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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- December 3, 2015

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Headline Scan
Google Updates Android for Web Lite
The Season for Online Predators
Losing Headphone Jack Would Allow Thinner, More Functional iPhone 7
Tech Titans Launch Breakthrough Energy Coalition
Top 10 Open Source Developments of 2015
Court Lifts NSL-Imposed Gag Order on Warrantless FBI Probing

Today's Story Highlights

Google Updates Android for Web Lite
Google on Monday announced an update to Data Saver mode in Chrome on
Android designed to make loading Web pages on a slow wireless connection
easier. The update will remove most images when loading a page on a slow
connection, reducing data consumption by up to 70 percent, Google
claimed. After a page has loaded, users can tap to show all images or
just the ones they want.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82819.html

The Season for Online Predators
While visions of holiday shoppers dance in retailers' heads, those
visions are also on the minds of online marauders. Net predators are
sticking to scams that have made them money throughout the year. "Over
the last 12 months, we've seen a return to attachments with innocuous
macros in them," said Kevin Epstein, vice president of advanced security
and governance at Proofpoint.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82821.html

Losing Headphone Jack Would Allow Thinner, More Functional iPhone 7
A Japanese blog last week suggested that Apple intends to peel the 3.5-
millimeter headphone jack from the next version of the iPhone. The jack
will be dropped from the iPhone 7, according to a Google translation of
the blog post. Labeled "Rumor," it cited what it called a reliable
source. Dumping the jack would allow Apple to shave a millimeter off the
thickness of the unit, 9to5Mac reported.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82817.html

Tech Titans Launch Breakthrough Energy Coalition
High-tech honchos and venture capitalists from around the world -- and
one university -- on Monday officially announced their participation in
the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a new fund to support companies doing
clean energy research. The coalition will invest in electricity
generation and storage, transportation, industrial and agricultural
energy use, and energy system efficiency.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82814.html

Top 10 Open Source Developments of 2015
Open source is driving an ever-expanding market. The notion of
community-driven development is a growing disruption to proprietary
software controlled by commercial vendors, and the free open source
software concept has become a major disruption in industry and
technology. Open source is so pervasive that people overlook how it's
the glue of modern communication and enterprise business models.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82816.html

Court Lifts NSL-Imposed Gag Order on Warrantless FBI Probing
Calyx founder Nicholas Merrill -- who made history in 2004 when he sued
to lift a nondisclosure order imposed by an FBI National Security Letter
-- has won his 11-year battle. The ruling, handed down this summer by
the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,
was stayed for 90 days to give the government time to file an appeal. It
became public when the stay expired on Monday.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82812.html

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