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Google cuts back on Android security fixes – BBC News


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Google cuts back on Android security fixes
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In a blogpost, Mr Beardsley said Google's Android security team told him it would "welcome" a patch from the researchers if they produced one but would not be making one itself. It added that it would tell its Android partners about the bug even though
Making sense of the latest Android security updates scareAndroid Authority (blog)
Google won't fix bug hitting 60 percent of Android phonesArs Technica
Google has flushed 930 million legacy Android users down a security toiletInquirer
seattlepi.com (blog)
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Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit

Yesterday, Amazon announced that it would be cutting the prices of both its S3 and EBS cloud-based storage. Today, Microsoft announced that it too was cutting the cost of its cloud storage. The software giant promised last April that it would match Amazon’s prices for commodity cloud services: storage, bandwidth, and computation.

Amazon’s pricing varies from region to region, and the price cuts range from 6 percent if you’re storing between 1 and 50 terabytes of data, to up to 22 percent—though you’ll need to be storing at least 5 petabytes to take advantage of this.

Microsoft says that not only is it going to match these prices, making cuts of up to 20 percent itself, but it will also charge the same amount in every region. This means that Azure storage will in some parts of the world as much as 10 percent cheaper than the Amazon equivalent.

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Osborne promises no further cuts to soldier numbers – and more funding for … – Telegraph.co.uk


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Osborne promises no further cuts to soldier numbers – and more funding for
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Osborne promises no further cuts to soldier numbers – and more funding for cyber warfare. The Armed Forces will suffer no further cuts in troop numbers, George Osborne has announced, as he promised more funding to fight cyber attacks. Thousands of 
Chancellor Signs Off £11.5bn Spending CutsSky News

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Budget cuts and the next Pearl Harbor – Baltimore Sun

Budget cuts and the next Pearl Harbor
Baltimore Sun
Recent reports suggest that the U.S. government was likely engaged in two very sophisticated cyber attacks: one that spied on Iran's nuclear program and another that slowed it by destroying centrifuges. These attacks encourage a twinge of national

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