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As Mango’s distribution begins, questions linger from NoDo fiasco

Good news Windows Phone users on the Vodafone network, you should get Mango tomorrow. According toGerman publication Windows-Smartphones, which is reportedly trustworthy, Vodafone has completed its testing of the update and has been waiting for Microsoft’s green light on distribution. It appears that that has occurred, and so Mango will fall from the Microsoft tree and onto the heads of Vodafone customers in short order. That is, of course, provided that things go smoothly, and therein lies the rub....

As MeeGo meets its end, Samsung and Intel hope ‘Tizen’ can rival Android

It didn’t take long but it appears it is the end of the road for MeeGo, the open-source platform first created by Finnish mobile giant Nokia and technology specialists Intel, after the project was all but killed to make way for a new Linux-based mobile OS calledTizen. The new project will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and will be jointly-created by Intel and Samsung, supporting multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-car devices....

As NSO Group mulls selling Pegasus, can we ever trust this spyware to become a tool for good?

Infosec community is battlingthe log4j bugthat has the whole internet stressed out. But at the same time, privacy activists might have a wholly different reason to heave a sigh of relief. While this is playing out, Israel-based NSO Group is considering shutting down its notorious spyware product Pegasus, and selling the company — potentially ending a nightmare of breaches of sensitive information and surveillance of prominent global figures and journalists....

As of July 31st, all Google profiles will be public

Google will no longer allow users to have private Google profiles after July 31st, reportsSearch Engine Land. The company had previously allowed users to create and maintain profiles on its service without publicly disclosing their existence. Google is making the change primarily to aid in the growth of its new Google+ social network. This change means that you must have at least your full name and gender shown publicly to join Google+....

As of today, the Internet is officially almost out of IP addresses

Every Internet connected device has an IP address, and we’re running out of new ones, fast. As we’vereportedpreviously, the Internet is running out of addresses in what’s known as IPv4 space. TodayIANAannounced in avideo streamthat it had issued its last 5 block of /8 address space to the 5 Local Internet Registries around the world. Though each block contains almost 2 million IP addresses, the proliferation of online devices (especially within the home) means that they’re not going to last long....