Chinese Hackers Have Been Caught Hijacking a Decoy US Water Plant
Source: http://gizmodo.com/chinese-hackers-just-got-caught-hijacking-a-decoy-water-1012520726
Chinese hackers have been harassing the US in a series
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Disposable Spy Computers Are Disturbingly Easy and Cheap to Make
Source: http://gizmodo.com/disposable-spy-computers-are-disturbingly-easy-and-chea-1014343556
Be honest, how often do you use unsecured Wi-Fi for something you shouldn't? You know, just a quick Facebook login at Starbucks. If you've done it even once, that's too much, because making a secret spy computer that can steal all that data is dumb easy. And cheap to boot.
Friday, August 02, 2013
ASUS' 31.5-inch PQ321 4K monitor gets reviewed: pricey, but luscious
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/02/asus-pq321-4k-monitor-gets-reviewed/
Let's be honest: almost no one expected one of the world's first 4K monitors to be ho hum. After all, it has eleventy gazillion pixels. Er, a native 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, but close enough. The gurus over at HotHardware were able to take the 31.5-inch PQ321 for a spin, and predictably, they loved what they saw. Outside of being duly impressed with how the panel handled everything from Photoshop work to gaming, they were also taken aback by the monitor's svelte frame. In fact, they found it a little tough to look back on a 1080p screen after a couple of weeks with this thing -- it's like the SD-to-HD revolution all over again. That said, they did confess that the product feels a bit ahead of its time, and the monstrous $3,500 price tag is certainly indicative of that. Feel free to hit the source link for the full spiel, but the long and short of it is this: if you're in the one percent, buy it.
Source: HotHardware
Download Free, Open-source Textbooks from OpenStax College
Source: http://lifehacker.com/download-free-open-source-textbooks-from-openstax-coll-993587743
Textbooks are incredibly expensive (not to mention cumbersome and heavy in dead tree format). Smart students can pick up free digital textbooks from several
Yahoo adds Rockmelt to its stable of acquisitions
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/02/yahoo-adds-rockmelt-to-its-stable-of-acquisitions/
The Yahoo acquisition train just keeps on rolling! Rockmelt, the social browser news portal social content discovery service will be joining a growing cadre of properties that Marissa Mayer has snatched up. The platform, which seems to straddle the line between Pinterest and StumbleUpon, focuses on personalization and social networking as a way to highlight and serve up content it believes you'll want to read or watch. Yahoo, especially through its homepage portal, has always been about servin! g up con tent, and the expectation is that Rockmelt will help the company better hone its understanding of you and what you love. The announcement post makes it clear that Yahoo plans to actually integrate Rockmelt's technology with its existing platform, though, we're gonna have to wait a bit longer to see exactly what that marriage may look like. Rockmelt will shut down its existing apps and services on August 31st this year.
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