A little Friday advice: if you work for one of the great mammoths in the history of technology, and your faltering CEO just emailed to say he’s departing , make sure you click the right buttons when you reply. Read more…
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This Guy Just CCed All of Microsoft By Accident
When you run a command with sudo in Linux, the terminal prompts you to type in your password—and doesn’t give you any visual feedback. Here’s a quick tweak that’ll bring back those familiar asterisks (*) when you type in your password. Read more…
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Make Password Asterisks Visible in Your Linux Terminal
Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar ? Fortunately, scientists have just taken a big step closer to making graphene transistors work for real . Read more…
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Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Lightning-Fast Graphene CPUs
Remember our friendly white hat hacker , Khalil Shreateh, who got stiffed on his just reward after identifying a Facebook bug that let him post on Zuckerberg’s wall? Well, looks like the hacker community has no intention of letting their buddy’s bank account fall to the wayside. After setting up a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe , security researcher Marc Maiffret has successfully collected $10, 000 in donations for Shreateh—a full 20 times more than Facebook’s withheld offering. Read more…
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Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K
hypnosec writes “If you are a BlackBerry owner, navigate to BlackBerry World (or just visit the website) and you will find that developer S4BB has developed over 47k apps for the BB platform. Unsurprisingly, most of them are just spammy apps that don’t add any value. Apps like ‘Restart Me Free, ‘ ‘Daily Quote, ‘ ‘Lock for SMS, ‘ ‘Search for Amazon, ‘ ‘Silent Foto Free’ are just a few among the thousands of apps on BlackBerry World that actually have no utility whatsoever. BlackBerry announced back in May that developers were increasingly interested in making apps for the platform, and that BlackBerry World had more than 120, 000 apps. This raises questions about the authenticity of the claims, and about the approval process that’s been accepting these apps. S4BB may have a few useful apps for the platform, but that doesn’t mean all of their apps are of ‘A’ quality. A statement from BlackBerry said, ‘Developers in all app stores employ a number of different monetization tactics. BlackBerry World is an open market for developers and we let market forces dictate the success or failure of these tactics.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World
mask.of.sanity writes “Criminals have stolen millions from three unnamed U.S. banks by launching slow and stealthy denial of service attacks as a distraction before attacking wire payment switches. The switches manage and execute wire transfers and could have coughed up much more cash should the attackers have pressed on. RSA researcher Limor Kessem said, ‘The service portal is down, the bank is losing money and reliability, and the security team is juggling the priorities of what to fix first. That’s when the switch attack – which is very rare because those systems are not easily compromised [and require] high-privilege level in a more advanced persistent threat style case – takes place.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked
Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2, 560 x 1, 440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest resolution and ppi for a smartphone panel. Read more…
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LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI
oritonic1 writes “Germany is rapidly developing a tradition of shattering its own renewable energy goals and leaving the rest of the world in the dust. This past July was no exception, as the nation produced 5.1 TWh of solar power (PDF), beating not only its own solar production record, but also eclipsing the record 5TWh of wind power produced by German turbines in January. Renewables are doing so well, in fact, that one of Germany’s biggest utilities is threatening to migrate to Turkey.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Germany Produces Record-Breaking 5.1 Terawatt Hours of Solar Energy In One Month
Today I found out what happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator. Read more…
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What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator
Though it seems hard to believe, Earth’s gravitational pull is not the same everywhere you go. And as these gorgeously detailed maps now show, these variances are much greater than we thought. Read more…
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New high-res maps of Earth’s surprisingly inconsistent gravity field