72330069
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erier2003 writes:
An MIT study argues that weak government investment is leaving the country vulnerable to a wide range of intrusions and exploits. The solution, according to the MIT team, is twofold: completely redesign the world's computers to eliminate inherent flaws and implement a stronger method of authentication.
71654949
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blottsie writes:
Unlike Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and other telecom giants, California-based Sonic has user privacy protection baked into its DNA. It is the only ISP to receive a perfect score on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Who Has Your Back?" scorecard, and it stores customers' IP addresses for a fraction of what other ISPs do. But that's only just the start.
71537831
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blottsie writes:
In his first interview since retiring as general council to the NSA, Rajesh De offers detailed insights into the spy agency's efforts to find balance between security and privacy, why the NSA often has trouble defending itself in public, the culture of "No Such Agency," and what it was like on the inside when the Snowden bombshell went off.
70216237
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catparty writes:
After an FCC ruling, all carriers must comply with requests to unlock a phone on their network and that rule goes into effect starting today. Compiled here are the guidelines of the ruling, what makes you eligible, and how to get in touch with each carrier to go make them unlock your phone in the U.S.
69991919
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blottsie writes:
Founded in 2004, TUAW, or the Unofficial Apple Weblog, was one of the longest-running sites dedicated to covering all things Apple, and as of today, it is no more. The site still exists—insofar as navigating to its url won’t lead you to a dead page—but publishing has ceased. TUAW, as the Internet knew it for a decade, is gone. I had the privilege of writing for TUAW for a long time, and this is my goodbye.
69959627
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erier2003 writes:
As soon as the game started, the stream was choppy, with big, painful gaps in between the snap and the play. If you want to experience deafening silence, sit in a room with 10 people with the Super Bowl volume turned way up and wallow in the absolute stillness of a frozen, soundless screen. But the question remains: Did NBC botch this, or are we just whining?
69926137
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catparty writes:
Uber's latest rider safety scandal involves a Los Angeles UberX driver who allegedly raped a female passenger after pretending to be on duty in the early hours of Sunday Feb. 1. The incident is unfolding just days after a female rider in India filed a lawsuit against Uber in the U.S. for failing to provide proper safety precautions. Sunday's incident is just the latest in a string of sexual assault charges against Uber drivers, who work as contractors for the ride sharing company.
69672121
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blottsie writes:
Forecasting and future analysis is kind of Rashied Amini's thing. The NASA JPL systems engineer was part of a team responsible for casting scenarios for Lunar and Martian base building and forecasting demand for nuclear fuel for use in space nuclear power systems. Now he’s aiming to land on a more abstract target: love.
69489441
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catparty writes:
On stage at a Windows 10 event, Microsoft VP Terry Myerson said that features in the new version of Windows would have "countered the techniques used in the recent headline making attacks."
He implies that Windows 10 could have prevented not just the Sony hack but the Lizard Squad DDoS attacks that took down Xbox Live, thought to be executed through an embedded SSH vulnerability.
69287337
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blottsie writes:
In the trial of Ross Ulbricht on Thursday, Homeland Security agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan testified that his two-year investigation into Silk Road led squarely to Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles. “Lots of little things added up to [Karpeles],” Der-Yeghiayan testified.In a meeting with other Homeland Security agents, Der-Yeghiayan recalled saying that “we have built up quite a large amount of information that leads to this.”
69168889
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blottsie writes:
If implemented correctly, the proliferation of online voting could solve one of the biggest problems in American democracy: low voter turnout. The 2014 midterms, for example, boasted the lowest voter turnout in 72 years. Making it easier to vote by moving the action from a polling station to your pocket could only increase turnout, especially in the primaries. Making online voting work is infinitely harder than it initially seems. However, in the past few years, there’s been a renewed effort to solve the conundrum of online voting using a most unexpected tool: Bitcoin.
68987327
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blottsie writes:
It didn't... hurt. Hurt isn't the right way to describe it. It felt like a tightness; it felt like the patch was trying to crawl across my skin. But—if you can believe this—in a good way.
And while Thync was attached to the right side of my head, occasionally I felt "tingles" pulling and hitting my brain on the left side and in the middle.
I was feeling progressively awake and aware. Granted, I had patches stuck to my head sending gentle vibrations to my brain, so that might have been part of my sudden alertness. But still, after 20 minutes of Thync I just felt... better.
