A federal judge just sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $890, 000 in restitution for charges related to the 2011 hack of Stratfor Global Intelligence. Brown’s supporters maintain that the young writer and activist was “merely linking to hacked material.” For that, he’ll spend about five years behind bars. That sucks. Read more…
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At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft spent some time showing off how its universal apps would provide a similar experience across devices. Office was certainly part of that conversation, and today, the folks in Redmond revealed that this year’s installment of the apps would arrive before the end of 2015. The update for mobile, labeled Office for Windows 10, will come pre-installed on phones and tablets running Windows 10 free of charge, with touch-enabled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook all included. While we’ll certainly keep our eyes peeled for an exact date, Microsoft says we can expect Office 2016 to arrive during the second half of this year. Who knows, maybe it’ll rollout in time to lend a hand when school starts back up in the fall. Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments Source: Microsoft
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Zothecula writes: Researchers working at the University of California, San Diego have claimed a world first in proving that artificial, microscopic machines can travel inside a living creature and deliver their medicinal load without any detrimental effects. Using micro-motor powered robots propelled by gas bubbles made from a reaction with the contents of the stomach in which they were deposited, these miniature machines have been successfully deployed in the body of a live mouse. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microbots Deliver Medical Payload In Living Creature For the First Time
As a wannabe guitarist, I find that the hardest thing to do is sit down and actually play guitar. When I first saw the Jamstik, a six-fret mini electronic guitar, I was impressed. It was about as big as a sub bun and featured strings that never had to be tuned. To play it you simply chorded and strummed as usual and you could transmit your MIDI-translated noodlings to a mobile app or your desktop. Read More
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The New Jamstik+ Is A Musician’s Best Friend
If you’ve been meaning to disable Adobe Flash, now might be a good time. Attacks exploiting a critical vulnerability in the latest version of the animation software have been added to a popular exploitation kit, researchers confirmed. Attackers often buy the kits to spare the hassle of writing their own weaponized exploits. Prolific exploit sleuth Kafeine uncovered the addition to Angler , an exploit kit available in underground forums. The zero-day vulnerability was confirmed by Malwarebytes . Malwarebytes researcher Jérôme Segura said one attack he observed used the new exploit to install a distribution botnet known as Bedep. Adobe officials say only that they’re investigating the reports. Until there’s a patch, it makes sense to minimize use of Flash when possible. AV software from Malwarebytes and others can also block Angler attacks. Read on Ars Technica | Comments
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Attack for Flash 0day goes live in popular exploit kit
Word for Windows 10. These touch-optimized apps are separate from the desktop Office suite. 5 more images in gallery The Office tablet and phone apps for iOS and Android both ship with a touch-optimized subset of the features of the full flagship Office suite, and even though Microsoft is readying an Office release for Windows phones and tablets, the desktop version will still reign supreme. Microsoft says that the next version of the flagship suite, dubbed Office 2016, will be “generally available in the second half of 2015.” It will remain optimized for keyboards and mice. The touch-optimized Office apps for Windows 10 are still on their way, though, and Microsoft has shared some screenshots that show what the apps will look like on both phones and tablets. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook Mail, and Outlook Calendar for Windows 10 (the official product names) unsurprisingly share a lot in common with the touchscreen apps for other platforms. Microsoft released Office for iPad in March of 2014 , and that UI has served as the foundation for all the tablet versions of the suite, including the still-in-beta Android version . The phone-sized versions of the apps look more like the new iPhone versions released in November , not like the limited versions that are currently available on Windows phones. The Outlook app for Windows 10 is something we haven’t seen on other platforms yet. Microsoft has released Outlook clients for iOS and Android, but they only support business-class Office 365 accounts and are more or less just wrappers for the standard Outlook Web client. The version for Windows 10 looks more full-featured, more closely resembling the desktop version of Outlook, at least in the three-column tablet view. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Office 2016 and Office for Windows touchscreens are due later this year
Grant Imahara visited McDonald’s fry factory and found out what they are made of. Keep in mind this video series was made by McDonald’s and I don’t know if McDonald’s had a final say on what went into it, but it’s still interesting to see how these fries are made and how many ingredients are used to make them: 19 (really, 14, since some of the ingredients are used twice during the process). Last night, my wife roasted potato slices and the only ingredient she used were potatoes, olive oil, and salt. They tasted great. Read the rest
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Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara reverse engineers McDonald’s fries and learns they have 19 ingredients
Drones are expensive. Aircraft like General Atomics’s MQ-1 Predator or MQ-9 Reaper cost millions of dollars piece, while the cost of maintaining the fleet stretches into the high tens of billions dollars over their lifespans. The Pentagon’s internal watchdog is aware of this, and recently lambasted the Air Force for not justifying the purchase of 46 Reapers— potentially wasting $8.8 billion of taxpayers’ money . Read more…
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A law that went into effect at the start of 2015 will allow Illinois school districts to demand the social media passwords for students that break the rules or are suspected of cyberbullying. Motherboard received a copy of the letter sent to parents, which details the law: “If your child has an account on a social networking website, e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, ask.fm, etc., please be aware that State law requires school authorities to notify you that your child may be asked to provide his or her password for these accounts to school officials in certain circumstances.” However, the law doesn’t explicitly state that officials are allowed to demand the passwords: rather, that schools must have a ” process to investigate whether a reported act of bullying is within the permissible scope of the district’s or school’s jurisdiction.” Parents would be notified before the the school asks for a students’ password. Refusal to cooperate could (and we mean could) even lead to criminal charges being pressed. There’s also concerns that how the law is being implemented could be unconstitutional. Talking to Motherboard , Kade Crockford, director of Massachusetts’s American Civil Liberties Union, noted that there are already mechanisms to obtain Facebook data is cyberbullying is bad enough – through the police. Comments Source: Motherboard
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Forget detention: Illlinois students might have to forfeit their Facebook passwords
Want Windows 10? You got it: for free. This is a sea change in Microsoft’s strategy when it comes to upgrades. Gratis upgrades will be available for Windows 7, 8.1 and even Windows Phone 8.1 users for a full year. Read more…
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Windows 10 Is a Free Upgrade for the First Year