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Hurricane Sandy Blows Out “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Measures, For Now
Plans to launch a big crackdown on illegal piracy in the US have been shelved for the time being, thanks to an unlikely culprit in the form of Hurricane Sandy. The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) organization, which was established to coordinate the highly publicized “six strikes” copyright enforcement scheme, says that damage caused by ...
Onity Announces “Fix” For Vulnerable Hotel Key Card Locks, But Won’t Tell Anyone What It Is…
Earlier this week SiliconANGLE revealed how thieves were exploiting a vulnerability in Onity hotel door locks, allowing them to enter guests’ rooms and help themselves to their valuables at will. Now, after earlier signs that the company would only help its customers if they were prepared to foot the bill for it, Onity seems to have ...
Now You Can Send Jumbo-Sized Attachments Up To 10GB Through Gmail
If you’ve ever came across one of those irritating error messages on Gmail as a result of trying to send an attachment that’s just too damn big, you’re in for a treat. Google has just given its email service a huge boot up the ass, integrating Google Drive so that users can send much larger ...
Belgian Spies Cover Blown… On LinkedIn and Facebook. Doh!
Being a James Bond-esque spy might seem like a pretty glamorous job, and for those lucky enough to have found such employment, no doubt the temptation to show off about their exploits might be tough to resist every now and again. But even so, even the dumbest of secret agents involved in international intrigue knows ...
Hotel Burglars Exploit Key Card Locks, But Who’s Gonna Pay To Fix Them?
Dozens of guests at luxury hotels in the US have fallen victim to burglaries in recent months, with the thieves suspected of gaining access to their rooms by exploiting a recently exposed security flaw in the electronic locks commonly used in such hotels. A report in Forbes described how numerous hotel guests in Texas have ...
Why Google Could Be Planning a Self-Branded Touchscreen Chromebook
Google is rumored to be working on its own branded notebook featuring a touchscreen, capping off a fresh wave of similar devices, according to reports. The story was first reported by the China Times and later picked up by TechCrunch, and claims that the internet search firm has already placed a large order with Taiwan-based ...
NEC ‘Convection Cooled’ Data Centers Slash Energy Use By 30%
Japanese electronics firm NEC has revealed its working on a new kind of data center – one that’s smaller, and relies on convection to slash power consumption by as much as one third over traditional data centers, even in warm climates. NEC said that its new prototype data centers can achieve this dramatic reduction in ...
Center For Study Of Existential Risk To Assess “Terminator” Threat
The “rise of the machines”, or robots rising up to take over the world and wipe out humanity has been a popular theme in the science fiction world for decades, but does mankind really need to live in fear of an artificially intelligent nemesis? That’s the question that a new academic center at Cambridge University ...
Google Launches Petition Against German “Link Tax”
Threatened with new copyright laws that would force search engines to pay for ‘snippets’ of content displayed on aggregators like Google News, the world’s biggest search engine has launched a campaign to prevent the laws from being enacted. Google has stepped up its response to the so called Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger bill, or ‘ancillary copyright ...
Running The Country… There’s An App For That Too!
UK Prime Minster David Cameron, long known to be a keen iPad user, has volunteered to test drive a new app that helps aid his decision making and oversee the day-to-day affairs of government. A description of the “Number 10 Dashboard” on BBC news says that “with a few swipes or taps of his fingers, ...