Today a massive DDoS attack took out a major piece of Internet infrastructure , causing huge outages across the United States and Europe. Watch it spread like a disease across the States. Read more…
Read the original:
Watch America’s Internet Get Wiped Out by a Massive DDoS Attack
The Wall Street Journal wants a “substantial number” of newsroom employees to take a buyout, editor-in-chief Gerard Baker announced to his staff in a memo sent to WSJ staff Friday morning. Read more…
See the original article here:
Executive Accidentally Reveals Layoffs in Reply All Nightmare
Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books . What it’s going to do? Release a special model just for those readers, apparently. The company has introduced a manga version of the Kindle Paperwhite with 32GB of storage, or eight times as much space as the run-of-the-mill 4GB model. You could cram every single volume of Asari-chan , Kochikame and Naruto into this e-reader, Amazon says. On top of that, a 33 percent faster page turning speed promises to keep you engrossed in your comics. The manga Kindle is available for pre-order now, with pricing commanding a slight premium over the usual Paperwhite. You’re spending ¥16, 280 (about $157), or ¥12, 280 ($118) if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber. The first units ship October 21st, and the update to improve page turning performance should arrive by the end of the month. As you might gather, it’s not very likely that you’ll see this model elsewhere in the world — when the 4GB in regular Kindles is enough to hold thousands of regular books, Amazon doesn’t have much incentive to boost their capacity any time soon. Source: Amazon Japan (translated 1) , (2)
More:
Amazon Japan’s manga-ready Kindle has 8 times the storage
Amazon’s children’s video offerings are expanding once again. This time it’s with an animated version of Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter . That name might sound familiar if you were assigned a book report in 5th grade for Astrid Lindgren month but didn’t want to read Pippi Longstocking . The details of the show’s production are a little convoluted, so bear with me. It’s directed by Goro Miyazaki and hasn’t made it outside of Japan and the Scandanavian region. Goro is the son of famed Studio Ghibli mastermind Hayao Miyazaki ( Ponyo , Howl’s Moving Castle ), and Studio Ghibli co-produced this project . That version came out back in 2014 . What Amazon will stream is an English dub spanning 26 episodes, narrated by everyone’s favorite FBI agent , Gillian Anderson. She has a bit of history with Ghibli as she did the voice for Moro in the Princess Mononoke dub, which was handled by Disney. So, the chances of this being a solid version with western voice-overs are probably pretty high. But, again, it’s important to note that this isn’t a full-on Amazon Original. With Studio Ghibli on hiatus, this might be the last bit of the team’s work, so make the most of it. For those with little kids (and who aren’t just young at heart themselves), Amazon has also ordered Little Big Awesome which features flying sea turtles and “a jelly giant.” That hails from Ben Gruber of Spongebob Squarepants and Super Jail fame, and is being animated by the house of Metalocalypse , Titmouse Inc. It probably won’t be brutal, but we can always hope for a William Murderface Easter egg, can’t we? Source: Amazon
Read more here:
Amazon to stream Ghibli-produced ‘Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter’
Samsung There’s a new black cylindrical desktop in town, but unfortunately for fans of the nearly three-year-old Mac Pro, this one isn’t from Apple. Samsung’s “ArtPC Pulse” desktop, revealed today via Amazon listings, isn’t quite the PC version of the Mac Pro, but that description isn’t far off. The port layout in particular is distinctly Mac Pro-esque, though not as high-end. It has four USB Type-A ports, one USB Type-C port, an audio jack, an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, an SD card reader, and a power connector arranged vertically on its back. That power plug implies that, like the Mac Pro, the system saves some space on your floor with an internal power supply, which is a nice touch. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Read the article:
Samsung introduces its own high-end cylindrical desktop computer
Yahoo has recently disabled a feature that would have made it easier to ditch your Yahoo email account. Perhaps you had planned on forwarding all incoming messages to a new address, a common feature with most email providers. Unfortunately it’s not currently an option at Yahoo. Read more…
Read more here:
Remains of the Day: Yahoo Makes it More Difficult to Leave by Disabling Email Forwarding
Amazon has cut the price of an AmazonFresh membership down to just $14.99 a month as long as you also subscribe to Prime. For that, you’ll be entitled to unlimited grocery deliveries in the locations where the service operates, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco. It makes the business effectively a bolt-on for Amazon’s paid tier which has developed substantially in the last few years. Users will be able to save almost $120 with the new charges compared to its predecessor, which was a $299 flat rate for a whole year. That should help beat back competition from traditional retailers like Walmart and Target , who are trying to catch up on this whole tech-based delivery lark from a standing start. Unlimited grocery delivery just got even easier! #AmazonFresh is now $14.99/month, exclusively for Prime members: https://t.co/D00Pf3qaxy pic.twitter.com/BygThOn2IG — Amazon (@amazon) October 5, 2016 Via: TechCrunch Source: Amazon
See original article:
Amazon makes food delivery cheaper for Prime members
The British pound suffered a “flash crash” earlier this morning in which it plummeted six percent against the US dollar within a matter of minutes. All signs point to high frequency stock trading as the culprit—and possibly a single algorithm. Read more…
Continue reading here:
‘Rogue’ Algorithm Blamed for Historic Crash of the British Pound
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is making a significant change to its Community Guidelines, announced today, which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program. This program allows Amazon — not the seller or vendor — to identify trusted reviewers, and has a number of controls in place in order to keep bias out of the review process. Amazon has historically prohibited compensation for reviews — even going so far as to sue those businesses who pay for fake reviews, as well as the individuals who write them, in an effort to make its review and rating system fairer and more helpful to online shoppers. However, it has allowed businesses to offer products to customers in exchange for their “honest” review. The only condition was that those reviewers would have to disclose their affiliation with the business in question in the text of their review. Reviewers were generally offered the product for free or at a discounted price, in exchange for their review. Although, in theory, these reviewers could write their true opinion on the product — positive or negative — these incentivized reviews have tended to be overwhelmingly biased in favor of the product being rated. Amazon says that, going forward, the only incentivized reviews will be those from Amazon Vine. These don’t work the same way, however. For starters, Amazon selects who will be allowed to review products, and it does so mainly to boost the review count on new or pre-release products that haven’t yet generated enough sales to have a large number of organic reviews. Vine reviewers are invited to join the program only after having written a number of reviews voted as “helpful” by other customers, and tend to have expertise in a specific product category. In addition, vendors don’t have any contact with Vine reviewers, nor do they get to influence which reviewers will receive their products, which are submitted directly to Amazon for distribution. These changes will apply to all product categories other than books, as Amazon has always allowed advance copies of books to be distributed, the retailer notes. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Continue reading here:
Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products
Jack Sparrow is a no-show in the first trailer for P irates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , but he casts a large shadow. Read more…
Read this article:
Death is Coming in the First Trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales