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Submission + - Cyber Criminals Steal $1m of Bitcoin from Danish Exchange (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of Europe's largest bitcoin exchanges has been robbed by cyber criminals who helped themselves to more than $1 million worth of the virtual currency.

Called Bips, the Denmark-based exchange and online wallet service was first attacked on 15 and 17 November, before a third attack this week saw 1,295 bitcoins stolen, with a value at the time of publication of around $1.13 million (£700,000, €836,000).

Submission + - Fusion Reactor Breaks Even 2

Submitted by mysqlbytes
mysqlbytes writes: The BBC is reporting the National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Livermore in California, Has succeeded in breaking even — "During an experiment in late September, the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel — the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world."

Comment Consider a Microtik Router? (Score 5, Informative) 193

by mysqlbytes (#45045309) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point?
I recently got a Microtik router running RouterOS, and I have to say I love it functionality at it's price point. Even supports BGP if you are that way inclined. My DSL was annoying me, so I turned it to bridged mode, and now the new router does everything else. NAT seems faster, with pings being 3ms quicker which I was astonished at. My other idea was an old desktop running linux, but I worked out the pricing for hardware vs electricity. And within a year (in Ireland) I am going to save money with the Microtik router. The router uses about 7W fully loaded, whereas my desktop would be churning 250 watts fully loaded... This is my one: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Open Source

Submission + - Free Software NVIDIA driver now supports 3D acceleration with all GeForce GPUs (h-online.com) 2

Submitted by aloniv
aloniv writes: The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau has reached a new milestone. The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch has recently acquired everything that's necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware. Together with a current version of libdrm and the Nouveau 3D driver in Mesa 3D 9.0, this allows Linux applications to use 3D acceleration even with the most recent GeForce graphics cards.

Comment Isn't this what VPS are for? (Score 2) 206

by mysqlbytes (#40922145) Attached to: How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders
Personally I have a VPS in every country I want to get content from. I have a US VPSs, for Netflix, Pandora an whatever else. I have a UK VPS for BBC iPlayer, Channel4 and so on. Cheap as chips generally. I think my UK one cost $30 a year! Sell the service to my friends, and bingo I've made my money back, and I don't have to worry (too much) about some third party stealing all of my traffic
Android

Submission + - Skype Video Calling Comes To Android (muktware.com)

Submitted by muktware
muktware writes: Sykpe pushed an update today which brought this video calling capabilities to Android phones. Android phones already have Google' Gtalk service which offer video calling capabilities on phone running Android 2.3.4.

As expected only select phones, with needed hardware, will be able to make video calls using Skype.

The lucky few include Google Nexus S, HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo and Sony Ericsson Xperia pro. Skype said on its page that support for other phones is coming soon.
Transportation

Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster 523

Posted by samzenpus from the end-of-the-power-line dept.
Attila Dimedici writes "Tesla has announced that their business model has failed. Their basic idea was to sell a boutique electric car to fund the development of a regular consumer electric car. With this announcement they are saying that they did not sell enough of the Roadster to make producing it profitable. If that is the case, it is only a matter of time until Tesla closes its doors. I thought their approach was the most likely to create a successful fully electric car. Although it is possible that the technology they have developed will allow the existing car companies to develop successful fully electric cars, it is a shame that Tesla has failed to become a successful car manufacturer." CT: As a huge number of you pointed out, the linked article is not nearly as doom and gloom as the submitter: Tesla isn't locking the doors and throwing away the keys, they plan on selling a $80k sedan in 2012 with a 300 mile range.

Comment PCI Compliance is basically a cover up. (Score 1) 306

by mysqlbytes (#36036934) Attached to: Sony Running Unpatched Servers With No Firewall
PCI compliance can be a cover up, and a cover story over many troubled companies. I work at one, where I was instructed to be creative when it came to giving answers. Patching was always an annual affair, generally before the auditor came onsite. As for external pens tests, they can be faked. At one stage we pointed the pen testers at a non-production test system, with a completely different version of software. Thank god I am out of that sector now. Sony are liable for costs from the Credit card companies. I was told it was $100 an exposed card number. So they could be liable for billions.
Google

Submission + - Gmail outage continues

Submitted by
mysqlbytes
mysqlbytes writes: "As I sit here not able to check my Gmail, I am wondering how much more of the world is affected. Gmail Help is current stating: "We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 2:16:00 PM PDT detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.""

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