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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

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by on January 12, 2015 at 11:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Spending an entire weekend away from your laptop, tablet and smartphone can sometimes be just the digital detox you need to forget about the week gone by, and the one ahead. However, if you spend your weekend pottering in the garden, playing with the kids and otherwise disconnected from the online world, how will you keep up with everything that happened in tech land while you weren’t paying attention? That’s what we’re here for. All you need to do is make a coffee, put your phone on silent for 10 minutes and catch up on everything you missed from the last two…

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Microsoft calls out Google for revealing details of bug just before it rolled out a fix

Jan12
by on January 12, 2015 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, windows 8, windows 8.1

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Microsoft has strongly criticised Google for disclosing a serious bug in Windows 8.1, two days before it was due to issue a fix. Google revealed the security flaw this weekend. It did so because the rules of Project Zero, its security research project, say it should make bugs public 90 days after it reports them to the company affected. Microsoft was notified about the issue in question on October 13th 2014. Microsoft is annoyed because it had asked Google to hold off publishing details of the bug before it pushed a fixed on one of its regular Patch Tuesdays this…

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Obama proposes 30-day limit for companies to disclose online breaches

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by on January 12, 2015 at 8:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The White House says President Obama will call for new laws to ensure American companies inform their customers about consumer information being stolen in hack attacks, reports The New York Times. The president will propose the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act during his speech at the Federal Trade Commission today. If the proposal becomes law, the discovery of a breach would trigger a ’30-day shot clock’ requiring companies to disclose information. The law will also make it a crime to sell a person’s information overseas. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, will be empowered to issue penalties to companies that fail to…

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