Monthly Archives: April 2014

Engadget

Now that we know about the Heartbleed bug that allows access to sensitive internet data usually locked down by OpenSSL encryption, Google is of course one of the internet services hard at work applying fixes. The folks in Mountain View … Continue reading

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Heartbleed Bug

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over … Continue reading

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Seven Safety Tips for People Sticking with Windows XP

Everybody panic! On Tuesday, April 8, Microsoft will stop “supporting” Windows XP. If you’re still using a computer that’s running this old operating system, you do have options. I covered them very recently: Still on Windows XP? Here’s Some Bad Advice. … Continue reading

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Laughing Is Happiness

I know it’s in Chinese but really this is awesome, STR Laughing Is Happiness.

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Chef movie trailer

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Implant shocks patient’s spines, restores partial use of paralyzed limbs

Remember that spinal implant that helped a paraplegic man walk (albeit in a harness) back in 2011? It’s now been tested on three more partially paralyzed patients — and it’s working. The original device was a 16-electrode array that emitted … Continue reading

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Obamacare and you: Do I have to have Obamacare? – CSMonitor.com

I’m not really political, but people have asked me about this quite a bit. “I don’t know why, so don’t ask”. So here it is I found the most straight forward article I could find and here it is… STR … Continue reading

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XP’s retirement will be hacker heaven – Computerworld

Computerworld – Cyber criminals will bank their Windows XP zero-day vulnerabilities until after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April, a security expert argued today.Jason Fossen, a trainer for SANS since 1998 and an expert on Microsoft security, … Continue reading

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The Untold History of Where Barcodes Come From

When George Laurer goes to the grocery store, he doesn’t tell the check-out people that he invented the barcode, but his wife used to point it out. “My husband here’s the one who invented that barcode,” she’d occasionally say. And … Continue reading

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How a Chinese Company 3D-Printed Ten Houses In a Single Day

This month, architects in Amsterdam started work on the world’s first completely 3D-printed house. It’ll take three years and quite a bit of money to finish. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, a company claims to have printed ten houses with inexpensive industrial … Continue reading

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