Scott Helme, the well-known security researcher, international speaker and the founder of the securityheaders.com and report-uri.com free tools for web security, has devoted himself to improving the security environment of the internet for the past decade. Threatpost sat down with Helme to discuss the state of web security, particularly on the encryption front — including…

The newly-discovered Spectre variants can be exploited to uncover confidential data via microarchitectural side channels in CPUs. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Windows 10 test build 17713 includes a bunch of new Notepad features, along with Edge, Defender Application Guard and other tweaks, fixes and updates. …read more Source:: ZDNet

In a little over four years’ time, the project born from Google’s internal container management efforts has upended the best-laid plans of VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, and every other would-be king of the data center. So just what is it that changed everything? …read more Source:: ZDNet

Still only 12 months’ porridge The UK government has rowed back on proposals that would allow it to suck up communications data for investigations of crimes that could see someone put away for just six months – but not by much.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

New book contains anecdotes about life at Google early on. …read more Source:: CNet

Regulators weren’t happy about how Apple was setting iPhone prices. …read more Source:: CNet

According to a note shared by reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is planning to refresh a number of its computing product lineups later this year. Via MacRumors: iPhone: There are three iPhones in the works, two OLED models in 5.8 and 6.5-inch sizes and one LED model that will be available in a 6.1-inch…

The moonshot projects just got a big promotion. …read more Source:: CNet

They’ll rely on Nvidia’s AV hardware to keep the shiny side up. …read more Source:: CNet