Senate Passes Major Cybersecurity Info-Sharing Bill CISA
I guess it doesn't matter now whether you were for or against CISA, the bill has passed the Senate, loopholes and all.
Passage of the bill, dubbed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), is a disappointing defeat for civil-liberties groups and major tech companies that had urged lawmakers to strengthen its privacy protections while arguing that the bill will do little to bolster firms' cybersecurity. CISA proponents say the bill is a necessary step toward combating cyber threats.
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Government iPhone Unlock Request Is Like Forcing Lethal Injection?
I'm no law expert but this comparison is a tad bit overdramatic. Seriously, what do you think?
Referring to the US Department of Justice's request for him to order Apple to help it unlock the phone, the judge said: "What you're asking [Apple] to do is do work for you." And he compared the request to a hypothetical one in which the government was asking him to order a drug company to take part in an execution against its conscientious objection.
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UPS Expects To Ship 630M Packages This Holiday Season
630 million? That's a lot of packages. Let's not forget UPS has a bad track record with shipping estimates. The company missed estimates last year and the year before and had a hell of a time just getting packages delivered. Maybe the third time is a charm?
"The growth of online shopping and returns continues to redefine the holiday peak season at UPS," said chief commercial officer Alan Gershenhorn during an investor conference call on quarterly financial results. For the period from Thanksgiving through December, UPS expects to handle more than 630 million packages.
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Facebook Goes Slooow With '2G Tuesdays'
We hear that, if this is a success, Facebook will start a new program called "withhold your wages Wednesday" so workers will know what it's like to work in places like China.
The social network has launched an internal program called "2G Tuesdays" to give its workers a sense of the very slow Internet connections in developing countries like India and elsewhere in Asia, as well as in Africa.
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Copyright Office Lists Exemptions To The Rules
That's odd. Education and security research are on this list of proposed exemptions but copying and selling DVDs at the flea market isn't. I was hoping they'd get that one on the list this year. Thanks to Jeff for the link.
Copyright law is surprisingly pervasive. It affects everything from computers to cars (and tractors). The law says you're not allowed to circumvent DRM on anything for any reason… except for a big pile of things you actually legally can. Those exemptions get re-evaluated every three years, and today the new list is out.
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PayPal Made $1B In Small-Business Loans In First Two Years
Wow. No matter how you slice it, $3 million per day is a lot of money in short term loans.
PayPal said on Tuesday its small-business lending program has processed $1 billion in loans in the first two years of its launch and more than doubled loan growth in that span. PayPal Working Capital is extending short-term loans totaling more than $100 million per month, or $3 million per day, to a mix of sellers on eBay Inc and standalone small- to medium-sized merchants.
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MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB
The crew at techPowerUP have published a review of the MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB video card this afternoon. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes.
MSI's new GTX 980 Ti Lightning is amazing. It's the fastest, quietest and coolest GTX 980 Ti we ever tested. All at the same time! What a fantastic product, if only the price was lower. Clocking in at $780, it's over $150 more expensive than the cheapest GTX 980 Ti variants.
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Google Announces The ASUS OnHub
Wait, what happened to the first OnHub router Google announced a month or so ago? Oh well, I'm liking this new ASUS OnHub better already. Buy it now at Newegg.
Whether you're chatting with friends, streaming music or video calling family, Wi-Fi matters. You should have more router options that don't involve spotty connections, messy cords and complicated settings. That's why we introduced the first OnHub router this summer, designed to be fast, secure and easy to use—not to mention attractive enough to put out in the open, where Wi-Fi works best. Now, with our partner ASUS, we're introducing the second member of our growing OnHub family.
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Enermax ETS-T40Fit-RF Air Cooler Review
Enermax is back again today with a new CPU air cooler that looks to conquer size and noise once again. Enermax calls this a "Compact side flow air cooler for 100% RAM compatibility." Does a fan size bigger than the heatsink surfaces and its "side flow air" give us better performance than those we have seen previously?
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Wal-Mart Seeks To Test Drones
You know drones have gone mainstream when Walmart starts using them. Maybe they'll deliver beer by drone.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with Amazon in using drones to fill and deliver online orders.
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You Can Now Buy Drone Insurance
AIG has coverage for everyone: Home, Life, Auto, Drone.
AIG is also looking at the day when commercial drones are legal and everywhere. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International predicts that by 2025, US businesses will be buying 160,000 drones a year, Brady says. Thinking ahead, AIG is already selling drone insurance for everything from protecting your expensive commercial drone, to covering you for liability if your drone gets into an accident.
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Teenage Boy Arrested Over TalkTalk Hack
The first clue that the perpetrator was a kid was the fact that he included acne medicine and a PlayStation 4 on his list of demands.
TalkTalk warned its 4 million customers on Friday that it had been hit by a "significant and sustained cyberattack" that might have left their data at risk. Over the weekend the company recruited defence and security company BAE Systems to carry out an investigation alongside the police, after the company received a ransom demand from the person claiming to be the perpetrator.
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