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Sony

Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack 155

Posted by Soulskill from the try-long-enough-and-you-find-a-soft-target dept.
MojoKid writes: It appears that Sony Pictures has become the victim of a massive ransomware hack, which has resulted in the company basically shutting down its IT infrastructure. According to an unnamed source, every computer in Sony's New York Office, and every Sony Pictures office across the nation, bears an image from the hacker with the headline "Hacked By #GOP" which is then followed by a warning. The hacker, or group, claims to have obtained corporate secrets and has threatened to reveal those secrets if Sony doesn't meet their demands.
Transportation

Here's What Your Car Could Look Like In 2030 144

Posted by Soulskill from the just-make-sure-there's-room-for-a-cot dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes: If you took your cubicle, four wheels, powerful AI, and brought them all together in unholy matrimony, their offspring might look something like the self-driving future car created by design consultants IDEO. That's not to say that every car on the road in 2030 will look like a mobile office, but technology could take driving to a place where a car's convenience and onboard software (not to mention smaller size) matter more than, say, speed or handling, especially as urban areas become denser and people potentially look at "driving time" as a time to get things done or relax as the car handles the majority of driving tasks. Then again, if old science-fiction movies have proven anything, it's that visions of automobile design thirty or fifty years down the road (pun intended) tend to be far, far different than the eventual reality. (Blade Runner, for example, posited that the skies above Los Angeles would swarm with flying cars by 2019.) So it's anyone's guess what you'll be driving a couple decades from now.

Comment bar-room statisticians (Score 1) 78

by Hognoxious (#48447451) Attached to: Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random

It's even worse than that. Going by this quote, they're using it to mean even or homogeneous:

        contrary to what they thought, such events are not random, and these explosions may occur more frequently on certain days.

You know, like if a coin comes up heads four times in a row that's "not random".

As to the astronomy bit, this has been known since forever. The major ones have names and can even be predicted. Crapdot FTL.

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