The Insider News

Ars Technica[^]:

Attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in fully patched versions of Adobe's Flash Player so they can surreptitiously install malware on end users' computers, security researchers warned Tuesday.

ZDNet[^]:

The latest preview release of Windows 10 includes the first glimpse of a new feature designed to eliminate one specific activation headache. When this change rolls out to the general public next month, you'll be able to use your Windows 7 or 8.1 product key to complete a Windows 10 upgrade.

ITworld[^]:

A California real estate development company plans to install Tesla batteries in nearly two dozen of its highest profile offices in the Los Angeles area.

InfoWorld[^]:

Once again, BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the man brought into save the long-foundering mobile company, has said he's willing to kill BlackBerry's smartphone business. He's been saying that publicly for nearly a year, effectively letting customers know to go elsewhere.

Maybe the idea was to get customers to show their commitment to BlackBerry devices; if so that strategy has backfired -- BlackBerry device sales continue to decline to trivial numbers (now fewer than 3.5 million a year, or what Apple sells in five days), despite a series of new models of every conceivable design in the last two years.

Time[^]:

Of all the investment fads and manias over the past few decades, none have been as big of a fizzle as the craze for nanotech stocks.

arstechnica[^]:

The “Named Colors” section of the CSS Color Module Level 4—the latest specification for color values and properties within the Cascading Style Sheets language—are 141 standard colors.

ReadWrite[^]:

The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora of ways to pass information collected at a large number of data-gathering devices (sensors, cameras, microphones) to the cloud, and send commands back from the cloud to act on the information.

Widen Engineering[^]:

In this article, I’m going provide a glimpse into the future of web development.

The Drum[^]:

One of Europe’s largest publishers, Axel Springer, has stepped up its efforts to protect online advertising revenues by banning readers who use ad blockers from accessing its Bild tabloid website.

Dice[^]:

Demand for software engineering talent has become so acute, some of the best-known denizens of Silicon Valley have contributed to a venture fund that promises to turn out qualified software engineers in two years rather than the typical four-year university program.