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World’s top cryptographers on encryption backdoors: No way

RSA Conference is told.

RSA president slams crypto backdoors as useful only against petty criminals

Calls on RSA Conference 2016 attendees to loudly oppose weakening encryption

9 tantalizingly techie TED Talks

Responding to a spammer, teaching kids to code & putting the Internet where it belongs among top tech TED Talks of late

Qualcomm fined in the US over China corruption allegations

The company was charged with offering jobs to relatives of Chinese officials, besides handing out gifts and entertainment

The FBI should try to unlock a shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s help, a lawmaker says

It may be possible for investigators to make multiple copies of the hard drive on an iPhone used by the San Bernardino mass shooter

Windows 10 growth hits the brakes

After an explosive January, Windows 10's gains slow dramatically -- even though Microsoft has switched on upgrade auto-delivery

Crypto dream team Diffie & Hellman wins $1M “Nobel Prize of Computing”

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dunks a basketball (with a little help)

Ex-Microsoft CEO outdoes Bill Gates famously jumping over chairs

Cyberattacks beginning to affect mobile service too, study says

Mobile Network Operators say they’re starting to see DDoS attacks affect their networks.

Microsoft could lose No. 1 browser spot as soon as May

As declines continue -- February's was the largest ever -- IE slides toward the 40% mark