A number of Google services just announced that they are about to shut down. The Google Video team announced that it will shut down uploads in a few months, while the Google Notebook team announced that it is stopping development (the service will continue to function, however)...
Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome. Google recently removed Firefox from the Google Pack bundle, replaced it with Chrome, then added a direct download link for Chrome on Google and YouTube...
The three MIT students who were sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority for planning to show at Defcon how they had had reverse engineered the magnetic stripe tickets and smartcards said Monday that they are now working to make the Boston transit system more secure...
Silvan Mühlemann wrote the article Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared, where he uses 9 different e-mail addresses over a 1.5 year period. On this page he published the e-mail addresses using 9 different techniques. It turns out using ROT13 encoding (see our Mailto CakePHP helper) was one of the 3 techniques that "...are absolutely rock-solid and keep your addresses safe from the harvesters."
According to US-CERT, the attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system. It then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit, derived from the older "phalanx" rootkit...
Speed Matters, which is a project of the Communication Workers of America, conducted the study between May 2007 and May 2008 by asking users visiting its Web site to test out their connection speed to check how quickly they could download and upload data. In total, nearly 230,000 connections in the United States were tested. The study found that the nine states with the fastest median download connections are all located on the East Coast...
"This week's Google outages left several Google Apps admins in the lurch — and many of them are second-guessing their advocacy for making the switch to hosted apps," InfoWorld reports. The outages, which affected both Gmail and Apps, 'could serve as a deterrent to some IT and business managers who might not be ready to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their servers,' according to the article....
"In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies. They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision..."
Recently I got hit by the antivirus xp 2008 virus, and although I had no trouble removing it with Kaspersky Anti-Virus it did not completely restore windows to its original state. I still had that new bright blue wallpaper sitting on my desktop, and the virus purposely made it difficult to change it back.
This is one of the funniest comics I've seen. It's titled "The Ballmer Peak" and compares programming skill to blood alcohol concentration percentage...
Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it...
It seems that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud - it is designed to make web-scale computer easier for developers) is having troubles fighting off all spam and malware....
The first complete high-resolution map of the human cerebral cortex's neural fibers has been created by an international team of researchers.... |
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