Storm of criticism over billionaire businessman's attack on parents of Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq.

An anonymous reader quotes a columnist at CIO: A few days ago I wrote about Microsoft's revival of Skype for Linux. I called it "a big deal" -- less because of Skype itself and more because it signified Microsoft's recognition that Linux is a platform worth supporting... Now the company has done it again. At Node Summit this week, Microsoft announced the availability of ChakraCore for Linux. ChakraCore is the core part of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. With this move, Microsoft is putting one of its core technologies on a competing platform. This, more than any other Linux-friendly move the company has made, is a clear departure from the Microsoft of Gates and Ballmer that used its technologies to lock users into Windows... While Ubuntu is the primary Linux distribution that Microsoft is using to showcase its ChakraCore technologies, the company said that the support should easily translate to other modern Linux distributions. Microsoft's blog post says the experimental implementation runs not only on x64 Linux but also on OS X.

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Turkish foreign minister says Turkey could ditch the refugee deal by October, as the EU fails to grant visa-free travel.

Turkish foreign minister says Turkey could ditch the refugee deal by October, as the EU fails to grant visa-free travel.

Thousands flee Manbij as Syrian Democratic Forces advance, while thousands remain stuck in ISIL-controlled areas.

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: Trade associations representing wireless, cable and broadband operators on Friday urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse...the Federal Communications Commission's so-called net neutrality rules, put in place last year to make internet service providers treat all internet traffic equally... The cable groups said the court should correct "serious errors" in a decision "that radically reshapes federal law governing a massive sector of the economy, which flourished due to hundreds of billions of dollars of investment made in reliance on the policy the order throws overboard".. In its filing on Friday, the CTIA said it was illegal to subject broadband internet access to "public-utility style, common carrier regulation" and illegal to impose "common-carrier status on mobile broadband." FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said he wasn't surprised to see "the big dogs" challenging net neutrality.

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"Does your web browser have a unique fingerprint? If so your web browser could be tracked across websites without techniques such as tracking cookies..." warns a new site created by the University of Adelaide and ACEMS, adding "the anonymization aspects of services such as Tor or VPNs could be negated if sites you visit track you using your browser fingerprint." AnonymousCube contacted Slashdot about their free browser fingerprinting test suite: On the site you can see what data can be used to track you and how unique your fingerprint is. The site includes new tests, such as detecting software such as Privacy Badger, via how social media buttons are disabled, and CSS only (no JavaScript or flash) tests to get screen size and installed fonts. If you're serious about privacy, you might want to test the uniqueness of your browser's fingerprint.

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Israeli forces says they shot dead a 31-year-old Palestinian man who they accused of charging at soldiers with a knife.

Israeli forces says they shot dead a 31-year-old Palestinian man who they accused of charging at soldiers with a knife.

Humanitarian passages out of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are causing controversy.

Humanitarian passages out of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are causing controversy.