Revenge of the Black Nerds’ pro-Fourth Amendment rap reminds us that Americans have an ‘ever-growing list of things to be freaked out about’
Smart devices abandoned on the road to nowhere
As Fitbit acquires Pebble, placing those smartwatches on the IoT-bricked road, we ask: shouldn’t manufacturers do more to secure devices they’re phasing out?
Macs get critical updates, including patches against drive-by malware
Apple has pushed out patches for numerous critical vulnerabilities on macOS, including bugs that could allow drive-by installs of malware.
New York exhibition puts us – and our data – on display
The Glass Room looks like a gleaming, all-white Apple store, but they’re not selling anything – they’re showing us how our data is used
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google dropped a single National Security Letter into its most recent transparency report without much fanfare, but today the company published eight more NSLs in an attempt to shed more light on…
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: AMD has just officially unveiled that desktop variants of its Zen processor family will now be branded RYZEN. Zen-based processors will eventually target desktops, servers, and mobiles device, but the first wave of…
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down, Will Now Lead PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook
The co-founder and CEO of Oculus, Brendan Iribe, is stepping down from the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, California. Iribe writes in a statement to UploadVR: “We’ve decided to establish new PC…
Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windows Central: Microsoft is surging forward with its commitment to artificial intelligence (AI), formally announcing its latest chatbot, Zo. In a post outlining its commitment to AI, Microsoft introduced Zo as the next…
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump
IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty has pledged to “hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States” as she and other technology executives prepared to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday. Reuters reports: IBM had…
Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS certificates issued for a domain. Users can monitor and audit this information for malicious or mistakenly issued certs.