A Hack of the Clones

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A Hack of the Clones
Number 2701
Broadcast Date MARCH 1, 2016
Episode Length 47:42
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Patrick Beja

Microsoft is promising to make Xbox Games playable on Windows 10 as universal apps. But they have a long way to go. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt try to figure it out.

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FBI Director James Comey testified to the US House Judiciary committee Tuesday morning. Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell is also testifying as is New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance and encryption specialist Susan Landau formerly a privacy analyst at Google now a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Comey said "you're saying we either have privacy or security, I don't accept that premise." He also said that if the FBI gets the authority to compel Apple it would likely use it in other cases. Landau explained that when requests like this become routine, leaks become more likely. She also called for investment in law enforcement's own technical capabilities.
The Magistrate Judge Orenstein of the US Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled Monday afternoon that the All Writs Act could not be used to justify a government request to compel Apple to assist accessing data on an iPhone running iOS 7. It is important to note this is NOT the high-profile San Bernardino case, but a drug case where the defendant has already settled but is awaiting sentencing.
DJI introduced its latest drone the Phantom 4 that can see and avoid obstacles with 4 cameras and 2 ultrasonic sensors plus flight software.It also includes a 4K main camera with a new lens, ActiveTrack that automatically tracks camera subjects, Sport mode that boosts the drone’s speed from 35 to 65 mph, and a larger 5350 mAh battery that allows 28 minutes of power on a single charge. The Phantom is available today on DJI.com and Apple.com for $1399 and in DJI’s store in Shenzhen and Apple Stores around the world March 15th.
Sony announced the next PlayStation update, version 3.5, will include Remote Play for Windows PC or Mac. Remote play is already available on PS Vita and some other devices. The beta of 3.5 comes out tomorrow but will not have Remote Play active yet. Other features that WILL be in 3.5 include notifications when friends log on, the ability to appear offline, Daily Motion streaming, Play Together and User Scheduled Events. No word on when 3.5 comes to the general public.
SoundHound has developed a voice-powered digital assistant called Hound available now for iOS and Android. The app has partnerships with Yelp and Uber. The Verge’s Nick Stat called it the smartest and fastest assistant he’s seen yet. It can understand questions within questions and is good at understanding context. It supposedly skips translating speech to text but interpret speech directly.
Brazil’s Federal Police arrested Facebook’s vice President for Latin America Diego Dzodan while he was on his way to work in São Paulo. Facebook is accused of disobeying a court order to assist investigators in a drug case involving a WhatsApp user. WhatsApp says it has cooperated, “to the full extent of our ability,” and can’t give law enforcement information it does not have. The arrest came at the request of the state of Sergipe.
The Verge passes along some clarifying details from Road to VR that IBM is unfortunately not helping to make an MMO out of Sword Art Online. An IBM spokesperson told the Verge IBM is helping make a standalone experience involving an event from March 18-20 in Tokyo. A select group of participants will experience a VR game of Sword Art Online using IBM’s SoftLayer cloud service.
AdWeek reports McDonald’s in Sweden are selling 3500 Happy Goggles at 14 restaurants from March 5 to March 12 during the Sportlov holiday. Happy Googles is a Happy Meal with a box that can be folded into VR Goggles. It works with a ski game for your phone called “se upp i backen” though McDonald’s did not say what platforms the game is available on.
Microsoft announced a new enterprise level anti-malware service only for Windows 10, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection. WDATP is designed to stop malware that uses social engineering and unpatched zero-day flaws to infect systems by leveraging cloud-based machine learning. WDATP is currently in private beta with a half-million systems and open to public preview later in the year.
AT&T announced it will launch DirecTV on the Internet later this year. Customers will only need the Internet and an Internet-connected device, and there will be no contracts. DirecTV Now will include much of what is available on DirecTV’s satellite service today. DirecTV Mobile will be cheaper but limited to phones and DirecTV Preview will be free with limited content. Pricing, availability and content offerings were not announced.
International researchers revealed that some misconfigured TLS implementations on Web servers allow end-user computers to request use of the obsolete SSLv2 that was retired 20 years ago. Attackers could use this vulnerability to decrypt secured connections in a matter of hours. Scans show 11 million websites end email services are vulnerable in an attack being called DROWN. Servers should be updated and sysadmins can use a firewall to filter SSLv2 traffic.

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Pick of the Day

The Asus AC3200 router is pretty awesome!​
Submitted by Patrick

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Regarding autonomous cars and ethical decision-making, Arne in wintry and surprisingly sunny Germany writes "So, this should be the threshold to surpass. Even better, I don't think it even has to. Why not let the owner or driver of the car make that decision before he can drive the car? Just fill out a legally binding questionnaire that sets the baseline for any such critical decision the car takes. Then the driver would be liable for the result, just as he would be now."
Sent by Arne in wintry and surprisingly sunny Germany


My company CompTIA just put out a report this morning showing that the tech industry added nearly 200,000 new jobs last year, now employing over 6.7 million people in the US. An important fact is that the average tech worker makes more than double ($105,400/year) that of the average US private sector worker.

Thought I would share this information. Lots of cool data in the full report at www.cyberstates.org.

Thanks for your daily work.

Just another boss,
Sent by Preston Grisham


You guys were wondering why the Raspberry Pi foundation didn't wait until Pi day to release the Raspberry Pi 3. It's probably because 14/3 is little more than the day before the Ides of March on the side of the Atlantic that the Raspberry Pi comes from.

At least Leap Day is Leap Day wherever the Gregorian calendar is used, no matter how you write the date.


Cheers
Sent by Scot in London

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