Your daily round-up of some of the other stories making the news
Clock’s ticking for MD5-signed JAR files, says Oracle
Oracle’s delay in dropping support for the hash seems strange, but it’s finally named the day
Data Privacy Day: know the risks of Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Have you invited Google or Amazon’s AI assistants into your home? We offer some tips to help protect your privacy
Celebgate hacker who stole nude photos gets nine months in jail
29-year-old man hacked into 300 private accounts in ‘abhorrent’ crime
Pay for experts to rise as cybercrime ‘to cost $6tn a year by 2021’
Rise in attacks means organisations need to focus their spend in the right places
Trump’s attorney-general choice wants to ‘overcome encryption’
Jeff Sessions’ remarks widely seen as a reference to backdoors, despite industry’s opposition to them
Raise your glasses! Wine is 2.0!
That’s the windows compatibility layer, obviously
News in brief: Fancy Bear ‘attacked TV network’; Lavabit comes back to life; museum does geek history
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Google's Pixel 2 To Feature Improved Camera, CPU and Higher Price, Says Report
Google’s Pixel smartphone was released in October last year, but we’re already starting to hear about the “Pixel 2” successor. The “reliable” source told 9to5Google that the next Google flagship will feature an improved camera, faster CPU and higher price…
New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has approved what will be the longest U.S. offshore wind farm when it’s built off the east end of Long Island. When it’s all said and done, it will generate enough electricity to power more…