Dawn Kawamoto writes “Cisco’s CEO John Chambers dealt employees a blow Wednesday, saying the networking giant would cut 4, 000 workers from the payroll. Not quite a death blow, but this 5 percent cut could leave some employees gasping. Chambers took the knife to Cisco last year, cutting 2 percent of its workforce.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Cisco Slashes 4,000 Jobs
I’ve been hoping that the compact but powerful new Mac Pro, recently announced by Apple, would come in at about the same price as the current model.
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The Mac Pros are "going to be expensive"
William Ward Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions. This weakness in Android’s Java Cryptography Architecture is the root cause of a Bitcoin transaction that reportedly was exploited to pilfer about $5, 720 worth of bitcoins out of a digital wallet last week. The disclosure, included in a blog post published Wednesday by Google security engineer Alex Klyubin, was the first official confirmation of the Android vulnerability since Ars and others reported the incident last weekend. Klyubin warned that other apps might also be compromised unless developers change the way they access so-called PRNGs, short for pseudo random number generators. “We have now determined that applications which use the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) for key generation, signing, or random number generation may not receive cryptographically strong values on Android devices due to improper initialization of the underlying PRNG, ” he wrote. “Applications that directly invoke the system-provided OpenSSL PRNG without explicit initialization on Android are also affected.” Apps that establish encrypted connections using the HttpClient and java.net classes aren’t vulnerable. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist
Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.1 will be arriving on 17th October (well, in the US, anyway), confirming an earlier rumor of a mid-month launch. For some reason, the company’s specified an exact time of 12am on October 18th in New Zealand, which is 4am PT or 7am ET on October 17th. The free update will begin hitting your local Windows Store from that time, as well as “at retail and on new devices” on the 18th, depending on the market. Check out our hands-on for an idea of what to expect from the update. Filed under: Desktops , Laptops , Tablets , Software , Microsoft Comments Source: Microsoft
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Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 launching October 17th
Wow. This is incredible. Captured by high-definition microscopy, the footage shows the buzzing world and slimy life inside a single drop of pond water. It’s completely alien, it’s unnerving and it makes your stomach turn itself inside out. There are brown flatworms, Medusa looking nematodes, starfish-like hydras ‘defecating’ and more oozy organisms. Read more…
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Well, that was quick. Samsung said it was producing the world’s first 3D vertical NAND memory just a week ago, and it has already started building the first SSDs based on that memory. Unfortunately, they’re not meant for the enthusiast crowd : the new 480GB and 960GB drives are instead designed for enterprise-class servers, where V-NAND’s blend of high capacity and reliability makes the most sense. Don’t be too forlorn, however. Samsung promises that the new memory will eventually reach PC-oriented SSDs, which could bring spacious flash storage to a much wider audience. Filed under: Storage , Samsung Comments Source: Samsung
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Coming fresh on the heels of the news that scientists are successfully 3D printing live, working, mini human kidneys, a new report in Nature is giving another burst of hope to the future of organ transplants. For the very first time, a research team has been able to grow human heart tissue that beats totally autonomously in its petri dish home. Read more…
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Scientists Just Grew Human Heart Tissue That Beats With Total Autonomy
The danger of buying expensive headphones is that no matter how good the sound quality is, you run the risk of ruining it by breaking a flimsy piece of rubber and metal. Or you can fix the plug for a couple bucks. Read more…
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Could 3D printing be the future of office supply stores? Staples, for one, has been dipping its toes in those rising waters, offering a limited selection of devices on its site. Office Depot’s following suit, making the seemingly logical move of including the third dimension in its printing offering. The chain announced today that it’s added 3D Systems’ Cube and CubeX to its online store, selling the printers for $1, 299 and $2, 499, respectively. It’s not quite a 3D printing kiosk in every store (who wouldn’t want a personalized Star Trek figure while you wait?), but it’s always nice to see a company looking to embrace emerging technology. Comments
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Here’s some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability , a brief filed by Google’s attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have “no legitimate expectation of privacy”—ever. Read more…
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Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy