My small personal research found that Remix OS developers have a zero tolerance for the code licenses and work of other peoples.

Output is absolutely clear – no differences! No authors, no changed files, no trademarks, just copy-paste development.

Windows 7 (currently in the Extended support phase) will continue to receive updates until January 14, 2020, and Windows 8.1 will be supported until January 10, 2023. But in a series of "clarifications" to its support policy today, the company announced that support for those older Windows versions will be available only for "previous generations of silicon."

For enterprise customers that want to buy "future proof" new hardware based on Skylake processors running older Windows versions, Microsoft will publish "a list of specific new Skylake devices we will support to run Windows 7 and Windows 8.1." That support will run for a period 18 months, until July 17, 2017, after which those enterprise customers will be expected to upgrade to Windows 10.

The purpose of the subjective tests was to verify using human viewers the compression gains of the new video coding standard that had previously been estimated using objective metrics (e.g. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio – PSNR).

The overall average bit rate saving achieved by HEVC compared to AVC for the same subjective quality was found to be 59% as supposed to the 44% gain shown with objective quality metrics.

I've been talking about Microsoft's scummy GWX campaign since April, when researchers first identified KB 3035583 as the source of the attack. As best I can tell, KB 3035583 was modified, fortified, and re-released nine times in 2015.

Of course, changing any of the four Registry values won't delete the 3GB to 6GB of files Microsoft surreptitiously installed on many machines in the hidden $Windows.~BT folder. Changing Registry values won't uninstall or hide KB 3035583. Changing the Registry is a good starting point, but it doesn't clean out the crapware underneath.

This past Wednesday, on January 6, 2016, Mr. Chaum presented himself at the Real World Cryptography Conference in Stanford, where he revealed a project on which he had worked for the past two years alongside other cryptography experts from four universities in the US, UK, and Holland.

While its encryption protocol is incredibly strong, the researchers also said that data about users is not 100% anonymous.

This council will provide access to data about users to law enforcement, but only for those who use the network for criminal activities.

Hackers can score US$100,000 from exploit arbitrage outfit Zerodium if they bypass Adobe's latest Flash heap isolation defence.

It comes less than a month after Adobe announced it is rewriting memory security to allow heap isolation, a feat achieved after a year's worth of collaboration with Google's Project Zero hacking den, and Microsoft.

"Windows 10 continues to be on the fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows -- ever -- outpacing Windows 7 by nearly 140 percent and Windows 8 by nearly 400 percent," Yusuf Mehdi, the head of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group.

NetMarketShare noted that Windows 10 is within striking distance of Windows XP and Windows 8.1, which saw their Web traffic shares drop last month to 10.9 percent and 10.3 percent, respectively.

The software giant has aggressively been trying to coax people to shift to Windows 10, pushing the upgrade through frequent pop-up reminders for Windows 7 and 8.1 users. The company classified Windows 10 as an "optional update" last year. Microsoft expects to change that to "recommended update" early this year.

One of the excellent features of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key – which can be used to unlock your encrypted disk – to Microsoft’s servers, probably without your knowledge and without an option to opt-out.

A law enforcement or spy agency could send Microsoft a request for all data in your account, which would legally compel them to hand over your recovery key, which they could do even if the first thing you do after setting up your computer is delete it.

“[The late leader] Kim Jong-il said North Korea should develop a system of their own. This is what they’ve done,” Gunrow told the Chaos Communication congress in Hamburg on Sunday.

This latest version, written around 2013, is based on a version of Linux called Fedora and has eschewed the previous version’s Windows XP feel for Apple’s OSX – perhaps a nod to the country’s leader Kim Jong-un who, like his father, has been photographed near Macs.

The large pop-up screen, which first appeared over the weekend, gives users the option of upgrading straight away or ... that evening.

When Microsoft announced in January that Windows 10 upgrades would be free for users of versions 7 and 8 in the first 12 months after release, many people were pleased. But as time has gone on it has become clear that Windows users aren't being offered the upgrade, so much as having it rammed down their throats.

This is partly behind predictions from analysts about how Windows 10 upgrades will bloom next year. That's something Microsoft will be praying for, especially since Windows 10 installations have been lagging of late.