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DARPA Robotics Project Picks SoftLayer for First Ever Virtual Robotics Challenge
Each year DARPA puts on an event known as the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). This year the game has changed a bit with the introduction of the first ever DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). What this means is that the engineers that build these competing robotics have to develop their software in a virtual situation. ...
NSA Hoax? XKeyscore, Bat Boy, and the NSA at Black Hat
Is anyone else confused by all the secretive programs that keep coming out? All the intrusion of privacy, in calls, on the internet, in your browser, on your social media, from your phone, the list goes on and on and on. It’s gotten to the point where I’m not sure if we’re in tin foil ...
Bradley Manning Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy but Convicted of Multiple Other Counts
Details are still emerging, but it has been announced that US Army Pfc Bradley Manning was found Not Guilty of aiding the enemy but convicted of multiple other counts. This is the conclusion of an eight-week trial. The scene at Fort Meade was reported to be filled with supporters and demonstrators. Manning was convicted of six ...
Bradley Manning Verdict Due Today in WikiLeaks Military Data Leak
After one thousand and 100 days in jail in pretrial detention, 22 charges, facing life – Today the verdict in the Bradley Manning case will be announced. The verdict is expected at Tuesday, July 30th at 1PM ET. Manning of course is the man behind the biggest national security leak in history. Through a connection ...
Diablo Technologies Emerges with Revolutionary Flash Technology That Could Change the Industry
Diablo Technologies comes out of stealth today with an announcement on a unique new product and approach to flash that has not been seen in the industry before. The technology platform is known as Memory Channel Storage™ (MCS) and it is designed to fit into the DRAM memory channels of any server. The storage can ...
The Mind-Boggling Capacity of the NSA’s Utah Facility
It’s the largest ongoing Defense construction project in the United States and the power is scheduled to come on sometime on October 1, 2013. In an arms race to collect data, the NSA’s Utah data center is on pace to be the biggest weapon in the game. It looks like a giant Jelly Bean, but don’t be ...
Technology Hiring Surge for iWatch, Wearable Technology Development
Recent events in the world of Apple continue to suggest that they are feverishly working on this new iWatch product. In their well-known environment of development secrecy, there is little to work off of in estimating exactly what is going on however. As we retrace some of the history, we have seen the discovery of ...
Famed Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Scheduled Black Hat Appearance
Famed hacker Barnaby Jack was found dead in San Francisco Thursday evening. Jack was well known beyond the hacker community after a number of well-publicized hacks. He captured imaginations making movie-type hacks quite real through a widely reported-on hack of a bank ATM, where he forced the machine to spew out all of its cash. ...
Big Blue Unleashes Big Data Security Intelligence
IBM has announced a new solution today designed to help organizations identify security vulnerabilities across a network in real-time, giving security officers up-to-date visibility to sort and prioritize which vulnerabilities to immediately fix that pose the greatest risk to data. The solution is a predictive security information and event management (SIEM) product called QRadar Vulnerability ...
Cisco Acquires SourceFire in $2.7B CyberSecurity Deal
Cisco is acquiring SourceFire, and so begins a new security push. At a purchase price of $2.7 Billion @ $76 per share, it’s rather significant. Cisco is the largest networking equipment manufacturer in the business, and is known to hold a significant portion of their cash overseas. This makes a domestic purchase on this order ...