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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- December 13, 2018

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BlackBerry Makes Autonomous Vehicle Play
Supermicro: Our Motherboards Are Clean
Pantheon Desktop Makes Linux Elementary
Location Data Selling Threatens Consumer Privacy

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Today's Story Highlights

BlackBerry Makes Autonomous Vehicle Play
BlackBerry this week introduced its new Security Credential Management
System. SCMS -- a free service for the public and private sectors --
could encourage efforts to develop autonomous and connected vehicle
pilot programs. BlackBerry undertook development of this technology to
provide the critical infrastructure for vehicles and traffic lights to
exchange information securely.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85736.html

Supermicro: Our Motherboards Are Clean
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang has informed the company's customers that a
leading third-party investigations company found "absolutely no evidence
of malicious hardware" on its motherboards. The investigation was
undertaken in response to a recent claim that bad actors had inserted
spy chips in the firm's motherboards on behalf of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85735.html

Pantheon Desktop Makes Linux Elementary
Developers of U.S.-based Elementary OS recently released the community's
annual major update, Juno 5. What makes this distro so nontraditional is
its own desktop interface, called "Pantheon." This desktop interface is
somewhat of a hybrid, inspired by Apple's Debian Ubuntu-based OS X. It
combines some similarities of the GNOME 3 Shell with the visual finesse
of the OS X dock.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85733.html

Location Data Selling Threatens Consumer Privacy
Selling location data collected by mobile phones has become a lucrative
business, according to a report that noted location advertising sales
are expected to reach $21 billion this year. At least 75 companies
receive anonymous, precise location data from applications with the
location services feature activated. Several of those outfits claim to
track 200 million mobile devices in the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85730.html

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