Agreed on the sentiment, but calling SoftBank a bank gives them too much credit.

Judging from the comments, quite a few of you are skeptical about the usefulness. I have a different perspective based on my work experience.

I used to work for a large telco in the APAC region (100s millions of users in multiple countries) where I was part of the team that developed a system to mine as much data as possible from users: location data (triangulation), call records, web data. From this data individual profiles were created which were then (only) sold in an aggregated/anonymized way (things might have changed of course). The tools we developed were licensed to telcos all over the world.

Analyzing DNS requests was definitely part of the arsenal of tools used for HTTPS requests (other techniques are connecting to the server and analyzing the certificate presented).

In my opinion, Firefox's DNS over HTTPS will at least partially help against this type of unwarranted snooping by telcos.

I read that there are plans to support Android apps through https://anbox.io/ but not sure if it already does. Does anyone have experience with Anbox? Does it support Google Play or does one need to side-load all apps?

The internal storage is expandable to 2TB via SD card, which I think is a reasonable approach. Agreed on the other limitations, especially RAM... 4-6 GB would have been significantly more reasonable at that price point.

But it's worth noting that doing this is also very insecure...

Or it stores the hashes of all combinations (or the subset it'll ever ask)? Only 8*7*6*5/4! = 70 combinations for an 8 char password... there might be other more efficient algos, though.

Mine does the same (HSBC).

I have a startup which builds a web-based enterprise product. A year ago we launched a companion app that provides a fraction of the functionality of the desktop application, just enough to help our customers extract the key information they need when they're on the road.

All of a sudden a few days Apple decides we have to implement in-app payments. I explained them that this is an enterprise product for an arcane industry and that our customers require quotations/invoices raised to their procurement department and would not pay several hundred to several thousand dollars through the app. They insist we have to implement in-app payments despite not helping our customers nor our business. We don't have automated billing at all, not even on our desktop product. The requested change means months of development for no value (at this point).

No way to appeal. We can currently not update our app and if we don't implement in-app payments in an unspecified time our current version will be pulled too.

Thanks, Apple.

... could be an interesting use case.

... is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

> The digital asset has soared more than 600 percent this year, compared with gains of 15 percent for the S&P 500 Index -- which might explain millennials' attraction.

I wonder about the causality in this sentence...

It really puzzles me that a website geared towards engineers, scientists and other nerds from across the world would use imperial units in such a news article.

I use DocuSign on a regular basis for work and have received over 20 fake emails in the last few days. These emails are particularly well drafted (as far as phishing emails go) and are easily mistaken with the real thing. DocuSign has yet to send out any warning message to its customers. Pretty poor handling from their part...

What they should *immediately* do is expire all passwords and force users to reset their password on next login.

I had the same issue with my Nexus 5X... like many others (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=220971). After much discussion they finally replaced the device, but with one that is likely prone to the same issue (judging from the manufacturing date of the replacement device). In a few months I'll most likely experience the exact same issue, but then outside of the warranty period. Not cool!

So, the 13" does have an AG (= anti-glare) version, but unfortunately this cannot be combined with i7, 16GB RAM or 1TB SSD. If you want these then they force you to take the high res glossy screen. Who thinks of these things??

I haven't seen the AG version yet, so cannot comment on how it compares with a real matte screen.

> And that has been getting worse with the EU... not better.

Can you give me some examples? Our family business has been importing and exporting goods (motor vehicles) from all over Europe for over 40 years, and I can tell you that things have improved GREATLY because of the European union. Just to give you an idea, when the business just started a motor vehicle imported from for example Italy could not be registered in other European countries without making alterations because regulations were so different. In addition all the paperwork that was required would easily take up several hours per vehicle im/exported.