The United States National Security Agency has issued new advice on securing mobile devices that says location services create a security risk for staff who work in defence or national security.
The new guide [PDF], titled “Limiting Location Data Exposure”, notes that smartphones, tablets and fitness trackers “store and share device geolocation data by design.”
The Ancestry deal raises plenty of ethical questions to anyone who’s been paying attention and people are already telegraphing their concerns on social media about the deal. There’s no evidence that Blackstone has purchased Ancestry in an effort to discriminate against tenants based on race or national origin, but it’s not unreasonable to ask if buying a genealogy website will make unethical and illegal behavior easier in a world where we know that housing discrimination is still rampant—not just in the U.S. but around the world.
Can one get black chicken meat? Would it make the most gothic meal in history?
The head still being on is kind of disturbing…
At least it’s plucked!
lol Looks like a dandelion. 
Ooooo!!! I want to pat it’s widdle head…
Microsoft and Samsung have previewed Android apps running on Windows – or appearing to, since the apps actually run on a connected smartphone, but are viewed and controlled from the PC, a technique called app streaming.
you wanted gothic…
Is that gothic? With the head it’s more like black metal…
gothic horror?
Geneticists have issued new guidelines in naming human genes – after spending years wrestling with Microsoft Excel and similar software that automatically converts the names of genes to dates.
The Gene Nomenclature Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), which sets the standard for the titles and shorthand labels of human genes, updated its rules this week to curb any further damage to gene databases stored in spreadsheets.
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“Personally I think that changing the gene symbols is not a great solution,” Saunders told us. “But given that Microsoft won’t change its default Excel behavior and 16-plus years of attempts to educate biologists on the issue have failed, I suppose it is a practical solution.”
While China is the bête noire du jour of the US government, Russia is the master of spreading disinformation, fostering conflict, and derailing discourse online, the Black Hat security conference was told today.
At her Thursday keynote, Stanford Internet Observatory’s research manager Renee DiResta explained how Russian military intelligence – the GRU – and the private Internet Research Agency (IRA) were putting the likes of China to shame. Security companies and government agencies have good reason to move their focus from Beijing to Moscow, she warned.
considering the amount of data wouldn’t acess or even better a proper SQL database be a better tool?
“There are lots of better alternatives,” Neil Saunders, a data scientist who sounded the alarm about genetic mishaps with Excel back in 2012, told The Register today. “But Excel is on their computers and they feel familiar with it, even if they can’t actually use it properly. Biologists in particular are reluctant to invest time in learning programming skills.”
