More than two million semis travel some 120,000 miles apiece along America’s arterial highways every year at an average efficiency of just 6 MPG. Six. Miles per gallon of diesel—not even Hummers are that wasteful. However, a new “Super Truck” design by Peterbilt has shown it can go the same distance for half the gas. More »
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Peterbilt’s New “Super Truck” Gets 10 MPG—Double the National Big Rig Average
redletterdave writes “After a French civil court ruled on Jan. 24 that Twitter must identify anyone who broke France’s hate speech laws, Twitter has since refused to identify the users behind a handful of hateful and anti-Semitic messages, resulting in a $50 million lawsuit. Twitter argues it only needs to comply with U.S. laws and is thus protected by the full scope of the First Amendment and its free speech privileges, but France believes its Internet users should be subject to the country’s tighter laws against racist and hateful forms of expression.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users
How many Roku models are there? Like, twelve? But it doesn’t matter: the newest one is here, and thankfully (predictably?) it’s the best one yet. So good that you’ll stop using other crap you own. So good you’ll use your cable box less. That good. More »
Google Glass glasses aren’t the only iGlasses. [Read more]
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Epson Moverio BT-100 head-mounted display: In-depth hands-on
Trojan.Yontoo.1 is the most prominent of adware Trojans making the rounds that install a plug-in that renders fraudulent ads on Web pages. [Read more]
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New adware Trojan circulating that targets Mac OS X systems
Apple will supply the Pentagon with iOS devices as part of a new contract, a new report says. [Read more]
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Defense Dept. reportedly in deal for more than 600K iOS devices
The new BlackBerry ecosystem has failed the UK government’s high security testing. James Bond isn’t getting a Z10 any time soon. More »
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BB10 Fails the UK Government’s High Security Testing
The Verge is reporting that Amazon is in talks with record labels to create a new subscription music service. More »
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Is Amazon in Talks to Create a Subscription Music Service?
For the first time in years, e-commerce marketplace eBay is cutting its listing fees and lowering its rates in a major way. [Read more]
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eBay lowers seller fees, in bid to swipe business from Amazon
wiredmikey writes “Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers. Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn’t actually perform validation. ‘With this new security feature, we can better protect people from DNS-based attacks and make DNS more secure overall by identifying and rejecting invalid responses from DNSSEC-protected domains,’ Yunhong Gu, Team Lead, Google Public DNS, wrote in a blog post. According to Gu, about 1/3 of top-level domains have been signed, but most second-level domains remain unsigned. According to NIST, there has been no progress in enabling DNSSEC on 98 percent of all 1,070 industry domains tested as of March 18, 2013. ‘Overall, DNSSEC is still at an early stage and we hope that our support will help expedite its deployment,’ Gu said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Implements DNSSEC Validation For Public DNS