Day: October 25, 2013

Crave Ep. 143: Superhero gerbils, the best kind

Unbounded Robotics showcases the one-armed UBR-1 ROS robot; find out if someone died in your house; and giant scary fish invade California shores. Help!……


Rackspace goes to Israel, picks up slick new weapon for cloud wars

Lightweight ZeroVM hypervisor glues compute layer onto datastores……


iPad Air joins US Cellular’s lineup Nov 8

In addition to the full size tablet, the regional carrier will also sell Apple’s iPad Mini with Retina Display…….


NSA’s Web site is MIA, cause unclear

Agency’s public-facing site has been down for several hours, with some speculating that a denial-of-service attack is the culprit. But it’s not clear at this point what’s behind the outage…….


Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov

An anonymous reader writes with news that the Obama administration has appointed Jeffrey Zients to lead the effort to revamp Healthcare.gov after its trouble rollout earlier this month. Zients said, “By the end of November, healthcare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users.” Obama created a position for Zients within the government in…


Google could have a floating data center in Maine, too

The tech giant is likely building a floating data center in San Francisco Bay. But a very similar project rolled into the harbor in Portland, Maine earlier this week. The two are definitely connected…….


Symantec Workspace Streaming 7.5.0.493 Rmote Code Execution

Symantec Workspace Streaming version 7.5.0.493 suffers from a SWS streamlet engine invoker servlets remote code execution vulnerability. Proof of concept code included…….


Onpub CMS 1.4 / 1.5 SQL Injection

Onpub CMS versions 1.4 and 1.5 suffer from multiple remote SQL injection vulnerabilities…….


Salesforce.com shuttering social productivity app Do.com

Apparently not every app in the Salesforce cloud is productive…….


Pinterest to pay Getty for data on images

The partnership should help the company improve search results and collect more accurate data on what people pin to its service…….