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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Reaches End of Life In February 2016

An anonymous reader writes: The oldest long-term supported Linux kernel branch finally reaches end of life next month, but before going into the deepest darkest corners of the Internet, it just dropped one more maintenance release, Linux kernel 2.6.32.70 LTS. Willy Tarreau dropped the news about the release of Linux kernel 2.6.32.70 LTS on January […]

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Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of

MojoKid writes: ASUS recently revamped their ZenBook UX305 family of ultralight notebooks with Intel’s 6th generation Skylake Core m series, which brings with it not only improved graphics performance but also native support for PCI Express NVMe M.2 Solid State Drives. The platform is turning out to be fairly strong for this category of notebooks […]

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Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System

An anonymous reader writes with a report from the Colorado Springs Gazette that the U.S. Air Force Space Command has declared its first cyber “weapons system” operational. The weapon, deemed fully operational this month, is basically a big firewall designed to protect the Air Force’s internal 1 million-user network from hackers. It will be a […]

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ACLU Sues Anaheim Police For Public Records On Cell Phone Surveillance

New submitter Lacey Waymire writes: The ACLU of Northern California is suing for a release of public records regarding Anaheim police’s use of cell phone surveillance devices. “We don’t think any surveillance devices, particularly these sorts of invasive cell phone surveillance devices, should ever be acquired or used without intense public debate and the adoption […]

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A Legal Name Change Puts ‘None of the Above’ On Canadian Ballot

PolygamousRanchKid writes: The ballot to fill a legislative seat in Canada next month includes none of the above—and it’s a real person. Sheldon Bergson, 46, had his name legally changed to Above Znoneofthe and is now a candidate for the Ontario legislature, the CBC reports. The election is Feb. 11. The ballot lists candidates in […]

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Elon Musk To Unveil Mars Spacecraft Later This Year, For 2025 Flight

frank249 writes: Fox News is reporting that Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to unveil plans for the spacecraft that would send humans to Mars within a decade. Speaking at an event in Hong Kong, Musk said he was ‘hoping to describe the architecture’ of the spacecraft at the International Astronautical Conference in […]

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Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump?

Lauren Weinstein writes: The conclusion appears inescapable. Twitter apparently has voluntarily chosen to ‘look the other way’ while Donald Trump spews forth a trolling stream of hate and other abuses that would cause any average Twitter user to be terminated in a heartbeat. There’s always room to argue the proprietary or desirability of any given […]

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Project Neon Will Bring Users Up-to-Date KDE Packages

sfcrazy writes: [Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell] is going to announce a new project at FOSDEM that brings the KDE experience to users. There is Fedora that offers latest from Gnome, but there is no such distro that offers the same level of integration with KDE software; yes, there is openSUSE but it offers KDE as […]

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Sensitive Information Can Be Revealed From Tor Hidden Services On Apache

Patrick O’Neill writes: A common configuration mistake in Apache, the most popular Web server software in the world, can allow anyone to look behind the curtains on a hidden server to see everything from total traffic to active HTTP requests. When an hidden service reveals the HTTP requests, it’s revealing every file—a Web page, picture, […]

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WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats

An anonymous reader writes: WhatsApp 3.0 will come with two privacy-related changes. The first is in the Security section and is in the form of a new setting called “Show security indicators.” Turning on this setting will add a lock icon to your WhatsApp whenever you’re having encrypted conversations. The second new setting is in […]

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