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AMD To Launch ARM-Based Opteron Chips by 2014
AMD has just announced details of its first ARM-based server chips, which it says will be released sometime in 2014 under its Opteron brand. According to the US firm, the move will allow it to increase both the capabilities and energy efficiency of its product line. The development is significant because, along with Intel, AMD ...
Religious Hacktivists Deface French Euromillions Site
Hackers yesterday defaced the French language version of the Euromillions website, taking down the homepage and replacing it with a passage from the Koran that condemns gambling as the “Devil’s work”. The message was posted in both French and Arabic by a mysterious group calling itself the “Moroccanghosts”. It goes on to describe in details ...
Gawker Drowned And Out In Hurricane Sandy Chaos
Amidst all of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, there’s some good news on the horizon – or at least, it is if you happen to be a celebrity with a predilection for getting caught with your pants down. A host of the nation’s top celebrity-hounding media sites, mostly Gawker, but also Huffington Post and ...
Google Tracks Hurricane Sandy with Interactive Crisis Map
With Hurricane Sandy on a collision course with the United State’s eastern seaboard this morning, Google has just launched a dedicated crisis map to assist those affected by the storm. The Hurricane Sandy crisis map will track the path of the storm as it smashes into the mid-Atlantic coast later today. It provides several layers ...
Schmidt Seeks Talks With French President Over Google Copyright Row
More details have come to light regarding Eric Schmidt’s ‘French connection’ planned for this week. It’s been revealed that the Google is so concerned about the possibility of France introducing a bill that would make it pay for content, that its executive chairman will meet with none other than President Francois Hollande himself. SiliconANGLE reported ...
Kim Dotcom Announces “Raid-Proof” Megaupload Plans
Kim Dotcom has just revealed plans to relaunch a new and improved, “raid-proof” successor to his Megaupload service, exactly a year after the original site was shut down by US authorities. Rumors surrounding Megaupload’s second-coming have been doing the rounds for some time, but now the New Zealand-based entrepreneur has finally lifted the lid on ...
Building Big Data: What Choice Do You Have?
One of the most understated impacts of big data in our lives is just how much it can influence the choices we make. For example, retailers and product sellers from just about every industry these days are using data to some degree, analyzing their customer’s purchase history and habits to come up with special offers ...
Google App Engine Hit By Service Disruption; Web Traffic Plummets
Google’s App Engine has suffered a major service disruption, with thousands of customers being unable to access the platform-as-a-service. Techcrunch reports that the service started having problems earlier this morning. As of 0730 Pacific Time, anomalies were being reported about its performance in three of its supported languages – Java, Go and Python, while problems ...
How To Get A Bomb On Board A Plane – Using A Barcode App
A newly discovered flaw with barcodes on US airline boarding passes could allow passengers to take unauthorized items onto flights, according to security experts. The vulnerability has to do with the US Transport Security Administration (TSA) and its PreCheck program, which allows a certain number of frequent fliers on each flight to board the plane ...
Has Google Caved In To French Pressure Already?
Earlier this week we reported that Google was threatening to block French news websites from its search engine results, in response to a demand that it pay for the content it displayed on its Google News pages. France, alongside Germany, was reported to be drafting a law that would force Google to license the content ...