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Submission + - Restaurant tests drone servers in Singapore

Submitted by Press2ToContinue
Press2ToContinue writes: Autonomous drone waiters have been unveiled this week in Singapore. The robotic staff members carry dishes and drinks back and forth from the kitchen to the customers to lessen plate-laden legwork.

Designed and built by Singapore-based startup Infinium Robotics, the drones have taken over music bar and restaurant Timbre @ The Substation. According to the robot maker, the drones’ appearance this week is an experiment before a larger roll-out of the flying machines towards the end of the year.

The drones have not been created to replace human waiters, carrying the dishes with serving staff still on hand to attend to the restaurant’s diners. The robots do not deliver directly to the customers’ tables, but instead from the kitchen to a drop-off point where the human waiters will pick up the orders and serve them at the correct table.

Submission + - Has Anonymous Hacked Google? Wikipedia? Both? Neither?

Submitted by Press2ToContinue
Press2ToContinue writes: An Anonymous anomaly: ‘This site may be hacked’ — and the site is Wikipedia.

If you perform a Google search for ‘Anonymous’ today, you’ll see that Google has appended the warning ‘This site may be hacked’ to the Wikipedia entry for the Anonymous group in the search results. I have no idea how long the warning has been there, but I first noticed it two days ago.

What I’m wondering is this: has the group managed to perform a particularly difficult hack against Wikipedia — or even Google? Or both?

The message is strange partly because it reads ambiguously – is it a warning from Google or a boast from Anonymous? But it is primarily strange because it appears in no other Wikipedia-related search results that I can find.

Are Anonymous having some obscure fun with Wikipedia and/or Google – or is some other group, illicit or otherwise, discouraging views of the group’s Wikipedia entry via strange means?

And finally, if you visit that Wiki page, do you think you might be infected by Anonymous?

Submission + - Inside the Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Making $1.5M a Month (vice.com)

Submitted by Press2ToContinue
Press2ToContinue writes: The mine we visited is just one of six sites owned by a secretive group of four people, part of a colossal mining operation that, as of our visit, cumulatively generated 4,050 bitcoins a month, equivalent to a monthly gross of $1.5 million.

Despite its dystopian appearance, the group’s six mining farms encompass eight petahashes per second of computing power, whose brute force, as of October, accounted for 3 percent of the entire Bitcoin network.

If you’ve bought or sold or conducted any Bitcoin transaction recently, these are some of the folks you have to thank.

Strangely, the mine’s workers actually live inside the facility itself, returning home just four or five days a month.

Submission + - The last two satellites in Russia's missile warning constellation have failed

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: In January the last two satellites in Russia’s ballistic missile warning system shut down, with the first of the next generation replacement constellation not scheduled to launch until June.

“Oko-1 was part of Russia’s missile warning system. The system employed six satellites on geostationary and highly elliptical orbits. The last geostationary satellite got out of order in April last year. The two remaining satellites on highly elliptical orbits could operate only several hours a day. In the beginning of January, they also went out of order,” Kommersant said.

The new generation early warning satellite Tundra was planned to be launched in 2013. However, the launch was postponed several times as the apparatus was not ready to be put into operation, sources in the aerospace industry told the daily.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was the bloated, inefficient, and poorly managed. The communist nation was definitely a threat, as they got a lot accomplished through sheer brute force and determination. Their long term problem was that it was an amazingly inefficient system, guaranteed to eventually fall apart

Submission + - Hedge fund shorts biotechs, then sues those same biotechs to drop share price (biospace.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: A hedge fund is shorting biotechs, then suing those same biotechs over patent disputes The hedge fund is betting that the lawsuits will cause the biotech share price to drop. This is being done in the name of lowing drug prices for the public good.

Part of that push is a desire to lower drug prices, said the Texan, but it could also be a significant money maker for Bass, whose shorting strategy only makes money if companies fail. "This will change the way pharma companies [manage] their BS patents," Bass said. "The beautiful thing is this will lower drug prices for everyone."

Submission + - Anonymous seems to have hacked its Google search results (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Whilst everyone waits for hacking group Anonymous to publish its much-publicised list of high-level paedophiles today, a more obscure hack seems to be in evidence: the Wikipedia page for the Anonymous group is marked in Google search results with the warning 'This site may be hacked'. Yet no other Google search results for the Wikipedia domain display the warning. Google does not issue warnings about malware or hacking on a per-page basis, but appends them to any results across the entire domain, until the problem is fixed. If the anomaly is a hack — by Anonymous or any other group — it seems to be a hack that affects either Google or Wikipedia.

Submission + - 16 Million Mobile Devices Infected By Malware

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Alcatel-Lucent's Motive Security Labs estimates 16 million mobile devices worldwide have been infected by malware — used by cybercriminals for corporate and personal espionage, information theft, Denial of Service attacks on businesses and governments, and banking and advertising scams. Malware infections in mobile devices increased 25% in 2014, compared to a 20% increase in 2013. Android devices have now caught up with Windows laptops, which had been the primary workhorse of cybercrime, with infection rates between Android and Windows devices split 50/50 in 2014.

Submission + - Alleged Sasquatch Romps through Yellowstone National Park

Submitted by Press2ToContinue
Press2ToContinue writes: The Old Faithful geyser-cam in Yellowstone National Park has recorded four bipeds ambulating near a group of wild bison.

Who or what exactly are these 8-foot figures strolling the snow? NFL players? College students in monkey suits? Bigfoots? Bigfeet? Sasquatches? (There is no plural for Sasquatch in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.)

ThinkerThunker, gives the footage an examination in meticulously grave detail.

The footage was taken by the geyser’s online streaming cam and originally uploaded to YouTube by Mary Greeley. Greeley runs a “news” channel on YouTube and each video begins with the chirping of crickets. She purports to post items she believes to be “News the Mainstream don’t cover and are too afraid to show you.”

Afraid, indeed.

Submission + - Splitting HARES, Military Grade Crypto in Malware (wired.com)

Submitted by Dharkfiber
Dharkfiber writes: Andy Greenberg @ Wired Magazine writes, "Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It’s also what allows those same hackers’ dangerous malware to be deconstructed and neutered. Now a new encryption trick could make both those tasks much, much harder." New crypto tricks being added to Malware, SSL, Disk, and now HARES packaging.

Submission + - Netatmo Weather Station Sends WPA Password To Manufacturer (sans.edu)

Submitted by UnderAttack
UnderAttack writes: The SANS Internet Storm Center is writing that Netatmo weather stations will send the users WPA password in the clear back to Netatmo. Netatmo states that this is some forgotten debug code that was left in the device. Overall, the device doesn't bother with encryption, but sends all data, not just the password, in the clear.

Submission + - Who Do You Blame When a Driverless Car Crashes? (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: “The short answer in human ethical terms is this: ‘The car is only trying to save itself’,” says Matthew Strebe, CEO of Connetic, who is developing autonomous cybersecurity defense solutions.

Submission + - Samsung Smart TVs forcing ads into video streaming apps (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: Just days after its TV voice recognition software came under fire for invading privacy, Samsung users are reporting unwanted Pepsi ads appearing while they watch their Smart TVs.

Reports are emerging that Samsung smart TVs have begun inserting short advertisements directly into video streaming apps, with no influence from the third-party app providers.

The news comes just days after Samsung made headlines for another incursion into user's lounge rooms, when it was revealed that its TV voice recognition software is capable of capturing personal information and transmitting it to third parties. The issue was discovered in the fine print of Samsung's voice recognition privacy policy, but the company says it has since changed the policy to "better explain what actually occurs" during this voice capture process.

The latest complaints directed at the South Korean electronics giant relate to a Pepsi advertisement that has reportedly started to appear during content streamed through Smart TV apps from personal media libraries and video streaming services.

The issue has been reported on the Plex streaming service — a brand of media player that allows users to stream their own video from a personal library or hard drive and push it to a smart TV.

One Plex user took to the company's customer forum to complain about the constant intrusion of ads on his Samsung TV.

"I have recently upgraded my Plex Media Server to version 0.9.1101 and every 10-15 minutes whilst watching content on my Samsung TV I get a Pepsi advertisement showing!" user Mike wrote. "At first I thought I was seeing things but no it repeats. Sometimes I can get out of it and go back to my media, others it hangs the app and the TV restarts."

Comment So "Troll" is the knee-jerk reaction... (Score 1) 309

by Press2ToContinue (#49021109) Attached to: The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy

I have been to the area around 3-mile Island. I don't know if you have been there recently like I have, but I do know I'm glad I'm not raising a family near there. Their genetic material has been forever altered, and it was clear to me, after I asked a friend, "what is -wrong- with the people around here?" and found out I was only miles from the site. Yes, that is how I discovered I was near 3-mile Island. By simple observation of the population. It was that clear.

I would hope we can come up with a more inventive solution to a technology that clearly has a very deep, dark, downside for innocent civilians.

Or, if you prefer, keep drinking that koolaid 'yall, and keep your family away from the reactors.

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