STARTTLS, which is used to secure the email handled by many organizations, isn’t perfect, but…

Mastodon: new beast to challenge Big Social, or another white elephant?
Another big social network – this time, Twitter – has another new challenger, with some…

News in brief: Twitter sues US government; Google launches Fact Check; cybersecurity apprenticeship launched
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

That ‘iPhone Wi-Fi bug’ isn’t just for Apple users – here’s a rundown
A bug in Broadcom Wi-Fi firmware that has been patched on recent iPhones and some…

Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops
Microsoft is officially banning emulators from Windows Store. The company has updated the Windows Store…

Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court
halfEvilTech quotes a report from Washington Post: The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to…

Canonical Founder Talks About Ubuntu Desktop Switching From Unity To GNOME, And Focus On Cloud
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth on Friday talked about the move to switch Ubuntu’s desktop user…

WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows Hacking Tool
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: In case you haven’t had…

Microsoft's Surface Pro 5 Said To Move To Intel Kaby Lake Processors
Windows watcher Paul Thurrott has revealed the first credible details about Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5….

Samsung Tizen Security ‘Feels like 2005’
A researcher at the Security Analyst Summit described the insecure state Samsung’s Tizen operating system.