A Cyberattack ‘the World Isn’t Ready For’
In May, a so-called ransomware attack hit computers in over 150 countries. But two weeks earlier, one security expert found something a lot worse.
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Posted on 2017-06-23T03:42:28+0000
Canadian elite special forces sniper sets record-breaking kill shot in Iraq
Sources say the sniper killed an Islamic State insurgent from a distance of 3,540 metres in a feat one a military insider says may ‘never be equalled’
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""It is at the distance where you have to account not just for the ballistics of the round, which change over time and distance, you have to adjust for wind, and the wind would be swirling," said a source with expertise in training Canadian special forces.
"You have to adjust for him firing from a higher location downward and as the round drops you have to account for that. And from that distance you actually have to account for the curvature of the Earth.""
Posted on 2017-06-22T06:34:51+0000
Wal-Mart to vendors: get off Amazon's cloud
The battle between the King Kong and Godzilla of retail has moved into the cloud.
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Posted on 2017-06-22T06:28:54+0000
Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision
Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role. Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at..
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In other news, Chris Lattner is out within 6 months and the Tesla Press release sorta threw him under the bus.
I don't know this guy but to get to head such a role within 2 years of your PhD is impressive
Posted on 2017-06-21T05:45:54+0000
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
The company’s co-founder had been under increasing pressure, and several major investors demanded that he resign from the company immediately.
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Posted on 2017-06-21T05:35:38+0000
Internal Apple presentation on how to handle leaks gets leaked
The Outline recently obtained an hour-long audio recording from an internal briefing at Apple titled "Stopping Leakers - Keeping Confidential at Apple." The presentation, held for about 100 people,...
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Posted on 2017-06-20T20:46:52+0000
I moved my kids out of America. It was the best parenting decision I've ever made.
Living abroad has transformed my children — for the better
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Posted on 2017-06-20T15:21:39+0000
The worst volume control UI in the world – uxdesign.cc
A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can came up with the worst volume…
The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
UpGuard has discovered an open database containing information on what appear to be approximately 198 million American voters left misconfigured by a GOP analytics firm.
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Posted on 2017-06-20T04:57:56+0000
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