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Submission + - "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Researchers at the U.K.'s Lancaster University in the U.K. have reimagined the fundamental logic behind encryption, stumbling across a radically new way to encrypt data http://sdt.bz/69025 while creating software models to simulate how the human heart and lungs coordinate rhythms. The encryption method published in the American Physical Society journal http://journals.aps.org/prx/ab... and filed as a patent entitled "Encoding Data Using Dynamic System Coupling," transmits and receive multiple encrypted signals simultaneously, creating an unlimited number of possibilities for the shared encryption key and making it virtually impossible to decrypt using traditional methods. One of the researchers, Peter McClintock, called http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/new... the encryption scheme "nearly unbreakable."

Submission + - Microsoft Adds Node.js, .NET Integration To Windows Azure

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rjmarvin writes: Today, Microsoft demonstrated numerous enhancements to the Azure cloud platform http://sdt.bz/69019 at Day 2 of the Build Developer Conference. Using Azure, developers can now construct back ends for their mobile apps using .NET or Node.js. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, said that Azure has added new notifications API, which allows a message sent to a hub to be passed along to potentially millions of connected devices.Azure also added support for Active Directory from mobile devices, as well as the ability to perform debugging locally and remotely and some new APIs for auto-scaling, testing and authentication.

Submission + - Microsoft Tech Support Scam Call Operator Sentenced in 'Landmark Case' In U.K.

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rjmarvin writes: Mohammed Khalid Jamil, who ran the London-based SmartSupportGuys company, was sentenced in the U.K. to four months jail time and over $40,000 in fines for hiring Indian call center workers to impersonate Microsoft tech support workers http://sdt.bz/69014. The fraudsters posing as "Microsoft-certified" engineers gained access to customers' computers, installed malware and then tricked customers into paying for free software.he U.K. National Trading Standards Board eCrime unit called the decision a “landmark case,” http://www.tradingstandardsecr... and the first successful U.K. prosecution of someone involved in the Microsoft call scam. It's the first international action taken against Microsoft scammers since October 2012 when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission shut down and charged six tech support scams originating from Indian call centers. Since then, a new wave of fraudulent calls http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... has begun plaguing Microsoft customers in the U.S. and U.K.

Submission + - Poppy: A Programmable Robot For The People

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: While companies like Google are advancing robotics and artificial intelligence by buying up every robotics startup in sight, an open source source robotics movement is working to develop a new generation of widespread, accessible robot technology http://sdt.bz/69002. The Poppy Project http://www.poppy-project.org/ is an open source humanoid platform consisting of an open source Python library and framework for creating custom-built robots, and 3D-printed modular hardware that together comprise a child-sized robot. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, research director of the Bordeaux, France-based Flowers Laboratory https://flowers.inria.fr/ that created Poppy called Poppy "a platform that is providing Lego bricks for building animated structures, that would teach people how to use these technologies and then allow them to advance innovative products."

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can Microsoft Rescue Windows?

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: When most people think of Microsoft, the first thing that comes to mind is Windows. The operating system has defined the company, and everything it's done, for decades. The OS has fallen into a familiar hit-and-miss cycle, from XP to Vista to Windows 7 and now Windows 8. The pattern leaves Windows 9 as the OS to right the ship, but will it http://sdt.bz/68955? The problems with Windows 8 and 8.1 are many and more between the Metro touch interface, the loss of the Start button and the general dissent between desktop and tablet users. If Satya Nadella wants Windows 9, expected in April 2015 http://winsupersite.com/window..., to be successful, Microsoft may have to pick a strategy and stick with it instead of its usual philosophy of trying to appease its broad customer base. Searching for the balance between making its touch and keyboard users happy could just serve to perpetuate the cycle, and Microsoft can't afford it.

Submission + - MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data

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rjmarvin writes: Researchers in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a platform for building secure web applications and services that never decrypt or leak data http://sdt.bz/68972. MIT researcher Raluca Ada Popa, who previously worked on the Google and SAP-adopted CryptoDB, and her team have put a longstanding philosophy into practice: to never store unencrypted data on servers. They've redesigned the entire approach to securing online data by creating Mylar http://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar..., which builds and updates applications to keep data secure from server breaches with constant encryption during storage, only decrypting the data in the user's browser. Integrated with the open-source Meteor https://www.meteor.com/ framework, a Mylar prototype has already secured six application by changing only 35 lines of code.

Submission + - OpenGL ES 3.1 Isn't Your Father's Graphics Language

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: OpenGL ES has taken a huge leap forward http://sdt.bz/68964. The 2D/3D graphics specification is rarely talked about outside the gaming community, and the version number of “3.1” implies a small improvement. On the contrary.The release of OpenGL ES 3.1 http://www.khronos.org/registr... optimizes mobile graphics with added features including compute shaders, separate shader objects, indirect draw commands and enhanced texturing functionality.

Submission + - NASA Wants Developers To Simulate Coastal Floods

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: NASA has challenged developers to build software that improves life on Earth and advances space exploration before, but now they're asking them to simulate cataclysmic natural disaster http://sdt.bz/68958. The space agency is partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge https://2014.spaceappschalleng.... Participants are tasked to create and deploy data-driven visualizations and simulations charting the impact of sea level rise and erosion on future coastal flooding.

Submission + - Eclipse Announces Flux Project To Integrate Eclipse And Orion at EclipseCon

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: The Eclipse Foundation plans to integrate desktop Eclipse with the Web-based Orion IDE in a new tool initiative codenamed Flux http://sdt.bz/68947, Eclipse executive director Mike Milinkovich announced at EclipseCon in San Francisco. The Flux announcement also coincides with the release of Java 8, for which Eclipse also announced new plug-ins. EclipseCon's other big theme has been the Internet of Things, with presentations on how to program Internet of Things applications from within Eclipse using the C Development Tooling chain.

Submission + - Google Releases AngularJS 2.0 Designs, Reveals Creation Of AngularDart

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Google has released the designs and documentation for all the upcoming features of AngularJS 2.0 http://sdt.bz/68942, still currently in the prototype phase. The new version of the open source JavaScript framework is being written entirely in ECMAScript 6 and will target all major desktop and mobile browsers. Angular 2.0's other new features, all documented on Google Drive https://drive.google.com/a/bzm..., include faster change detection, modularity, touch animations and a new persistence layer. Google engineering director Brad Green also revealed http://blog.angularjs.org/2014... that the team is building AngularDart. a new framework for Google Dart.

Submission + - IBM's Watson Steps Out Into Healthcare, Mobile, Online Shopping And Food Trucks

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Watson hasn't made many headlines since winning 'Jeopardy!' in 2011, but IBM's supercomputer has gotten faster, smarter and leaner, leaving trivia behind http://sdt.bz/68924 for forays into mobile, the healthcare industry, online shopping and even a food truck. Since dumping $1 billion into the new Watson Group in January http://tech.slashdot.org/story..., IBM has also launched the Watson Mobile Developer Challenge http://www.ibm.com/smarterplan... to bring its AI entity from desktops, hospitals, cars and cloud applications into users' hands.

Submission + - Git 2.0 released

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Git 2.0.0 was released yesterday http://sdt.bz/68912 with updated features and fixes from version 1.9, including making "“simple mode” the default for “git push,” which pushes only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. Other UI and workflow updataes including a new "git reset -N" option and tree-wode "git add -u" and "git add -A" operations, backwards compatibility notes and fixes are detailed in the release notes https://git.kernel.org/cgit/gi....

Submission + - Movie and TV GUIs: Cracking The Code

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: As the background code displayed in movies and TV, a new industry is growing around custom-building realistic software and dummy code http://sdt.bz/68898. Twisted Media, a Chicago-based design team, started doing fake computer graphics back in 2007 for the TNT show "Leverage," and is now working on three prime-time shows on top of films like "Gravity" and the upcoming "Divergent" designing and creating realistic interfaces and code bases for futuristic software. British computer scientist John Graham-Cumming has drawn attention to entertainment background code by debunking inaccurate screenshots in his blog http://entertainment.slashdot...., but more and more as the public is more aware, studios are paying for fake code that's actually convincing.

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