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Zack Whittaker, reporting for ZDNet:An amendment designed to allow the government warrantless access to internet browsing histories has been narrowly defeated in the Senate. The amendment fell two votes short of the required 60 votes to advance. Mitch … Continue reading Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories
Reader itwbennett writes: Researchers from Cisco Systems’ Talos group have found three memory corruption errors in the widely used open-source library libarchive that can result in arbitrary code execution and can be exploited by passing specially craf… Continue reading Severe Flaws Found In Libarchive Open Source Library
Found the $290 Kindle Oasis too expensive? Amazon has a new, familiar e-reader for you. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant announced a new, more-affordable Kindle that is pretty much identical to the Kindle Paperwhite, but costs only $80. It comes in w… Continue reading Amazon’s New Kindle Is Only $80, Comes In White, and With More Storage
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple’s upcoming iPhone won’t have a 3.5mm headphone jack. The news has already upset many people. The Verge’s Nilay Patel wrote on Tuesday that the decision of getting rid of the legacy headphone port is “user hos… Continue reading ‘Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives’
An anonymous reader writes: According to the makers of the Opera browser, Microsoft’s recent claim that its Windows 10 Edge browser is more power-efficient than Chrome are erroneous. Running its own tests with Opera, Edge and Chrome, the company finds … Continue reading Opera Denies Microsoft Edge Battery-Saving Claims
Remember when FBI’s director James Comey was spotted using a piece of tape over the camera on his laptop? At the time, Comey noted that he started doing it after he saw a person “smarter” than him do it as well. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently … Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You?
Microsoft has finally added support for NFC payments to its mobile operating system Windows 10 Mobile. The company this week introduced the feature in an update to Microsoft Wallet app. Users will now be able to make mobile payments with their MasterCa… Continue reading Microsoft Launches NFC Payments For Windows 10 Phones
Security experts are claiming that iOS 10 preview, which Apple made available to enthusiasts last week, is not secure. iOS 10 is the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. It will be available to standard customers later this year (likely a… Continue reading Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted — Nobody Knows Why
Security experts are claiming that iOS 10 preview, which Apple made available to enthusiasts last week, is not secure. iOS 10 is the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. It will be available to standard customers later this year (likely a… Continue reading Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted — Nobody Knows Why
A WSJ report on Tuesday claimed that the next iPhone won’t have the 3.5mm headphone port. A handful of smartphones such as LeEco’s Le 2, Le 2 Pro, and Le Max 2 that have launched this year already don’t have a headphone jack. The Verge’s Nilay Patel ha… Continue reading Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid