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Submission + - Microsoft Kickstarts Windows Insider Program

Submitted by SmartAboutThings
SmartAboutThings writes: Microsoft wants to make sure that it doesn't screw up with the next operating system as it has done with Windows 8. That's why the company has opened the Windows Insider Program for early testers of the upcoming Windows 10 version. Those who will sign up will l get all the latest Windows preview builds as soon as they’re available.

Microsoft will provide members of the program with an app to give feedback, so that Microsoft could know if the system works as intended or it still needs to be tweaked.

Submission + - TrueCrypt gets a new life, new name (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by storagedude
storagedude writes: Amid ongoing security concerns, the popular open source encryption program TrueCrypt may have found new life under a new name, reports eSecurity Planet. Under the terms of the TrueCrypt license — which was a homemade open source license written by the authors themselves rather than a standard one — a forking of the code is allowed if references to TrueCrypt are removed from the code and the resulting application is not called TrueCrypt. Thus, CipherShed will be released under a standard open source license, with long-term ambitions to become a completely new product.

Comment Ads on every conceivable blank space! (Score 1) 1

by Chromium_One (#47775099) Attached to: Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page
We are reaching peak ad saturation. Next up, blipverts...

In the event the button to allow you to use a blank page for new tabs DOESN'T get placed front and center

1) Open a new tab.
2) Type "about:config" in the address bar.
3) Promise you'll be careful.
4) Enter "browser.newtab.url" in the search bar.
5) Set value to "about:blank"
6) No more tiles! Yay!

Submission + - Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has rolled out directory tiles, the company’s advertising experiment for its browser’s new tab page, to the Firefox Nightly channel. We installed the latest browser build to give the sponsored ads a test drive. When you first launch Firefox, a message on the new tab page informs you of the following: what tiles are (with a link to a support page about how sponsored tiles work), a promise that the feature abides by the Mozilla Privacy Policy, and a reminder that you can turn tiles off completely and choose to have a blank new tab page. It’s quite a lot to take in all at once.

Submission + - An Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone £140-a-Year (ibtimes.co.uk) 2

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: Research suggests that if we wanted to live in a world without pop-up ads for penis enlargement tablets, then it would cost everyone $230 per year. So how many people would be willing to stump up this kind of cash? Just 2% of the population apparently...

Submission + - Massive deployment of Carrier WiFi in Europe and US

Submitted by Full_Privacy
Full_Privacy writes: Cell phone operators are tuning to their broadband users (DSL, Cable and Fiber) to offer WiFi Offload to the data hungry mobile users.
The service is now available in most American and European cities. But the clause that allows them to turn your home WiFi into a Hotspot is buried in the broadband contract.
If you want to avoid it don't use the ISP provided router and buy your own.

Comment Mozilla Stability (Score 1) 3

by Chromium_One (#46226137) Attached to: Mozilla will start showing ads in Firefox
Each of the last several releases has fallen down rendering more sites than the previous. That alone had me switching somewhere around 23 or 24. Ads on the new user / new tab page might not be that bad, but if it becomes too intrusive or is badly handled, I'll probably do my best to forget the Mozilla Foundation even exists.

Comment Re:Not only no ... (Score 1) 359

by Chromium_One (#45988959) Attached to: Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms
Eh, that's part of the problem when you feel you have to keep the lunatics out at all costs. Aside from the guarantee of more erosion on some social issues, I'm now having a hard time seeing how the opposition could have been worse. No, no, seriously, we really do need at least a viable third party.

Submission + - Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.

Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems. Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.

Submission + - Charles Stross cancels trilogy: the NSA is already doing it 1

Submitted by doom
doom writes: Charles Stross has announced that there won't be a third book in the 'Halting State' trilogy because reality (in a manner of speaking) has caught up to him too fast. The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA planted spies in networked games like WoW. Stross comments: "At this point, I'm clutching my head. 'Halting State' wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter-- what else are the NSA up to?)."

Submission + - Experian sold social security numbers to ID Theft Service

Submitted by realized
realized writes: Experian — one of the three national US credit bureaus — reportedly sold SSNs through its subsidiary, Court Ventures, to the operators of SuperGet.info who then offered all of the information online for a price. The website would advertise having "99% to 100% of all USA" in their database on websites frequented by carders.

Hieu Minh Ngo, the website owner, has recently been charged with 15-count indictment filed under seal in November 2012, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, substantive wire fraud, conspiracy to commit identity fraud, substantive identity fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and substantive access device fraud.

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