Shanghai surprise as cheap Android devices ‘phone home’ to China
Sending texts, call logs and other PII to a server in Shanghai without consent ‘a mistake’, says firmware provider
Naked Security – Sophos
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The cheapest way to read the Boston Globe online may surprise you
Sorry about the click-bait headline, but this actually did surprise me so I thought it might surprise you.
I had been a 7-days-a-week subscriber to the Boston Globe for 35 years, give or take. And, Internet or no Internet, I’ve always maintained a soft spot in my heart for actual print newspapers, in part out of habit but also because I spent the first half of my career working for one.
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Jeb Bush’s email cache held another surprise: Viruses
In addition to personal phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of people who corresponded with him, there’s something else inside the cache of emails that Jeb Bush released this week: computer viruses.
Earlier this week, Bush, who some tip as a presidential hopeful, released thousands of emails from his time as governor of Florida, when he promoted his “[email protected]” email address as a way for voters to interact with him. The emails were released unredacted—a deliberate move intended to demonstrate transparency but one that backfired because the messages included the names, email addresses and phone numbers of thousands of people.
Alongside a Web interface to read the emails, Bush also offered raw Microsoft Outlook files, and it’s in those files where the viruses lurked in file attachments.
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In Surprise, China Unveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips (John Markoff/New York Times)
John Markoff / New York Times:
In Surprise, China Unveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips — China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States. — The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held …