Tuesday, June 28, 2011

LulzSec Heads for the Hills, Anon Hacks On

LulzSec Heads for the Hills, Anon Hacks On

LulzSec Heads for the Hills, Anon Hacks On

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:54 AM PDT

The hacker group LulzSec has apparently decided to shut down operations and sail off into the sunset. Fellow hacker community Anonymous, with which LulzSec has teamed up, may take up where LulzSec left off. "We can confirm that all @LulzSec members have reported aboard," Anonymous tweeted. Anonymous vowed to continue Operation Anti-Security, the attack on government sites worldwide that it launched jointly with LulzSec June 19. However, the seemingly random hack attacks may not stop with LulzSec's apparent shutdown.

Google Axes Health Service Due to Feeble Response

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:28 AM PDT

Google announced Friday it will discontinue its Google Health service, a program launched three years ago to allow users to upload and store electronic health records in a central, online repository. The service was designed to provide users with an online database where they could manage personal medical records from home, saving costs and adding efficiencies. However, it apparently didn't generate the following Google hoped it would. The program will end on Jan 1, 2012, but users who have already downloaded medical documents by that time will have one more year.

New-Fangled Computer Chips Could Mimic Brain Synapses

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT

A recently published University of Exeter paper brings the possibility of achieving brain-like computing one step closer. The paper, published in Advanced Materials, states the result of a study that demonstrated for the first time the ability to simultaneously perform information and storage tasks using phase-change materials. The PCMs were used to reliably execute the four basic arithmetic functions -- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division -- and store information.

AMD, Google, Oracle, Harry Potter and Robopocalypse

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

OK, last week was a really interesting week. We had AMD basically divorcing itself from Intel's model after living under Intel's shadow from inception; we had Google repeating yet another of Microsoft's greatest mistakes; we had IBM repeat a famous political debate by basically saying Oracle wasn't an enterprise vendor anymore; and we had Harry Potter's author begin to kill off publishers and book stores. Each one of these is a major event and I couldn't choose between them, so I'm going to touch on all of them this week.

Wild Berries and Herbs HD: A Field Guide to the Delicious and the Deadly

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

When I was a kid, I spent quite a bit of time rambling around the local woods in the Pacific Northwest, and if you spend much time outdoors, you're bound to stumble upon wild berries. Some of the berries you'll find are bright, shiny, and altogether appealing ... but also potentially poisonous. We usually had no idea, and since our parents warned us of consequences, including immediate or slow and painful death, we generally avoided most all berries. Of course, we knew huckleberries on sight, and would always eat those.

The WebGL Battle in the Great Browser Wars

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Even on the sunniest, most peaceful days here in the Linux blogosphere, it's a pretty safe bet that the Great Browser Wars are still being waged somewhere, whether or not we can actually overhear the particular skirmish of the moment. Last week, however, the din of the battle roared loud enough for all to hear as Microsoft and Mozilla come to blows. There was Mozilla's declaration that it doesn't care about enterprise users, of course -- which Microsoft seized with glee as an opportunity to promote Internet Explorer.
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