No policy to stop use of dodgy foreign network providers. You’d hope common sense would prevail, but… US government workers may be placing America’s national security at risk as there is no official policy banning them from running their smartphones’ personal and official internet traffic through untrustworthy foreign-hosted VPN services.… …read more Source:: Register

Google also limits what types of third-party apps can access a user’s Drive files. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Marvel and Square Enix plan to detail the long-awaited game, Avengers Project, on June 10. Info’s getting out though. …read more Source:: CNet

Proposals to rein in Zuckerberg’s control over the company didn’t pass on Thursday. …read more Source:: CNet

Four years after 3D Touch debuted on the iPhone 6s, the pressure-sensitive feature appears to be on the chopping block. From a report: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018….

Benedict Evans: There are about 5.3bn people on earth aged over 15. Of these, around 5bn have a mobile phone. This is an estimate: I’m going with the GSMA’s but most others are in the same range. The data challenge is that mobile operators collectively know how many people have a SIM card, but a…

Those stellar financial results last week. Yes ignore them Lenovo is eliminating 500 staff worldwide, including some in its US headquarters at Research Triangle Park in Morrisville, North Carolina.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Digital cameras have been around for forty years or so, and the first ones were built around CCDs. These were two-dimensional CCDs, and if you’ve ever looked inside a copier, scanner, or one of those weird handheld scanners from the 90s, you’ll find something entirely unlike what you’d see in a digital camera. Linear CCDs…

The reality for business owners and CISOs looking to protect their business from a cyberattack is that cyber insurance is not a catchall for protecting against risk and loss. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Improved Alexa support, Spotify integration and a glass design appear to be highlighting Ecobee’s latest thermostat. …read more Source:: CNet