Ubuntu now available in the Windows Store, is designed to run in a sandbox inside Windows 10 and focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH
Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store …
Microsoft unveils $10B Rural Airband Initiative to bring better broadband to 23.4M Americans, to start efforts in 12 states by offering seed money to local ISPs
In an event scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Microsoft plans to propose using technology it helped develop as a cornerstone …
Android 7.1 Nougat has a “Panic Detection” mode that detects frantic back button presses and returns users to home screen, to stop apps that hijack back button
While many readers of Android-centric websites such as our own are less likely to come across situations …
PayPal confirms it sold X.com, a domain originally used for financial services firm co-founded by Elon Musk, back to Musk
X.com is one of the few single letter .com domain names, and I would argue that it is one of the most valuable domain names. The X.com domain name was originally …
EFF Gov't Data Requests 2017 report finds Adobe, Dropbox, Pinterest, Uber, Wickr, and WordPress best protect users; AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile fall short
Download the complete Who Has Your Back? 2017: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report as a PDF. — Executive Summary
As expected, DHS delays effective date of startup visa “International Entrepreneur Rule”, which Trump administration has now signaled its intent to eliminate
The Department of Homeland Security has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur Rule.
Company emails: Kaspersky Lab has made products for Russian intelligence and accompanied agents on raids; CEO has insisted that ties to Kremlin are “total BS”
Emails show the software-security maker developed products for the FSB and accompanied agents on raids.
UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace raises $75M Series D led by Insight Venture Partners, at an $825M valuation
With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that …
Twitter lets you avoid trolls with new settings options to mute newly registered users, people you don't follow, and people who don't follow you
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Workload security vendor HyTrust raises $36M Series E led by Advance Venture Partners, and acquires data security startup DataGravity
Word spread late last week that data visibility and security startup DataGravity had been acquired. At the time, though, it was unclear by whom. Now we know.
Snap drops 6%+ to $15.88, well below its $17 IPO debut price, as Morgan Stanley downgrades the company's stock
Snap's rough week continued Tuesday, as a bank that led its initial public offering slashed its price target for the Snapchat parent's stock.
Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent
A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account … Thanks: @dnvolz
Google launches internal initiative called PAIR to study and help prevent potential prejudices in AI systems, open sources two tools for examining datasets
James Vincent / The Verge :
A look at QuantaVerse's AI tech that is increasingly being used to identify financial crimes in some of the world's biggest banks
ONE THING THAT makes ISIS so hard to fight is that the terrorist network is diffuse and scattered, with small cells of operatives all over the world.
Two-factor authentication is a mess, as companies offer various implementations, with SMS and email account recovery methods vulnerable to determined hackers
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
HP Elitebook x360 review: security built into hardware, built-in privacy screen, great software and design with wide range of ports, starts at $1,279
Ewan Spence / Forbes :
Google plans to completely distrust certificates issued by WoSign and StartCom with its Chrome 61 release, following several instances of wrongly issued certs
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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