Something to hide, in Redmond.
Truth be told, I think that as a phone, the iPhone is merely adequate. But as a portable personal computing platform that also enables telephony, it’s top notch.
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Something to hide, in Redmond. Truth be told, I think that as a phone, the iPhone is merely adequate. But as a portable personal computing platform that also enables telephony, it’s top notch. Spain and the FBI cooperated to shut down a botnet that had taken control of 12 million infected PCs, arresting ringleaders who had used a trivially advanced hacking skillset to siphon financial information and passwords from unsuspecting users: (The) Mariposa botnet was principally geared towards stealing online login credentials for banks, email services and the like [...] Use a laser. Now if we can just get the bad guys to leave them laying about in plain sight. What possible chance does a Silicon Valley start-up with no expertise in military intelligence have to create a solution that helps map out terrorist networks, their money flows and operational plans? Pretty damned good, actually: One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most [...] Occasional reader Potosi Joel turned me on to a Wired article about a company named Applied Electronics getting a contract to place ultra short pulse lasers on naval aircraft: USP lasers shoot incredibly fast pulses of light that create channels in the air for electricity to travel to a target. The targets are vaporized so quickly [...] Courtesy of The Scoop Deck, a Corvette ZR-1 takes on Blue Angle #7: 600 horses vs 32,000 pounds of static thrust. No contest. Still, that’s an awfully nice car. |
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