Extradition ruling in Lauri Love hacking case set for September

US officials want Love to face charges of hacking NASA, the FBI, and the US Army.

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Briton Lauri Love is expected to learn on September 16 whether a judge will rule in favour of his extradition to the US to face charges of alleged hacking, Westminster Magistrates' Court has heard.

According to his legal representative, Love—who faces charges of hacking as part of the Anonymous collective in 2013—could serve up to 99 years in prison in the US. He is accused of using a security flaw in ColdFusion to gain administrator-level access to servers.

Love is alleged to have been involved in the hack known as #OpLastResort, which targeted the US Army, the US Federal Reserve, the FBI, NASA, and the Missile Defense Agency in retaliation over the suicide, while awaiting trial, of Aaron Swartz.

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Amazon & BLU’s $50 smartphone hacked: Root & custom recovery now available

Amazon & BLU’s $50 smartphone hacked: Root & custom recovery now available

It’s been less than a month since Amazon started selling two deeply discounted smartphones that come with ads on the lock screen and notification tray. Unsurprisingly it didn’t take long for someone to root the Moto G4 Prime Exclusive and eliminate the ads on that $150 version of the phone.

But Amazon also offers an even cheaper phone: the BLU R1 HD Prime Exclusive has a starting price of just $50 when you buy the ad-supported model (an ad-free version sells for $100 and up).

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Amazon & BLU’s $50 smartphone hacked: Root & custom recovery now available

It’s been less than a month since Amazon started selling two deeply discounted smartphones that come with ads on the lock screen and notification tray. Unsurprisingly it didn’t take long for someone to root the Moto G4 Prime Exclusive and eliminate the ads on that $150 version of the phone.

But Amazon also offers an even cheaper phone: the BLU R1 HD Prime Exclusive has a starting price of just $50 when you buy the ad-supported model (an ad-free version sells for $100 and up).

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Marissa Mayer “couldn’t be more proud” of achievements at Yahoo

As Yahoo sells to Verizon, CEO thanks team behind Yahoo’s “transformation.”

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the Fortune Global Forum on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan)

Despite a rocky tenure as Yahoo chief executive that is likely to end in a sale to Verizon, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer today said the company has been transformed under her leadership and that she "couldn't be more proud of the achievements to date."

In a call with investors describing the $4.8 billion (£3.7 billion) acquisition of Yahoo's operating business that Verizon announced this morning, Mayer praised the Yahoo staff for "the tremendous accomplishments made over the past few years in our transformation." Without mentioning missteps like the Tumblr acquisition, Mayer said, "we invested in and built our mobile, video, native, and social businesses from nothing in 2011 to $1.6 billion in GAAP revenue in 2015. We tripled our mobile base to over 600 million monthly active users and generated over $1 billion of mobile advertising revenue last year."

Yahoo, Mayer said, has also "streamlined and modernized every aspect of our consumer products and dramatically improved our advertiser products. We've laid incredibly solid groundwork and the sale gives us the opportunity to build on that momentum."

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Sync 3: Ford bringt Carplay und Android Auto in alle 2017er-Modelle

Der US-Hersteller Ford hat angekündigt, in den USA alle Modelle des Jahres 2017 mit seinem Car-Entertainment-System Sync 3 anzubieten – das sowohl Apples Carplay als auch Android Auto unterstützt. Die Chancen auf eine gute Verfügbarkeit in Europa dürften damit ebenfalls steigen. (Automotive, Auto)

Der US-Hersteller Ford hat angekündigt, in den USA alle Modelle des Jahres 2017 mit seinem Car-Entertainment-System Sync 3 anzubieten - das sowohl Apples Carplay als auch Android Auto unterstützt. Die Chancen auf eine gute Verfügbarkeit in Europa dürften damit ebenfalls steigen. (Automotive, Auto)

Another Google Nexus “Sailfish” leak confirms 1080p display, Snapdragon CPU

Another Google Nexus “Sailfish” leak confirms 1080p display, Snapdragon CPU

Google is rumored to be working with HTC on two new Nexus smartphones for 2016. A series of leaks have suggested that one will feature a 5 inch, 1080p display while the other has a 5.5 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel screen.

Now another leak apparently confirms that the smaller phone, code-named “Sailfish” will have a 1920 x 1080 pixel display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (or maybe Snapdragon 821) processor, among other things.

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Another Google Nexus “Sailfish” leak confirms 1080p display, Snapdragon CPU

Google is rumored to be working with HTC on two new Nexus smartphones for 2016. A series of leaks have suggested that one will feature a 5 inch, 1080p display while the other has a 5.5 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel screen.

Now another leak apparently confirms that the smaller phone, code-named “Sailfish” will have a 1920 x 1080 pixel display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (or maybe Snapdragon 821) processor, among other things.

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Hello Games: No Man’s Sky braucht kein Plus und keine Superformel

Die Raumschiffe können vermutlich wie geplant abheben: Das Entwicklerstudio Hello Games muss keinen Rechtsstreit wegen der Algorithmen von No Man’s Sky fürchten. Und Sony hat sich zur Notwendigkeit eines Plus-Abos geäußert. (No Man’s Sky, Sony)

Die Raumschiffe können vermutlich wie geplant abheben: Das Entwicklerstudio Hello Games muss keinen Rechtsstreit wegen der Algorithmen von No Man's Sky fürchten. Und Sony hat sich zur Notwendigkeit eines Plus-Abos geäußert. (No Man's Sky, Sony)

PGS handheld gaming PC Kickstarter campaign cancelled

PGS handheld gaming PC Kickstarter campaign cancelled

The PGS handheld game PC looks good on paper: it has two screens, physical gaming buttons, support for up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage, and support for both Windows 10 and Android 6.0 software.

But when Portable Solutions started a Kickstarter campaign for the project, a lot of people started wondering if the PGS was too good to be true… especially given the facts that the company had never produced hardware before, only had a prototype hobbled together from existing computers made by other companies, and only sought to raise $100,000 (which seemed like an unreasonably low figure, given the amount of work it’d take to bring this sort of computer into the world).

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PGS handheld gaming PC Kickstarter campaign cancelled

The PGS handheld game PC looks good on paper: it has two screens, physical gaming buttons, support for up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage, and support for both Windows 10 and Android 6.0 software.

But when Portable Solutions started a Kickstarter campaign for the project, a lot of people started wondering if the PGS was too good to be true… especially given the facts that the company had never produced hardware before, only had a prototype hobbled together from existing computers made by other companies, and only sought to raise $100,000 (which seemed like an unreasonably low figure, given the amount of work it’d take to bring this sort of computer into the world).

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Master Key: Hacker gelangen per Reverse Engineering an Gepäckschlüssel

Hacker haben “Safe Skies”-Schlösser geknackt, nachdem letztes Jahr bereits das Generalschlüsseldesign für alle “Travel Sentry”-Schlösser veröffentlicht wurde. Das zeigt vor allem, wie fragwürdig Generalschlüssel prinzipiell sind. (Security, 3D-Drucker)

Hacker haben "Safe Skies"-Schlösser geknackt, nachdem letztes Jahr bereits das Generalschlüsseldesign für alle "Travel Sentry"-Schlösser veröffentlicht wurde. Das zeigt vor allem, wie fragwürdig Generalschlüssel prinzipiell sind. (Security, 3D-Drucker)

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is ready to go and free for just a few more days

The Anniversary Update makes a compelling upgrade that bit more attractive.

Microsoft's Terry Myerson details the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. (credit: Microsoft)

The final build of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is build 14393. The update, which provides a range of new features and improvements, represents Microsoft's last big push to get Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10.

The update is available right now to those who have opted in to the Windows Insider program, and it will be pushed out to Windows 10 users on the current branch on August 2. The free upgrade offer from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10, however, ends on July 29, leaving Microsoft hoping that the promise of the new update will be enough to get people to make the switch.

For consumers, the big Anniversary Update improvements are in stylus support and Cortana. For as long as Microsoft has been pushing pen interfaces on Windows—the specs for Windows XP Tablet edition came out about 15 years ago—the company has done so as a mouse alternative, with the only major pen-specific feature being handwriting recognition. This never worked well. Finger-based touch interfaces dominated with the rise of the iPhone, but Windows has always retained its pen support, with devices like the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book shipping with pens.

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