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lightbox32 writes:
T-Mobile says it is investigating an alleged data breach based on a claim made in a forum post. While the post doesn't mention T-Mobile, the data allegedly comes from T-mobile's servers and includes full customer info, including details such as social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, and driver's licenses information for 100 million users.
In exchange, the seller wants six bitcoins, worth around $274,000 for just a portion of the data, which would consist of 30 million social security numbers and driver's licenses. They would be privately offering the rest of the data.
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lightbox32 writes:
Chris Bevington was one of the four people who was killed in Friday’s truck attack in Stockholm. The British 41-year-old had served as Spotify’s director of global partnerships/business development, working from Stockholm. He had worked with the company for five years.
In a statement to the BBC, Bevington’s father, John, said, “We are all devastated by the untimely and tragic death of our talented, compassionate and caring son Chris. A wonderful husband, son, father, brother and close friend to many.”
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lightbox32 writes:
A report by a Pentagon inspector general, made public under a Freedom of Information Act request, said spy drones on non-military missions have occurred fewer than 20 times between 2006 and 2015 and always in compliance with existing law. The use of unmanned aerial surveillance (UAS) drones over U.S. surfaced in 2013 when then-FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that the bureau employed spy drones to aid investigations, but in a "very, very minimal way, very seldom."
The inspector general analysis was completed March 20, 2015, but not released publicly until last Friday.
The report also quoted a military law review article that said "the appetite to use them (spy drones) in the domestic environment to collect airborne imagery continues to grow, as does Congressional and media interest in their deployment."
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lightbox32 writes:
Beware of a hoax circling the interwebs promising an Easter egg, which can be seen by setting your iPhone's date to January 1, 1970. The Guardian is reporting that doing so will brick the device. It’s unclear what exactly causes the issue, but could be related to how iOS stores date and time formats. Jan. 1, 1970 is a value of zero or less than zero, which would make any process that uses a time stamp to fail.
Apple is aware of the issue and is looking into it.
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lightbox32 writes:
It has generally been thought impossible for particles of light, known as photons, to be slowed as they travel through free space, unimpeded by interactions with any materials.
In a paper published in Science Express, researchers from the Univ. of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt Univ. describe how they have managed to slow photons in free space for the first time. They have demonstrated that applying a mask to an optical beam to give photons a spatial structure can reduce their speed.
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lightbox32 writes:
Dish Network has been found guilty of violating the Do Not Call list on 57 million separate occasions. They were also found liable for abandoning or causing telemarketers to abandon nearly 50 million “outbound telephone calls, in violation of the abandoned-call provision of the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule.
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lightbox32 writes:
Porn-trolling operation Prenda Law sued thousands for illegally downloading porn files over BitTorrent. Now, a new document from Comcast appears to confirm suspicions that it was actually Prenda mastermind John Steele who uploaded those files.
The allegations about uploading porn to The Pirate Bay to create a "honeypot" to lure downloaders first became public in June, when an expert report filed by Delvan Neville was filed in a Florida case. The allegations gained steam when The Pirate Bay dug through its own backup tapes to find more evidence linking John Steele to an account called sharkmp4.
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lightbox32 writes:
The New York Civil Liberties Union released a free smartphone application on Wednesday that allows people to record videos of and report police “stop and frisk” activity, a practice widely denounced by civil rights groups as mostly targeting minorities and almost never resulting in arrests.
The app was thoroughly criticized by the New York Police Department, which said that the tool might prove useful for criminals.
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lightbox32 writes:
Best Buy's chairman and founder Richard Schulze has announced his resignation from the board of directors Thursday a year ahead of the planned transition at the helm of the struggling retailer.
The resignation of Dunn and Schulze come after Best Buy reported a quarterly loss of $1.7 billion after same-store sales dropped 5 percent.
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lightbox32 writes:
Samsung has finally responded to an article recently published by HD Guru titled "Is your TV watching you?" which discussed the fact that new features in Samsung's top 2012 models — including built-in microphones, HDTV camera, wireless and wired Internet connection, built-in browser with voice to text conversion, face recognition and more — could be used to collect unprecedented personal information and invade our privacy. Samsung has now provided their privacy policy, which may or may not lay the issue to rest.
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lightbox32 writes:
Nokia’s long-term scourge, blogger and industry analyst Eldar Murtazin, announced today that He said that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was soon to meet his Nokia counterpart Stephen Elop to finalise the purchase of Nokia's smartphone division, which would see patents, staff, and some plants transferred to Microsoft, for an undisclosed price.
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lightbox32 writes:
Norio Ohga, who was Sony's president and chairman from 1982 to 1995, died today at the age of 81. He has been credited with developing CDs, which he insisted be designed at 12 centimeters (4.8 inches) in diameter to hold 75 minutes worth of music — in order to store Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in its entirety.
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lightbox32 writes:
According to today's Wall Street Journal several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies, which include Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and Walt Disney Co. unit Pixar Animation, are in the final stages of negotiations with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each other's employees.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440604575496182527552678.html#ixzz0ztKzy23r
