As Google Fiber prepares to leave Louisville, Kentucky, Google has agreed to pay the city government $3.84 million to fix damage to city streets. “The payments, to be made over 20 months, will cover removing fiber cables and sealant from roads, milling and paving streets ‘where needed’ and removing Google’s above-ground infrastructure,” reports WDRB, citing…

Unknown hackers broke into databases of nonprofit and have posted online personal info on FBI, Secret Service, Capitol Police, US Park Police, others. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The outgoing executive’s account has nearly 200,000 followers in its first few hours. …read more Source:: CNet

You’ve been able to run many Linux distros on Windows thanks to WSL for years. Now, there’s a Linux distro built to work hand-in-glove with WSL. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An unknown attacker used a support agent’s credentials to access email content belonging to some Outlook, Hotmail users. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The Defense and Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) appears to be in the process of developing its own ultra secure communication platform. The program is called “Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone,” or RACE, and it will be similar to WhatsApp in that it will be for everyone to use. Trusted Reviews reports: The objectives of…

Email contents exposed for unlucky punters Microsoft says miscreants accessed some of its customers’ webmail inboxes and account data after a support rep’s administrative account was hijacked.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

That would definitely be a change. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Former Volkswagen AG head Martin Winterkorn was charged with serious fraud in Germany for his role in the diesel-rigging scandal that rocked the carmaker and cost it about $33 billion. The former chief executive officer was accused alongside four other managers of equipping vehicles sold to customers…

Writing about copyright infringement appears to have been confused with copy infringement. …read more Source:: CNet