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Once a security researcher discovers a new strain of malicious software — running a virtual machine on a test-bench — and adds its signature to anti-virus and network monitor blacklists, it’s game over. So today’s malware devotes enormous energy to figuring out if it’s running on a real computer, or inside one of its enemies’ virtual worlds.

"14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news.  Still, he knew there were many good police officers in various communities, but had no way of figuring out which communities were highly rated and which were not.  

So, together with his two older sisters: Parkview High School senior Ima Christian, and Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology sophomore, Asha Christian, they founded a mobile app development company– Pinetart Inc., under which they created a mobile app called Five-O. Five-O, allows citizens to enter the details of every interaction with a police officer.  It also allows them to rate that officer in terms of courtesy and professionalism and provides the ability to enter a short description of what transpired.  These details are captured for every county in the United States. Citizen race and age information data is also captured.

Additionally, Five-O allows citizens to store the details of each encounter with law enforcement; this provides convenient access to critical information needed for legal action or commendation.”

"That’s why advocates should not be talking about protecting net neutrality. They shouldn’t even use that phrase. They should call it "Preventing Cable Company F!#@ery" because that is what it is. And… there might actually be something you can still do.”

1. XKit Packs

Historically, developing for XKit was pretty hard, since it was pretty much a walled garden: in order to publish your extensions, you had to send them to me, wait for me to inspect them and then add them to the extension gallery. Or you could host and share your extensions yourself, but that would mean your users would have to use the XKit Editor, and would not get automatic updates.

With XKit Packs, anyone can publish extensions, and anyone can install them with just a few clicks. And they work mostly like “normal” XKit extensions: when the developer updates their extension, you get the updates automatically. The only difference is that they are not listed on the Extension Gallery, meaning that developers have to promote them themselves.

Packs also come with a “kill switch”, so if I become aware of a malicious extension, I will mark it as so, and XKit will remove it on the next update check.

For more information, please click here.

2. XCloud Web Access

XCloud Web Access allows you to access your XCloud account on any computer, even mobile devices.

For now, it’s very, very limited, and you can only view a summary of your last backup and change your password, but in the future, you’ll be able to view your archived posts, bookmarks, and share your Themes+ themes, as well as set up a password recovery e-mail address.

I was going to wait until it was completely finished, but since it’s used for publishing XKit Packs, and password changing can be useful for others, it’s now available in it’s current limited form.