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Comment Xiaomi MIUI 10 Gestures (Score 1) 130

by Nieriko (#58146438) Attached to: Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture

I have got addicted to Xiaomi MIUI 10 gestures. I think they really got something right in their implementation. Drawn in the lower half of screen: full swipe left/right equals back button press, swipe up equals home, swipe up and stay in the middle brings up the recents menu, drawn in upper half of screen swipe left/right triggers app action. I hope these gestures become a standard so there are available on all handsets.

Submission + - DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed to Be Bad at Arithmetic (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by holy_calamity
holy_calamity writes: Pentagon research agency DARPA has funded the creation of a chip incapable of correct arithmetic, in the hope of making computers better at understanding the real world. The S1 chip can process noisy data like video very efficiently because it doesn't need the extra circuits or operations needed to ensure every mathematical operation is performed perfectly. This summer DARPA will put five prototype computers, each equipped with 16 of the inexact S1 chips, online for researchers to experiment with.

Submission + - Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: Reuters reports, "Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues ... to access some of the classified material he leaked ... A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments ... Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator ... People familiar with efforts to assess the damage to U.S. intelligence caused by Snowden's leaks have said assessments are proceeding slowly because Snowden succeeded in obscuring some electronic traces of how he accessed NSA records. ... The revelation that Snowden got access to some of the material he leaked by using colleagues' passwords surfaced as the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill intended in part to tighten security over U.S. intelligence data. One provision of the bill would earmark a classified sum of money ... to help fund efforts by intelligence agencies to install new software designed to spot and track attempts to access or download secret materials without proper authorization."

Comment Thanks and Good Luck (Score 1) 1521

by Nieriko (#37214426) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Taco: Many, many thanks for investing all that love into this site which I discovered with great joy and happened to read every day since then. Let all the good karma you accumulated these years be with you and your family in whatever activity that you engage next. ...And who knows, maybe you come back more often than you think...

Thanks again to you and to all your team.

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