White House privacy proposal aims to give you control over your data

U.S. businesses that collect personal data would be required to describe their privacy and security practices and give consumers control over their personal information under a proposed privacy bill of rights released Friday by President Barack Obama's...

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Linux gaming rising: 25 killer PC games that call Linux home

Another Paradox title, Crusader Kings II is still going strong years after release because of the developer's devotion to releasing awesome new content on a regular basis. This deep strategy games plops you down in medieval Europe and is pretty much...

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Personal data on 50,000 Uber drivers exposed in breach

The names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 Uber drivers were compromised in a security breach last year, the company revealed Friday. Uber discovered a possible breach of its systems in September, and a subsequent investigation revealed an...

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Hackers exploit router flaws in unusual pharming attack

An email-based attack spotted in Brazil recently employed an unusual but potent technique to spy on a victim's Web traffic. The technique exploited security flaws in home routers to gain access to the administrator console. Once there, the hackers changed...

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D-Link remote access vulnerabilities remain unpatched

D-Link routers have several unpatched vulnerabilities, the worst of which could allow an attacker to gain total control over a device, according to a systems engineer in Canada. Peter Adkins, who does security research in his free time, released details...

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Fresh from $532.9M win, Smartflash sues Apple again

Shortly after a jury in Texas awarded it US$532.9 million in damages in a patent dispute with Apple, patent company Smartflash has sued the iPhone maker again, this time to focus on newer Apple products. "Apple has released new products that came out...

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Samsung faces complaint in US FTC over Smart TV 'surveillance'

A complaint filed by a privacy group to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charged that Samsung's Smart TVs intercept and record private communications of consumers in their homes, violating a number of rules including the Children's Online Privacy Protection...

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Google AI program masters classic Atari video games

Scientists at Google have produced an artificial intelligence program that can ace classic Atari video games. The Deep Q-network (DQN) developed at London-based AI firm DeepMind, which was acquired by Google last year, can teach itself to play Atari...

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Sharp fights fraud with old-school landline phones

Be it telegrams or feature phones, Japan can't bear to part with yesterday's technology. Now Sharp is launching a pair of old-school landline phones designed to counter a growing form of fraud in Japan that preys upon elderly Japanese. The "ore ore"...

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How IBM analyzes Twitter for the enterprise developer

Capturing public conversations around the world in real time, Twitter could be a valuable source of intelligence for the business world, so IBM is creating new ways to derive potentially valuable information from this massive, sprawling data set. At...

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Uber's loyalty deal with Starwood Hotels could boost global growth

Uber likes to promote its service as an easy way to get from point A to point B with a smartphone. Now the company wants to reward you for making one of those points a hotel. The ride-hailing service is teaming up with Starwood Hotels & Resorts...

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Sony users unable to access popular services like Hulu, Netflix

Viewers complained Tuesday that they were unable to access some of their favorite online streaming services like Netflix and Hulu from smart devices made by Sony. Samsung's service was also apparently affected, according to users on Twitter. Netflix...

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ARM, IBM offer starter kit for making IOT devices

ARM and IBM want hobbyists to make their own connected devices in a matter of minutes with a new development kit announced Monday. The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit—ethernet Edition will allow users to make cloud-ready Internet of Things products that could...

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Telegram dimisses claim of a flaw in its secure messaging application

Telegram, a messaging application that markets itself as a secure communication tool, doesn't handle encrypted conversations securely, according to the founder of a mobile security company. Zuk Avraham of Zimperium wrote in a blog post Monday that he...

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Google to curb sharing of sexually explicit content on Blogger

Google will restrict from next month the public sharing of adult content on its Blogger platform. After March 23, blogs that publicly share images and videos that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity will be converted into private blogs for...

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Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu

Lenovo admitted to pre-loading the Superfish adware on some consumer PCs, and unhappy customers are now dragging the company to court on the matter. A proposed class-action suit was filed late last week against Lenovo and Superfish, which charges both...

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Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar

A documentary on whistleblower Edward Snowden won the Oscar for the best documentary feature, in a shot in the arm for people worldwide protesting against alleged U.S. intrusions into the privacy of people in the country and abroad. The 87th Academy...

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Facebook, other tech firms face pressure from drivers over work conditions

Facebook and other tech companies in Silicon Valley are facing increasing pressure from its shuttle drivers to improve working conditions, amid concern about growing inequality in the area. Loop Transportation drivers, who transfer Facebook employees...

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Samsung promises yet another fix for slowed 840 EVO SSDs

Samsung's 840 EVO SSDs were among the cream of the solid-state crop in 2013, boasting fast speeds and big-time storage capabilities at a (then) record low cost. But some buyers noticed a troubling occurrence: As time went on the drive's read performance...

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UNICEF, Airtel team up in Africa to widen access to free health, data analysis apps

UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund, has made its RapidPro suite of apps available to Airtel customers for free across the 17 African countries in which the telecom company operates. The open-source family of applications is designed to help governments...

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US judge dismisses antitrust case against Google over Android apps

A U.S. federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit that charges Google harmed consumers by forcing Android handset makers to use its apps by default, but gave the plaintiffs three weeks to amend their complaint. The two consumers who filed the...

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Lenovo CTO admits company 'messed up,' publishes Superfish removal tool

Lenovo plans to release an automated tool that will remove the Superfish adware from affected PCs on Friday, said the company's chief technical officer, who admitted that Lenovo had "messed up." Lenovo's CTO, Peter Hortensius, told PCWorld that...

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The Beam smart projector doubles as a light bulb

Developed by a Los Angeles-based startup of the same name, Beam is essentially an Android-based LED pico projector that can also serve as a smart LED light bulb. Screw it into an existing E26/E27 light socket or connect it to a power cable, the choice...

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Bravo! Windows Defender, McAfee update fully removes Lenovo's dangerous Superfish malware

Microsoft's stayed mum during Thursday's uproar about Lenovo installing dangerous, invasive "Superfish" adware on new PCs —adware that hijacks all secure HTTPS connections on affected PCs. But early Friday morning, Redmond quietly issued a sly condemnation...

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The digital picture frame refuses to die (and here’s one that wants to hatch)

You probably don't care that someone is trying to build a better digital photo frame, but your non tech-savvy grandparents might. That's what prompted a startup called Timewyse to come up with Pigeon, a Wi-Fi enabled digital picture frame that stays...

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Yahoo courts developers at its first mobile conference

Mobile users have become a vital part of Yahoo's recovery effort, and on Thursday it tried to woo developers with new tools to help them build better apps using its services. The company held its first-ever mobile developer conference in San Francisco...

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Google launching YouTube for kids on Monday

Google is launching a version for kids of YouTube that will feature appropriate content and controls, in line with its strategy to redesign some of its products for use by this segment. The free app, called YouTube Kids, will be available from Monday...

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Revenge porn site operator faces at least two years in prison

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Google worried US could use amended warrant rule to search computers abroad

Google has opposed moves by the U.S. Department of Justice to extend the warrant issuing authority of magistrate judges to searches of computers in districts other than their own. Innocuous as that may sound, Google is concerned that the proposed amendment...

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This pirated movie brought to you by Pampers

Whether they know it or not, major advertisers are subsidizing online movie piracy, accelerating a trend in which illicit video streaming is eclipsing illegal P2P file sharing and downloading of copyrighted material. That's according to an upcoming...

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What's in a typo? More evidence tying North Korea to the Sony hack

A security company in the U.S. has provided further evidence that last year's devastating hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment was carried out by a group with ties to North Korea. The FBI has already named North Korea as the source of the attack,...

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Israel targeted by malware packaged with pornographic video

Israeli institutions have been targeted by an Arab-speaking hacker group that sought to extract sensitive documents, according to Trend Micro. The campaign, which Trend called Operation Arid Viper, focused on sending phishing emails to targets. Those...

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