Despite the FBI saying just a few days ago that there was “no attribution to North Korea at this point, ” ABC News is reporting that federal cyber-security sources “close to the investigation” have indeed confirmed that the FBI does have reason to believe that North Korea may be involved in some capacity after all. Read more…
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Report: North Korea May Be Behind Sony Pictures Hack After All
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella loves cloud computing , and a new, rumored Microsoft service could be putting all that computing power to better use than every. A project codenamed “Arcadia” (yes, another Halo reference) could soon stream games and apps to Windows devices, phones and tablets and computers alike. Read more…
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Microsoft "Arcadia" Could Stream All Kinds of Games and Apps to Windows
Nature abhors a vacuum. Aristotle said that. Of course, he was talking about how nature has a tendency to fill empty spaces with stuff. In a way, the internet also abhors a vacuum, and the “downfall” of The Pirate Bay is just the latest example. Read more…
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The Pirate Bay Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed Piracy At All
Facebook and Microsoft have had a relatively long-standing partnership when it comes to search: for years, Facebook searches would also show Bing results, and Bing queries have thrown up results from your friends. But history seems to mean very little to Facebook, which appears to have quietly killed Bing results. Read more…
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
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
The popular torrent site Isohunt just launched a new fully functional website — oldpiratebay.org — that lets you search through the Pirate Bay archives. This is a little bit silly, since Pirate Bay’s archives have been public for years . But it’s also a little bit useful if you’ve been having Pirate Bay withdrawal since the site got raided by Swedish police . Read more…
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Another Torrent Site Has Resurrected the Pirate Bay
It’s a vast understatement to say that Crossrail, London’s newest subway line, is big. It’s massive: 23 miles of huge tunnels below an ancient city, dug by a team of 10, 000 workers, to form the city’s biggest transit project since World War II. Read more…
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Inside the Vast Tunnels of Europe’s Biggest Infrastructure Project
A new year means a new flagship smartphone brain, and Qualcomm has detailed some of the most fun features of its upcoming Snapdragon 810 chip, which will start popping up in phones next year. It’s faster, and it supports better graphics sure, but it also has other tricks up its sleeve. Here’s what you can expect to see. Read more…
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Snapdragon 810: Your Next Phone’s Brains Are Way More Than Just Fast
Some time in 2015, Iowa will become the first state to offer an official app from the state’s Department of Transportation that can serve as your driver’s license and ID . That’s pretty incredible. It’s also getting us much closer to a more convenient, wallet-free future. Read more…
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Iowa Is Going To Let You Use a Smartphone As Your Driver’s License