Krystalo writes: Mozilla today announced that it will continue to support Firefox for Windows XP and Windows Vista until September 2017. In March 2017, XP and Vista users will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) and…
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service
The Dutch Consumer and Markets regulator ordered T-Mobile to shut down its zero-rated music streaming service because it violates the country’s net neutrality rules. T-Mobile launched the Music Freedom service in October, allowing customers to stream music on their mobile…
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: BitTorrent has now done for live video what it did for file downloads: invented peer-to-peer technology that moves the burden of data transfer from a centralized source to the crowd. Instead of…
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers
earlytime writes: Large scale account hacks such as the billion user Yahoo breach and targeted phishing hacks of gmail accounts during the U.S. election have made 2016 an infamous year for web security. Along comes U2F/web-security keys to address these…
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
schwit1 quotes a report from The New York Times: Social isolation is a growing epidemic (Warning: may be paywalled; alternate source) — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of…