Gates says cryptocurrencies are bad and causing deaths by enabling anonymous online trade in dangerous drugs. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: February 2018
Microsoft continues to call for new laws as justices hear its data-privacy arguments
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•The U.S. vs. Microsoft data-privacy case has its day in Court (as in, Supreme Court), while both sides call for updated legislation. …read more Source:: oss watch
iPhone throttling: New class action takes total to 60 but how many will Apple face?
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•Apple faces a new class action in Canada over iPhone slowdowns but dozens of suits look set for consolidation. …read more Source:: oss watch
Avalanche botnet mastermind? Wanted cybercrime suspect has just been arrested
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•Gennadiy Kapkanov, suspected of running one of the world’s largest malware networks, nabbed in Ukraine. …read more Source:: oss watch
Google: We’ve been asked to delist 2.4 million URLs but only removed 43%
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•Google says 20 percent of all ‘right to be forgotten’ requests come from less than one percent of requesters. …read more Source:: oss watch
CIO report card: IT must fix basic problems
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•New research shows that IT continues to struggle with completing basic operational activities to the satisfaction of end-users and business partners. CIOs should examine their departments carefully to see whether …read more Source:: it-priorities
Application development still a clunky process, survey shows
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•Project work keeps piling on, and integration needs are getting out of hand. …read more Source:: it-priorities
GitHub tutorial: Get started with GitHub
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•By Martin Heller Every developer needs to be on GitHub, whether or not they contribute to open source, and whether or not they have repositories (repos) hosted elsewhere. Seriously. To read this …read more Source:: OpenSource
First Intel, now AMD also faces multiple class-action suits over Spectre attacks
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•Customers accuse the chip maker of charging premium prices for a faulty product. …read more Source:: oss watch
Brazil hit by 30 DDoS attacks per hour in 2017
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•The country is part of a global ranking of the five nations most targeted by cybercriminals, says study. …read more Source:: it-priorities