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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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The Reveton Gang is at it again. This time, though, they're targeting users of Android phones -- typically visitors to porn sites. The gang that pioneered the idea of locking up a target's computer and demanding a ransom to unlock it has turned its attention to the rapidly growing mobile market. Once Reveton mobile infects a phone, it will display a bogus warning from a fractured local law enforcement authority. In the U.S. it's "Mandiant U.S.A. Cyber Security/FBI Department of Defense/U.S.A. Cyber Crime Center."


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The Reveton Gang is at it again. This time, though, they're targeting users of Android phones -- typically visitors to porn sites. The...

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Over the next several months, we will see a massive step forward in the systems we use in our cars to connect to our phones, listen to music and watch videos. As I write this, the new Kenwood Excelon DNN991HD is being installed in my project car, and it promises pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. In August, Jaguar will start supplying a new AV system provided by Intel and compliant with Apple's CarPlay system. This is on top of the driving improvements, which will include lights that make rain and snow almost invisible.


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Over the next several months, we will see a massive step forward in the systems we use in our cars to connect to our phones, listen to mus...

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6:33 AM

Drones are great, but for the most part, they can get old pretty quickly. A new Kickstarter project wants to throw some additional variety i...

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BlazeMeter, which provides the JMeter-based performance testing cloud, has secured $6.5 million in a series A financing round led by YL Vent...

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Monday, May 12, 2014
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the marketing of a prosthetic arm nicknamed "Luke" in a nod to the bionic hand grafted onto Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker after his was cut off by Darth Vader's light saber. The arm, eight years in the making, was funded by the military. It was developed by Deka Research, founded by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway. "We are happy the FDA has approved the Deka Arm for commercialization," said Tom Doyon, Deka's project manager for the device. "This will let us focus on manufacturing."


3:53 PM

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the marketing of a prosthetic arm nicknamed "Luke" in a nod to the bionic han...

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Today in a published excerpt of his forthcoming book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald reports, citing documents from 2010, that the NSA in...

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It was a relatively quiet week here in the Linux blogosphere, giving residents a long-overdue opportunity to enjoy a few Tequila Tux cocktails and take stock of all the FOSS-related happenings that have taken place over the past few weeks. Among the highlights, for those who missed them, were the awarding of the IEEE Computer Society's 2014 Computer Pioneer Award to none other than Linus Torvalds; the arrival of Tails OS 1.0; and, perhaps most exciting of all, the release of Seattle-based band netcat's debut album as a Linux kernel module.


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It was a relatively quiet week here in the Linux blogosphere, giving residents a long-overdue opportunity to enjoy a few Tequila Tux cockt...

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