It wraps around your wrist like a wearable but offers a smartphone experience — kind of. …read more Source:: CNet

ProPublica reports on the shady tactics TurboTax and other tax software companies use to prevent most Americans from filing their taxes for free. According to an agreement with the IRS, tax software companies are supposed to offer a “Free File” product to Americans making less than $66,000 a year. From the report: Here’s what happened…

Elon Musk revealed Tesla’s Full Self Driving tech to shareholders, and if the future goes the way he plans, we’ll be living in the future sooner than we think. …read more Source:: CNet

China-based app maker ignored repeated warnings by researchers that its password database – stored in plain text – was accessible to anyone online. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications won’t be kicked out of New York after all. Nine months after a New York government agency ordered Charter to leave the state over its alleged failure to comply with merger conditions, state officials have announced a settlement that will let Charter stay in…

A unique identifier is enabled by default on every iPhone that’s shipped, allowing advertisers to follow the phone’s activity across the web. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Plus: Employee unrest over diversity, harassment reported within Microsoft, Google this week Special report Three of the five people fired from JavaScript package management biz NPM Inc last month claim that bosses got rid of them for trying to form a union.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Attackers are changing both their tactics and targets in an attempt to remain criminally successful, Proofpoint’s study found. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Two employee activists at Google say they have been retaliated against for helping to organize a walkout among thousands of Google employees in November, and are planning a “town hall” meeting on Friday for others to discuss alleged instances of retaliation. Wired: In a message posted to many internal Google mailing lists Monday, Meredith Whittaker,…

Officials speculate that a possible electrical short-circuit is responsible for the fire, in tandem with the cathedral’s lack of fire-prevention safeguards. …read more Source:: CNet