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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- September 20, 2016

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Congress to Bureaucrats: Trust No One
Parsix Normalizes GNOME
Steam Blows Off Aggrieved Indie Dev
Why Russian Hackers Are Doing the US a Favor
New Apple Products Have the Right Gaming Stuff
Sony Kicks The Last Guardian Down the Road Again
Cyberattacks on Athletes May Be Russian Distraction Tactic
iPhone 7 Draws Tepid Notices
Udacity Fuels Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Dreams
Nation States May Be Plotting Internet Takedown, Warns Cybersec Pro

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Congress to Bureaucrats: Trust No One
Congress earlier this month lowered the hammer on the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management in a report on the massive data breach that
resulted in the theft of 4.2 million former and current government
employees' personnel files, as well as 21.5 million individuals'
security clearance information, including fingerprints associated with
5.6 million of them.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83910.html

Parsix Normalizes GNOME
Parsix is a feature-rich distro that will delight GNOME desktop users
looking for a well-tweaked user experience. It offers a well-oiled,
single track Linux desktop operating system. It has no distractions from
multiple desktop options. It provides one of the best integrations of
the latest GNOME desktop available. Parsix has been around since at
least 2007. Along the way, it built a reputation for dependability.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83903.html

Steam Blows Off Aggrieved Indie Dev
Independent video game developer Digital Homicide Studios on Monday
posted a response to its ban from Valve's digital distribution platform
Steam. Valve banned the development studio this weekend, after Digital
Homicide reportedly initiated legal action against 100 users who had
posted negative reviews of its games. Digital Homicide accused the users
of cyberbullying and other offenses.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83908.html

Why Russian Hackers Are Doing the US a Favor
Colin Powell's hacked email once again showcases that what people in
office tell us and what they actually think are two very different
things. Politicians work for us -- we are supposedly their employers.
Yet we seem to know far less about what they do and think than what we
need to know in order to vote intelligently. Powell's comments are
actually far more damaging to Clinton than Trump.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83902.html

New Apple Products Have the Right Gaming Stuff
Apple wants to attract gaming fans to the more powerful graphics and
processing power embedded in its new iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2
products. The iPhone 7 features the new A10 Fusion chip -- the most
powerful ever in a smartphone, according to the company. The CPU fuses
two high-performance cores that run twice as fast as the iPhone 6 with
much more efficient use of battery power.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83895.html

Sony Kicks The Last Guardian Down the Road Again
The first wave of previews for SIE's long-in-development video game epic
The Last Guardian appeared following a demo at the Tokyo Game Show
earlier this week, and reactions were mixed. Much of the coverage of
this PS4 game, first announced at E3 in 2007, has focused on its long
development process and delays. It originally was to be a follow-up to
Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colossus .
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83900.html

Cyberattacks on Athletes May Be Russian Distraction Tactic
Confidential information about international athletes surfaced on the
Internet Wednesday -- the second such exposure this week. Russian
hackers allegedly stole the information from the World Anti-Doping
Agency. It includes confidential data on medical drug exemptions given
to 25 athletes from eight countries. Information about four athletes
appeared online earlier in the week.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83906.html

iPhone 7 Draws Tepid Notices
The iPhone 7 may be Apple's best smartphone to date, but it's garnering
lukewarm reactions from reviewers and pundits. The new iPhone's
waterproofing and better battery life are welcome. Further, "the camera
and speed improvements are nothing to sneeze at," wrote reviewer Andrew
Cunningham, "but you'll need to buy into Apple's vision of the future"
-- a world without buttons or wires.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83897.html

Udacity Fuels Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Dreams
Online education company Udacity on Tuesday introduced a new
"nanodegree" program in self-driving auto engineering. President
Sebastian Thrun made the announcement. The goal is to build a
crowdsourced, open source self-driving car, he said. Students will learn
the skills and techniques used by self-driving car teams at the most
innovative companies in the world, Udacity has promised.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83896.html

Nation States May Be Plotting Internet Takedown, Warns Cybersec Pro
Unknown attackers have been testing the defenses of companies that run
critical parts of the Internet, possibly to figure out how to take them
down, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier warned. Large nation states --
perhaps China or Russia -- are the likely culprits, he suggested.
"Nation state actors are going to probe to find weaknesses in all of our
technologies," said Tripwire's Travis Smith.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83894.html

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