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Can Digital Rights Management and the Open Web Coexist?

The Netflix-backed Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal, and recent revelations that requirements for DRM in HTML5 are confidential, have generated furor among advocates of the Open Web. Let's cut through the hyperbole....

28.05.2014

Spec standoff: LG G3 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5

LG Electronics has launched the G3, another option for people who want a high-end smartphone. To succeed, the device will have to outcompete products like the Galaxy S5 from Samsung, and it has the hardware specifications to do it....

28.05.2014

Outage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent

Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage on Tuesday after an administrator was able to simultaneously reboot all virtual servers hosted in the company's US-East-1 data center....

28.05.2014

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27.05.2014

BlackBerry to take on IoT headaches with Project Ion

BlackBerry says it can take back-end software development off the to-do lists of enterprises that want to take advantage of the Internet of Things....

27.05.2014

Does U.S. business stand a chance of keeping Chinese cyber-spies out of its data?

The U.S. Department of Justice, working with the FBI, this week took the unprecedented step of indicting five Chinese army officers for allegedly breaking into the networks of American companies and a labor union to steal trade secrets of use to Chinese businesses....

27.05.2014

U.S. government issues massive recall notice on buggy Nest alarms

The Consumer Product Safety Commission today issued a complete recall of all Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarm systems, over an issue that could silence the devices at a critical time....

27.05.2014

Department of Justice bashes $20 million identity refund fraud ring

The US Department of Justice said 10 people were indicted today for their roles in a $20 million stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy....

27.05.2014

IT pro gets prison time for sabotaging ex-employer's system

A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company's systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month....

27.05.2014

Dept. of Homeland Security tools aimed at Heartbleed-like security evils

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)  has launched a Web portal aimed at assisting software developers in vetting their code for weaknesses hackers can exploit. The DHS calls this portal the Software Assurance Marketplace, or SWAMP for short. It’s not a ‘marketplace’ in the sense that money is changing hands for products and services, but rather more a place to share tools, techniques and information....

27.05.2014

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