After more than 10 years of requiring you to use your real name, Facebook may soon relax its policy. It took weeks of protests from San Francisco’s LGBTQ and drag queen communities and a mass exodus to new, but now Facebook says it never meant real to mean legal name. In a posted to his personal page, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox said the network has always meant its real name policy to include “authentic names” that people use in real life. But when someone began reporting members of the drag community for violating the real name policy, Facebook shut down hundreds of accounts. The only way to reinstate the account was providing a form of ID. But if you’re a drag performer who doesn’t use the name Sister Roma on a driver’s license, you’re out of luck.
SteelSeries just took the entire concept of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" out back and shot it, Old Yeller-style. The company announced a complete refresh of its Siberia line of headsets this week, from top to bottom. On the high end, there's the new $200 Siberia Elite Prism. This refresh is absolutely the least necessary, with the Siberia Elite launching That being said, the new model does hope to rectify some common complaints with the headset—namely that it was too tight and that the microphone was not up to par with the rest of the headset. From the time I've spent with the headset so far I can definitely attest that it's looser, though now I'd almost complain it's
The HTC One M8 HTC may be looking to eliminate that disadvantage. We spotted According to GSM Arena, the HTC One M8 Eye has a 13MP shooter while keeping the other internals the same as the still relatively new
More than 2.4 million people have signed letters calling on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to stop its proposed “takeover” of the Internet in an effort by conservative activist group American Commitment to reframe the debate about the agency’s proposed net neutrality rules. American Commitment’s letters and petition page do not refer directly to net neutrality, however. Instead, the group’s materials call on the FCC to refrain from regulating the Internet and from taking over the Internet. The group said that it delivered the 2.4 million letters, urging Congress to stop the FCC’s net neutrality proceeding, to lawmakers this week.
Chip design company ARM is stepping outside its area of expertise to release a new operating system that could play a big role in building out the Internet of Things. Called mbed OS, the operating system aims to provide a common software layer for securing and connecting the mass of devices expected to be hooked up to networks in the coming years, ranging from streetlights and gas meters to home appliances and pacemakers. Along with the OS, ARM plans to sell a piece of back-end software, called the mbed Device Server, that companies will use to collect data from IoT devices and make the data available for use by other services, such as analytics programs.
Virtual private network servers based on OpenVPN might be vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through Shellshock and other recent flaws that affect the Bash Unix shell. The OpenVPN attack vector was “OpenVPN has a number of configuration options that can call custom commands during different stages of the tunnel session,” Strömberg said. “Many of these commands are called with environmental variables set, some of which can be controlled by the client.”
Günther Oettinger, the European Union’s proposed Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, gave a disappointing performance at his confirmation hearing, dodging questions and calling the victims of a recent data breach “dumb.” Critics said Oettinger’s remarks about the celebrities whose iCloud accounts were compromised, allowing hackers to release nude photos of them, showed he was unfit for the job of shoring up public confidence in the Internet. During the
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Remember back in June when we told you about a The new dongle is not the work of Mozilla, but the project does have the blessing of the open source organization, and it's not hard to see why. The company behind the dongle, also called Matchstick, is promising a 100 percent open platform for hardware and software, with no gatekeepers or review period for Matchstick apps.
