Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year

Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking Defending the unannounced Kindle Unlimited subscription service from Amazon ITworld Today July 17, 2014 Share this email BULLETIN: Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year Microsoft announced this morning that it will cut its workforce by up to 18,000 jobs in the next year. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking 2. Defending the unannounced Kindle Unlimited subscription service from Amazon 3. GitHub data shows developers are turning to Swift 4. Beyond Firefox: 10 Mozilla projects fueling the open Web 5. Systems engineer arrested in massive data leak in Japan 6. The 'Rickmote' shows no mercy when it finds someone using Chromecast 7. Microsoft's Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the 'right to be forgotten' 8. 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Learn More Systems engineer arrested in massive data leak in Japan Tokyo police on Thursday arrested a systems engineer accused of stealing millions of customer names from the computer database of a large education firm to sell them for profit. READ MORE The 'Rickmote' shows no mercy when it finds someone using Chromecast Google's online media streaming tool, Chromecast, can be "Rickrolled" with a single click of entertainer Rick Astley's mug shot. READ MORE Microsoft's Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the 'right to be forgotten' Microsoft has started accepting requests from users in Europe who want to remove search links from Bing under a recent "right-to-be-forgotten" ruling by Europe's top court. 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