The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
As Americans approach Election Year 2016, the crisis of misinformation is growing more and more dangerous. On issues from foreign policy to the economy, almost none of the candidates in the race appears to be addressing the real world.
In a rational world, Saudi Arabia would be viewed as a major part of the problem, not part of any solution.
German code-breakers expose huge credit card flaw, companies continue keeping silent
“Previous attacks exploit software bugs, like you would have on your computer. Ones that can be fixed with a software update,” renowned German code-breaker Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Berlin told RT’s Peter Oliver. “Now, what we’re attacking is the protocol itself. The devices work exactly as intended and are still vulnerable. So this is a risk that cannot easily be fixed with a patch.“
This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it's needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers…
HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web
HTTP is broken. It's time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS fundamentally changes the way we look for things, and this is it's key feature. With HTTP, you search for locations. With IPFS, you search for content. IPFS is still in Alpha release, but you can find out more here
Competing Billion-Dollar Tech Companies Are Joining Forces. Here's Why.
The combination of open innovation and accelerated computing represents one of this decade’s most important technology trends. It’s transforming the concept of the closed-off supercomputer to a more diverse open architecture. As a result, companies that haven’t worked together before—and that may, in fact, be competitors—are collaborating together on groundbreaking projects.
Continue reading “Robert James Beckett: IBM's OpenPower — Wrong Thing Righter?”
The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’
Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore.
The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of mine, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom Marsh, who had just led a national commission looking at cyber vulnerabilities. Tom came to my office to summarize the findings and used the Pearl Harbor metaphor.
Has Twitter finally killed the mess of the false online review?
A business has built up around false online reviews where people offer to post reviews for money. But an increasing clampdown from regulators and new apps that analyse real-time social media are finally bringing such practices to an end, says Monty Munford
