At the end of 2015, 14 people died in the San Bernardino attack. One of the terrorists had an iPhone 5c and the FBI asked Apple to allow them to access the information on the mobile phone.

Faced with the refusal, the FBI had to pay $ 900,000 to an external company to unlock it. In an interview with Axios , Bill Gates believes that technology companies should behave differently.

We can now download LibreOffice 6.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (and the cloud). This is the first major update this year, and one that the Document Foundation itself has called “dramatically better”.

The free office suite is also celebrating its seventh anniversary, and with version 6.0 they claim to have a line of more powerful, simple, and secure programs with better interoperability with Microsoft Office documents.

An anonymous, decentralized BitTorrent client, with the protection of using encryption like Tor’s , and now also with its own blockchain to know how much users share and reward them according to that.

This is Tribler , the open source program to share files via P2P that has been in development for more than a decade, and which we have talked about before to create an anonymous and “impossible to close” BitTorrent.

Twice, Intel’s top executive, Navin Shenoy, had to come out and practice the promised transparency by addressing the reboots that an unknown number of users were suffering when applying the company’s patches against Meltdown and Specter. Although at first it was pointed out that they affected Broadwell and Haswell processors, the story was repeatedon Kaby Lake, Skylake, Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge chips, more modern generations.

Firefox Quantum made many Chrome users and other browsers jump to the new Mozilla proposal. The company continues to make progress to improve the experience, and Tab Warming is the best proof of that.

Normally, users complain about the large amount of resources that a browser uses. Pages are increasingly sophisticated and having multiple tabs open causes consumption to skyrocket. For this reason, developers have been looking for ways to improve the experience for years without reducing the number of pages that you may have open simultaneously.

Images filters have dominated many applications since a platform, Instagram, put them in fashion. They are on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, in conventional graphics editors, in photo retouching applications and, now also, in PC games thanks to a new beta feature of the GeForce Experience software.

The Government of Canada has partnered with a company specialized in artificial intelligence, Advanced Symbolics, to analyze messages from 160,000 social media profiles looking for suicidal tendencies. The objective of the Canadian administration is to predict increases in the risk of suicide in the different territories and provinces of the country.

Earlier this month, the European Union made it clear that extremist content should be eliminated in one or two hours, asking companies such as Facebook, Google or Twitter to improve the moderation process.

The problem comes when you have a platform with 2 billion active users, since moderating all the generated content becomes a titanic task. The company’s 7,500 moderators do not seem to deal with the amount of work they have.

iA Writer is one of the most popular applications to write on iOS, MacOS and Android, the three systems for which it is currently available. Its so successful minimalism, how much it helps concentration, the added functions it offers and its markdown support make it almost unique. And this 2018, we are assured from iA , will finally be available for Windows.

Have you seen too many photos of a family member’s new pet? Is a friendship tempting you too much by posting pictures of everything you ate during your last vacation? According to Facebook account, “it turns out that you are not alone”. That’s why he presents Snooze, a new feature that will be available this week.

The idea is simple: if the publications of a friendship, a group or even a page are overwhelming you, but you do not want to eliminate them or stop them from continuing indefinitely, thanks to this option you will stop seeing your publications for 30 days. At the end of that period of time everything will return to normal, although if we wish we can finish the temporary silencing first.