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Submission + - GlobalSign supports billions of device identities in an effort to secure the IoT (globalsign.com)

Submitted by broknstrngz
broknstrngz writes: GlobalSign, a WebTrust certified CA and identity services provider, has released its high volume managed PKI platform, taking a stab at the current authentication and security weaknesses in the IoT. The new service aims to commodify large scale rapid enrollment and identity management for large federated swarms of devices such as IP cameras, smart home appliances and consumer electronics, core and customer premises network equipment in an attempt to reduce the attack surface exploitable by IoT DDoS botnets such as Mirai.

Strong device identity models are developed in partnership with TPM and hardware cryptographic providers such as Infineon and Intrinsic ID, as well as other Trusted Computing Group members.

Submission + - Spike of radioactive Iodine levels is detected in Europe (theaviationist.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Iodine-131 (131I), a radionuclide of anthropogenic origin, has recently been detected in tiny amounts in the ground-level atmosphere in Europe. The preliminary report states it was first found during week 2 of January 2017 in northern Norway. Iodine-131 was also detected in Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain, until the end of January.

However, no one seems to know the reason behind the released Iodine-131. Along with nuclear power plants, the isotope is also widely used in medicine and its presence in the air could be the effect of several different incidents.

Or, as someone speculates, it could have been the side effect of a test of a new nuclear warhead in Russia: an unlikely (considered the ability to detect nuke tests through satellites and seismic detectors) violation of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Comment Re:Moo (Score 1) 438

by Amiralul (#45130361) Attached to: <em>Gravity</em>: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right?
I don't know, I've seen Space Statio 3D at IMAX and loved it. Way better then Gravity. 100% accurate from a scientific point of view and very intense (especially the launches of the Space Shuttle and Proton rocket). And it was (partially) filmed in space, using an IMAX camera.

Comment Re:Long term? (Score 1) 599

by Amiralul (#43345229) Attached to: Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes
Do you have any idea on the volume ratio for nuclear spent fuel and classical waste? And it's not like we can convert fossil fuel waste to drinking water either, we still have to store it somewhere, polluting the site. Fun fact: due to traces of uranium in coal, a classic power plant actually releases into atmosphere more radioactive material than a nuclear power plant does. Witout considering the greenhouse gases.

Comment Four lanches in 2012? (Score 1) 167

by Amiralul (#40153869) Attached to: Intelsat Signs Launch Contract With SpaceX
"On top of the four Falcon Heavy launches planned for the U.S. Air Force this year (...)"
Uhm, what? Falcon Heavy's first flight is scheduled for 2013 and it will be a test flight, I doubt it will carry any commercial cargo. Maybe the planning for the US Air Forces launches was done this year, that can be true, but I'm certain that no Falcon Heavy will lift-off in 2012.

Submission + - Manage your DNS with GitHub (luadns.com)

Submitted by Amiralul
Amiralul writes: Luadns service offers a new way to manage your DNS. Noisy Bind syntax has been replaced with a much friendlier syntax (Lua). You may store your DNS configurations on GitHub or Bitbucket, after each git push configurations are validated and deployed to Luadns servers. More information and examples can be found on Luadns' website. I've used it for a few months now and I can say that I'm glad I don't have to tinker /etc/named.conf anymore.
Data Storage

Submission + - HDD Pricewatch: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices (techspot.com) 1

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Canonical pulls Kubuntu personnel funding (itworld.com)

Submitted by LinuxScribe
LinuxScribe writes: An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical.

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