Back in March, Pandora raised its prices and did away with annual subscriptions . The price hike was one thing, but the end of yearly subscriptions ticked off a number of people. Now, the service is bringing them back, due to popular demand. Read more…
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Pandora Brings Back Annual Subscriptions For Pandora One, at $55/yr
The life of most migrant workers in Qatar is bleak—so bleak, it’s a human rights violation . The latest report from Doha reveals a new twist in the sad story. When they’re not toiling away at building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup, many workers are being paid impossibly small wages to be fake sports fans . It doesn’t sound fun, either. Read more…
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Qatar Pays Migrant Workers $1 an Hour To Be Fake Sports Fans
Jason Koebler writes: Tucows Inc., an internet company that’s been around since the early 90s — it’s generally known for being in the shareware business and for registering and selling premium domain names — announced that it’s becoming an internet service provider. Tucows will offer fiber internet to customers in Charlottesville, Virginia — which is served by Comcast and CenturyLink — in early 2015 and eventually wants to expand to other markets all over the country. “Everyone who has built a well-run gigabit network has had demand exceeding their expectations, ” Elliot Noss, Tucows’ CEO said. “We think there’s space in the market for businesses like us and smaller.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast
Graphene has very many strengths , but there is one thing it isn’t and that is magnetic. Now, a team of researchers has found that the insertion of a little lead into the planar graphene structure can change that. Read more…
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A Little Lead Can Make Graphene Magnetic
itwbennett writes According to a report in Korean IT Times, Samsung Electronics has begun production of the A9 processor, the next generation ARM-based CPU for iPhone and iPad. Korea IT Times says Samsung has production lines capable of FinFET process production (a cutting-edge design for semiconductors that many other manufacturers, including AMD, IBM and TSMC, are adopting) in Austin, Texas and Giheung, Korea, but production is only taking place in Austin. Samsung invested $3.9 billion in that plant specifically to make chips for Apple. So now Apple can say its CPU is “Made in America.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor
Welcome to Reading List, a brief tour of some of the wonderful tech reads around the web. Online vigilantism, government hacking, and a brief history lesson on the early internet are just a few great reads in store. Indulge in a lazy Sunday, at least for the next hour or so, and catch up on some long form internet. Read more…
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How One of the Internet’s Most Memorable Logos Was Created
On the heels of a research paper published about a global Iranian hacking operation , Operation Cleaver, the FBI is now warning critical US businesses that they might be targets of Iran’s team of hackers. Read more…
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Report: The FBI Is Warning US Businesses About Iranian Hackers
iOS: With apps like Drafts and Launch Center Pro , automation on iOS has been possible for a while, but it’s also been a very heady, complex experience. Workflow’s a new app that makes automation a lot easier to understand. Read more…
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Workflow Automates Any Task on iOS
An anonymous reader writes: BGPMon reports on a recent route hijacking event by Syria. These events continue, despite the ability to detect and prevent improper route origination: Resource Public Key Infrastructure. RPKI is technology that allows an operator to validate the proper relationship between an IP prefix and an Autonomous System. That is, assuming you can collect the certificates. ARIN requires operators accept something called the Relying Party Agreement. But the provider community seems unhappy with the agreement, and is choosing not to implement it, just to avoid the RPA, leaving the the Internet as a whole less secure. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It
American forces in Afghanistan have long complained of a significant drawback in their M320 rifle-mounted grenade launchers : enemies positioned behind the low, mud brick walls ubiquitous to the region’s architecture could easily avoid incoming 40mm grenade rounds simply by ducking. You’d need a direct line of sight to enemy forces in order to inflict maximum damage. But not anymore. Read more…
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The Army’s Grenade Launchers Are About to Become Twice as Deadly