From TFA: It also recently introduced automatic blocks for bad and unwanted ads...

In other words, it blocks ads that don't contribute to the Google revenue stream. That's what they mean by Bad Ads.

Kaspersky is offering up the code for review by an independent party. Okay, and I'm sure that the installer is 100% in compliance with the reviewed code.

The swindle is the click-bait article title.

The eruption of the supervolcano under Yellowstone is the basis of the Netflix show Van Helsing. Not a Zombie apocalypse, but a vampire apocalypse.

This. Exactly why I love the idea of testing all this crap out in California instead of where I live.

Mod parent up.

Unless GP actually meant the District of Columbia, which is in actuality a separate, and very depraved, den of miscreants, a truly wretched hive of scum and villainy. If someone can bring DC under control, I will fucking personally grant them a Nobel prize of some sort.

And, sent to China for free backup protection!

TFA explains how, and at the end of the TFA: "There are various proposals to tweak BGP to stop this sort of thing happening, but as is so often the case, implementation is lagging far behind requirement." In short, it's a known problem and eventually maybe someone will care enough to fix it.

Not common. Probably easy to deduce from the summary, but out of context and prior to reading this, I would honestly be confused about the term "car pillar."

After exposing the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) plans, I'm betting that's the last government contract they work on.

The article reads like a "cloud is bad" point of view because it brings up two unrelated issues from March and July. The last two paragraphs in this article are non sequiturs and should be stricken.

Surprisingly, no performance discussion in the first link and I can't get access to the IEEE published paper without paying. 24Tb/s would be impressive. Also, what is the expected MTBF? Better, worse, or the same as a regular tape?

The more you tighten your grip, Amber Rudd, the more users will slip through your fingers.

The whole purpose of a corporation is to shield the "owners" from civil litigation as much as possible. As an interesting fictional analogy, I suggest picking up a copy of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. In it, the main characters drop their first startup Epiphyte and create a new one without the pending litigation, called Epiphyte(2).

It's my understanding that the only location data is that the person used a particular cell tower. It isn't the GPS location of the phone. Each cell tower stores who accessed it, and possibly for a minimum of some number of years. If this information isn't stored, the counter argument will be that the consumer will say they didn't make a particular call. This is proof they did. I honestly don't see a way around storing this information unless people are given the ability to "opt-out" coupled with the understanding that they cannot challenge the cell service billing records. With things like unlimited minutes, that's probably ok, but will not be easily enforceable by the carriers because they don't all run all the cell towers.