Day: August 25, 2013

Microsoft: Google’s corrupting your kids at school

Oh, those terrible people at Google. In the latest “Scroogled” ad, Redmond says Google is peddling vitamin supplements to kids. And that’s not all…….


The ‘third era’ of app development will be fast, simple, and compact

Will Intel and Nvidia join the HSA party, or insist on going it alone?……


iFixit Tears Down the New Moto X, So You Don’t Have To

iFixit’s been breaking devices and voiding warranties for years now; latest on their chopping block is the new Moto X from Motorola, a phone hawked as much for its customizability and place of manufacture (the U.S.) as for anything else. You might expect a highly hyped, ultra-customizable phone to be made of high-end components and…


Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend?

First time accepted submitter TimBur1e6 writes “Suppose you had just moved 1000 miles away from your significant other, but you wanted to continue to create shared life experiences. You could text, or talk by voice, or even video chat. And those would all be good things to do. However, there’s a difference between telling someone…


Ballmer and Affleck: Why the Twitting spittle?

Two men who have seen ups and downs become the target of abuse in the same week. One is unworthy of being a superhero. The other is Ben Affleck…….


ZDNetGovWeek: Don’t tell me you thought we’d be done with NSA stories

The NSA story just gets more and more out of control, Assange phones it in to the Wikileaks party, Manning gets sentenced, and oh so much more. If this stuff weren’t true, you’d think it would be in a bad Bruce Willis movie…….


Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle

bfwebster writes “Michael Swaine — long-time, well-known and very prolific author/editor in the programming and personal computing worlds — has just devised a new twist on the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle, ‘meaning to get promoted so high and to be so unqualified for your job that the company tells you that you can name…


Boeing rolls out 787-9 Dreamliner

Company clears big hurdle with more advanced version of its touted aircraft after year marked by several mechanical issues…….


Apache Hadoop Man In The Middle

Apache Hadoop versions prior to 2.0.6-alpha, 0.23.9, and 1.2.1 suffer from a man in the middle vulnerability…….


Latest NSA abuse allegation: Spying on the United Nations

New evelation comes as NSA also cops to acknowledging that some of its analysts have snooped on emails of ex-lovers…….