David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security from 2009 to 2011, has responded to the recent accusations made by president Donald Trump. On Saturday, Trump accused former president Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at…
Google Confirms Small Number of Pixel Phones Have Broken Microphones
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Verge: Google says that a small number of Pixel phones have broken microphones that need to be sent back for replacement. The issue is seemingly not that widespread. Google claims the issue…
China Developing Manned Space Mission To the Moon
China is building a manned spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the moon as well as near-Earth orbit flight, according to Chinese state media. From a report on CNBC: The official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology of…
Indiegogo Halted Retro Computer Campaign
An anonymous reader shares a report on BBC: Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo intervened to stop a handheld retro computer console campaign from acquiring further funding, the BBC has learned. The Spectrum ZX Vega+, backed by Sir Clive Sinclair, had achieved its…
Despite Netflix and Amazon Prime, Most of the World Watches Pirated Content
An anonymous reader shares a TechInAsia report: More than half of the people surveyed across the world still watch pirated movies and TV shows, a new survey shows. The study, conducted by digital security firm Irdeto, asked more than 25,000…
Google leads ‘guerilla patching’ of big vulnerability in open source projects
Third-party patching of vulnerabilities includes another group patching a Microsoft flaw – and provides a glimpse into a new way of dealing with flaws
WikiLeaks drops huge cache of confidential CIA documents
Dump of apparently ‘largely legitimate’ ‘Vault 7’ documents include what appear to be details of CIA’s hacking tools
News in brief: Kodi streaming ‘not illegal’; whistleblower movie planned; robots on the rise
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WikiLeaks dump shows CIA can use IoT to hack ‘anything, anywhere’
Documents are evidence that the CIA has been building a stockpile of cyberweapons – and the agency ‘would have been remiss’ not to build these capabilities
Amazon fight to keep Echo recording out of murder trial now moot
Despite the decision by the accused, the arguments for considering Alexa protected by First Amendment rights remain ‘surprisingly plausible’