A coalition including Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute with the support of several prominent tech companies, including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems and Consumer Reports WebWatch has banded together to fight “badware”, the groups generic term that includes spyware, adware and any other software which “fundamentally disregards a user’s choice over how his or her computer will be used”.
A: StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers make better choices about what they download onto their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.
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Watching her three-and-a-half year old son use a chair to reach countertops, had Natalie Koifman thinking there must be a better, safer way for kids to reach things above their height. So, she invented the “Little Helper” which she hopes will be on the market in a year or so. In the meantime, parents should remember that supervision is key to keeping kids safe - what kids can’t reach, they will climb to get.
Since the process of gaining a license and patent for the “Little Helper” is still ongoing, Koifman is not able to give specific information about the information.
“I can say that it basically acts as a substitute for a chair by providing much better support for a child when he or she stands on it,” Koifman said. “It could possibly cut down on the risk factor.”
Because a lengthy amount of time is spent receiving a license and patent, as well as waiting to be picked up by a major manufacturer, the “Little Helper” may not be out in stores until a few years later.
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Diamond Pet Foods is recalling all food made at its South Carolina plant from September 1 to December 10 after aflatoxin in food from the plant caused several pet deaths. The food is sold under the brands Diamond, Country Value and Professional.
In a comments made last week, Brinkmann said the company had received a call from a customer in New York whose dog had died, which then prompted the company to test samples from its South Carolina plant.
The company routinely pulls samples every 30 minutes, and was still testing them to narrow down which products may be contaminated. However, Diamond decided on a broad recall of all pet food made at that plant from September 1 through December 10 while it awaits further test results.
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