Despite Trump’s promised reprieve, Commerce Department tells staff to continue treating Huawei as blacklisted – TechCrunch

President Donald Trump recently promised to ease the ban on American companies doing business with Huawei, but the Commerce Department is requiring its staff to treat Huawei as if the blacklist is still in place, reports Reuters. Enforcement staff were sent an internal letter this week by John Sonderman, the Deputy Director of the Office…

Superbacklash – TechCrunch

Hot startup Superhuman has been getting some ‘backlash’ as happens now and then when someone notices the precise methodology that a startup is using to enable a really freakin’ cool feature set. We’re well into stage 2 now when, inevitably, the backlash itself gets backlash. The nut of it is that people have been exposed…

Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors

Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure HTTPS connections. Most Antivirus software offers web security feature that intercepts encrypted HTTPS connections to monitor the content for malicious web pages before it reaches the web…