Chris Vickery from Upguard found an Army Amazon Web Services instance with no password or encryption, containing 100GB of data on a defunct NSA program called Red Disk. (more…)
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US Army doxes itself, reveals $100 million NSA spy program that got flushed before it was ever used
Imagination Technologies is famous for one thing: it’s the company that provides the graphics for the iPhone. But today, Imagination announced that its longstanding relationship with Apple is coming to an abrupt end. In a statement, the outfit has conceded that Apple will replace the PowerVR GPU at the heart of its iOS devices with a graphics chip of its own design. When Apple started making the iPhone, it used a generic, Samsung-made ARM system that was paired with a PowerVR GPU. Over time, Apple began crafting more and more of its own silicon, thanks to its purchase of various chip design firms . These days, the PowerVR chip on the A10 Fusion is one of very few components that Apple didn’t have entire control over. The decision to dump Imagination was probably inevitable given the company’s trend towards control, but there may be another story here. Third-party analysts The Linley Group spotted that the iPhone 7 used the same PowerVR GT7600 GPU that was used for the iPhone 6S. That piece of silicon, while powerful, couldn’t sustain its performance for very long and so throttles the component to avoid overheating. Apple’s unsentimentally when it comes to ditching chip makers when they can’t meet performance targets is well-known. After all, the company ditched PowerPC CPUs because — so the legend goes — Intel’s X86 silicon was getting faster while IBM and Motorola dragged their feet. It’s clearly a massive blow for Imagination, which has already said that it’s planning to take the matter to the courts. After all, building a graphics platform from scratch is likely to involve using technology that other companies like Imagination has already patented. The famously-secretive Apple is also not going to look favorably upon one of its suppliers going public with this licensing dispute. Imagination shares down 67% after end of agreement with Apple pic.twitter.com/jBazTt6IjT — Francisco Jeronimo (@fjeronimo) April 3, 2017 As TechCrunch explains, the split could spell doom for Imagination, since it relies upon Apple for the bulk of its cash. Even worse, is that the news has already caused Imagination’s stock to freefall, dropping between 60 and 70 percent in the last few hours. Via: TechCrunch Source: Imagination Technologies
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Apple is building its own GPU for the iPhone and iPad
Enlarge / Genetics background. 3D render. (credit: NIH ) With humanity’s seemingly insatiable desire for data, archiving it safely has become a bit of a problem. The various means we’ve been using all have tradeoffs in terms of energy and space efficiency, many of which change as the technologies mature. And, as new tech moves in, many earlier storage media become obsolete—to the point where it’s essentially impossible to read some old formats. What if there were a storage medium that would be guaranteed to be readable for as long as humanity’s around and didn’t need any energy to maintain? It’s called DNA, and we’ve become very good at both making and decoding it. Now, two researchers have pushed the limits of DNA storage close to its theoretical maximum using a coding scheme that was originally designed for noisy communication channels. The result: an operating system and some movies were stuffed into genetic code at a density of 215 Petabytes per gram. The new work comes courtesy of Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski, who work at the New York Genome Center. They have built on a variety of earlier work. Not much challenge is involved in putting data into DNA: each place in the sequence can hold one of four bases: A, T, C, or G. That lets us write two bits per position. The trick is getting things back out reliably. Read 10 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Entire operating system written into DNA at 215 Pbytes/gram
By CRACKED Readers Published: July 17th, 2013 We’ve all come out of a sci-fi movie wishing we had whatever cool gadget the hero was killing aliens with. Fortunately, our readers dug up some technologies that will soon be available for you to use as irresponsibly as you see fit. The most awesome
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