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Submission + - New Samsung 840 EVO with TurboWrite TLC Technology (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: Samsung continues with strong releases into the SSD market with the new 840 EVO today. Based on the same TLC (triple level cell) flash that the original Samsung 840 drive used when it launched last year, Samsung has improved the write speeds of this new drive by implementing something called TurboWrite. By accessing a portion of that TLC memory as if it were SLC, it can be written to much faster that MLC or TLC allowing the drive to dump all writes to that area initially and then migrate the data to TLC when idle or when the cache is full. Initial write speeds of this write-back cache can be as high as 520 MB/s but after it's full (during sustained writes) it will drop to as low as 140 MB/s. Through testing at PC Perspective they found that average "flush times" of the cache will change based on the drive capacity and cache sizes which range from 3-12GB.

Submission + - DARPA Developing Brain-Controlled Prosthetics For Amputees (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: DARPA’s Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program aims to return to amputees not just an arm or leg, but control and sensation of the limb that they lost. Toward this end, promising progress has been made in targeted muscle re-innervation that rewires the nerves to control prosthetics and flat interface nerve electrodes, which provide crude sensation for the amputee. These efforts are laying the groundwork for not only sophisticated prostheses, but future cybernetics.

Submission + - Fan Community Launches "Ender's Game Fans for Equality"

Submitted by elfprince13
elfprince13 writes: With talk of a boycott of the upcoming film, some enterprising fans have taken matters into their own hands. Rather than engaging in a boycott, they are suggesting that fans participate in a "political offset" fundraising campaign to counter the lobbying that Orson Scott Card's share of the profits might contribute to. The campaign is intended to support a variety of equal-rights themed charities spanning the political spectrum.

Submission + - Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Brandon Butler
Brandon Butler writes: Netflix, yes the video rental company Netflix, is changing the cloud game. During the past two years the company has pulled back the curtains through its Netflix OSS program to provide a behind-the-scenes look into how it runs one of the largest deployments of Amazon Web Services cloud-based resources. In doing so, the company is creating tools that can be used by both entire business-size scale cloud deployments and even smaller test environments. The Simian Army, for example randomly kills off VMs or entire availability zones in Amazon's cloud to test fault tolerance, Asgard is a cloud resource dashboard and Lipstick on (Apache) Pig, is a data visualization tool for the Hadoop program; there are dozens of others that help deploy, manage and monitor the tens of thousands of VM instances the company company can be running at any single time. Netflix is also creating a cadre of developers who are experts in managing cloud deployments, and already its former employees are popping up at other companies to bring their expertise on how to run a large-scale cloud resources. Meanwhile, Netflix does this all in AWS’s cloud, which raises some questions of how good of a job it’s actually doing when it can be massively impacted by cloud outages, such as the one on Christmas Eve last year that brought down Netflix's services but, interestingly, not Amazon’s own video streaming system, which is a competitor to the company.

Submission + - Apple Found Guilty In eBook Trial (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by redletterdave
redletterdave writes: A federal judge found Apple Inc. guilty of conspiring to raise the retail prices of electronic books back in 2010. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of Manhattan said the U.S. government and various states are entitled to injunctive relief, and Apple will await a separate trial to determine damages for violating antitrust law.

Submission + - German Court Affirms GPL: Source Must Match Executable

Submitted by Alsee
Alsee writes: Fantec was found to be distributing Linux based media players with an incorrect (older) version of source code. Fantec blamed their Chinese supplier for the problem, but a German Court ruled Fantec was responsible for ensuring their own compliance with the GPL. "According to the court, the company should have checked the completeness of the sources themselves or with the help of experts, even if that would have incurred additional costs." I propose a better solution. If your company is subcontracting software development simply use the supplied source to compile your executable.

Submission + - Evidence of the existence of the Flying Spagetti Monster (feedsportal.com)

Submitted by Big Hairy Ian
Big Hairy Ian writes: Pasta helps marathon runners keep the pace – and maybe some spinning stars too. The key to neutron stars' steady rotation may be spaghetti-shaped groupings of atomic nuclei that form lumps in the stellar crust.

A neutron star is the ultra-dense remnant of a stellar explosion, made up of a solid crust of atomic nuclei and a liquid core of free neutronsMovie Camera. These stars are born spinning rapidly, sometimes making multiple rotations per second. Some neutron stars also emit beams of radiation from their magnetic poles. If the beams sweep past Earth, we can detect the regular pulses of light and time the star's spin.

Without any outside influences, a neutron star will slow down over time as it radiates away energy. Curiously, X-ray pulsars, which are brighter and easier to observe than other types, appear to stop slowing down when they reach a rate of about 12 seconds per rotation.

Submission + - What has PRISM accomplished ? (policymic.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: The PRISM sham is really revealing in one very interesting aspect — from the way Peter King (R-NY) vehemently demanded that Mr. Snowden be extradited back to the United States for persecution to the strange bedfellows of senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) both coming out in the defense the absolutely indefensible — at least NOW, hopefully, we can get to know better what kind of government the United States of America has

Let us see if PRISM has actually protected America

Did PRISM protect the 13 American soldiers who were killed by Nidal Malik Hasan, in Fort Hood, Texas ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting

Did PRISM prevent the Boston Marathon bombing ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings

Did PRISM stop a father from killing his own daughters ? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152369/Yaser-Said-Man-murdered-daughters-shocking-Muslim-honour-killing-working-New-York-City-cab-driver.html

Did PRISM successfully save the lives of the two Coptic Christians in Buena Vista, NJ ? http://commonamericanjournal.com/two-coptic-christians-murdered-beheaded-in-new-jersey-media-silent/

There ARE so many Islamic atrocities happening inside the United States of America while PRISM is in full swing, what actually has PRISM accomplished ?

Submission + - The man who teaches the world to Google (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: PC Pro has an interview with Dan Russell, the man who's tasked with teaching the world how to use Google. Russell personally interviews around 200 people every year to find out how they search, what they do well and where their failings are. He recalls the tale of an LA bus driver he’d been tasked with interviewing. She’d been going through a 100-page document, line by line, without the faintest knowledge of Ctrl+F to find the term she was looking for in the document. "When I got home I told my wife 'can you believe I met somebody who doesn't know Ctrl+F?' And my wife," he says indignantly, "my wife asked 'what's Ctrl+F?'".

This was something of a lightbulb moment for Russell. He conducted a survey to find out exactly how widespread this "problem" was and discovered 90% of people had never heard of Ctrl+F. A Google colleague found this so utterly shocking, he conducted his own survey in secret and came back with a figure of 91%.

Submission + - Black Hawk Down - Chinese Hackers Steal Designs for Advanced US Weapons (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: The US is set to spend over $1.4 trillion (yes, that's TRILLION) on the development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. However China could now be on course to develop a fighter jet of similar capabilities at the same time after hackers stole designs and blueprints for the advanced aircraft. It was only one of dozens of weapons systems compromised by Chinese hackers according to a confidential report written for the Pentagon and military officials with knowledge of the matter.

Submission + - PayPal denies teenager reward for finding website bug (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website. Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is under 18 years old, he did not qualify for its Bug Bounty Program. He will turn 18 next March. PayPal, which is owned by auction site eBay, outlines the terms and conditions for its Bug Bounty Program on its website, but does not appear to have an age guideline. PayPal officials did not have an immediate comment. Many companies such as Google and Facebook have reward programs. The programs are intended to create an incentive for researchers to privately report issues and allow vendors to release fixes before hackers take advantage of flaws.

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