Day: August 30, 2013

Indian government to bar politicians from using Gmail for official business

US-based email services seen as too risky……


Google plunges deeper into smartwatch wars with WINN

With Samsung on the brink of a big reveal, Google snapped up smartwatch maker WINN Labs to more quickly develop its own…….


Tencent offers 10TB of free cloud storage for all

Afraid of PRISM? China to the rescue!……


One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come

New submitter MickyTheIdiot writes “The Jurist reports: ‘A judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon ruled Wednesday (PDF) that those placed on the U.S. government’s no-fly list have ‘a constitutionally-protected liberty interest in traveling internationally by air, which is affected by being placed on the No Fly List.’ The plaintiffs in…


Bug allows for use of ‘sudo’ in OS X without a password

A small workaround exists in OS X for the use of the “sudo” command requiring authentication after 10 minutes of nonuse…….


Most anticipated tech: End of summer edition

The next iPhone, Xbox, PlayStation, and a slew of new smartwatch products are just a few of the gadgets we expect to see as 2013 races to a close…….


Y Combinator’s Paul Graham defends foreign accent comments

Outrage aside, Graham sticks to the facts as he sees them: Startup founders with strong foreign accents are less likely to win VC funding…….


Microsoft Windows LdrHotPatchRoutine Remote ASLR Bypass

VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team discovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is caused by a design error in the “ntdll.LdrHotPatchRoutine” function which can be abused to load an arbitrary library e.g. from a remote network share, leading to arbitrary code execution and ASLR bypass…….


Apple joins the iPhone trade-in game

Apple retail stores offer credit for old iPhones, Facebook adds a music player to the Android app, and AT&T launches a prepaid option with Aio Wireless…….


Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service

Dave_Minsky writes “The small indigenous village of Villa Talea de Castro (pop. 2,500) in the state of Oaxaca is showing the world that it doesn’t have to rely on major cellular telecommunications providers for service. With the help from indigenous groups, civil organizations and universities, village residents put up an antenna on a rooftop, installed…