WannaCry may be behind us, but fears that the crooks might create new malware from the NSA’s stash of exploits seem to be coming true
Yes, Geek Squad can search your files and hand you over to the police
Judge rules images found on a defendant’s hard drive inadmissible – but bats away contention that he had an expectation of privacy when he passed his PC to Geek Squad
News in brief: Bitcoin price bubbles up; Uber uses AI to boost its take; WannaCry ‘hero’ censures tabloids
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
How AI Can Infer Human Emotions
An anonymous reader quotes OReilly.com’s interview with the CEO of Affectiva, an emotion-measurement technology company that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab. We can mine Twitter, for example, on text sentiment, but that only gets us so far. About 35-40%…
Ex-IBM Employee Guilty of Stealing Secrets For China
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: A former developer for IBM pled guilty on Friday to economic espionage and to stealing trade secrets related to a type of software known as a clustered file system, which IBM sells to customers around…
Did China Hack The CIA In A Massive Intelligence Breach From 2010 To 2012?
schwit1 quotes the International Business Times: Both the CIA and the FBI declined to comment on reports saying the Chinese government killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012 and dismantled the agency’s spying operations in…
Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code
He’s been the White House technology advisor since 2015, and this month Alvand Salehi delivered a keynote address at OSCON about the U.S. government’s commitment to open source software. An anonymous reader quotes OpenSource.com: The Federal Source Code Policy, released…
Julian Assange Still Faces Legal Jeopardy In Three Countries
Though Sweden dropped an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, “I can conclude, based on the evidence, that probable cause for this crime still exists,” chief prosecutor Marianne Ny told reporters in Stockholm. An anonymous reader quotes Newsweek: Ny…
EU Passes 'Content Portability' Rules Banning Geofencing
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: The European Parliament has passed draft rules mandating ‘content portability’, i.e. the ability to take your purchased content and services across borders within the EU. Freedom of movement rules, which allow EU citizens to live…
New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools. WannaCry Used Just Two
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have detected a new worm that is spreading via SMB, but unlike the worm component of the WannaCry ransomware, this one is using seven NSA tools instead of two. Named EternalRocks, the worm seems to…