Today, the tech giant announced it’s donating $5.3 million to give refugees in Germany access to Chromebooks.

Instead of providing Chromebooks to individuals, Project Reconnect is working with non-profits, which can use the devices to build Internet cafes and organize educational events for children.

Check Point has completely ignored the fact that Shodan is also used by the good guys, and that tools similar to Shodan have existed long before the service, most of which were developed by cybercrime groups.

Instead of focusing on the real threat, Check Point has decided to throw an umbrella ban on Shodan, with no guarantee that threat actors won't stop scanning the Web with other similar search engines or their own scanners.

All of these security flaws have been left unpatched by Microsoft, with the explanation that by patching them, the company would effectively break compatibility between the different versions of their operating system.

Some proof-of-concept videos were also uploaded on YouTube, and you can see the researchers break Windows versions such as 7, 8, 10, Server 2008 and Server 2012.

Netflix promised it would begin targeting those who use proxies and VPNs to watch geo-restricted content, and now it seems the company is acting on that promise.

Netflix is now available more or less globally, in almost 200 countries, but the fragmented nature of global licensing means that TV shows and movies on Netflix vary from region to region.

These changes all happened shortly after Karen Sandler announced that she planned to stand for the Linux Foundation board during a presentation last September.

Karen is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organisation involved in the vitally important work of GPL enforcement. The Linux Foundation has historically been less than enthusiastic about GPL enforcement, and the SFC is funding a lawsuit against one of the Foundation's members for violating the terms of the GPL.

Throughout the early 90s, a team of Russian astronomers and engineers were hellbent on literally turning night into day. By shining a giant mirror onto the earth from space, they figured they could bring sunlight to the depths of night, extending the workday, cutting back on lighting costs and allowing laborers to toil longer.

As planned, on February 4, Znamya left Mir. When it found its orbit a safe distance away, the mirror successfully deployed. And, sure enough, it sent a five kilometer-wide beam of light back down to Earth. The beam swept through Europe, moving from the south of France to western Russia at a reported speed of eight kilometers per second.

“The existence of a master private key that can decrypt all calls past and present without detection, on a computer permanently available, creates a huge security risk, and an irresistible target for attackers.”

“Although the words are never used in the specification, MIKEY-SAKKE supports key escrow. That is, if the network provider is served with a warrant or is hacked into it is possible to recover responder private keys and so decrypt past calls without the legitimate communication partners being able to detect this happening,” Murdoch wrote in his analysis.

“By design there is always a third party who generates and distributes the private keys for all users. This third party therefore always has the ability to decrypt conversations which are encrypted using these private keys,” Murdoch said by email.

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.

The researchers first collected two waterbears in 1983 from an Antarctican moss sample. They then stored them at minus-20 degrees C (roughly minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit). They defrosted them in 2014.

The researchers' report offers this explanation for the waterbears' survival: "This considerable extension of the known length of long-term survival of tardigrades recorded in our study is interpreted as being associated with the minimum oxidative damage likely to have resulted from storage under stable frozen conditions."

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.