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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- September 24, 2014

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DIY Pi-Top Computer Lets Users Get Under the Hood
Pants on Fire, Schmidt Tells Climate Change Denier ALEC
Banking Trojan Targets Petrochemical Outfits
Hacker Gives Google a Hand With Chrome-Android Compatibility
Farewell, Bonny Bodhi?

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Today's Story Highlights

DIY Pi-Top Computer Lets Users Get Under the Hood
Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi Model B+ powered build-your-own-laptop kit, soon
could enable users to learn computer programming, designing and 3D-
printing skills. The Pi-Top team recently released details on its
construction of a prototype computer. The developers plan to use the
model in a Kickstarter campaign to generate funding for the project.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81089.html

Pants on Fire, Schmidt Tells Climate Change Denier ALEC
Google on Monday publicly denounced the conservative American
Legislative Exchange Council for lying about climate change. "We funded
them as part of a political campaign for something unrelated," Executive
Chairman Eric Schmidt told a caller to NPR's Diane Rehm Show. "I think
the consensus within the company is that was sort of a mistake. We're
trying to not do that in the future."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81087.html

Banking Trojan Targets Petrochemical Outfits
The pernicious program Citadel has been around for awhile, but it's
using some new tricks on new targets. From its humble origins as a "man
in the browser" thief of banking credentials, Citadel has become a knave
of all trades. Once it lands on a computer, it can be configured in a
number of ways with a file from a server operated by Web predators.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81083.html

Hacker Gives Google a Hand With Chrome-Android Compatibility
An unplanned convergence of Android apps and the Chrome OS may be
setting the stage for a wide-open cross-platform architecture that
combines Android and Chrome. Freelance programmer Vlad Filippov, aka
"Vladikoff," discovered a way around Google's limitations on its ARC, or
App Runtime for Chrome, which is essentially a Chrome extension
application programming interface.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81084.html

Farewell, Bonny Bodhi?
Well autumn is nigh upon us here in the Northern reaches of the Linux
blogosphere, and any day now the a/c will downshift to "medium" over at
the Broken Windows Lounge. Oktoberfest ales are selling like hotcakes,
and more than a few bloggers are rejoicing at the end of the Dog Days in
fact -- but for the recent arrival of a sad bit of news: Developer Jeff
Hoogland is leaving Bodhi Linux.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81081.html

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