Collaborate Disseminate
Google Chrome is now the most widely used desktop browser. According to the latest figures from marketing and research firm Net Applications (which looked into data from over 40,000 websites), in April, Chrome captured 41.66 percent of the market, surp… Continue reading Chrome Overtakes Internet Explorer For Most Popular Desktop Browser
Reader mask.of.sanity writes: Users of popular audiophile torrent site What.CD can make themselves administrators to completely compromise the private music site and bypass its notorious download ratio limits thanks to the use of the mt_rand function f… Continue reading Audiophile Torrent Site What.CD Fully Pwnable Thanks To Wrecked RNG
An anonymous reader writes: It is no secret that machines have come to largely replace physical labor, and computers surpass human beings in processing data. But in the future, the development of artificial intelligence may render humans obsolete even … Continue reading With AI Getting Better at Cognitive Abilities, Humans Will Have Even Fewer Jobs
Scientists have discovered three Earth-sized planets that look ideally suited to search for signs of life beyond our solar system. A team of astronomers from MIT and the University of Liege detected three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star — jus… Continue reading Scientists Discover Three Potentially Habitable Planets
Founder of OwnCloud writes: In the era of nearly free cloud storage why on earth am I paying $15 a month per user (for Dropbox and Box). This seems absurd. As the founder of a cloud storage company I thought we could fix this. We combined OwnCloud whic… Continue reading Datto Launches Datto Drive For SMBs; Offers 1TB at $10 a Month For Unlimited Users
Joey-Elijah Sneddon, reporting for OMGUbuntu: You can expect to see a larger Ubuntu desktop installation image by the time the Yakkety Yak yips out. Developers are currently debating the exact size limits that official flavours will adhere to, with som… Continue reading Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has put an end to the years-long speculation about the creator of Bitcoin. In an interview with the BBC, The Economist (may have a paywall), and GQ, Wright claimed that he is indeed the person who developed the conc… Continue reading Craig Wright Claims He’s Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin
An anonymous reader writes: When The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites started accepting Bitcoin donations a few years ago, copyright holders voiced concerns about this new ‘unseizable’ revenue stream. Thus far, this fear seems unwarranted with TPB ra… Continue reading The Pirate Bay Gets a ‘Massive’ $9 in Donations Per Day
There’s no doubt that benchmark apps help you evaluate different aspects of a product, but do they paint a complete picture? Should we utterly rely on benchmark apps to assess the performance and quality of a product or service? Vlad Savov of The Verge… Continue reading Slashdot Asks: What’s Your View On Benchmark Apps?
New reader mjnhbg1088 cites an article on NPR: A small mammal has sabotaged the world’s most powerful scientific instrument. The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile superconducting machine designed to smash protons together at close to the speed of light,… Continue reading Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World’s Most Powerful Particle Collider