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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- January 16, 2016

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Headline Scan
Sony Builds Smart Home Hub Into Ceiling Light
OpenSSH Flaw Could Leak Crypto Keys
NASA Advances Mission to Protect Earth From Asteroids
Google's Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Touch
Dronecode Project Gets More Wind Beneath Its Wings
Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection
Researchers May Have Licked Flaming Lithium-Ion Battery Problem
EFF Urges Revival of Human Rights Case Against Cisco

Today's Story Highlights

Sony Builds Smart Home Hub Into Ceiling Light
Sony this week announced its Multifunctional Light, a ceiling lamp
that's kitted out with sensors to talk to smart things. It includes
sensors for motion, illumination, temperature and humidity. There's also
WiFi radio, a memory card slot, a condenser microphone, and an infrared
controller for air conditioners. The lamp form factor offers convenient
placement, said a Sony Electronics spokesperson.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82986.html

OpenSSH Flaw Could Leak Crypto Keys
Qualys on Thursday reported a flaw in the OpenSSH client that could let
a hacker steal the client's private crypto keys. The bug is the result
of an undocumented feature called "roaming" that exists in version 5.4
and above. It's one of two vulnerabilities that a malicious SSH server
or a trusted but compromised server can exploit, Qualys said. The other
is a heap-based buffer overflow.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82991.html

NASA Advances Mission to Protect Earth From Asteroids
NASA last week announced that it has established the Planetary Defense
Coordination Office to formalize its efforts to detect and track near-
Earth objects. The PDCO will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find
and characterize asteroids and comets that pass near Earth's orbit
around the sun. It will issue notices of close passes and warnings of
any detected potential impacts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82987.html

Google's Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Touch
Google's self-driving cars showed major safety improvements over the
past year -- but there were dozens of incidents when test drivers had to
intervene, the company said in a report recently filed with California
regulators. There were 272 so-called immediate manual control
disengagements due to a failure of the autonomous car technology,
between September 2014 and November 2015, Google reported.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82981.html

Dronecode Project Gets More Wind Beneath Its Wings
The Linux Foundation this week announced an expansion of the Dronecode
project with investments from new members and the creation of three
technical working groups. The foundation launched the open source
project in 2014 in an effort to create a unified platform for commercial
drone technology. Twenty-seven companies have joined Dronecode since,
bringing membership to 51, officials said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82982.html

Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection
There's been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Sisyphean
task of protecting privacy in the Digital Age, but that hasn't stopped
innovators from searching for ways to preserve it. One of the latest
ideas to emerge in the field is Privacy as a Service. As with many
emerging technologies, the definition of "PaaS" (not to be confused with
Platform as a Service) is in flux.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82978.html

Researchers May Have Licked Flaming Lithium-Ion Battery Problem
Incorporating a polymer switching material into lithium-ion batteries
could prevent their overheating due to a process known as "thermal
runaway," according to Stanford researchers. Lithium-ion batteries
consist of an anode, a cathode, a separator and a flammable electrolyte.
The separator melts when a large amount of heat is generated by
overcharging or shorting, ultimately resulting in a thermal runaway.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82967.html

EFF Urges Revival of Human Rights Case Against Cisco
The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday pressed to revive a lawsuit
against Cisco Systems for violating human rights in China, in a brief
filed with a U.S. Court of Appeals. Members of Falun Gong, a religious
group persecuted in China, originally filed the lawsuit in 2011, but a
federal district court in California dismissed it in 2014. The federal
appeals court now is considering a challenge to that dismissal.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82973.html

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