Credit: Michael Kan COMMENTS Michael Kan IDG News Service Nov 4, 2016 5:16 PM The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee isn’t done trying to influence this year’s election. On Friday, Guccifer 2.0 warned that Democrats might try to rig the vote next Tuesday. Guccifer 2.0 wrote the statement in a new blog post as U.S. federal agencies are reportedly bracing for cyber attacks on election day. The U.S. has already blamed Russia for allegedly meddling with the upcoming election by hacking into political targets, including the DNC, and then leaking the sensitive documents to the public. The hacker known…
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See larger image Linux games rising For the first time in a long time, Linux gamers have a reason to smile. Gaming on the open-source operating system has long meant dabbling in Wine and arcane workarounds, but ever since Valve launched Steam for Linux a year-and-a-half ago the number of native Linux games has positively exploded. Sure, Valve’s embrace of Linux may have a wee bit to do with advancing the Steam Machine ideal—the Steam Controller, Steam Link, and Alienware Steam Machine all kick butt—but any game released for “SteamOS” works just fine on other Linux distros, too. What better…
If you are a Samsung Galaxy Note7 owner in New Zealand who is yet to exchange/return their unit, you are strongly advised to do so withing the next couple of weeks. Reason being, starting November 18, your unit will not be able to access any cellular network in the country. “As part of our commitment to ongoing safety, Samsung would like to make our customers aware of plans to discontinue network service for Note7 devices,” the company said in a statement. “From the 18 November, customers still using the Note7 will no longer be able to connect to any New…
Apple won’t be releasing an update to the iPhone SE in March 2017, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated in a note to investors that AppleInsider got their hands on. Unlike any other major smartphone, the iPhone SE’s life will be extended past the usual one year period. As reasoning behind such a decision on Apple’s part the analyst (whose predictions in the past have more often than not been right on the money) suggests a push to maximize gross margins and spare the true flagship iPhone 7 from internal competition. All that said, the forecast only covers the second fiscal…
BlackBerry has started pushing out a new beta update to its Priv smartphone. The update, which is hitting all Priv units except those on Verizon’s network, brings along Android security patch for the month of November. It weighs in at around 98MB and bumps the firmware version to AAH505. Here’s the complete statement from the Canadian company: Today’s update brings news that AAH505, our candidate to be the official November security patch update, is now available to beta participants on all devices (except Verizon variants) to begin testing. Depending on the build you’re coming from, this will either be a…
Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass a branch of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, Germany. Deutsche Bank’s sale of a 20 percent stake in Chinese peer Hua Xia to PICC Property and Casualty has received regulatory approval, Germany’s flagship lender said on Thursday. Hopes to expand into the Chinese banking market never materialized for Deutsche Bank as for several other Western lenders. Bank of America reacted in 2013 by divesting a shareholding in China Construction Bank, while Citigroup sold its stake in Chinese lender Guangfa earlier this year. Deutsche Bank, which faces large legal costs for cleaning up…
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) values of a company are becoming more and more important to making investment decisions and can lead to positive results, according to experts in the industry. The trend of ESG investing only became relevant in the past few years, but is now becoming part of the mainstream investing paradigm, according to Hendrik Bartel, co-founder and CEO of data firm TruValue Labs. Events that have pushed forward ESG concerns include the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the fraud revelations at Wells Fargo. weerapatkiatdumrong | iStock | Getty Images Plus Bartel started his company about four years…
Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images An employee rings up sales at a cash register of a Walmart store in Los Angeles. JPMorgan Chase is putting its “Chase Pay” digital wallet on Wal-Mart’s website and in the retailer’s Walmart Pay app, hoping to give customers more ways to make purchases without cash, a bank executive said on Thursday. Kevin Watters, chief executive officer for cards at JPMorgan, said at a conference the bank is trying to make sure its Chase cards are an option for customers who want to make digital payments. Payments with smartphones and digital wallets, such…
Election impact on the Fed Wednesday, 2 Nov 2016 | 12:36 PM ET | 06:21 Unconventional monetary policy that has squeezed the middle class helps explain Donald Trump’s improbable political journey, according to former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher. Looking at the current political situation causes Fisher to “weep for my country,” the ex-central bank official said last week in a speech to the Urban Land Institute’s fall conference. A transcript of the remarks was included Thursday in a note from Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management, but the speech has seen little if any exposure otherwise. (Kass is mentioned favorably…
Children in Spain are complaining about excessive homework, which is also being supported by their parents, who have decided to go on a strike against their children’s school load for the entire month of November. The Spanish Alliance of Parents’ Associations (CEAPA) called the strike that covers some 12,000 state schools across the country. Views of the President of CEAPA: President of CEAPA, Jose Luis Pazos told AFP on November 2 that parents had launched the unprecedented initiative as it was quite evident that homework is detrimental to children and is also damaging their extra-curricular development Education in Spain was…