Collaborate Disseminate
mdsolar writes: A total of 32,760 workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant had an annual radiation dose exceeding 5 millisieverts as of the end of January, according to an analysis of Tokyo Electric Power Co. data. A reading of 5 millisieverts is o… Continue reading 32,000 Workers At Fukushima No. 1 Got High Radiation Dose, Tepco Data Show
Seattle software developer Saul Pwanson has a hobby of developing crossword puzzles, but another related hobby, too: analyzing the way that existing puzzles have been constructed. He created a database that aggregates puzzles that have appeared in vari… Continue reading Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism
MojoKid writes: The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge don’t officially launch for a few more days, but some carriers appear to have shipped pre-orders early and some phones are already in consumers’ hands. One early Galaxy S7 Edge owner appears to have tes… Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S7’s Moisture Warning Prevents Charging When Wet
An anonymous reader writes: After almost a year of development, bug fixing and cleanup, BorgBackup 1.0.0 has been released. BorgBackup is a fork of the Attic-Backup project — a deduplicating, compressing, encrypting and authenticating backup prog… Continue reading BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes that a WordPress plugin for managing custom post types has apparently been forcibly taken over by an Indian developer who has added a backdoor to the code which lets him install files on infected sites. “This backdoor also al… Continue reading WordPress Plugin Comes With a Backdoor, Steals Admin Credentials In Cleartext
Zothecula writes: 3D printers have opened up all kinds of possibilities when it comes to turning digital blueprints into real word objects, but might they also enable new ways to pilfer intellectual property? Amid all that mechanical whirring, these ma… Continue reading Eavesdropping On 3D Printers Allows Reverse Engineering of Designs
1sockchuck writes: As the Open Compute Project turns five, it is growing beyond its roots in hyperscale data centers. The path to a larger market ran through a Rackspace data center in northern Virginia, where the open source servers and racks- which w… Continue reading Open Compute Hardware Makes Its Way Into Colo Data Centers
mdsolar writes: A group of engineers in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission say they have identified a design flaw in nearly all nuclear reactors in the country that should result in their mandatory shutdown unless operators fix the problem, Reuters… Continue reading NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed
Vigile writes: Microsoft has big plans to try and merge the experiences of the Xbox One and Windows for gaming but the push back from the community and from major developers and personalities is mounting. Earlier this week PC Perspective posted a story… Continue reading Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming
New submitter Kurast writes with this article at Boing Boing: Code is speech: critical court rulings from the early history of the Electronic Frontier Foundation held that code was a form of expressive speech, protected by the First Amendment. The EFF … Continue reading EFF On Why FBI Can’t Force Apple To Sign Code