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Researchers: Phone metadata surveillance reveals VERY personal info about callers

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Let’s assume you know nothing about a person except for that during a three-week period, that person called “a home improvement store, locksmiths, a hydroponics dealer, and a head shop.” While you still don’t know that person, you certainly have insight into their private life that might allow you to infer a certain scenario. All of that sensitive information came from phone metadata surveillance….
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Stuxnet’s evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber-warfare – SiliconANGLE (blog)

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Stuxnet's evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber–warfare
SiliconANGLE (blog)
Knowledge of the deadly Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc with Iran's nuclear infrastructure has been public for more than three years now, but cybersecurity experts continue to stumble upon new revelations – with the latest one being that Stuxnet had an …
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Firefox Metro hits Windows 8 with a very early, very buggy beta

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Meet the new Firefox, more Metro-y than the old Firefox.

Microsoft may have told app developers “Don’t call it Metro,” but the latest version of Mozilla’s browser for Windows 8 is called the “Firefox Metro Preview.” The name is fitting in all senses.

It’s fitting because Mozilla has adopted the used-to-be-called-Metro design style with an attractive overhaul of the browser’s user interface. This is something Google did not do with Chrome. While there is a version of Chrome for Metro, it looks almost exactly like the desktop version, for better or worse.

The name “Firefox Metro Preview” is also fitting because “preview,” if anything, is a polite word for this early state of the application. While both Microsoft and Google have Metro-style browsers in functional shape, Mozilla’s current schedule will keep the Metro version of its browser in beta for some time after the Windows 8 release on Oct. 26.

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The not very tabletly Windows 8 tablets of IFA

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When is a tablet not a tablet? When it’s turned into a laptop.
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Lots of new Windows 8 and Windows RT machines were on show at IFA in Berlin this week, many of them being given their first outing in public.

Clamshell keyboard docks adorned many of the tablets. These keyboard docks typically included extra ports and extra batteries, and most importantly of all, a hinge, so the screen could be positioned at any angle relative to the keyboard, and so that you can shut them up and use them like laptops. You could call them tablets with keyboard docks, but you’d be forgiven for calling them laptops with tear-off screens. Indeed, ASUS is describing its Transformer Book as exactly that. Quite what the difference is between a convertible laptop and a dockable tablet isn’t clear.

Many of these devices, even the ones claiming to be dockable tablets, will ship with their keyboard attachments in-box. The remainder will have it as an option. Only one device, the ARM-powered, Windows RT-running Samsung ATIV Tab has no public keyboard solution, though even it appears to have a dock connector on the bottom; perhaps Samsung plans to announce the keyboard later.

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