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Google develops own 'boring' version of OpenSSL

A Google engineer wrote the project isn't designed to replace OpenSSL

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1. US NSA granted extension to collect bulk phone data

2. FCC proposes $1B per year for Wi-Fi in schools

3. INSIDER Review: Open source proxy servers are capable, but a bit rough (free reg)

4. Nvidia abandons 64-bit Denver chip for servers

5. Goodbye stupid software patents?

6. Google's Nest pays $555M to acquire home camera maker Dropcam

7. Syrian Electronic Army hacks Reuters site

8. Twitter keeps sending texts to recycled phone numbers, lawsuit says

9. How to explain to Big Data newbies why correlation doesn't equal causation

10. USENIX researchers get a grip on Hadoop performance

11. 7 tips for older programmers joining startups

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FCC proposes $1B per year for Wi-Fi in schools

U.S. schools could get a cool billion to set up Wi-Fi networks to connect more than 10 million more students by the 2015-2016 school year under a new FCC proposal.Three out of five schools don't have the Wi-Fi they need, yet no money was available for Wi-Fi last year under E-Rate, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Internet funding program for schools and libraries, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Friday in a proposal circulated to the agency's other commissioners.Wheeler's plan would allocate US$1 billion in E-Rate funds for Wi-Fi next year and another $1 billion in 2016, with the goal of getting Wi-Fi to more than 10 million additional students in each of those years. It also calls for predictable funding in future years. If the agency takes action this summer, the Wi-Fi upgrades could be in place for the 2015-2016 school year, according to the proposal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Review: Open source proxy servers are capable, but a bit rough (free reg)

Providing a common gateway for web services, caching web requests or providing anonymity are some of the ways organizations use proxy servers. Commercial proxy products, especially cloud offerings, are plentiful, but we wondered if open source or free products could provide enterprise-grade proxy services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE

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Nvidia abandons 64-bit Denver chip for servers

Nvidia has cancelled plans to develop a 64-bit CPU processor for servers, three years after it said it would build such a chip."That's not something we're doing today," said Ian Buck, vice president of accelerated computing at Nvidia.The company is instead focusing its latest 64-bit Tegra chips on mobile and embedded devices, Buck said.Nvidia in 2011 announced a 64-bit ARM-based chip called Project Denver, which would also go into mobile devices, PCs and servers. The company said it was looking to pair Tegra chips with GPUs in servers, but those plans haven't seen the light of day. The latest Tegra K1 chip, which includes a 64-bit CPU and will ship later this year, is for smartphones, tablets, cars and other products.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Goodbye stupid software patents?

If you haven't been following this story it may (hopefully) turn out to be a milestone in the history of software patents: The story concerns a US financial institution, CLS Bank, and an Australian software company that holds a patent on software used to mediate escrow for financial transactions. CLS argued that the process of escrow is centuries old and therefore not patentable while Alice argued that computerizing the process met the criteria for patentability.The case went before the US Supreme Court and this week it was adjudged that the patent was invalid. Yayy! The ruling was, however, a narrow one as it wasn't expanded so as to cover anything other than the case in hand. Boo.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Google's Nest pays $555M to acquire home camera maker Dropcam

Nest, the Internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector maker owned by Google, is acquiring home security system developer Dropcam as part of a push to connect a wider range of devices in people's homes.Nest said Friday that it was acquiring Dropcam and that the companies would be working together to build new products that add intelligence to the devices in people's homes. The acquisition could allow for new types of communication among the appliances in homes."Eventually, the plan is for us to work together to reinvent products that will help shape the future of the conscious home," Nest said in its announcement of the deal, which has yet to close.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Reuters site

Users who accessed some stories on the Reuters website Sunday were redirected to a message from hackers criticizing the news agency's coverage of Syria.The attack was carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a hacker group that's publicly supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government and which has targeted various media organizations in the past, including IDG."Stop publishing fake reports and false articles about Syria! UK government is supporting the terrorists in Syria to destroy it. Stop spreading its propaganda," the rogue message seen by some Reuters.com visitors read.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Twitter keeps sending texts to recycled phone numbers, lawsuit says

Promotional texts and other messages from Twitter are fine if you consent to them, but some are going out to old phone numbers that have been around the block, according to a new lawsuit.A Massachusetts woman alleges that the social network is sending unsolicited texts via SMS (Short Message Service) to recycled phone numbers. People who have never used Twitter or have not opted into receiving texts from the company are getting messages just because their number was previously used by someone who may have consented. She wants to turn her lawsuit into a class action for other consumers like her.Around the time that Beverly Nunes, of Taunton, Massachusetts, got a new phone last November, she started getting promotional texts several times per day from "40404," a Twitter SMS short code, according to the complaint. "There's a new Swagcode out!" one message read, referring to virtual currency that could be redeemed for retail items or gift cards.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

How to explain to Big Data newbies why correlation doesn't equal causation

With the explosion of interest in Big Data everyone in every department is looking for actionable intelligence. That's great but there's a downside: Trying to explain to, say, your VP of sales that the sales of barbecue sauce might appear to be connected to the selling price of beef but you can't say that's true for certain and that it would be inadvisable to act on that conclusion without deeper analysis."What?!" she'll say. "I can see with my own eyes that they curvey things go up and down together." "Ah" you can reply, "let me show you something …" so you show her the Spurious Correlations web site.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

USENIX researchers get a grip on Hadoop performance

Now that big data technologies like Apache Hadoop are moving into the enterprise, system engineers must start building models that can estimate how much work these distributed data processing systems can do and how quickly they can get their work done.Having accurate models of big data workloads means organizations can better plan and allocate resources to these jobs, and can confidently assert when the results of this work can be delivered to customers.Estimating big data jobs, however, is tricky business, and the process cannot rely entirely on traditional modeling tools, according to researchers speaking at the USENIX annual conference on autonomic computing, being held this week in Philadelphia.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

7 tips for older programmers joining startups

"Image by flickr/Tim GreenIn the grand scheme of things, 40-something isn't considered old. But anything beyond 20-something is often considered old in that stereotypical bastion of fresh-out-of-school youth - the startup. Joining a startup can give seasoned programmers a new jolt of energy and excitement, but can also cause them concern over trying to bridge the generation gap with their new, younger colleagues. A number of programmers, of all ages, recently shared advice on Slashdot for older developers considering joining startups. Here are 7 tips they gave for you more seasoned developers to keep in mind when joining a startup.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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