Day: October 1, 2013

President Obama forgets to renew SSL certificate

One of the SSL certificates used on barackobama.com, the President’s political campaign web site, has expired. Your browser will warn you not to visit the site now…….


Sweden faces its own shutdown: Cause? Jellyfish

Revenge of the sea? Thousands of moon jellyfish take down the world’s largest nuclear reactor…….


Snowden Shortlisted For Europe’s Top Human Rights Award

another random user sends this news from the BBC: “Edward Snowden, the fugitive American former intelligence worker, has made the shortlist of three for the Sakharov prize, Europe’s top human rights award. Mr Snowden was nominated by Green politicians in the European Parliament for leaking details of U.S. surveillance. Nominees also include Malala Yousafzai, the…


GTA Online hit with launch problems

Rockstar apologizes for server issues plaguing Grand Theft Auto’s multiplayer world, Scribd launches digital book subscriptions, and GoPro unveils new rugged cameras…….


Language of Facebook: Women talk about shopping, men curse

The largest ever linguistic study of Facebook postings concludes that we are all appalling cliches…….


Price comparison: Every current 4K TV

Believe it or not, there are already more than 20 models of flat-panel LED LCD TVs with 4K resolution for sale in the US. Here’s how their prices and screen sizes stack up…….


Enterprise architecture: The key to cybersecurity

Your EA should require the security team to be part of the planning for all systems (both human and technology) across the organization. Without EA, security tends to be an afterthought…….


‘The NSA set me up,’ ex-con Qwest exec claims

Former CEO says refusal to help spies cost him his freedom……


How Project Loon rides the wind

When it comes to figuring out how to keep Project Loon’s Internet-broadcasting balloons from popping in the stratosphere, it all comes down to vast amounts of data…….


How to check for and fix OS X boot drive errors

The boot drive’s format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal…….