Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
Encryption backdoors have been a hot topic in the last few years—and the controversial issue got even hotter after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, when it dominated media headlines.
FBI investigating breach at Juniper; US officials say attack likely to be state-sponsored; DHS assessing scope of compromised communications
First on Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration — Washington (CNN)A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks …
Qualcomm Rejects Split After Completing Strategic Review
Board backs keeping licensing and semiconductor units together — Stock slump, slower sales, investigations drove push for split — Qualcomm Inc. rejected calls to split itself in two, betting that ...
An internal US government catalogue details dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and intelligence agencies
A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone … THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens …
League of Legends developer Riot Games is now owned entirely by Tencent
Riot Games now owned entirely by Tencent — The League of Legends studio's remaining shares have been bought up Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, has sold its remaining equity to Chines...
Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 767 widebody freighters
[EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say — Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL review: fast, light, great camera, and Continuum is perhaps a glimpse into the future, but still too few apps and the design is boring
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL review — A year ago, I gave up on Windows Phone. Frustrated by a lack of quality apps …
Obama: law enforcement monitors public social media posts as part of the visa review process
Obama Says the Feds Vet Social Media Before Issuing Visas — After the massacre at a San Bernardino, California, holiday party this month, a wave of speculation crested over whether …
Court says FAA can require that pilots have commercial licences to offer flight sharing in exchange for expenses, in blow to services Flytenow and AirPooler
Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court — FAA was ‘justified’ in rule-making, appeals court rules
FAA Finally Admits Names And Home Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available
The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants' names and home addresses will be public. In an email message, the FAA stated"Until the drone registry system is modified, the...
Microsoft acquires Metanautix, an analytics startup that helps big companies navigate their data
Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data. Terms of the deal haven't been discl...
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act enacted into law by President Obama after being passed as part of omnibus bill
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IESG advances addition of HTTP status code 451 to allow sites to convey they can't show content due to legal restrictions, in stance against online censorship
Why 451? — Today, the IESG approved publication of “An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles”.
Exclusive: Target in initial development of own mobile wallet - sources
It started with Google Wallet … Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Target Rumored To Be Working On Own Mobile Payments Service Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Target May Launch Its Own Mobile Wallet Next Year Karl Ut...
US district judge rules Uber's new driver agreement does not affect the class of CA drivers currently suing Uber, admonishes the company over confusion caused
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Sailfish OS Lives To Fight Android Another Day As Jolla Secures Series C Funding
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US-listed Chinese security company Qihoo 360 to be taken private in a deal worth about $9.3B
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac
But Retains Mac App Tweets: @chrismessina : Sheesh. @evernote should just give @skitch back to @atariboy. Entrepreneurs, read up on “claw back clauses”! http://twitter.com/... Josh Dickson / @joshdick...
San Francisco-based Lily announces $15M in funding, delays its drone from February until summer 2016
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Facebook offers employees $10K to buy or rent a home within 10 miles of its Menlo Park headquarters
Google's Scattershot Robotics Division, Titan Drones Are Moving Into Google X
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