Airless—or non-pneumatic tires—have popped up from time to time over the past few years, and while they offer many advantages over traditional air-filled tires, they haven’t been available outside of research labs—until now. Polaris is officially the first company to offer a vehicle with non-pneumatic tires on its new Sportsman WV850 H.O. all-terrain vehicle. Read more…
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In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered a volcano lurking beneath Antarctica . [ Nature Geoscience ] Read more…
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János Pálinkás Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information, in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability in the widely used program that threatens websites that use it. “Very recently, our security team discovered sophisticated attacks on our network, involving the illegal access of forum user information, possibly including your password,” vBulletin Technical Support Lead Wayne Luke wrote in a post published Friday evening . “Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We have taken the precaution of resetting your account password.” The warning came three days after user forums for MacRumors—itself a user of vBulletin—suffered a security breach that exposed cryptographically hashed passwords for more than 860,000 users . When describing the attack, MacRumors Editorial Director Arnold Kim said the compromise in many ways resembled the July hack of the Ubuntu user forums , which also ran on vBulletin. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Following no small amount of pressure from the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron , Google has announced a new initiative which will see it clean up search results for queries relating to underage sexual abuse. Read more…
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The CIA is quietly trying to stop Russia building a series of monitoring stations—devices that form part of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System—on US soil. Read more…
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As Bitcoins have become more valuable, they’ve also become much harder to accumulate using the mathematical process known as “mining.” This air of futility hasn’t fazed ASRock , however, as the company has revealed two new motherboards that promise to help DIY-ers to “join the gold rush now!” The H61 Pro BTC and H81 Pro BTC are both Intel socket boards, with the latter being Haswell compatible, and their main party trick is to carry extra PCIe slots and power connectors so you can exploit the compute power of up to six graphics cards simultaneously. What ASRock doesn’t specify, however, is how much profit one of its fully-loaded mining motherboards might deliver. So, although we’re quite deliberately not experts at this stuff (aside from a bit of armchair interest ), we plugged some numbers into the Bitcoin Profitability Calculator , based on six Radeon HD 7990 cards running in parallel, and discovered that this monster of a system might never actually break even, due to its ridiculously high energy costs. This could well explain why all the big boys use dedicated ASIC boards for mining these days, instead of consumer-grade hardware. Filed under: Desktops Comments Via: Bit-tech Source: ASRock [1] , [2]
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There was little doubt that the PlayStation 4 would sell well on launch given the sheer amount of hype , but we now have proof: Sony has revealed that it sold over one million PS4s in North America during the console’s first 24 hours of availability. While that figure pales in comparison to the sales numbers we see for smartphones , it gets the company a long way toward its goal of moving five million units before the end of its fiscal year in March. It also suggests that Sony won’t face the same lackluster response that greeted Nintendo, which took a week to sell its first 400, 000 Wii U systems in the US. The real question is whether or not the PS4 will preserve its sales momentum — with the Xbox One launch just five days away, Sony won’t keep the high end of the console market to itself for much longer. Filed under: Gaming , Sony Comments Via: Joystiq Source: PR Newswire
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This is a great idea: buy a landscape at a thrift shop and add in a monster. Make sure you use the same kind of materials as the original landscape! Read more…
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Jah-Wren Ryel writes “Yes, there’s yet another company out there with an inscrutable system making decisions about you that will affect the kinds of services you’re offered. Based out of L.A.’s ‘Silicon Beach, ‘ Telesign helps companies verify that a mobile number belongs to a user (sending those oh-so-familiar ‘verify that you received this code’ texts) and takes care of the mobile part of two-factor authenticating or password changes. Among their over 300 clients are nine of the ten largest websites. Now Telesign wants to leverage the data — and billions of phone numbers — it deals with daily to provide a new service: a PhoneID Score, a reputation-based score for every number in the world that looks at the metadata Telesign has on those numbers to weed out the burner phones from the high-quality ones.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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People have been working on video and explorable environments for the Oculus Rift, but Condition One , the immersive videography group, is upping the ante with a complete 20-30 minute movie all in 3D. Read more…
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Zero Point Is the First 3D, 360 Degree Movie for the Oculus Rift