Windows/Mac/iOS/Android: If you’re worried about security in your Dropbox account, but don’t want to go through the extra effort of encrypting everything on your own , SafeMonk is a solution that encrypts your files automatically so you don’t have to think about it. Read more…
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SafeMonk Encrypts Your Files Before Sending them to Dropbox
Thirty-one of the city’s parks, plazas, and rec centers will be getting free Wi-Fi within the next year; and the Web giant is paying for equipment costs, installation, and maintenance. [Read more]
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Google to pay $600,000 for free Wi-Fi in San Francisco’s parks
A great artist can make beauty out of any medium, no matter how limited. 97-year-old Hal Lasko embodies this concept. Instead of painting with dozens of expensive brushes or high-end software suites, Lasko uses a tool most of us have used and abandoned years ago—Microsoft Paint from Windows 95. Read more…
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This 97-Year-Old Makes Amazing Art Exclusively With Microsoft Paint
The social network has embarked on a new test program that would see ads for mobile games appears as notifications, says AllThingsD. [Read more]
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Facebook test puts mobile game ads into your Notifications menu
Trying a new method of making money off its free e-mail service, the Internet giant has begun putting ads in Gmail’s “promotions” category. [Read more]
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Google starts placing ads directly in Gmail inboxes
With so many flavors of Linux and the awesome apps in their repositories, finding the right app for getting things done can be tough. In our fifth annual Lifehacker Pack for Linux, we’re highlighting the must-have downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more. Read more…
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Lifehacker Pack for Linux 2013: Our List of the Best Linux Apps
Researchers work with gold nanoparticles to build a stretchy, conductive material that could go into medical devices and wearable technology. [Read more]
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Stretchable gold conductors bring bling to elastic electronics
A Reddit contributor decides to use the forum to progressively reveal the alleged future results of WWE fights. Oddly, his predictions are eerily accurate. [Read more]
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WrestliLeaks: Reddit poster reveals WWE results in advance
judgecorp writes “Google has fixed a vulnerability in its Glass device, which made it possible to fool the wearable gadget into joining malicious Wi-Fi networks, through the use of fake QR codes. Google fixed the flaw fast, following a tip-off from researchers — but there are two warnings to take from this. There are other weaknesses in Glass (such as the absence of a lockscreen), and this sort of weakness will increasingly hit as the Internet of Things takes hold and the number of communicating devices multiplies.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Fixes Glass Vulnerability To Malicious QR Codes
hypnosec writes “The Linux 3.11 merge window is about to close, most probably this Sunday, and most of the pull requests have been merged, including feature additions and improvements to disk & file system, CPU, graphics and other hardware. Some notable merges are: LZ4 compression; Zswap for compressed swap caching; inclusion of a Lustre file-system client for the first time; Dynamic Power Management (DPM) support for R600 GPUs; KVM and Xen virtualization on 64-bit hardware (AArch64); and a new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for the Renesas R-Car SoC.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window