Regeringen i Algeriet presenterade under fredagen president Abdelaziz Bouteflikas grundlagsreformer. Bland annat ska mer makt överföras till premiärministerämbetet och oppositionspartierna ska få mer att säga till om.

msm1267 writes: "Researchers have discovered previously unreported problems in SNMP on embedded devices where devices such as secondary-market home routers and a popular enterprise-grade load balancer are leaking authentication details in plain text. The data could be extracted by gaining access to the read-only public SNMP community string, which enables outside access to device information. While only vulnerabilities in three brands were disclosed today, a Shodan search turns up potentially hundreds of thousands of devices that are exposing SNMP to the Internet that could be equally vulnerable."

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Daniel_Stuckey writes: "A homemade Lithuanian drone was reportedly being used to smuggle cigarettes into Russia, meaning that organized crime has beaten Amazon to the punch in the quest to deliver desirable products to customers aerially. Russia has 'detained' the drone, a spokesman with the Kaliningrad border department of the Russian Federal Security service told one of Russia's largest news organizations earlier this week. It's not the first time drones have been used to smuggle products — back in November, people tried to smuggle drugs into a prison in Georgia; the same thing happened in Sao Paolo back in March and in Quebec last fall. Basically, people have learned that drones are good at carrying things."

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With Apple rumored to purchase the headphone giant, Josh Centers takes a look at the Beats Music music streaming service to see what differentiates it from competitors — and why it may be a good fit for Apple.

 

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With Apple rumored to purchase the headphone giant, Josh Centers takes a look at the Beats Music music streaming service to see what differentiates it from competitors — and why it may be a good fit for Apple.

 

Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products.

Franska gymnasieskolor som ville belysa könsdiskriminering uppmanade både pojkar och flickor att bära kjol en dag, men anade inte vilka häftiga reaktioner kampanjen skulle väcka.