HP’s D2D product line, which has recently been rebranded “StoreOnce”, is effectively an expensive software platform.
via HP D2D/StoreOnce Backdoor.
Open up your favourite SSH client, key in the IP of an HP D2D unit. Enter in yourself the username HPSupport, and the password which has a SHA1 of 78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50. Say hello to an administrative account you didn’t know existed.
The brainchild of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cloudsweeper’s account theft audit tool scans your inbox and presents a breakdown of how many accounts connected to that address an attacker could seize if he gained access to your Gmail. Cloudsweeper then tries to put an aggregate price tag on your inbox, a figure that’s computed by totaling the resale value of other account credentials that crooks can steal if they hijack your email.
In 2010, GFK’s survey of U.S. homes found just 14 percent of households relying on broadcast-only TV. In 2012, that number jumped to 19.3 percent and now it has risen well above the 20 million mark.
via Light Reading – Antenna TV Roars Back.
There are a lot more channels on OTA ever since they went digital and added all sorts of sub-channels.
In traditional circuits, transistors are laid down in a bed of silicon that acts as an insulator to prevent crosstalk between circuits. In circuits based on quantum tunneling, silicon is replaced by nanotubes made of boron nitride and electrical pathways consisting of quantum dots—carefully placed bits of gold as small as three nanometers across (PDF).
via Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete.
The rise of the iPhone and mobile platforms in general, along with developer-friendly app stores, has made the idea of commercializing interactive fiction possible again. In the age of Infocom, the crude graphics on top-end hardware meant the potential market for text-only games for personal computers was in the millions, and this was enough to fund a whole company of developers. Today, people aren’t likely to pay money to sit down at a PC to play a text adventure game, but enough of them might want to play such a game on their mobile device to fund teams of one or two independent developers.
via Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today | Ars Technica.
The operating system at the heart of Sony’s PlayStation 4 is FreeBSD 9.0.
via [Phoronix] Sony’s PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9.
As a result, developers have to design with the dangers in mind and weigh that against the type and sensitivity of data stored in the client. At the moment, many development shops are not training their staffs to do that, says David Eads, founder of Mobile Strategy Partners, a mobile development firm that specializes in financial and insurance applications. In fact, he recently ran into a bank that used example HTML5 code for training developers that put data in permanent storage on the client system as opposed to temporary storage.
Video on Instagram will allow app users to shoot videos anywhere from 3-to-15 seconds long—unlike the mere six seconds of Vine. Video allows for the use of multiple cuts,
via Instagram hopes 15 seconds will be better than six for social micro-video | Ars Technica.
Whereas the telcos are migrating from voice-centric architectures to flat, all-IP networks, cable operators are set to go through a similar transition, but from video-centric to IP-centric networks.