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wiredog writes:
It turns out that leaving your digital billboard completely unsecured may not be the best idea. Goatse, that trolltastic image of yesteryear, was placed on a billboard in Atlanta.
The (NSFW) link for those of you who've forgotten just what it looked like.
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The model will run on a Cray XC40 which will have 480,000 CPUs, 17 petabytes storage, and will weigh 140 tons. The model will have a resolution of 1.5km and will be run hourly. It looks like it's a higher resolution British version of the US's High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model.
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wiredog writes:
From the article by Brian Krebs:Many in the Internet community have officially called baloney [that's a technical term] on the government’s claims, and these latest apparently contradictory revelations from the government are likely to fuel speculation that the government is trying to explain away some not-so-by-the-book investigative methods.
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wiredog writes:
CR claims that supposedly "unbiased" tests show that " both iPhones seem tougher" than #bendgate would imply and that the 6+ "outperformed the HTC One". CR also claims that "the Note 3's screen splintered and it stopped working."
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wiredog writes:
Interesting in light of their privacy enhancements in ios8.
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wiredog writes:
From the Beeb, the news that security researcher Michael Jordon has hacked a Canon's Pixma printer to run Doom. He did so by reverse engineering the firmware encryption and uploading via the update interface.
But does it play Barney Doom? And can you get Linux running on the thing?
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wiredog writes:
It wasn’t broken, Google. Why did you have to fix it? That's the lament from the Washington Post's traffic blogger as Google works hard to make Apple Maps and Bing Maps better alternatives to Google Maps.
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wiredog writes:
From the article at foreign PolicyThe system might have keep Natanz's centrifuges spinning, but it also opened them up to a cyberattack that is so far-out, it leads one to wonder whether its creators might have been on drugs.
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wiredog writes:
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Morris Worm, the first malware to spread widely on the internet. The Washington Psot has a wrtiteup of the worm, it effects, and after-effects.
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wiredog writes:
Lots of it. Overwhelming amounts, perhaps. From The Washington Postwhen one Iranian e-mail address of interest got taken over by spammers. The Iranian account began sending out bogus messages to its entire address book. ... the spam that wasn't deleted by those recipients kept getting scooped up every time the NSA's gaze passed over them. And as some people had marked the Iranian account as a safe account, additional spam messages continued to stream in, and the NSA likely picked those up, too....Every day from Sept. 11, 2011 to Sept. 24, 2011, the NSA collected somewhere between 2 GB and 117 GB of data concerning this Iranian address.
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wiredog writes:
From the article at ArsTechnica: we can confidently say Samsung appears to be artificially boosting the US Note 3's benchmark scores with a special, high-power CPU mode that kicks in when the device runs a large number of popular benchmarking apps.
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wiredog writes:
It's the modern equivalent of DEC.
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wiredog writes:
From the IRS "be on the lookout" list that listed "Tea Party", among others, as suspicious entities:Open Source Software
These organizations are requesting either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) exemption in order to collaboratively develop new software. The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software.
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wiredog writes:
An interview with Bill Gates about polio eradication and global health.
