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Erin Kelly, reporting for USA TODAY: A key House panel voted Wednesday to pass an email privacy bill that would stop the government from being able to read Americans’ old emails without a warrant. The House Judiciary Committee voted 28-0 to approve the… Continue reading House Panel Approves Bill To Protect Older Email From Gov’t Snooping
John Leyden, reporting for The Register: Sweden suspects a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence was responsible for an attack on its air traffic control systems last November, we’re told. Air traffic control systems across much of Sweden were un… Continue reading Sweden Secretly Blames Russian Hackers For Taking Out Air Traffic Control: Report
An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers will now have an easier path to getting their loans discharged, the Obama administration has announced. The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve … Continue reading Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People
An anonymous reader points us to a report on Neowin: Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has announced that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) will come with support for the snap packaging format and tools. As a result, end users will get more up-to-date apps, something that proved tricky in the past due âoethe complexity of packaging and providing updates,â which prevented updates to some apps being delivered. Snaps will make the Ubuntu platform more unified, developers will more easily be able to create software for PC, Server, Mobile, or IoT devices. The other major benefit of snaps is that that they’re more secure than software installed through deb packages. Snaps are isolated from the rest of the system, meaning that malware packaged with a snap won’t be able to affect your Ubuntu installation.
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Robert Mclean, reporting for CNN: Silicon Valley billionaire Sean Parker announced a $250 million grant on Wednesday to establish the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, which aims to increase collaboration among researchers and accelerate the d… Continue reading Sean Parker Announces $250 Million Grant To Fight Cancer
An anonymous reader shares an insightful story on Buzzfeed News: Mark Zuckerberg isn’t running for president of the United States, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. On Tuesday morning, the Facebook CEO kicked off the company’s annual de… Continue reading In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen
Reader Mickeycaskill writes: The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, of which HP, Intel and Microsoft are members, has developed authentication protocols for USB-C and will offer free software to detect faulty or malicious cables.This tool will alert users if they… Continue reading Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables
There’s another new wrinkle in the never-ending FBI vs Apple saga. The Washington Post is claiming that FBI did not require Cellebrite’s assistance in hacking San Bernardino iPhone. Instead, the report claims, the government intelligence organization b… Continue reading FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone
Amazon, on Wednesday, announced the Kindle Oasis, the company’s latest addition to its ebook reader offering. The Kindle Oasis offers a range of improvements and changes over the Kindle Paperwhite. Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff writes, “[The company has] es… Continue reading Amazon Kindle Oasis With ‘Months’ of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched
Here’s an exciting update on NASA’s Kepler, which entered “emergency mode” last week. An anonymous reader points us to a press release on NASA’s official website: Mission operations engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emerg… Continue reading Kepler Recovered from Emergency and Stable