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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, May 18

FTC recommends conditions for sale of RadioShack customer data

Security researcher’s hack caused airplane to climb, FBI asserts

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Camera magic via teeny pixels, plus an “airy” new design

iPhone 7 rumors and speculation include an airy new design and potentially huge sales; plus, a futuristic new case designed to keep you charged up

Big Data and Intelligence: Minimizing or preventing violence against citizens and the destruction of property

The Social Analysis and Intelligence Group, SAIG, analyzes trending social behaviors to predict and track civil unrest and violence.

How low can we go? Introducing the $9 Linux computer!

The potential of the CHIP is fantastic and it'll bring Linux to the masses everywhere

Google looks set to join the ‘buy’ button trend

Cisco CEO feisty til the end

Chambers' last quarterly conference call as chief executive brashly bullish on switching

Verizon’s acquisition of AOL is a move to disrupt the TV market

Faced with the FCC regulating its networks like a utility, Verizon steps up to monetize video and television.

SAP journeys to simplicity, but customers still live in a complex world

ARM seen making rapid progress on next high-end chip

European mobile operators seemingly divided over sanity of blocking ads

Samsung launches Internet of Things boards

Tiered-architecture ARTIK is a brand new, small-footprint, production-ready IoT platform aimed at developers.

Penn State yanks engineering network from Internet after China-based attack

FBI alerted school of attack in November, Mandiant says China attacker behind one incident

Spec showdown: HTC’s J Butterfly flies past its One M9

A requiem for AOL: Looking back on the web’s first big company

With the news that Verizon is buying AOL, it's time to look back at all the joy the company has brought to the world over the past couple decades.

John Chambers bids adieu with Cisco on a roll

The outgoing CEO had some fun touting Cisco's impressive numbers on his last quarterly call with Wall Street.

BlackBerry CEO/Twitter latecomer on how he got @JohnChen handle: ‘Beats me…very lucky’

Amazon’s cloud to test new Tesla batteries

Batteries could be a helpful pick-me-up for cloud data centers

Google cripples all Chrome add-ons from outside its app store

'We can't have nice things' because 'total jerks' took advantage of loophole, says Chrome software engineer

5 ways to future-proof your cloud computing deals

It pays to future-proof cloud contracts, making sure the deal you sign today is aligned with evolving business needs. Here are five terms SaaS buyers should insist on when making new deals.

Five tips to comply with the new PCI requirements

Failure to comply with these five new requirements will mean paying significant fines

Slammed by phone rivals, Sharp pins hopes on in-car displays

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 15

To push electric cars, Seoul rolls out portable chargers with RFID

Reddit’s new anti-harassment rules anger some users

Critics blast NSA phone records bill as ‘fake reform’

With a fresh $40M, Percolate wants to be a Swiss Army knife for marketing software

iOS 9 rumor roundup

With WWDC just one month away, here's what we can expect iOS 9 to deliver.

Smartphones from Xiaomi and Micromax pressure established manufacturers

Asian nations increasingly hit by espionage groups

Microsoft introduces the many flavors of Windows 10

Microsoft is reversing course on its mission to reduce the number of SKUs in Windows 10.

China-based hackers used Microsoft’s TechNet for attacks

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, May 14

A feisty John Chambers bows out on his final Cisco earnings call

House votes to narrow NSA’s phone records collection

HP’s PC group cranks up design, gaming efforts ahead of spin-off

How China’s smartphone market is evolving

It turns out the Chinese smartphone market is now 'mature.' Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Critical VM escape vulnerability impacts business systems, data centers

DARPA wants ultimate zoom lens to gaze further into Earth orbit

DARPA GEO telescope would be up to 100X more powerful than current state of the art

Nuage visualizes the SDN

New application manages physical, virtual operations

A year after the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, Google is not very likely to forget about you

Significant virtual machine vulnerability has been hiding in floppy disk code for 11 years

CrowdStrike researchers announced this morning that they have discovered a buffer overlow vulnerability in many of today's most popular virtual machine platforms

Microsoft clarifies its Windows confusion, sort of

Is Windows 10 the last version of Windows? Probably not. Microsoft may want to move to a new model, but some things are beyond its control.

Facebook wants to become your news destination of choice with Instant Articles

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, May 13

Microsoft fixes 46 flaws in Windows, IE, Office, other products

Fujitsu pushes wearable IoT tags that detect falls, heat stress

Starbucks still grappling with fraud in online accounts, gift cards

Free tool reveals mobile apps sending unencrypted data