Getting to one destination and then having to input your next destination manually? Who has the time? Years of your life have been wasted with this arduous task. But now, finally (or, rather, once again) you can add multiple destinations all at once in Google Maps. Read more…
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Google Maps Adds Multiple Destinations, Events, and Reservations
Starting October 31st, T-Mobile users will be gain unlimited texts and data in over 100 countries, at no additional cost. That’s right—if you’re on a supported Simple Choice plan, you no longer have to worry about exorbitant roaming charges when you travel. Read more…
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T-Mobile Announces Free, Unlimited Roaming in 100 Countries
An anonymous reader writes “vBulletin is a popular proprietary CMS that was recently reported to be vulnerable to an unspecified attack vector. Although vBulletin has not disclosed the root cause of the vulnerability or its impact, we determined the attacker’s methods. The identified vulnerability allows an attacker to abuse the vBulletin configuration mechanism in order to create a secondary administrative account. Once the attacker creates the account, they will have full control over the exploited vBulletin application, and subsequently the supported site.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Dangerous VBulletin Exploit In the Wild
mattydread23 writes “Most gamification efforts fail. But when DirecTV wanted to encourage its IT staff to be more open about sharing failures, it created a massive internal game called F12. Less than a year later, it’s got 97% participation and nearly everybody in the IT group actually likes competing. So what did DirecTV do right? The most important thing was to devote a full-time staffer to the game, and to keep updating it constantly.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Nate the greatest writes “Guilford County Schools’ headline grabbing tablet program is back in the news again. The program came to an abrupt end last Friday when the school district announced that they were recalling all of the Amplify tablets. GCS had leased over 15 thousand of the tablets (at a cost of $200 a year) for its middle school students, but decided to recall the tablets just one month into the school year after some 1500 students reported a broken screen. Around two thousand complained of improperly fitting cases, and there were also 175 reports of malfunctioning power supplies. There’s currently no explanation for the cases or power supplies, but GCS has stated that the tablets broke because they lacked a layer of Gorilla Glass. This was listed in the contract, but the school district did not confirm the condition of the tablets before accepting them. This program was the poster child for News Corp.’s entry into the educational market. It was the single largest program to use the Amplify tablet, and its failure represents a serious setback. The Amplify tablet now has a record for poor construction quality and a breakage rate that is 12 times higher than what Squaretrade reported in early 2012 for the iPad 2.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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NC School District Recalls Its Amplify Tablets After 10% Break In Under a Month
At the Singapore Grand Prix two weekends ago, Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won by an unbelievable 32 second margin over his closest rival. Seriously, it’s unbelievable. Now F1 experts believe that Red Bull Racing’s F1 engineers may have invented a new kind of traction control that links the car’s hybrid engine to its suspension — but no one knows for sure. The whole world is stumped. Read more…
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Red Bull May Have Invented A Secret New Hybrid Technology
It’s official: A “number of” previously missing Doctor Who episodes have been “returned to the BBC, ” and we’ll find out how many, and which ones, later this week. Read more…
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It’s official: A "number of" previously missing Doctor Who episodes have been "returned to the BBC,"
hypnosec writes “Microsoft paid out over $28, 000 in rewards under its first ever bug-bounty program that went on for a month during the preview release of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The preview bug bounty program started on June 26 and went on till July 26 with Microsoft revealing at the time that it will pay out a maximum of $11, 000 for each IE 11 vulnerability that was reported. Microsoft paid out the $28k to a total of six researchers for reporting 15 different bugs. According to Microsoft’s ‘honor roll’ page, they paid $9, 400 to James Forshaw of Context Security for pointing out design level vulnerabilities in IE11 as well as four IE11 flaws. Independent researcher Masato Kinugawa was paid $2, 200 for reporting two bugs. Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez of Yenteasy Security Research walked off with $5, 500 for reporting five bugs while Google engineers Ivan Fratric and Fermin J. Serna were each handed out $1, 100 and $500 respectively.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Dawn Kawamoto writes “Alcatel-Lucent is planning to cut 10, 000 workers by 2015. The telecom equipment maker’s newly minted CEO calls this restructuring part of his Shift Plan. Under this plan, Alcatel-Lucent wants to save 1 billion Euros in costs and refocus its operations on next-gen IP networking, cloud and ultra-broadband access and away from legacy technologies like its 2G and 3G wireless. In the meantime, Wall Street thinks it may be cleaning itself up for a sale of some of its assets or its operations to Nokia, which will need to bolster its telecom equipment business after selling its smartphone operations to Microsoft. But a Nokia-Microsoft deal may be too little, too late.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"
linuxwrangler writes “NSA’s new Utah data-center has been sufferering numerous power-surges that have caused as much as $100, 000 damage per event. The root cause is ‘not yet sufficiently understood’ but is suspected to relate to the site’s ‘inability to simultaneously run computers and keep them cool.’ Frustrating the analysis and repair are ‘incomplete information about the design of the electrical system’ and the fact that “regular quality controls in design and construction were bypassed in an effort to fast track the Utah project.”” Ars Technica has a short article, too, as does ITworld. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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NSA’s New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns