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Wednesday, the Russian parliament unanimously adopted a controversial bill that would give them a tremendous amount of control over the Internet. Not so ironically, Wednesday was also October 31st—Halloween—the day of the year that the horrors, specters, and ghouls walk the land …
Instagramming in Hurricane Sandy’s Wake: Postcards from the Windy Edge
Hurricane Sandy is a very human event and humans are inventing ways to better represent the experience of living through a storm. Mobile Photo Group has released a live curated feed of the #hurricanesandy Instagram tag, as well as plotted together images …
#HurricaneHackers is Here to Organize Technology and Social Media Projects Related to Sandy
Right now, Hurricane Sandy is chewing on the East coast and the weather service is in a frenzy to get all its predictors in a row and even Google is getting in on this with an interactive crisis map. Everyday citizens and …
Hurricane Sandy and the Big Data of Disaster Prediction
The science of meteorology is a game of numerous big numbers, a great deal of data from myriad sources, and historical regressive analysis of past events to understand the future. Right now, the East Coast is looking at a storm that has …
PlayStation 3 Low Level Decryption Codes Leaked, Console Hackers Descend
PlayStation 3 security isn’t what it used to be—or perhaps it’s never been so great, it’s just taken the hacker community to catch up with it. This isn’t the first time that the PS3 has been hacked, the first was a jailbreak …
IBM Getting Smart on Big Data Security, Appoints Christina Peters as Chief Privacy Officer
IBM announced the new appointment of the top management of the company–Christina Peters was promoted to Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and will lead a team of lawyers, experts in data security and technical staff who are engaged in policies and practices of protection …
Telerik Unveils the Cloudy Side of Mobile Development with Icenium Tools
The folks over at Telerik have been busy, today the end-to-end mobile software application developers have announced the industry first Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE). Known as Icenium, this platform will introduce a new way for developers to produce applications that fully use …
Ubuntu Has the Juju in the Open Source, ARM DevOps Revolution for Cloud and Big Data
The open source community seems like a very likely place for a great deal of DevOps breakthroughs to rise out of, after all many of the products that live in that community address individuals who wear many hats: developers, system administrators, technology …
Malware Problem on the Rise, Hospitals Suffer “Rampant” Infections
With the proliferation of highly computerized and networked systems for healthcare, it’s not unexpected that they’re opening themselves up to new vectors for invasion of privacy—including the automated type presented by malware. Worse, medical information is confidential and valuable to bad people, …
CODEBREAKER: Compelling Movie About Alan Turing Premieres in the United States
TODpix, in conjunction with Story Center Productions and Furnace, has announced the U.S. Premiere of CODEBREAKER, a unique new film about British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing—focusing not just on his role in World War II and his accomplishments that led …