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Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 24, 2015

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Twitch Yanks Player Controls From Flash
Hackers Take Hijacked Jeep Cherokee for Joyride
OPM Director's Resignation Draws Mixed Reactions
Commodore's Ghost Lives in New Machine
The New Solus: Putting the Pieces Together Again

Today's Story Highlights

Twitch Yanks Player Controls From Flash
Game-streaming service Twitch on Thursday joined Apple and other tech
companies in swearing off its dependence on Adobe's Flash. The move away
from Flash will happen in stages, but Twitch has promised its community
that the gradual rollout will advance at a steady pace. Twitch began the
transition to the more secure HTML5 and JavaScript by hybridizing its
streaming video player.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82306.html

Hackers Take Hijacked Jeep Cherokee for Joyride
White-hat hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely took over a
Jeep Cherokee, ran its controls, then cut the transmission as it sped at
70 mph along Interstate 64 in an experiment conducted with Wired . They
turned on the air conditioning, switched radio channels, turned on the
windshield wipers, activated the windshield washer fluid pump, and
transmitted a photo of themselves.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82302.html

OPM Director's Resignation Draws Mixed Reactions
The resignation of U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director
Katherine Archuleta is drawing mixed reactions from the cybersecurity
community. Archuleta's departure on July 10, in the wake of a massive
data breach resulting in the theft of the personal information of more
than 22 million people, is being characterized by security pros as
everything from "necessary" to "unfair."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82301.html

Commodore's Ghost Lives in New Machine
Yet another Android smartphone has hit the market -- but what's
surprising is that it comes from Commodore. The Commodore PET smartphone
is from Commodore Business Machines, a UK-based firm that has acquired
the brand and trademark. It runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, and has a 5.5-
inch full HD 1920 x 1080 display. Two preinstalled emulators let owners
play games written for old-school Commodore PCs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82273.html

The New Solus: Putting the Pieces Together Again
The Solus Project is a rebranded and rereleased Linux distro trying to
regain its former popularity. In a field of Linux distributions
cluttered with look-alike offerings, Solus brings something simple and
something new. Solus has impressive potential for being uncomplicated
and different. Based in the UK, the Solus Project is the latest
iteration of SolusOS, which morphed into Evolve OS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82295.html

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