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Submission + - Intel Loses Its Foothold On Android Tablets (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: The shift from PCs to smartphones and tablets has left Intel reeling, which is why it was such a big deal last year when Samsung used an Intel chip in its Galaxy Tab 3. Well, the next iteration of Samsung's top-end tablet is coming soon, and it appears that Intel's been dumped for a Qualcomm ARM chip. The reasons are straightforward: the Intel chips that can compete with ARM on power and performance don't have Android ports ready. Intel still hasn't given up on smaller-than-PC computing, though, unleashing a line of wearable computers at CES.

Submission + - Intel Edison: an SD card-sized PC (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has revealed the company's vision for wearable computing — and at its core is an SD card-sized PC called Edison.

Edison is based on Quark technology, the tiny, low-power system-on-a-chip that was designed for wearable computers, such as smart watches, and the Internet of Things. "It's a full Pentium-class PC in the form factor of an SD card," Krzanich said. It not only supports multiple OSes and has built-in support for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but it also has its own app store — and has Wolfram Alpha's Mathematica baked in by default.

Edison will be integrated into devices such as wireless headsets, smart watches — which won't need to be tethered to another device — and the "smart turtle", a monitoring device can be clipped to a baby's clothing to keep watch of its movement, pulse or breathing.

Submission + - Attempt to oust NSA from key standards group fails

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Crypto Forum Research Group (part of the IRTF) provides advice to the standards organization, IETF, on all things crypto. The co-chair of the group, Kevin Igoe, also happens to be an employee of the NSA. The recent Snowden revelations have caused significant disquiet in the crypto community, culminating in this request to remove Kevin Igoe from the co-chair position — stating that Kevin's NSA affiliation raises "unpleasant but unavoidable questions" regarding his actions. In a formal response, Lars Eggert (IRTF chair) has refused the request stating that the open processes of the IRTF and IETF are the safeguard against anyone attempting to subvert technical work.

Submission + - Hackers take down Online Games and get Streamer's House Raided (twitter.com) 1

Submitted by GnetworkGnome
GnetworkGnome writes: Monday evening, 30 December 2013, hackers reporting from the Twitter account @DerpTrolling began following one of the most prolific video game streamers, PhantomL0rd, and started taking down Online video game servers on which he was playing. At its highest point, nearly 150,000 viewers watched the streamer, after League of Legends, DoTA2, and other games were interrupted. The hackers even posted the personal information of PhantomL0rd, then called the police to inform them that five hostages were being held at his residence. Police arrested the streamer as he emerged from his house for questioning.

Hours later, PhantomL0rd returned to an audience of nearly 100,000 viewers to explain what had happened. @DerpTrolling tweeted "@PhantomL0rd Glad you're back and okay." to the streamer upon news that he had been returned home. Nothing on the methods of the hackers has been confirmed, but massive DDOS attacks were believed to be their attack of choice against video game servers and more.

Submission + - New App Helps Improve Software Project Success (ivarjacobson.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ivar Jacobson International recently announced the launch of the Alpha State Explorer App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app, which is freely available on the App Store, enables software development teams to easily track their project status, set clear objectives and avoid failures by ensuring essential aspects of good software development practice are addressed.

The app is entirely method, process and practice agnostic, and supports any type of software development, whether teams are using traditional methods, or more modern lean and agile techniques.

The app supports the lightweight process framework known as The Essence Kernel, originally developed by the SEMAT group and in the process of becoming an industry standard under the OMG.

Learn more about the Alpha State Explorer app, and how to download it, from the IJI website.

Submission + - Google shows Doodle for the 180th birthday of Carlos Juan Finlay (rtoz.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google is showing a Doodle today (Tuesday, 3rd December, 2013) for honoring Carlos Juan Finlay on his 180th birthday.

Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.The doodle features Carlos Juan Finlay and a mosquito that causes yellow fever.

Finlay was born in 1833 in Puerto Príncipe from French and Scottish decent.He studied at Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1855 he opened a medical practice.

Submission + - Research Paper suggest Titan once had swamps / wetlands (sciencedirect.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: Scientists from the department of Physics and Space Science of the Florida Institute of Technology and Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University have published a paper outlining the possibility that Titan, a moon of Planet Saturn, may housed swamps / wetlands on it.

They based their findings on the impact craters on the moon are located mainly on unusually high elevation on the moon.

Their theory is that impact that have landed in the lower elevation might have been cushioned by " a shallow marine environment or a saturated layer of sediments more than several hundred meters thick " which would result in crater morphologies similar to those that have been found in the terrestrial submarine impacts (on Planet Earth), thus making them difficult to observe by the Cassini spacecraft

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513004156

Submission + - IDC: PC shipments decline worse than forecast, no recovery expected (zdnet.com)

Submitted by symbolset
symbolset writes: Zach Whittaker over at ZDNet covers an IDC report. In it the 2013 9.7% forecast decline in PC shipments is advanced to 10.1%. Further, IDC's longer-term forecast turns quite grim: contracting 23% from 2012 levels by 2017.

There is also a projection of future Windows tablet sales, and a statement that total Windows tablet sales for 2013 are expected to be "less than 7.5 million units".

Submission + - China Flight Tests New Stealth Combat Drone (thediplomat.com)

Submitted by commonsensefp
commonsensefp writes: China conducted the maiden test flight for its first “UFO-like” stealth combat drone on Thursday.

The unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) is called the Lijian or Sharp Sword. The flight test puts China in an exclusive club of nations that have domestically produced combat stealth drones. Analysts believe the Sharp Sword, which is powered by a fighter jet engine, will eventually be flown from aircraft carriers

Submission + - Microsoft to buy Winamp ? (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Jimpqfly
Jimpqfly writes: After Nullsoft announcement to shut down Winamp development and Shoutcast services, Microsoft looks interested in buying back the llama. For once, this would look like a good strategy for Microsoft in order to beat iTunes' ass ! Let's cross our fingers ...

Submission + - SC13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A network researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has found a potential new use for graphics processing units — capturing data about network traffic in real time. GPU-based network monitors could be uniquely qualified to keep pace with all the traffic flowing through networks running at 10Gbps or more, said Fermilab's Wenji Wu. Wenji presented his work as part of a poster series of new research at the SC 2013 supercomputing conference this week in Denver.

Submission + - Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Under Attack (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Microsoft released an advisory today warning users about a new zero-day under attack in targeted campaigns occurring in the Middle East and South Asia.

According to Microsoft, the vulnerability resides in the Microsoft Graphics component and impacts certain versions of Windows, Microsoft Office and Lync. The problem exists in the way specially-crafted TIFF images are handled. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to preview or open a specially-crafted email message, open a malicious file or browse malicious Web content. If exploited successfully, the vulnerability can be used to remotely execute code.

The vulnerability affects Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 as well as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Right now, Microsoft Word documents are the current vector for attack.

Submission + - HP's NonStop servers go x86, countdown to Itanium extinction begins

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: HP has been the sole holdout on the Itanium, mostly because so much of the PA-RISC architecture lives on in that chip. However, the company recently began migration of Integrity Superdome servers from Itanium to Xeon, and now it has announced that the top of its server line, the NonStop series, will migrate to x86 as well, presumably the 15-core E7 V2 Intel will release next year. So while no one has said it, this likely seems the end of the Itanium experiment, one that went on a lot longer than it should have, given its failure out of the gate.

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