Many years before George Lucas decided it was ok to lie to the children of America, convincing them that tree-dwelling teddy bears with bronze age technology could really decimate the most capable military force in the galaxy, he started his directorial career with this short film about, um, freedom? Read more…
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Freiheit: George Lucas’ Very First, Very Worst Film
AmiMoJo writes “According to security company Sophos, around 55% of home users and 18% of enterprise users have updated to Mavericks, the latest version of Mac OS (10.9). Unfortunately Apple appears to have stopped providing security updates for older versions. Indeed, they list Mavericks itself as a security update. This means that the majority of users are no longer getting critical security patches. Sophos recommends taking similar precautions to those recommended for people who cannot upgrade from Windows XP.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader writes “Bitcoin transactions are confirmed by performing complex calculations, also known as ‘mining.’ If a single mining pool gains 51% of the overall computational power in the network, various forms of transaction manipulation become possible. Only a few years into Bitcoin’s existence, this existential threat appears to be at hand, with Bitcoin mining pool ghash.io approaching 51% of mining power. ghash.io has now assured the Bitcoin community in a press release (PDF): ‘GHash.IO does not have any intentions to execute a 51% attack, as it will do serious damage to the Bitcoin community, of which we are a part.’ But can a network relying on such assurances survive in the long run?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute ‘51% Attack’
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has announced that the McAfee brand name will be phased out in favor of a new name, Intel Security. John McAfee said of news: “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words.” Read more…
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Vimeo is officially launching a new default HTML 5 player that’s 50 percent faster than the the flash module that came before. In fact, you may have already been using it for months as the service has been slowly rolling it out to users. Sneaky, sneaky! Pretty much the only way you’ll use the oldness is on Facebook soon. Did you notice that your videos were loading faster when you press play? Read more…
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Vimeo Secretly Launches an Improved, Super Fast HTML 5 Player
After years of bringing you the horror/glory that is the PadFone and FonePad, Asus is branching out on its phone fone offerings and introducing not one, not two, but three flavors of “ZenFone, ” Android handsets with ultrabook lineage . Read more…
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Asus ZenFones: An Android Army with Intel Inside
You can brag to your friends about the amazing weekend you had at the track all you want, but without a witness, you might as well be boasting about that monstrous fish that got away. So for the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, GM is including what it calls its Performance Data Recorder which overlays telemetry, speed, and location data over a 72oP video recording of everywhere you’ve driven—basically giving you instant replay of your hoonage so you can back up your bragging. Read more…
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The New Corvette Stingray Will Come With Built-In Instant Replay
You may have convinced your parents to upgrade to a smartphone or a tablet, but that monstrous ancient stereo system in their living room that served them well in the 1980s isn’t going anywhere. Thankfully, ION Audio’s new Cassette Adapter Bluetooth is a ridiculously easy way to get their old and modern technology to play nice together. Read more…
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Easily Update Ancient Stereos With ION Audio’s Bluetooth Cassette
Security researchers at Fox IT say they’ve detected a malicious exploit kit among Yahoo’s ad network active since December 30th. The malware seems to have hit Romania, Great Britain, and France the hardest, but wherever you are, if you’ve browsed a Yahoo site this week, you may want to run a scan or two. Read more…
Watching 4K video is wonderful and all, but with streaming increasingly popular and data caps largely still in place, it also still seems impractical. Not for long, though, if rumors of YouTube’s latest schemes are to be believed. Read more…
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Rumor: YouTube Will Debut Low-Bandwidth 4K Streaming Next Week