CEO out at Ashley Madison parent firm after massive hack
The CEO of embattled Avid Life Media, the firm that operates the infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, stepped down today, according to the Canadian company. “Effective today, Noel Biderman, in mutual agreement with the company, is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Avid Life Media Inc., and is no longer with the company,” a statement by the company said Friday. Ashley Madison, which admitted a massive data breach...
LAPD’s body cameras roll out Monday, but footage won’t be public
Come Monday the Los Angeles Police Department begins its deployment of body cameras for officers. The initial rollout is limited — only 860 of the proposed 7,000 cameras will hit the streets at first — and the SWAT team won’t get them until sometime after mid-September, according to The Los Angeles Times. The LAPD “doesn’t plan on” making the recordings public unless a criminal or civil court case...
Apple Announces New Environmental Initiatives in China
BEIJING—May 11, 2015—Apple® today announced an expansion of its renewable energy and environmental protection initiatives in China, including a new multi-year project with World Wildlife Fund to significantly increase responsibly managed forests across China. The new forestland program aims to protect as much as 1 million acres of responsibly managed working forests which provide fiber for pulp, paper and wood products. Apple’s goal...
Grsecurity will stop issuing patches citing trademark abuse
A major corporation is misusing grsecurity’s trademarks and violating the terms of the GNU Public License and as a consequence, the leader of the project said Wednesday, grsecurity will stop making its stable patches available to the general public. In an official announcement, grsecurity project leader Brad Spengler said that it was unfair to the project’s sponsors to allow the companies in the embedded Linux industry...
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: robot wars and edible batteries
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Tesla gets a lot of press — but just how good are its vehicles? Well, Consumer Reports just awarded the Model S P85D a rating so high that it broke the scale. The Model S also put range anxiety to rest this week by traveling a record-breaking 452.8 miles on a single...
