av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 23, 2018 | Ted
THE EVIDENCE IS mounting that President Donald Trump is unhinged, knocking the United States into an unforeseen crack in the constitutional framework. Our founding documents offer few clues on how to handle the scenario we now confront. The country is saddled with a president who is not just thoroughly corrupt but also appears to be mentally impaired — yet retains the backing of his own enabling party. This makes him nearly impervious to the nation’s traditional checks and balances.
Källa: So You Want to Use the 25th Amendment to Get Rid of Donald Trump? Here Are the Hurdles to Removing a Mentally Impaired President.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 23, 2018 | Ted
Bondars is convicted for running Scan4You, a multi-engine virus scanning tool just like Google’s legitimate web service VirusTotal. Using this service, hackers were able to run their code through various mainstream antivirusesbefore launching them officially into an actual malware campaign.
“Ruslans Bondars helped malware developers attack American businesses,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “The Department of Justice and its law enforcement partners make no distinction between service providers like Scan4You and the hackers they assist: we will hold them accountable for all of the significant harm they cause and work tirelessly to bring them to justice, wherever they may be located.”
Källa: Hacker gets 14 years jail time for operating Scan4You malware scanning service
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 22, 2018 | Ted
WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.
Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulgedclassified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.
Källa: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 19, 2018 | Ted
Apple’s iOS 12 software update is available today for supported iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices, and on the surface, it looks like one of the smallest new iOS releases Apple has pushed out.
This isn’t a surprise; Apple said earlier this year that iOS 12 would be more about performance and stability than adding new features. Some major additions that were originally planned—like an overhauled home screen—were reportedly delayed to a later release.
And it’s also not a bad thing. Frankly, iOS 11 had some problems. Apple released several small updates in late 2017 and throughout 2018 to fix those problems, all while battling some frustrated customers’ perceptions that the company was deliberately making older devices obsolete to encourage new sales as overall smartphone sales slowed their growth industry-wide.
Källa: iOS 12, thoroughly reviewed
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 18, 2018 | Ted
We left last year’s iOS 11 update with a palpable tension between two platforms.
On one hand, following a year of minor changes to the iPad and a hardware refreshthat came in later than some expected, Apple once again devoted plenty of attention to reimagining the tablet’s role in the world of modern computing. iPad updates in iOS 11, despite having their fair share of critics, largely did not disappoint. On the other hand, the iPhone – by and large still Apple’s crown jewel – had to play second fiddle to a platform that was more in need of a strong, coherent message. And so despite blessing the iPhone with the same features of its larger multitouch cousin (at least most of them), Apple seemed content ceding the smartphone’s spotlight to the iPad. There was a healthy array of new functionalities for both, but iOS 11’s ”Monumental leap for iPad” tagline pretty much told the whole story.
Källa: iOS 12: The MacStories Review
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 17, 2018 | Ted
Todd Humphreys forecasts the near-future of geolocation when millimeter-accurate GPS ”dots” will enable you to find pin-point locations, index-search your physical possessions … or to track people without their knowledge. And the response to the sinister side of this technology may have unintended consequences of its own.
