hubie writes:By combining seawater data taken from clam shells and thousands of climate simulations, researchers found that 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine were suddenly reversed in the late 1800s:
upstart writes:Hak5's new USB Rubber Ducky, unveiled at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, is more effective than ever, thanks to the inclusion of a new structured programming language (DuckyScript 3.0) that allows it to execute more sophisticated hacks.The beloved hacker tool can now pwn you with its own programming language:
upstart writes:Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Vi Bilägare.:
canopic jug writes:Developer Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK) has written a brief post in the July issue of Communications of the ACM about the cost of surveillance having become negligible. Furthermore, in many cases that surveillance is actually required either by large governments or by large corporations, thus making it cheaper to go with the flow and track people and their online activities very closely as it becomes more and more expensive for programmers and developers to even try to avoid tracking people and their online activities.