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Submission + - CSP 2.0 Patent Troll Datawing Backs Off (theregister.com) 1

Submitted by LeeLynx on Saturday August 28, 2021 @02:48AM

LeeLynx writes: From The Register:

The director of a tiny UK company has apologised after sending letters to businesses suggesting they had infringed his patents that he claimed covered an age-old web standard.
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Datawing Ltd sent a number of letters to small businesses this month claiming to own one UK and one US patent on CSP and its use of a nonce. After an initial wave of alarm and outrage on Twitter when the letters surfaced, The Register tracked down their author: a penitent William Coppock.
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The letter claimed "our patent has been widely overlooked by companies since the inception of CSP 2.0 in 2014," advertised Datawing's Scriptlock product which "augments CSP 2.0 with new features which greatly reduce the cost of adding CSP support to existing websites," and suggested that if companies weren't interested in Scriptlock, they should "obtain a licence to work the patent."

"Technical information is enclosed with instructions for how to register with us and license fees," it concluded.

Submission + - School Apps Send Children's Info to Ad Networks (theregister.com)

Submitted by LeeLynx on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:17PM

LeeLynx writes: The Register reports:

The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards.

The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit technology policy group, examined a random sample of 73 mobile applications used in 38 different schools across 14 US states and found 60 per cent were transmitting student data.

Submission + - New Slackware Beta drops (theregister.com)

Submitted by LeeLynx on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:25AM

LeeLynx writes: The Register reports:

From the department of "I'm not dead yet" comes news of a Slackware 15 beta release, nearly five years after the distribution last saw a major update.

Submission + - Microsoft to Biden: Google should pay for news

Submitted by LeeLynx on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:51AM

LeeLynx writes: From The Register:

Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia’s plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for links to news content and suggested that doing so will help improve social cohesion and strengthen democracy.

But Google has fired back with a statement asserting that Microsoft’s motives are impure. “Of course they'd be eager to impose an unworkable levy on a rival and increase their market share,” wrote Kent Walker, Google’s chief legal officer.

While Microsoft may just be out to curtail Google, could this be one approach to rescuing local news outlets?

Submission + - Tech organizations back 'Inclusive Naming Initiative' (theregister.com) 2

Submitted by LeeLynx on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:42AM

LeeLynx writes: The Register reports:

A new group called the “Inclusive Naming Initiative” has revealed its existence and mission “to help companies and projects remove all harmful and unclear language of any kind and replace it with an agreed-upon set of neutral terms.”
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Red Hat’s post announcing its participation in the Initiative links to a dashboard listing all instances of terms it wants changed and reports over 330,000 uses of “Master” and 105,000 uses of “Slave”, plus tens of thousands and whitelists and blacklists.

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