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Sorry, your Motorola Android isn’t going to get monthly security updates

July 27, 2016/in Computer Security

Well, this sucks if you’ve spent good money on a Motorola smartphone.

The firm has confirmed to Ars Technica that it isn’t going to commit to monthly security updates, even though Google will have released patches for the Android operating system.

Here’s what they told Ron Amadeo at Ars Technica:

“Motorola understands that keeping phones up to date with Android security patches is important to our customers. We strive to push security patches as quickly as possible. However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it’s difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade.”

I guess people who care about security will be buying an Android smartphone from a company that does care about keeping them up-to-date with security patches – like Google or Samsung.

Or maybe they’ll just buy an iPhone. But certainly not a phone made by Motorola.

Graham Cluley

FAA chief to impatient drone industry: “Sorry we’re so slow”

May 6, 2016/in Internet Security

FAA administrator Michael Huerta told attendees at this week’s drone conference that the FAA is forming an advisory committee led by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to help prioritize drone rulemaking work. (credit: Sean Gallagher)

NEW ORLEANS—Former Cisco CEO John Chambers delivered a keynote on Tuesday at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) XPONENTIAL conference, slamming the Obama administration for moving too slowly on adjusting regulations governing commercial and private drones.

Chambers said that Obama doesn’t “get” drones and that the US is potentially being left behind in a market that he claimed could drive trillions of dollars in economic impact. His remarks drew loud applause from the audience of attendees—many of whom represented companies eager to cash in on drones as either vendors or customers.

Federal Aviation Administration administrator Michael Huerta responded on Wednesday with a talk about the FAA’s progress on drone regulations before the same audience that Huerta had previously called “a lion’s den” in his last appearance at AUVSI’s flagship conference four years ago. But, he joked, “We’re getting to know each other so well that UAS conventions are getting to be like family reunions.”

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Technology Lab – Ars Technica

Sorry, Boaty fans: The Internet can’t always get what it wants

April 19, 2016/in Internet Security

No one laughed more than I did when the Internet stepped up and voted overwhelmingly to name a British research ship Boaty McBoatface. The suggested moniker still made me giggle days later.

But now comes word that the officials tasked with actually naming the ship are not that big on Boaty. From a story in the Guardian:

However, Jo Johnson, the science minister, signaled the government was preparing to activate its get-out clause. “The new royal research ship will be sailing into the world’s iciest waters to address global challenges that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, including global warming, the melting of polar ice and rising sea levels,” he said.

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Network World Paul McNamara