dryriver sends this quote from the BBC: “Samsung has said that it will stop taking rivals to court [in the E.U.] over certain patent infringements for the next five years. The white flag in the patent battle has been raised because the South Korean electronics firm faces a huge fine for alleged abuses of the…

If you’re a Windows power user, you probably have a collection of favorite tweaks to make the OS run faster and work better. If one of those tips involves moving the default user profiles folder, you’re setting yourself up for heartache, as several Windows 8.1 upgraders have found out the hard way…….

“Exergame” aims to turn yoga into an activity the sight-impaired can enjoy more easily by tracking their motions and offering verbal cues on how to strike poses correctly…….

We’ve heard about Pono for years, and now they’re saying it’s coming in early 2014…….

WordPress Videowall plugin suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. Note that this finding houses site-specific data…….

An anonymous reader writes “According to the Washington Post, ‘Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he once feared that terrorists could use the electrical device that had been implanted near his heart to kill him and had his doctor disable its wireless function. Cheney has a history of heart trouble, suffering the first of five…

slack_justyb writes “In a blog post, Mark Shuttleworth sends his congrats to the Ubuntu developers for the recent release of 13.10 and talks about 14.04’s codename (Trusty Tahr). He also takes aim at what he calls ‘The Open Source Tea Party.’ He writes, ‘Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors attack a project…

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom giant banned from selling to U.S. government agencies due to its alleged ties to Chinese intelligence services, is trying to turn the tables on its accusers by offering itself as a safe haven for customers concerned that the NSA has compromised their own IT vendors. ‘We have…

In Berkeley, Calif., All Power Labs is turning out machines that convert cheap and abundant biomass into clean energy and rich, efficient charcoal fertilizer…….

Did Microsoft swallow a Jobsian phrasebook?……