iPhone, Halved →
Ed Catmull, Ph.D. proudly displaying the Pixar animation render farm in 1995. It is rather important to note the farm - as depicted - can now be calculated to be the equivalent to 1/2 of a iPhone 6's computational capability.
Credit to the Friday, August 26, 2016 High Scalability blog post for jogging my memory of a time when this photo was published 26 years ago. Astonishing isn't it.
LuciuOS →
In which, the new malware-focused development framework for malware research and mitigation is introduced. Enjoy.
Decentralization and Governance, Definitive Screed →
Fascinating screed via Phil Windley writing at his site - Technometria on decentralization and governance - this time dealing with ledgers, blockchain and otherwise.
Umlaut'd →
Apparently, Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) hugely successful Outlook email and calendaring juggernaut front end for the company's Exchange platform (and others - IMAP, POP3, etc) does not like the use of the Germanic Umlaut two-dot character...
Another Microsoft Blunder?
Is the latest Windows 10 Anniversary Edition video camera snafu another serious Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) blunder or is it intentional... Likely the former, but, you be the judge.
Endicott-Popovsky's UW CIAC →
Dr. Endicott-Popovsky's Information Security work (Director, for the Center of Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington) both as an Educator and Principal Researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at UW, speaks for volumes. If you are looking for security education (and who isn't...), take the time to examine the work of the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington.
Adversarial Images →
The Achilles Heel of Machine Vision... The ramifications of adversarial imaging to logical and physical security are profound.
Future of Food, Farmbot →
Simply astounding: The First CNC Farming Robot, FarmBot Genesis
It doesn't take a Nostradamus to envision profound implications to modern civilization, of which, a number of those implications will be evidenced with the application of CNC techniques to food production and in several (about-to-be-changed-forever) economic sectors: Impacted sectors will be Food Production, Labor (Farm and otherwise), Chemical Manufacturing, Durable Goods and Transport. Contemplate, for a moment, this superb machine, planting and watering, in excruciating robotic certitude, food for this family.
Moral Machine →
via the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, comes the Moral Machine...
Center for Internet Security Publishes Oracle MySQL Benchmarks →
The Center for Internet Security has published v.1.1.0 of the organization's' eponymous security benchmarks targeting Oracle Corporation's (NYSE: ORCL) MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.6 and MySQL Community Server 5.6 (both benchmark documents are at the same revision level - 1.1.0). Enjoy.
Global Repositioning →
via Mark Psiaki, Ph.D. and Todd Humphreys, Ph.D., writing at IEEE Spectrum, comes this superlative piece on GPS Spoofing, and the effects thereof. Today's Must Read.
Opposable Thumbs →
ABP (Adblock Plus), one of the more ubiquitous ad block solutions available has called Facebook's bluff, and released a new filter to Facebook's workaround (to thwart said adblockage)... Outstanding.
The Mounties →
Quite true, indeed... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Gendarmerie Royale du Canada always get their man.
Dread Pirate Roberts' BITCOINS Auction Slated →
News - via the United States Marshals Service - of the scheduled Bitcoin auction of Ross Ulbricht's' ill-gotten booty (as a component of other asset forfeitures, in a to be conveyed to the highest bidder and comprised within a single block totalling 2,719.32669068 bitcoins}, passed my threshold of attention yesterday (Hat Tip)...
Reality Check? Be Judgemental. →
JR Raphael, writing at Computerworld, is now the judge and heir-apparent of what-is-what-shall-be-and-what-is-not-damaging (and least from a security perspective) to the now troubled Android Operating System (in reality all mobile OS's are in deep trouble as they are but a part of a larger, flawed ecosystem - vis. a vis. app store vectored attacks, et cetera). Regardless, it is now time for you be the judge.
The World's Most Unusual Military Unit →
Grønland, Verdens Mest Usædvanlige Militær Enhed, via Denver David Robinson, contributing writer at the Christian Science Monitor, details how the Danes' Protect and Patrol Greenland, today's Must Read.
FossHub, The Hack →
Meanwhile, in OpenSource Software nonsense-hacks-perpetrated-by-children-with-heads-full-of-mush, comes word of a FOSSHub hack by a group monikered Cult of Peggle, according to Ionut Arghire, writing at InfosecIsland.
Apparently, both Audacity and ClassicShell (distributed via FossHub, and due to the attack) now exhibit the behavior of malware-laden install files... In this case, a ridiculous attack, targeting the highly-regarded sound editing and shell throwback products facilitating an MBR overwrite...