FCC tries to help cable companies avoid state consumer protection rules
The FCC wants to block Minnesota from regulating Charterrsquo;s VoIP phone service.
View ArticleTaylor Swift threatens to sue blogger who connected her to white supremacists
Swift tried to use copyright to keep her threat of a lawsuit secret.
View ArticleDealmaster: Add another year of PlayStation Plus for $40
Plus deals on Dell laptops, LG TVs, and more.
View ArticleParity calamity! Wallet code bug destroys $280 MEEELLION in Ethereum
Punter 'accidentally' borks dozens of strangers' crypto-currency collections There's a lot of hair-pulling among Ethereum alt-coin hoarders today – after a programming blunder in Parity's wallet...
View ArticleDon’t worry about those 40 Linux USB security holes. That’s not a typo
Move along. Nothing to see here.By the way, try this flash drive in your laptop, ta The Linux kernel USB subsystem has more holes than a donut shop. On Monday, Google security researcher Andrey...
View ArticleDisney forced to backpedal after banning LA Times from Thor screening
LA Times documented lavish election spending to defend Disneyland tax breaks.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Farewell, Frodo: Why we need trustworthy metadata to...
I have fond memories of when IT admins would give names to their servers, and even assign them unique personalities.It was a simpler time, before virtualization and the cloud made infrastructure...
View ArticleMicrosoft will have game streaming within 3 years as focus shifts to software
After years of decline, Microsoft plans to invest in first-party game development.
View ArticleKRACK whacked, media playback holes packed, other bugs go splat in Android...
Update your firmware ASAP to avoid being hacked Google has released its November security update for Android, addressing a bag of security holes.…
View ArticleTwitter officially doubles character count, says most 280 testers didn’t use it
Today, you can spell out “two hundred and eightyrdquo; and STILL have room to say other stuff.
View ArticleIBM’s plan to regulate pot with blockchains isn’t as crazy as it sounds
Canada is legalizing marijuana, and IBM wants to help.
View ArticleFBI can’t break the encryption on Texas shooter’s smartphone
FBI won't confirm it's an iPhone: "I don't want to tell bad guys what phone to buy."
View ArticleThe future is here: Genetically engineered stem cells save a patient
The genetic disease epidermolysis bullosa left a patient without much skin.
View ArticleCryptojacking craze that drains your CPU now done by 2,500 sites
Android apps with millions of Google Play downloads also crash the party.
View ArticleCall of Duty: WWII review—The less things change…
Stripping out years of feature creep, but doesn't have anything to replace it.
View ArticleWith Amazon Key’s launch, customers and lawyers have lots of questions
Prof: “Why would anyone want to givenbsp;Amazonnbsp;access to their home?”
View ArticleAn experimental SpaceX rocket engine has exploded in Texas
“We are now conducting a thorough and fully transparent investigation.”
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Why a multicloud strategy is the way to go
Cloud adoption continues apace as enterprises embrace the upsides of speed, simplicity, agility, and lower costs. Unless you’re a massive company with near unlimited resources, you likely won’t be...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The implicit value of a mind
I don’t believe in a jobless future, or that automation will relieve humanity of our need to work.A mind is a useful thing to the world, and we owe it to each other to use it in productive ways. Work...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Salesforce Community with custom objects in a flow
Last year, I wrote about Revisiting the question of build versus buy for web portal solutions, which was greatly inspired by the reduction in solid portal offerings that began about a decade ago.The...
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