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Submission + - Google Reverses Decision To Limit Sexually Explicit Content On Blogger (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Relax, Google isn't taking away your Blogger porn. In a reversal of a policy change it announced earlier this week, Google said it will continue to permit sexually explicit content to be publicly shared on Blogger. Instead of making blogs with adult content private, the search giant will 'step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn,' Google said Friday in a post on its product support page.

Submission + - LTE Can Mooch Off Of Wi-Fi Spectrum With New Qualcomm Chipset (itworld.com)

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itwbennett writes: A chipset Qualcomm is introducing at Mobile World Congress next week is likely to make mobile operators happy and some Wi-Fi fans nervous. The FSM 99xx chipset for small cells, along with a matching transceiver that will go into mobile devices, are among the first products coming for so-called Licensed Assisted Access. LAA, sometimes called LTE-Unlicensed, is one of several emerging techniques to take advantage of the large amount of spectrum available in unlicensed bands used by Wi-Fi.

Submission + - Google Shares Code To Help Server Software Digest HTTP/2 (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Google has released as open source a framework for HTTP/2, the newly updated standard for transmitting Web pages and Web applications over the Internet. The software, called gRPC, handles remote procedure calls (RPC) between servers and clients, such as browsers or mobile applications. The gRPC framework powers most of Google’s services today, fielding tens of billions of Web calls every second.

Submission + - Will Machine Intelligence Be So Human That It Will Get Religion? (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Earlier this month Reverend Dr. Christopher J. Benek raised eyebrows on the Internet by stating his belief that Christians should seek to convert Artificial Intelligences to Christianity if and when they become autonomous. Of course that's assuming that robots are born atheists, not to mention that there's still a vast difference between what it means to be autonomous and what it means to be human.

Submission + - Fighting Scams Targeting the Elderly With Old-School Tech (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Sharp is launching a pair of landline phones designed to counter a growing form of fraud in Japan that preys upon the elderly. The 'ore ore' ('it’s me, it’s me') fraudsters pretend to be grandchildren in an emergency and convince their victims to send money, generally via ATM. Sharp’s new phones are designed to alert seniors to the dangers of unknown callers. When potential victims receive that are not registered in the internal memory of Sharp's new phones, their LED bars glow red and the phones go into anti-scam mode. An automated message then tells the caller that the call is being recorded and asks for the caller to state his or her name before the call is answered.

Submission + - Uber Offers Free Rides to Koreans, Hopes They Won't Report Illegal Drivers (itworld.com)

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itwbennett writes: Uber Technologies is offering free rides on its uberX ride-sharing service in the South Korean capital of Seoul, after city authorities intensified their crackdown on illegal drivers by offering a reward to residents who report Uber drivers to police. South Korean law prohibits unregistered drivers from soliciting passengers using private or rented vehicles and carries a penalty of up to two years in prison or fines of up to 20 million won.

Submission + - DOJ Offers $3 Million Reward for Gameover Zeus Botnet Suspect (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program announced on Tuesday that they are offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a Russian man suspected of having served as an administrator for the destructive Gameover Zeus botnet. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev is charged in the U.S. with several crimes related to Gameover Zeus, which targeted banking credentials and other personal information over a two-year period.

Submission + - Developers Proceed Cautiously With Swift (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: By just about any objective measure, there’s been rapid and unprecedented growth in the number of programmers asking about, learning, and writing code in Swift. Not surprising, given that Apple has designated Swift to be the eventual replacement for Objective-C. But the volume of interest in Swift doesn't mean that developers should be (or are) diving in. Erica Sadun, an experienced Apple developer who’s been using Swift since Day One, sums up developers' current relationship with Swift like this: 'It takes some grit to be doing Swift development at this time.'

Submission + - Samba vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240) (redhat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: CVE-2015-0240 is a security flaw in the smbd file server daemon. It can be exploited by a malicious Samba client, by sending specially-crafted packets to the Samba server. No authentication is required to exploit this flaw. It can result in remotely controlled execution of arbitrary code as root.

Submission + - Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Samba (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. 'It can be exploited by a malicious Samba client, by sending specially-crafted packets to the Samba server,' the Red Hat security team said in a blog post. 'No authentication is required to exploit this flaw. It can result in remotely controlled execution of arbitrary code as root.'

Submission + - IoT Sensors Can Run At Lower Power With MIT Chip Design (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a new circuit design that could lead to more power-efficient sensors. Many sensors remain idle most of the time and become active when they send or receive data. The researchers have designed a circuit for a transmitter that could reduce energy leakage by up to 100 times when a sensor is in that idle state. That could extend the battery life of sensors by many months.

Submission + - Silicon Valley Unionization Starts From The Bottom Up (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Unionization has long been resisted in Silicon Valley, both by management and by tech workers for whom high pay is an acceptable tradeoff for long hours and job instability. But as employees beyond programmers are pulled into the tech industry's orbit, Silicon Valley may have to reckon with workers with different ideas. For instance, the drivers who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company's campus are now represented by the Teamsters, and just won a pay increase from $18 to $24.50 an hour.

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