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Concerns Emerge About Samsung Smart TVs 'Bugging' Owners

Owners of Samsung smart TVs need to watch what they say if they've activated the voice recognition feature on these devices.

The feature may transmit some voice commands, together with information about the device, to a third-party service that converts speech to text,Samsung's global privacy policy warns. read more

Firefox tiptoes toward a world without Adobe Flash

Mozilla's Shumway project aims to run the Web's Flash programs without the Flash plugin. It's now running by default for some video tasks in the cutting-edge version of Firefox.

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Through a Firefox project called Shumway, Mozilla on Thursday took an important early step toward building a Web that works without Adobe Systems' Flash Player.read more




Samsung Smart TV Owners Fume Over Sneaky Pop-Up Ads

Samsung Smart TV owners, already shaken by news earlier this week that their TVs can transmit voice commands and other private data to third parties, have been hit by another revelation -- that the devices sneak ads into movies they're watching, without the owner's knowledge or consent read more

Obama's Cyberthreat Intel Aggregator Plan Divides Security Experts

Whether the various U.S. intelligence agencies will cooperate remains in question. "One of the big challenges with interagency intelligence sharing will be internal politics that come into play," commented Ken Westin, senior security analyst at Tripwire. "There has been a history of this within these agencies which has impacted the effectiveness of several cyberdefense programs."

The Obama Administration on Tuesday announced plans to set up a national Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to integrate all data from government agencies and the private sector, and disseminate it read more

Apple wants its cars in production by 2020, report says

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• For a consumer electronics company that won’t even put a TV on the market, an Apple Car sounds unlikely on paper. But mounting evidence says Apple is gearing up for some type of automotive effort, and on Thursday we learned that Apple is targeting 2020 for a full-fledged car.read more