Mike Wheatley
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How To Get Out Of PRISM and Avoid NSA Spying
Admittedly, most people don’t seem to give a toss about PRISM one way or the other. But you should, and not just because certain groups claim that the NSA’s spying could be unconstitutional – there are lots of reasons why the alleged complicity of US tech firms could be bad for America, and no one ...
Google’s NSA Plea: Let Us Be More Transparent!
Google has explicitly denied passing on user data to the NSA. Whistleblower Edward Snowden begs to differ, saying he can access your emails and chat records at the click of a mouse button. So is someone not telling the truth? Or has the NSA simply found a way to access Google’s servers without it knowing? We ...
StopWatching.us Okay?
Having been angered at revelations of the NSA’s pervasive spying program PRISM, a group of high-profile rights advocates have stepped forward to demand that lawmakers take action against government spying. Led by the Mozilla Foundation, Reddit, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, the Internet Archive, and other organizations, a new movement called StopWatching.Us has created an online ...
Did PRISM Cause Bitcoin’s Value to Fall?
What with the NSA and PRISM hogging the headlines lately, Bitcoin appears to have slipped off the radar somewhat. Yet the cryptocurrency has seen a fairly dramatic drop in its value since the spying allegations emerged, falling from a high of $118 on June 7 to just $89 on June 9, prompting some BTC watchers ...
Wanna Know How The Big Boys Make Big Bucks With Big Data?
We always hear people banging on about the potential of Big Data and what it can do for big businesses, but rarely do companies come out and say exactly how their analytics programs have helped improve their bottom line. That’s all changed today though, with a whole host of multinational firms and banks breaking their ...
The 3 Phases of Evolution for Software-Defined Storage #SDS
On yesterday’s edition of theCube, co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vallante were thrilled to be able to sit down with IBM’s GM of System Storage & networking Ambuj Goyal at the IBM Edge 2013 Conference in Las Vegas. During their discussion, Goyal gave a forthright explanation of IBM’s take on the evolution of software-defined storage ...
Most Americans Approve of NSA Spying
A new study from the Pew Research Center has confirmed what most of us already knew – the vast majority of Americans couldn’t care less about the NSA leaks scandal, which according to them, barely even registers as a scandal in the first place. Pew’s poll, which was sponsored by the Washington Post, found that ...
E3: Sony PS4 Takes Early Lead With Used Games, Cheaper Price & More
Sony finally unveiled its eagerly-awaited PlayStation 4 console yesterday, but while the boxy games machine might look similar to Microsoft’s rival Xbox One, there are big differences elsewhere. Not only will the PS4 be cheaper than the Xbox One, but there’s also good news for those worried about used games, the need to be online ...
US Tech Firms Will Pay The Price For NSA Spying
Was anyone really that surprised at last week’s news? Surprised that is, at reports that NSA spies have been secretly helping themselves to all of our emails, voice communications, chat records, photographs and other communications over the last few years? No? What with the level of pessimism towards the US government these days, I doubt ...
Early Images of Intel’s “Obsidian” Smartphone User Interface
New images have emerged of the smartphone interface being cooked up by Intel. The chip maker reportedly intends to re-jig Tizen and possibly even Android devices with a new theme that’s been given the code name “Obsidian”. According to Ars Technica, the software will be released later this year on an Intel reference device called ...