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Paranoid Russians Develop Home-Grown Tablet Device Powered By RoMos
Fed up with having Americans spying on their every move, the Russians are now going the way of North Korea, developing their very own tablet device that boasts a high level of encryption, an Android-like OS, and a home-grown global position system. The device, which was unveiled yesterday at the IFA in Berlin, was developed ...
Bahraini Government Using “Stealth” Malware To Spy On Dissidents
A Google engineer and a computer science student believe that authoritarian government regimes are using special surveillance software designed for criminal investigations to illegally monitor political activists. The New York Times reports that FinSpy, an elusive espionage tool designed to evade computer security software, is supposedly only sold to governments on the understanding that it’s ...
Facebook To Let Advertisers Hunt You Down Using Your Email and Phone No.
Facebook has just sanctioned the stalking of every single one of its users by companies that wish to bombard them with advertisements and special offers. Reports suggest that the social media giant is tweaking its ad targeting methods, and will soon let paying companies use personal information such as emails and phone numbers to identify ...
Oracle Belatedly Issues Java Security Fix, But Is It Enough?
Oracle has just issued an urgent fix to seal a dangerous security flaw within its Java software that’s left thousands of computers wide open to malicious attacks from hackers. The update follows revelations that Oracle actually knew about the vulnerability several months before it was first reported in the media. VentureBeat explained that the patch ...
Big Data Vendors Collaborate On Big Security Issues
Big data has presented us with some pretty unique challenges. Storage and analysis are the ones we hear about most frequently, but equally important is the need to tackle problems related to the security and privacy of the data that companies collect. To address these needs, Cloud Security Alliance and Fujitsu Labs, two of the ...
Google Maps Gets Voice Directions for Cyclists, More Ad Options
Google Maps continues to be the most popular mapping service around, but what with increased competition from the likes of OpenStreetMap, the internet giant clearly feels that it needs to do more to entice users to stick with its offering. To do so, Google has rolled out two new additions to its service that will ...
BigQuery Gets Bigger and Better with Batch Processing and Excel Integration
Google’s BigQuery has just received a major new update with not one, but two new features that add more functionality to the popular data set analysis tool. The updates include a new batch-processing feature that allows users to schedule queries that are less time-sensitive, while the tool can now be integrated with Microsoft Excel. BigQuery ...
Researchers Develop Method for Making Atomic Electronics
Electrical engineers have already achieved some pretty amazing feats. The integrated circuits used in everything from computers to coffee makers are incredibly slim these days, allowing us to develop a new breed of electronic gadgets that includes everything from every day smartphones, to more minuscule devices like the Picotux (the world’s smallest PC, measuring just ...
The Absurdity of Patent Trolls
Seriously, when will all of this patent BS end? Notwithstanding all the Apple-Samsung nonsense lately, Gigaom.com is now reporting news of yet another troll hoping to capitalize on America’s nonsensical patent laws to extort millions of dollars from some of the country’s top tech companies. The troll in question is Scott Moskowitz, owner of the ...
Craigslist Gets With The Picture; Adds OpenStreetMap To Real Estate Listings
Craigslist has just been given a cartographic facelift of sorts; it’s now embedding maps to help users easily locate real estate listings on its Portland, Oregon and San Francisco websites. Unsurprisingly, the new maps are not Craigslist’s own creations. A quick look over their sites tells us that the classified listings service is hardly the ...