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Tech News Flash: Friday -- February 20, 2015

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Google Rails Against Proposal to Give Feds Remote Hacking Authority
Video Game Preservation: An Impossible Dream?
Lenovo Rapped for Preinstalling Spyware
Azure Machine Learning Aims to Convert Data to Information

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Today's Story Highlights

Google Rails Against Proposal to Give Feds Remote Hacking Authority
Google is fighting a proposed amendment to Rule 41 of the U.S. Criminal
Code that might allow authorities to hack into computers abroad. The
amendment seeks to empower a magistrate in a district where activities
related to a crime may have occurred to issue a warrant for remote
search of computers, as well as seizure or copying of their files, under
certain circumstances.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81735.html

Video Game Preservation: An Impossible Dream?
Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of
buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games, made for the Atari 2600
in the early 1980s. Surplus copies of E.T. -- a notoriously bad gaming
experience -- were dumped in a landfill after failing to sell. By
burying its shame, Atari hoped to wipe the title from the gaming
community's collective consciousness.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81729.html

Lenovo Rapped for Preinstalling Spyware
Lenovo has come under fire for preinstalling spyware on some of its
laptops. The software, Superfish, uses the same techniques
cybercriminals often employ to crack encrypted traffic. "Superfish is
purposely designed to bypass the security of HTTPS websites in a manner
that would allow malware and attackers to also bypass the security
provided by HTTPS," said Bluebox cofounder Adam Ely.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81730.html

Azure Machine Learning Aims to Convert Data to Information
Microsoft has announced new data services running on its Azure cloud in
a bid to bring big data to the mainstream. Those services include the
HDInsight Apache Hadoop-based service; Storm on HDInsight, which lets
users use Hadoop and Storm to create distributed, real-time data
processing solutions in Azure; and Azure Machine Learning, a managed
cloud service for advanced analytics.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81724.html

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