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Rethinking the Wetsuit

symbolset writes “Apparently Australians have come up with the brilliant idea: if you don’t want to be eaten by a shark, it’s best to not go swimming in shark-infested waters in a seal costume. ‘Scientists from the University of Western Australia, with designers Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS), have unveiled two new wetsuits that they say could save lives in the water. Based on a breakthrough discovery that sharks are colour-blind, one wetsuit, labelled the “Elude, ” is designed to camouflage a swimmer or diver in the sea. At the other extreme, the “Diverter” sports bold white and dark-blue stripes, and is intended to mirror nature’s warning signs to ward off any potential shark attack.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast

An anonymous reader writes “MIT is claiming they can make the Internet faster if we let computers redesign TCP/IP instead of coding it by hand. They used machine learning to design a version of TCP that’s twice the speed and causes half the delay, even with modern bufferbloated networks. They also claim it’s more ‘fair.’ The researchers have put up a lengthy FAQ and source code where they admit they don’t know why the system works, only that it goes faster than normal TCP.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud

snydeq writes “Andrew Oliver offers further proof that drunk driving and on-site servers don’t mix. Oliver, who had earlier announced a New Year’s resolution to go all-in on cloud services, had that business strategy expedited when a drunk driver, fleeing a hit-and-run, drove his SUV directly into the beauty shop next door to his company’s main offices. ‘Our servers were down for eight hours, and various services were intermittent for at least 12 hours. Had things been worse, we could have lost everything. Like our customers, we needed HA and DR. Moreover, we thought, maybe our critical services like email, our website, and Jira should be in a real data center. This made going all-cloud a top priority for us rather than “when we get to it.”‘ Oliver writes, detailing his company’s resultant hurry-up migration plan to 100 percent cloud services.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

An anonymous reader writes “Wine 1.6 has been released for running Windows applications on Linux and OS X. Wine 1.6 ships with 10, 000 changes in the past year and has many new user features like a Mac graphics driver, Direct3D improvements, and 64-bit ARM support.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Blackberry 10 Sends Full Email Account Credentials To RIM

vikingpower writes “How a phone manufacturer making a somewhat successful come-back can shoot itself in the foot: Marc “van Hauser” Heuse, who works for German technology magazine Heise, has discovered that immediately after setting up an email account on Blackberry 10 OS, full credentials for that account are sent to Research In Motion, the Canadian Blackberry manufacturer. Shortly after performing the set-up, the first successful connections from a server located within the RIM domain appear in the mail server’s logs. (Most of the story in English, some comments in German.) At least according to German law, this is completely illegal, as the phone’s user does not get a single indication or notice of what is being done.” (Here’s Heise’s article, in German.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Google Fixes Glass Vulnerability To Malicious QR Codes

judgecorp writes “Google has fixed a vulnerability in its Glass device, which made it possible to fool the wearable gadget into joining malicious Wi-Fi networks, through the use of fake QR codes. Google fixed the flaw fast, following a tip-off from researchers — but there are two warnings to take from this. There are other weaknesses in Glass (such as the absence of a lockscreen), and this sort of weakness will increasingly hit as the Internet of Things takes hold and the number of communicating devices multiplies.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window

hypnosec writes “The Linux 3.11 merge window is about to close, most probably this Sunday, and most of the pull requests have been merged, including feature additions and improvements to disk & file system, CPU, graphics and other hardware. Some notable merges are: LZ4 compression; Zswap for compressed swap caching; inclusion of a Lustre file-system client for the first time; Dynamic Power Management (DPM) support for R600 GPUs; KVM and Xen virtualization on 64-bit hardware (AArch64); and a new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for the Renesas R-Car SoC.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney

An anonymous reader writes “Ben Kruidbos, the IT director for the Florida State Attorney’s Office who’d spoken up when important cellphone evidence he’d extracted from Trayvon Martin’s cellphone was withheld by the state from the defense, was fired by messenger at 7:30 PM Friday, after closing arguments in the Zimmerman case. He was told that he could not be ‘trusted to set foot in this office, ‘ and that he was being fired for incompetence. Kruidbos had received a merit pay raise earlier this year. The firing letter also blames him for consulting a lawyer, an obvious sign of evil.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay

judgecorp writes “NHS Surrey, part of Britain’s health service, has been fined £200, 000 when a computer holding more than 3000 patient records was found for sale on eBay. The system was retired, and given to a contractor who promised to dispose of it securely for free, in exchange for any salvage value… but clearly just put the whole system up for sale.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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