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Summary: Years in the making, the Supreme Court has agreed to listen to Samsung's appeal of Apple's design patent awards. At first it looked like Apple won its design patent wars over Samsung. As time went on, that "victory" started looking more like a defeat as Samsung won its appeals. Now, Apple is in even more trouble. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has elected to hear Samsung's appeal of the $548-million award lower courts gave Apple. In December 2015, Samsung agreed to pay Apple $548 million in damages over iPhone patents. But Samsung has also claimed "all rights to obtain reimbursement from Apple". So, Samsung appealed this loss to Apple to the Supreme Court . SCOTUS has agreed to address the issue. Specifically, Samsung is asking that the court decide that when a design patent is applied to only a component of a product, the award of infringer's profits should be limited to those profits attributable to the com...

Summary: Domino's has thought outside the box, prototyping what it claims is the world's first autonomous delivery vehicle that has already traversed Brisbane streets to deliver pizzas. Dominos Pizza has unveiled its plans for the first commercial autonomous delivery vehicle, the Domino's Robotic Unit, known as DRU. The four-wheeled driverless vehicle with pizza box-sized compartments has been designed for the pizza giant with help from Australian startup Marathon Robotics. Speaking in Brisbane on Thursday night, Domino's CEO and Managing Director Don Meij said that DRU had already successfully performed a number of customer deliveries in restricted streets in Brisbane under a special permit given by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. During these trials, DRU was operated in semi-autonomous mode to ensure the tests complied with current reg...

Summary: The software giant said the flaws could allow an attacker to remotely run malware if a user opens specially crafted media content that's hosted on a website. The vulnerabilities in how Windows handles media files could allow an attacker to remotely run malware. This month's bumper release of security patches has one bulletin that affects every supported version of Windows. Microsoft said on its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday that users on Windows Vista and later -- including Windows 10 -- should patch as soon as possible to prevent attackers from exploiting a flaw in how the operating system handles media files. The "critical" bulletin ( MS16-027 ) patches an issue that could allow an attacker to remotely execute code or malware as the logged-in user. Those who are logged in as an administrator are at the greatest risk. An attacker would have to trick a user into opening a...

Summary: Credit card-based scams are nothing new -- but ransomware makes these campaigns far more dangerous. If you have a Visa credit card, be careful not to fall for a new ransomware phishing campaign which offers you benefits and rewards, researchers say. A new and unusual phishing campaign has caught the eye of Symantec. Tthe scheme relates to credit cards -- but attempts to lure consumers to download ransomware instead of handing over their financial details. While fraudulent credit-card based spam is nothing new, the introduction of ransomware into the mix is a new avenue cyberattackers are using to try and force people out of their hard-earned cash to keep their system files and content. The news follows the latest high-profile infection case to hit the headlines; that of two German hospitals which became victims of ransomware which booted the organizations out of their servers and IT systems. Neither hospital has bowed to the cyberattacker's demand fo...