know that Apple has taken my research seriously enough to address these concerns. Keep in mind, the threat model we’re dealing with also includes foreign governments, many of which have long histories of spying on our country’s diplomats.

• Apple would be wise to add additional protections to ensure that sensitive data is protected in cases involving data at rest and physical security. This, too, is achievable with a small amount of effort, and will ensure that Apple is the only entity capable of extracting sensitive, encrypted data from the device. To do this, Apple’s file_relay service, which they claim is for “diagnostics purposes” would need to be closed off, or at least fixed so that it doesn’t bypass the user’s backup password and the encryption it is tied to. Additionally, the house_arrest service would need to be patched so that it doesn’t allow sandbox access while the device is locked, or some other creative approach.

WOULD YOU FUND IT: LIGHTFREQ: The First Genius Light Bulb With HD Audio by LightFreq Inc — Kickstarter

LightFreq, the genius multi-functioning HD audio light bulb that offers an audio system, wake-up mode, phone alerts, intercom and more!

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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.

• Houston man charged with child porn possession after Google cyber-tip
• Google Helps Police Arrest Man for Child Pics

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.

Mailpile: Mailpile Alpha II – The Dogfood Edition

We present Mailpile Alpha II – The Dogfood Edition!

Yummy! This savoury mass of source code has been tagged in Github
(release 0.2.0)
and we have updated our live demos.

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.

• Fred Wilson (fredwilson) on Twitter
• Fred Wilson (financier) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wireless providers double down on slicing up the internet into marketing packages, and we’ll explain why we feel this is very bad for future innovation on the web.

Plus has Google just taken another major step away from G+, why BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat might fall short, and the amazing story of Popcorn Time and it’s new features.

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Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter – Digits – WSJ

For about $12, will soon let subscribers buy a wireless plan that only connects to Facebook.

For that same price, they could choose instead to connect only with Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest—or for $10 more, enjoy unlimited use of all four. Another $5 gets them unlimited streaming of a music app of their choice.

The plan, offered under the company’s Virgin Mobile brand of prepaid service, comes as wireless carriers are experimenting with ways to make wireless Internet access more affordable for the poorest consumers by offering special deals on slices of the Web.

In the process, however, they are testing the long-held principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by creating strong incentives for subscribers to use already dominant services.

In June, T-Mobile US Inc. said it would allow customers unlimited use of mobile streaming music that doesn’t count against their data plans when they use services like Pandora and Spotify. Earlier this year, AT&T Inc. created a program allowing companies to foot the bill for data used by their customers on mobile apps.

Sprint said the plan—called Virgin Mobile Custom—was aimed at giving consumers more choices.

The new plan is only available at Wal-Mart and the base offering covers just 20 minutes of talk time and 20 texts. Subscribers can customize the plan by buying up to unlimited talk or text or both, and by choosing among data packages.

Ubuntu for Phones to Integrate Nokia HERE Maps

“HERE will provide a hybrid solution integrating an A-GPS and WiFi positioning system. Although Ubuntu already features GPS-based location, GPS on its own is not sufficient to support the location services that run on the OS with a rapid and efficient location positioning capability. This fully integrated solution will also be available to the many thousands of application developers currently using Ubuntu OS on their own hardware.”

Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account

Until now, you had to have a Google+ account to use Hangouts if you were a Google Apps user. Starting today, that requirement is gone. Anybody with a Google Apps account will now be able to start or join a meeting from their desktop or their dedicated Chromebox for Meetings device. For now, however, the requirement is still in place on mobile, but Google says that’s going away soon, too.

The only other restriction for those who want to use Hangouts without a Google+ account is that they won’t be able to use Hangout apps other than Screenshare or Chat and that they won’t be able to use Hangouts on Air to broadcast their chats to a larger audience.

BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat client doesn’t rely on any central servers to find and manage contacts. Instead, the company is using Distributed Hash Tables, also known as DHT, which are basically decentralized sets of data that can be queried by any connected client.

The company touts the absence of a central server or directory as a safeguard against government wiretapping and other kind of snooping, and it also promises better security for the actual messages. Bittorrent’s Senior Director of Product Development Farid Fadaie explained it this way on the company’s engineering blog:

“We are using secure encryption protocols such as curve25519, ed25519 , salsa20, poly1305, and others. Links between nodes are encrypted. All communication is end to end encrypted. This should be the new normal in the post-Snowden era.”

BitTorrent starts testing Bleep, its new P2P messaging platform

BitTorrent is slowly starting to take the wraps off its upcoming P2P chat initiative: The company started an invite-only pre-alpha test of a new Windows chat client dubbed “Bleep” on Wednesday, and it also revealed that it plans to make the underlying peer-to-peer technology available to other chat apps and messaging service providers as well.

• Bleep… BitTorrent Unveils Serverless & Encrypted Chat Client | TorrentFreak

Popcorn Time Adds Apple TV Support, iOS App Coming Soon | TorrentFreak

While the original app was shut down by the developers after a few weeks, the project was quickly picked up by others. This resulted in several popular forks that have gained millions of users in recent months.

Today one of the most popular Popcorn Time forks releases a highly anticipated feature. The developers inform TorrentFreak that the latest version now has Airplay support, making it possible to stream movies directly to Apple TVs and other supported devices.

Ironically, Airplay support is currently limited to the Windows release, but a Mac version is due early next week and the Linux release will follow shortly after.

The latest feature follows the addition of Chromecast support a few weeks ago.

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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.

Plus feedback, follow up, and more!

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Reset the Net

First, get hundreds of sites & apps to add proven security (like
SSL).

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?

• Apple Handoff lets Macs and iPhones share files, phone calls, and more

• A Closer Look at \’Handoff\’ and Other New iOS 8/Yosemite \’Continuity\’ Features

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

However, Google left a little easter egg in the code that is more than funny.

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• Net neutrality explained better than anywhere else I\’ve found

• Who Should Pay for the Bandwidth?: Security Now 457

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