MojoKid writes: The Hague Security Delta (HSD) is the official title of a collaborative effort between Netherlands businesses, their federal government and multiple research institutions, to identify emerging security threats, share best practices, and foster collaboration between industry, governments, and universities. One of the most pressing issues they’re tackling is that of mobile network and […]
Month: December 2014
An anonymous reader writes: Have you enjoyed reading the constant flow of news about how red light cameras are failing? They’ve been installed under the shadow of corruption, they don’t increase safety, and major cities are dropping them. Well, the good news is that red-light cameras are on the decline in the U.S. The bad […]
HughPickens.com writes: Lindsey Kaufman reports in the WaPo that despite its obvious problems, the open-office model has continued to encroach on workers across the country, with about 70 percent of U.S. offices having no or low partitions. Silicon Valley has led the way — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg enlisted famed architect Frank Gehry to design […]
An anonymous reader writes: Anthony Ferrara, a developer advocate at Google, has published a blog post with some statistics showing the sorry state of affairs for website security involving PHP. After defining a list of secure and supported versions of PHP, he used data from W3Techs to find a rough comparison between the number of […]
An anonymous reader sends this quote from Ars Technica: The National Security Agency’s Office of Target Pursuit (OTP) maintains a team of engineers dedicated to cracking the encrypted traffic of virtual private networks (VPNs) and has developed tools that could potentially uncloak the traffic in the majority of VPNs used to secure traffic passing over […]
StartsWithABang writes: This past weekend, Eric Metaxas lit up the world with his bold article in the Wall Street Journal, Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God. As a scientific counterpoint, this article fully addresses three major points of that “case,” including what the condition are that we need for life to arise, how rare […]
Our headline is the title of a survey SysAid did at Fusion, a “gathering of seasoned IT directors, service management implementers, and business analysts” that took place in early November. As Sysaid’s marketing VP, Sophie Danby was the person who designed and implemented the survey, which consisted of only three questions: 1) Where do you […]
It’s been a long time since Slashdot has awarded the Beanies — nearly 15 years, in fact. But there’s no time like the present, especially since tomorrow edges on the new year, and in early 2015 we’d like to offer a Beanie once again, to recognize and honor your favorite person, people (or project; keep […]
CIA on UFO Sightings: ‘It Was Us’
mrflash818 sends word that the CIA has taken the blame for a majority of early UFO sightings. In a tweet, the agency said, “It was us,” and linked to a document summarizing their use of U-2 spy planes from 1954-1974 (PDF). “High-altitude testing of the U-2led to an unexpected side effect — a tremendous increase […]
An anonymous reader writes: A post at iFixit explains how one user with a failing MacBook Pro fixed it by baking it in the oven. The device had overheating issues for months, reaching temperatures over 100 C. When it finally died, some research suggested the extreme heat caused the logic board to flex and break […]