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Adobe’s e-reader software collects less data now, EFF says

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Tests on the latest version of Adobe System’s e-reader software shows the company is now collecting less data following a privacy-related dustup last month, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Digital Editions version 4.0.1 appears to only collect data on ebooks that have DRM (Digital Rights Management), wrote Cooper Quintin, a staff technologist with the EFF. DRM places restrictions on how content can be used with the intent of thwarting piracy.

Adobe was criticized in early October after it was discovered Digital Editions collected metadata about ebooks on a device, even if the ebooks did not have DRM. Those logs were also sent to Adobe in plain text.

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Google’s fully driverless car looking less realistic by the day

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Certain features of the driverless car have been slowly making their way into the real world in the past few years. Car companies have begun touting their new models’ ability to parallel park themselves, or to identify people or objects in the road and auto-brake before hitting them, among other things.

Ford is the latest company to embrace autonomous driving technology, announcing recently that its 2015 Mondeo sedans released in Europe will feature pedestrian detection technology, which “will scan the road for pedestrians and issue a warning,” Ford’s manager of driver assist technologies Scott Lindstrom told MIT Technology Review this week.

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Malware is less concerned about virtual machines

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Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn’t the case anymore, according Symantec research.

As companies increasingly use VMs in operational environments, malware writers are largely trying other methods to avoid detection. It means that simply running VMs won’t be enough to scare away malware.

Symantec studied 200,000 malware samples submitted by its customers since 2012. It ran the samples on a VM and a non-VM machine to see which ones would stop working when a VM was detected.

Just 18 percent of malware programs studied stop executing when a VM is detected, wrote Candid Wueest, a threat researcher, in a blog post Tuesday.

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Bitcoin startup runs your miner for less than you might pay for electricity

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HashPlex will give your miner a home and feed it cheap power.
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There are at least a couple of problems for anybody who wants to run a Bitcoin miner in their home, especially if you buy hardware that’s powerful enough to make some money.

“Miners don’t make very good roommates,” said George Schnurle, VP of engineering for miner hosting startup HashPlex. It’s easy for the most powerful miners to “piss off all your roommates because this noisy hot box is running in your living room.”

Schnurle’s co-founder, CEO and former Microsoft employee Bernie Rihn, was running miners in his apartment, and “he had an extension cord going all the way across the living room because he needed to connect to one of his circuits that didn’t already have a bunch of equipment loaded to it,” Schnurle told Ars. “The one upside of that is he didn’t have to pay a heating bill during the winter here in Seattle because he had these space heaters running in his living room 24/7.”

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