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If you own a system with an Intel 6th generation Core processor—more memorably known as Skylake—and run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you'll have to think about upgrading to Windows 10 within the next 18 months. Microsoft announced today that after July 17, 2017, only the "most critical" security fixes will be released for those platforms and those fixes will only be made available if they don't "risk the reliability or compatibility" of Windows 7 and 8.1 on other (non-Skylake) systems.

The full range of compatibility and security fixes will be published for non-Skylake machines for Windows 7 until January 14 2020, and for Windows 8.1 until January 10 2023.

Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's 8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs (which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand new Zen arch) will only be supported on Windows 10. Going forward, the company says that using the latest generation processors will always require the latest generation operating system.

“Think of the children!” may one day be a slogan for a health campaign imploring people to eat more fiber.

Doctors and nutrition experts have been harping on the importance of fiber for years, particularly how most people in industrialized countries eat less than the recommended daily dose of 25 to 38 grams. After all, the nutrient, a diverse group of molecules that includes complex carbohydrates, helps keep you “regular.” Perhaps less well-known, fiber helps maintain a healthy, diverse population of gut microbes.

But eating fiber may not just benefit the microbial balance of the eater—it may also benefit that of the eater’s progeny, according to a new study in Nature.

A lawyer representing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has demanded that several of the campaign's logos be removed from Wikipedia, saying that reproducing the logos violates copyright law. The Wikimedia Foundation has complied with the DMCA takedown notice and removed the notices.

It's fairly surprising that the campaign would seek to ban wide distribution of its logos, which are clearly positive advertising for the campaign. It's even more surprising that after getting a call from the Wikimedia Foundation, the Sanders campaign didn't back down or blame an overzealous volunteer attorney—the campaign confirmed it wants Wikipedia to comply with the notice and not publish its logos.

"We also contacted the attorneys representing the Bernie Sanders campaign to discuss the issue, and they asked that WMF carry out a takedown in compliance with the DMCA rather than work with the community to update the licensing information or allow the images," wrote Wikimedia community manager James Alexander on a discussion page about the Sanders DMCA notices.

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A Las Vegas-based casino operator has sued security firm Trustwave for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" forensics investigation that missed key details of a network breach and allowed credit card thieves to maintain their foothold during the course of the two-and-a-half month investigation.

In a legal complaint filed in federal court in Las Vegas, Affinity Gaming said it hired Trustwave in October 2013 to investigate and contain a network breach that allowed attackers to obtain customers' credit card data. In mid January 2014, Trustwave submitted a report required under payment card industry security rules on all merchants who accept major credit cards. In the PCI forensics report, Trustwave said it had identified the source of the data breach and had contained the malware responsible for it. More than a year later after Affinity was hit by a second credit card breach, the casino operator allegedly learned from Trustwave competitor Mandiant that the malware had never been fully removed.

According to the December, 2015 complaint:

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The administrator of the cock.li e-mail hosting service told Ars on Friday that a second hard drive had been seized from his Bavarian data center by the district attorney for the City of Zwickau in eastern Germany. As a result, he has now moved the service out of Germany and is in the process of restoring it.

cock.li's Vincent Canfield said that he had initially chosen a German data host because the country has a reputation for "good data privacy laws."

French authorities opened an investigation on Friday into an early-stage drug trial that went tragically awry, leaving one trial participant brain dead, five hospitalized, and several others with neurological disorders. Of the five hospitalized, three are suspected of having permanent brain damage.

The injured are among a group of otherwise healthy male volunteers participating in a phase I drug trial, which began in June. The trial was testing the safety of an oral medication made by Portuguese drug maker BIAL.

In a statement, BIAL described the drug as a pain medication, specifically an FAAH enzyme inhibitor, but the company provided little other details. Early reports by media suggest that the test drug may be compound BIA 10-2474, which BIAL describes as designed to treat “neurological and psychiatric pathologies.”

This week, Amazon China registered to become an “ocean freight forwarder” with the United States Federal Maritime Commission. That means Amazon, one of the largest online retailers in the world, would be able to subcontract companies to ship goods from China to the US.

Because this registration allows Amazon to sell shipment services, Reuters suggests that Amazon might be looking into providing logistics services for third-party companies.

A blog post by freight forwarding company Flexport notes it’s likely that Amazon China filed for this freight contracting registration because Chinese sellers are more enthusiastic about finding American buyers than American sellers are about finding Chinese buyers right now. In addition, American companies shipping to China wouldn’t want to share shipping data and wholesale prices with Amazon, since the company is viewed as a fierce competitor. But for Chinese companies, Amazon is less of a threat, and a freight service provided by Amazon might help them minimize costs when shipping abroad.