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- Chrome switches off Flash by default tomorrow
- Julian Assange gets paranoid about Harrods
- Microsoft cleared of patent infringement
- US kid jailed for ISIL technical support
| Chrome switches off Flash by default tomorrow Posted: 31 Aug 2015 01:31 AM PDT
After September 1 Google will pause “many” Flash ads in its web browser Chrome. It will allow you to run Flash videos, but the adverts are the most important thing for most sites. If site visitors want to look at a piece of Flash content that was paused, you can click on it and start it manually. But face it, who is going to click on an advert? The change, originally announced in June and enabled for beta users, goes into effect for everyone September 1, Google announced. The feature already exists in Chrome; you can turn it on in the browser’s “Advanced settings,” under “Content settings,” by choosing the “Detect and run important plugin content” option. The change going into effect September 1 will be that this feature will be turned on by default. The new option speeds up page loading and reduce Chrome’s memory consumption, which is a growing problem for Google’s web browser. All this is shaping up to remove Flash from the planet.
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| Julian Assange gets paranoid about Harrods Posted: 31 Aug 2015 01:30 AM PDT
Al-Fayed who is a big supporter of the monarchy, and particularly Prince Phillip, has apparently been involved in a plot to spy on Assange and all his doings. Al-Fayed owns Harrods which is just across the road from Assange who has placed himself under house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy secretly helping police to spy on him in his embassy hideout. In an interview, Assange claimed that Scotland Yard had developed a 'relationship' with Harrods, adding: 'We have obtained documents from Harrods [saying that] police have people stationed 24 hours a day in some of the opposing buildings Harrods controls.' The 44-year-old, who also fears he is being bugged, has lived at the embassy in London's Knightsbridge since Ecuador gave him asylum in 2012. The British Government wants to extradite him to Sweden under a European Arrest Warrant where he faces questioning over an allegation of rape made by a woman he met during a visit to the country in 2010. Assange is still insisting that if he is sent to Sweden he will be extradited to the US, where he could face 35 years in prison for publishing classified documents related to US activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately that boat sailed a long time ago and if the US wanted to extradite him the UK would have happily have packed him off years ago. So far it has cost the UK £11 million to keep an eye on Assange's to stop him sneaking out. Assange also told The Times magazine about his fears that he could be 'droned' by the CIA if he is ever free. |
| Microsoft cleared of patent infringement Posted: 31 Aug 2015 01:29 AM PDT
InterDigital has been battling in court for eight years, initially trying to claim royalties on phones made by Nokia, now transferred to Microsoft. However the International Trade Commission, as well as blocking the call for an import ban, stated that Microsoft did not infringe patents relating to the way mobiles make calls. Vole is off scot-free. InterDigital CEO William J. Merritt was clearly disappointed. He said that it would have a limited impact on his business, "given the decline of the Nokia mobile device business under Microsoft's control and its limited market position.” Ohhhh get her. Vole on the other hand was rather pleased said: "We’re grateful the Commission stopped InterDigital from trying to block our products. We’ll continue to pursue our separate suit addressing InterDigital’s unlawful conduct and abusive patent licensing scheme." Now Microsoft has its work cut out convincing the world that Windows 10 on mobile is a good idea.
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| US kid jailed for ISIL technical support Posted: 31 Aug 2015 01:28 AM PDT
Well sort of. Ali Shukri Amin was charged for assisting ISIL via blog and Twitter posts about encryption and Bitcoin. Attorney General John Carlin said that Amin used social media to provide material support to ISIL and this sort of sentence would stop propaganda seeping into communities and reaching those who are most vulnerable. Amin is one of the youngest people in the US to face terror charges. He pleaded guilty in June and faced a maximum 15 years in prison. He founded the @amreekiwitness Twitter handle a year ago, garnering more than 4,000 followers and tweeting more than 7,000 times. Last year, the authorities said, he tweeted on the now-defunct Twitter handle about how jihadists could use Bitcoin “to fund their efforts”. He explained what Bitcoins were, how the Bitcoin system worked, and suggested using Dark Wallet, a new Bitcoin wallet, which keeps the user of Bitcoins anonymous. The article included statements on how to set up an anonymous donations system to send money, using Bitcoin, to the mujahedeen. The Prince William County Osbourn Park High School student said he became lost and caught up in something that takes the greatest and most profound teachings of Islam and turns them into justifications for violence and death. On his blog, the boy said he “authored a series of highly technical articles targeted at aspiring jihadists and ISIL supporters detailing the use of security measures in online communications to include the use of encryption and anonymity software, tools and techniques, as well as the use of the virtual currency Bitcoin as a means to anonymously fund ISIL.” Any sympathy we might have had for the kid, who was essentually running low level technical support, was lost when he was also accused of radicalising an 18-year-old Virginia youth, Reza Niknejad, who travelled to Syria in January to join ISIL. |
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