Microsoft swats away FBI request for Office 365 subscriber data Microsoft has successfully challenged a secret letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ordering it to turn over data from one of its Office 365 customers, court documents made public on Thursday have revealed. The documents, which remained secret until they were unsealed by the US District Court… Read More »
A Cancer Treatment in Your Medicine Cabinet? By MICHELLE HOLMES and WENDY CHENMAY 19, 2014 WE believe that it might be possible to treat breast cancer — the leading cause of female cancer death — with a drug that can already be found in nearly every medicine cabinet in the world: Aspirin. In 2010, we published an observational study in The Journal of Clinical Oncology… Read More »
More than 100 people nabbed in global hacker crackdown The FBI and police in several countries have arrested more than 100 people and conducted hundreds of searches in recent days in a global crackdown on hackers linked to the malicious software called Blackshades, two law enforcement officials told CNN. The years-long investigation is targeting one of the most… Read More »
Spencer brings an XP-style Start menu to Windows 8 If you’re still missing the Start Menu in Windows 8 — or even the more desktop-friendly 8.1 — then there are plenty of ways to bring it back (Classic Shell is probably our favorite). It’s not immediately obvious why we need yet another Start Menu alternative, then. But Spencer(yes, that really is its… Read More »
FatWallet Gives You Cash Back at Online Stores We’ve talked about FatWallet before, the site that finds coupons for online purchases, but they also give you cash back at many Internet merchants.P FatWallet Adds Coupon Search to Save You Money with Ease Deal-finding web site FatWallet has always had an excellent forum for saving cash, and while that…Read… Read More »
Companies that hate net neutrality are spending way more than those supporting it It may not come as much of a surprise, but the major US telecom companies have significantly outspent supporters of net neutrality when it comes to lobbying on Capitol Hill. And they seem far more intent on getting their way. Between 2005 and 2013, Verizon, AT&T,… Read More »