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U.S. malware share rising, Amazon service No.1 in hosting it
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The Black Hat Quiz 2014
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'Six Californias' lunacy looks headed for ballot
An earthquake will drop California into the Pacific Ocean before Congress agrees, as it must, to carve the state into six separate mini-Californias.Nevertheless, an inexplicably wasteful effort led by billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, dubbed "Six Californias," is reported to have collected the signatures necessary to place Draper's pipedream on the ballot.From USA Today: A Twitter account belonging to the nonprofit Six Californias tweeted on Monday that "#SixCalifornias will be submitting signatures in Sacramento tomorrow for placement on the November 2016 ballot. Stay tuned for coverage!"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
HP chairman resigns due to ill health
Ralph Whitworth, who'd been chairman of Hewlett-Packard for just over a year, is resigning from his job for health reasons, HP said on Tuesday.Whitworth became interim chair last April when Ray Lane stepped down. His resignation is effective Wednesday, and HP's board will discuss a replacement at its next meeting, the company said.Whitworth is an activist investor who holds a big financial stake in HP. He was given a seat on its board in 2011 in return for agreeing that his firm, Relational Investors, would not launch a proxy battle to take over the company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
It's alive: New supercomputer reborn from old supercomputer parts
An older supercomputer from the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been cannibalized and rebuilt into a new one, thanks to a team from Carnegie Mellon University. The older system was called Cerrillos, which was once the 29th-fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the Top500 list from November 2009. Cerrillos was a smaller offshoot of Roadrunner, a more powerful machine that was once the fastest in the world, and the first to break the 1 petaflop performance barrier. Both machines were shut down in 2013. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Russian hackers breach CNET, steal one million usernames, passwords and email addresses | 3 Ways to Spot a Bad Boss Before You Take the Job +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
US House approves permanent ban on Internet access taxes
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to permanently extend a ban on Internet access taxes that Congress has temporarily extended three times over the past 16 years.The House, in a voice vote Tuesday, passed the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, over the objections of some Democrats. In addition to permanently banning states and local governments from taxing Internet access, the bill would ban any other form of Internet-only taxes, although its aimed primarily at taxes on Internet access service.The bill does not address Internet sales taxes, a separate issue that Congress has debated for several years. The House has failed so far to act on a bill, passed by the Senate in May 2013, that would allow states to collect sales tax on products sold over the Internet.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Intel to ship Galileo Gen2 open-source computer in August for $60
Intel's answer to the popular US$25 Raspberry Pi credit-card sized PC, the Galileo Gen2, is set to be available in August for around US$60.Like the Pi, the Galileo Gen2 computer is an uncased board with all the components necessary to build a PC. Only external peripherals need to be attached. Galileo is targeted at the community of do-it-yourselfers and enthusiasts who make robots, small electronics, wearable devices and even PCs.The Gen2 succeeds the first Galileo computer, which started shipping late last year for around $70. The new Galileo has a low-power x86 processor called Quark, while the Raspberry Pi has an ARMv7 processor.Intel is trying to make its way into the wearables and robotics market, and is using Galileo as a way to explore opportunities for the Quark chip. The chip maker is pinning its hope on the maker community to come up with ideas.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Overreliance on the NSA led to weak crypto standard, NIST advisers find
The National Institute of Standards and Technology needs to hire more cryptographers and improve its collaboration with the industry and academia, reducing its reliance on the U.S. National Security Agency for decisions around cryptographic standards.Lack of internal expertise in certain areas of cryptography and too much trust in the NSA led NIST to ignore security concerns about a pseudorandom number generator called Dual_EC_DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) in 2006, technical experts who reviewed the organization's standards development process said in a report released Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Rackspace rolls out new hosted computing tier: Managed cloud
Rackspace Tuesday announced a Managed Cloud offering, which combines the benefits of a managed service with the elastic scalability of a cloud. The San Antonio company's move represents an attempt to differentiate itself within an increasingly competitive public cloud computing market that has evolved from services such as co-location and managed services. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: This is what the new hybrid cloud looks like | Say goodbye to desktop phones +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
DARPA initiates reusable, aircraft-like spaceship development
Looking to build a hypersonic transport would be the heart of less expensive satellite launch system, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it awarded three contracts to being work on the spacecraft.DARPA said Boeing (working with Blue Origin) Masten Space Systems (working with XCOR Aerospace) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (working with Virgin Galactic) would begin phase 1 work on the agency's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program that aims to design, build, and demonstrate a reusable Mach 10 aircraft capable of carrying and deploying an upper stage that can place 3,000- 5,000 lb. satellite into low earth orbit (LEO) at a target cost of less than $5M per launch.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
FCC swamped with last-minute comments on net neutrality
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Web comments form crashed Tuesday morning in the hours before the agency's first deadline for submitting comments on its net neutrality proposal.The FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) was generating an error message at 10:15 a.m. EST Tuesday, the last day for first-round comments on the agency's proposed net neutrality rules. The deadline for first-round comments is 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, with a 60-day round for replies to the original comments to follow.While the ECFS Web form was down Tuesday morning, the FCC also has an email address, at openinternet@fcc.gov, for people to submit comments. Between the Web form and the email address, the agency had received 677,000 comments on net neutrality as of Monday afternoon, making it one of the most commented proceedings in FCC history.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Google's smart contact lens is not what it sounds like
In an early episode of the outstanding sitcom Parks and Recreation, Tom Haverford (played by the similarly outstanding Aziz Ansari) drunkenly lists his best business ideas, including "contact lenses that display text messages." Thanks to Netflix, I've watched that episode more times than anyone should, but I've always thought it's just a matter of time until somebody actually made it happen.Today, after encountering a Wall Street Journal article reporting that Novartis and Google are set "to work on smart contact lenses," I thought that time had come. I was wrong, though.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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