Last week, a Russian security firm discovered that over 17, 000 Mac computers had been infected with a malicious software called iWorm that connected infected devices to a botnet by using Reddit to unearth links to command servers. This weekend, both Apple and Reddit took measures that rendered the software ineffective. Read more…
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Ivan David Gomez Arce James Comey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, says Chinese hackers are daily targeting US companies’ intellectual property. “I liken them a bit to a drunk burglar. They’re kickin’ in the front door, knocking over the vase, while they’re walking out with your television set,” Comey said Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes . “They’re just prolific. Their strategy seems to be: `We’ll just be everywhere all the time. And there’s no way they can stop us.”‘ 60 Minutes Comey’s remarks on the news magazine comes two weeks after a Senate Armed Services Committee report concluded that China’s military broke into Pentagon contractors’ computer networks at least 50 times—hacks that threaten ” to erode US military technical superiority .” Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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One great way to get adventurous folks amped up about scaling landmarks is to make the act of being way-the-heck-up-high even freakier. The Eiffel Tower is the latest to get a stomach-flipping glass floor 187 feet above the teensy little people on the pavement below. Read more…
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The Eiffel Tower Is The Latest Landmark To Get A Glass Floor
If you use Google Voice for your text messages , you’re well adjusted to its biggest flaw: the service just doesn’t play nice with most carriers’ MMS settings . Today, that’s changing — Google says that the service now supports MMS from nearly 100 carriers in North America, including AT&T, Bell Canada, Rogers, Telus and more. Unfortunately, Mountain View wasn’t able to provide us with a full list of supported providers, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction. Now if only we could get the ability to send MMS messages, too. Filed under: Cellphones , Google Comments Source: Google
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Flying from LA to San Francisco on business is a task normally fraught with stress and rage. But today, my journey begins from a better place. Instead of the gargantuan mess that is LAX, my Uber rolls up to a tiny airport three miles to the east. I start to realize just how different my work commute will be today. Read more…
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I Flew to Work in the Uber for the Skies
It’s no secret that everybody’s thinking about privacy and cyber security more since the world was pummeled with the unsettling, spy-novel truths of the Snowden revelations . Now, companies are starting to seize onto the zeitgeist by building more secure tools for the internet. And it sounds like Tor will be at the front of that line. Read more…
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First time accepted submitter chentiangemalc writes While Australia is on “high alert” for terror threats a man walked past a Sydney Airport security screening while engrossed in his iPad and delayed flights for an hour. From the article: “This event was captured on CCTV and unnerved officials so much that they evacuated passengers. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, the man found himself (or, perhaps, didn’t) going into the terminal through an exit passage that clearly was convenient for him, but less convenient for the hordes of passengers who not only had to be removed from Terminal 3, but also re-screened. A spokeswoman for Qantas told the Morning Herald: ‘The man disembarked a flight and left. It appears he wasn’t paying attention, was looking at his iPad, forgot something and walked back past (the security area).'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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iOS 8 development continues apace. Andrew Cunningham iOS 8 has been in the hands of the public for about a week and a half , and the OS has already received a pair of minor updates. One fixed a handful of small issues in the initial release; another fixed the major bugs introduced in the first update. But we’re already seeing evidence that Apple is working on some larger updates to the operating system, namely versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3. 9to5Mac first pointed out evidence of these new iOS versions this morning, found in its own analytics and data from some of its sources. So we quickly looked into our traffic data for September for similar data. We found requests listing iOS 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 coming from Apple IP addresses—several thousand from 8.1 and just a few hundred from 8.2 and 8.3, which makes sense given that 8.1 is probably being worked on more aggressively at this point. The news here is not that Apple is continuing to develop new versions of iOS but that releasing an iOS 8.2 or 8.3 update would be a break from recent tradition. The last iOS version to progress beyond x.1 was iOS 4, which came during a much busier period for Apple in general and iOS specifically. Version 4.1 fixed many of the glaring bugs in version 4.0 and helped boost speed on the iPhone 3G, version 4.2 unified the iPhone and iPad versions of the OS and ushered in the first non-AT&T iPhones, and version 4.3 was introduced alongside the iPad 2. To some degree, software version numbers are arbitrary, but releasing three “major” updates for iOS 8 could indicate that iOS 8’s lifecycle will be similarly busy. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Contrary to earlier rumors, HP’s Chromebook-like Stream 14 turned out to be more expensive than people had hoped for when it was announced a few weeks ago. Having said that, today HP is finally introducing its $199 laptop with Windows, staying in line with what a company representative had told us before in regards to the Stream line expanding beyond the 14-inch machine. But there’s more, since HP’s new, budget-friendly , 11.6-inch laptop isn’t the only fresh announcement. There’s a 13.3-inch model as well, priced at $230, which, along with the $199 Stream, features an Intel Celeron processor and 32GB of flash storage. In addition to this pair of notebooks, HP is also introducing two Windows 8.1 tablets: the HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8. If the moniker for each didn’t give it away, they are 7- and 8-inch slates, respectively, with the former costing a mere $99 and the latter going for $149. Unfortunately, HP isn’t sharing many more details (like other specs) at the moment. We do know, however, that the company hopes to lure in customers by including a bit of free mobile data every month and access to Microsoft’s Office 365 Personal productivity suite, which is definitely a nice bonus. All devices announced are expected to be available in the US by the beginning of November. In the meantime, stay tuned — we’ll be adding hands-on photos and additional info shortly. Filed under: Laptops , Tablets , HP Comments
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An anonymous reader writes Parents in China’s Zhejiang province can give their own blood to earn some extra points on their child’s high school entrance exam. Four liters of donated blood will get your child one extra point; 6 liters adds two points; and 8 liters, three. From the article: “The policy burst into the national limelight this week, when a Weibo user posted a photo of a bandaged arm, saying, ‘For my future child, I say one thing: Relax when you take the high school entrance exam. Your dad’s already helped you gain points.’ The post was widely shared. Though the user declined to be interviewed by China Real Time, he also clarified his original post, saying that he had in fact been giving blood since age 18.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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