Every ounce counts when you’re hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those ounces and seconds add up—and that’s why Virgin Atlantic spent $168 million on a transformative redesign of its meal trays. Read more…
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How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
random letters/Flickr A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the right of universities, in conjunction with Google, to scan millions of library books without the authors’ permission. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case brought by the Authors Guild and other writers’ groups, argued that the universities were not breaching federal copyright law, because the institutions were protected by the so-called “fair use” doctrine. More than 73 percent of the volumes were copyrighted. The guild accused 13 universities in all of copyright infringement for reproducing more than 10 million works without permission and including them in what is called the HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) available at 80 universities. The institutions named in the case include the University of California, Cornell University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Trailrunner7 writes: As the uncertainty surrounding the end of TrueCrypt continues, members of the security community are working to preserve a known-good archive of the last version of the open source encryption software released before the developers inserted a warning about potential unfixed bugs in the software and ended development. The message that the TrueCrypt posted about the security of the software also was included in the release of version 7.2a. The OCAP team decided to focus on version 7.1a and created the verified repository by comparing the SHA2 hashes with files found in other TrueCrypt repositories. So the files are the same as the ones that were distributed as 7.1a. “These files were obtained last November in preparation for our audit, and match the hash reported by iSec in their official report from phase I of the audit, ” said Kenn White, part of the team involved in the TrueCrypt audit. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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HOLLYWOODLAND’s voice was not alone. Other hillsides also spoke. Across Los Angeles in the 1920s, signs announced new real-estate subdivisions in big block letters perched high above the city. BEVERLY CREST. BRYN MAWR. TRYON RIDGE. Read more…
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Before the Hollywood Sign Found Fame, Others Signs Dotted LA’s Hillsides
David D’Agostino A local activist has filed a new lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department in an attempt to learn how the city uses fake cell tower devices, also known as stingrays. Relatively little is known about the devices, which are used to track targeted phones and can also be used to intercept calls and text messages. The American Civil Liberties Union recently began a campaign to learn more about how stingrays are used by filing public records requests in Florida, the home state of the Stingray’s manufacturer, Harris Corporation. (While “Stringray” is a trademarked name and particular product, it has entered the technical lexicon as a generic term, like Kleenex or Xerox.) In nearly every sales agreement , that firm has required law enforcement agencies to sign nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from discussing whether or not an agency even possesses such a device, much less describing its capabilities. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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On Tuesday, electronics retailer RadioShack reported its quarterly earnings , and the results were not good. The company lost $98.3 million in its first fiscal quarter of 2014, a figure that’s more than triple the loss it sustained in the same quarter last year. Ars put RadioShack on our 2014 “Deathwatch” earlier in January, and not without reason. The retailer has relied on mobile phone sales to buoy it through the hard times and has tried to rebrand itself as the place to shop for Do-It-Yourselfers, stocking its shelves with various Arduino projects. But customers can find the handsets they need in carriers’ shops, and they often choose to buy DIY electronics goods online or in hardware stores. In a press release , the company attributed the quarter results to ” an industry-wide decline in consumer electronics and a soft mobility market which impacted traffic trends throughout the quarter.” Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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RadioShack continues death march, loses $98.3 million in a quarter
It looks like Apple’s doing everything it can to get its in-house Maps software back in our good graces. Thanks a hidden asset buried deep in iOS 8, new icons seem to reveal a Maps feature that would remember exactly where users last parked their cars. Read more…
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The National Security Agency is using a new argument for not retaining the data it gathers about users’ online activity: The NSA is just too complex. Read the rest
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“The email attachment looked like a brochure for a yoga studio in Toulouse, France, the center of the European aerospace industry. But once it was opened, it allowed hackers to sidestep their victim’s network security and steal closely guarded satellite technology.” Ah, yes, the old fake yoga brochure trick . [NYT]
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Chinese Army unit used fake yoga studio brochure to hack government victims
mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that GoDaddy has filed to make an initial public offering “This is the second time GoDaddy has tried to go public. It went this route back in 2006, but then backed out when it didn’t get the pricing it wanted.” The SEC Filing indicates that they are not in the greatest financial condition. Quoting CNN: “GoDaddy hasn’t made a profit since 2009. The company lost $279 million in 2012. It bled another $200 million last year. This year doesn’t look much better, with another $51 million lost in the first quarter.” Founder Bob Parsons, currently executive chairman, will be stepping down but remaining on the board of directors. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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GoDaddy Files For $100 Million IPO