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Microsoft slips Windows 10 upgrade ads into Internet Explorer security patch

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Microsoft is adding a new weapon to its aggressive Windows 10 push—or at least it appears that it is.

Earlier in the week, Microsoft added what sounds a lot like an advertisement for Windows 10 to its Patch Tuesday release for Internet Explorer, bundling it in with a critical security patch. The new update affects only Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs and brings an upgrade prompt to Internet Explorer 11.

In its description of update KB3146449, Microsoft says it “adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.” Or as we common folk call it, an ad.

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San Diego quietly slips facial recognition into the hands of law enforcers

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Police and other authorities are using smartphones and tablets to snap photos in the field, without warrants or asking for subjects’ permission to run their images against criminal databases. The program was rolled out without public hearings or notice, and could represent the beginning of a national rollout.
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RIMM Slips 7%: Q4 BB Shipments Falling to 11M to 12M (Tiernan Ray/Tech Trader Daily)

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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
RIMM Slips 7%: Q4 BB Shipments Falling to 11M to 12M  —  Research in Motion (RIMM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue per share in line with a pre-announcement earlier this month, and earnings per share in line with its reduced range, but forecast Q4′s results below expectations.

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Chrome’s Security Crown Slips (Tom Simonite/Technology Review)

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Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Chrome’s Security Crown Slips  —  A security firm claims to have found a way to use Google’s browser to attack web users.  —  Google’s browser Chrome may have just suffered its most serious security setback yet.  Security firm VUPEN today announced that its researchers had found …

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