Microsoft and Qualcomm have announced that Windows 10 is coming to devices made by Asus, HP and Lenovo that will run on the Snapdragon 835 platform. “The Snapdragon 835 chip, incorporating Qualcomm’s latest X16 LTE modem, forms the basis of…

The Federal Trade Commission announced that refunds are now available for parents whose children made in-app purchases without their knowledge. Amazon dropped its appeal of last year’s ruling by a federal judge who sided with the Federal Trade Commission in…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the FBI for records “about the extent to which it directs and trains Best Buy employees to conduct warrantless searches of people’s devices.” The lawsuit stems around an incident in 2011 where a gynecology…

mspohr shares an excerpt from an article written by Cory Doctorow via The Guardian: The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology — but it’s also easier than ever to destabilize these states, thanks…

Mats Jarlstrom, an electrical engineer fined by the Oregon engineering board for calling himself an “engineer” and talking about traffic lights, has been granted the temporary right by a judge to both publicly call himself an “engineer” and talk about…

Ecommerce sites using the Yopify plugin were leaking customers’ names, locations and purchases.

Google announced today new security features in Gmail, including the news that it will enhance early phishing detection in Gmail through dedicated machine learning.

Cisco is prepping fixes for two of its products affected by last week’s Samba vulnerability. Netgear has also pushed out a fix for NAS devices that were affected.

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root.

Senators introduced a bill last week to establish a bug bounty pilot program within the Department of Homeland Security.