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At Facebook, a sharpening focus on virtual reality

In Japan, smartphone apps time spring’s cherry blossoms

An SDN vulnerability forced OpenDaylight to focus on security

Cash, IT security threaten NASA Deep Space Network operation

NASA’s Inspector General critical of budget, IT security programs

Meltdown! New Periscope iPhone app live streams ice cream factory’s end

What's up with new Twitter iPhone video live streaming app Periscope

For $60, you can hack a connected car

A former Tesla intern is selling a completely open source tool to hack connected car systems.

Spartan forecast: Browser of choice for 1 in 7 Windows users within a year

Cheap mobile subscriptions the bait as Euro operators become more aggressive

Nigeria joins list of African countries threatening prison sentences for mobile operators

US lawmakers push for auctions of gov’t spectrum

RSA Conference bans ‘booth babes’

Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data

Gold Apple Watch buyers will receive special treatment

If you have over $10,000 to spend on a gold Apple Watch, you'll be treated just a tad differently.

Cloud and Proud: Salesforce takes umbrage at Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedoms’ act

A controversial new law in Indiana could cost the state significant investment from Salesforce.

Many password strength meters are downright WEAK, researchers say

Dropbox gets a shout-out, though, for a worthy password checker

ZTE’s Nubia Z9 Max phablet packs a powerful camera

Facebook invites developers to monetize Messenger at F8 conference

Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new mantra at the company's F8 developer conference, and the company appears to be living up to it.

White House making it easier to get an L-1 visa

Federal action raises concerns with critics of temporary work programs

Will embedded OS and middleware help save Blackberry?

Sort of, according to the experts – though it depends on what your idea of “save” really means.

IoT could help give your local area its own power grid

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, March 16

About 25 US states oppose sale of RadioShack’s customer data

Facebook’s Like button can still easily be gamed

FTC says it did not go easy on Google in search probe

Egyptian company says rogue Google SSL certificates were a mistake

How Messenger chats factor into what you see in Facebook news feed

Facebook pushes Messenger as future of business communication

The company sees Business on Messenger replacing the telephone as people's go-to method for communicating with businesses

NASA sets asteroid mission, demo technologies

NASA mission will show off new propulsion method, asteroid defense mechanism

USB 3.1 set to reach desktops

Cisco programs the cloud

Virtualization and scale enhancements for service provider routers address traffic growth, network agility

PayPal cited for ‘reckless disregard’ of US sanctions

10 best product announcements at Enterprise Connect 2015

Here are the best products I saw at Enterprise Connect last week.

Microsoft draws line between Spartan and IE11 browsers

Changes mind: New Windows 10 browser will not be backward compatible with sites designed for IE

Microsoft prepares Windows 10 for panoply of sensors

A look at Network Performance Enforcement in action

I spoke with a company that has embraced a new type of solution for managing network performance and security.

Taking a moment to thank the Internet, Google and Howard Johnson’s

Database pioneer Stonebraker rocks $1M “Nobel Prize in Computing”

A.M. Turing Award recognizes Ingres RDBMS creator

NTT DoCoMo rolls out smartphone-controlled wheelchairs in Japan

Microsoft blacklists latest rogue SSL certificates, Mozilla mulls sanctions for issuer

Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, March 25

Android flaw puts personal data at risk for millions

Stanford breakthrough could make better chips cheaper

Dell support tool put PCs at risk of malware infection

DSL reaches speeds of 170 Mbps

If you’re stuck with slow DSL, speed increases via G.fast may be on the horizon.

Verizon bumps up its 100G metro fiber-optic network

New push could launch a battle against Google Fiber and AT&T GigaPower

Startup Rubrik goes all-in-one with backup appliance

How Congress enables fraudulent TurboTax e-filing for stealing tax returns

Crooks are stealing tax refunds, and Washington is as much to blame as Intuit.

Mobile ‘sextortion’ schemes on rise, Trend Micro reports

Victims pay up or their sex videos get sent to their contact lists

HP boxes up the cloud for the enterprise