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Air Gap Vulnerability | TTT 256

chris — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:05:05 +0000

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Put2Go: Car Mount with Wireless Charging, Ultra Convenient by Put2Go.com — Kickstarter

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Drone Shipping Wars | TTT 221

chris — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:07:58 +0000

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CISA is working its way through the system, we highlight some reasons to be concerned & the role Facebook might be playing. Plus the European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality & some TalkTalk hack follow up.

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TalkTalking about Glucosio | TTT 220

chris — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:24:42 +0000

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TalkTalk Telecom has been hacked, but don’t blame them. They say it’s simply the crime of our time. We discuss this embarrassing hack, their response, who is impacted & how legitimate their excuse is.

Benjamin Kerensa joins us to discuss the ambitious new project Glucosio, it’s exciting goals & the open source model that enables it.

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Glucosio

User centered free and open source apps for diabetes management and research

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eora 3D | High-Precision 3D Scanning on Your Smartphone by eora 3D — Kickstarter

Green lasers are cool, especially when they turn your smartphone into a highly accurate and affordable 3D scanner.

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Happy Little Accidents | TTT 205

chris — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:34:46 +0000

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Freshly back from LinuxCon we update you on the stories of the day, the big players pushing Flash out the door & how forgetful scientists accidentally quadruple lithium-ion battery lifespan.

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Hostile Music Takeover | Tech Talk Today 166

chris — Tue, 05 May 2015 10:52:28 +0000

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Apple is reportedly attempting to kill free streaming music but the story stinks of a hit piece. GOG launches their steam competitor to the public & CoreOS ups the container game.

Plus Chris reviews Hello’s Sense sleep tracking device. Can it unlock the secrets of a good sleep?

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Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations

A presumed pirate with an unusually large appetite for activating Windows 7 has incurred the wrath of Microsoft. In a lawsuit filed in a Washington court, Microsoft said that it logged hundreds of suspicious product activations from a single Verizon IP address and is now seeking damages. Who he, she or they are behind address 74.111.202.30 is unknown at this point, but according to Microsoft they’re responsible for some serious Windows pirating. “As part of its cyberforensic methods, Microsoft analyzes product key activation data voluntarily provided by users when they activate Microsoft software, including the IP address from which a given product key is activated,” the lawsuit reads. The company says that its forensic tools allow the company to analyze billions of activations of software and identify patterns “that make it more likely than not” that an IP address associated with activations is one through which pirated software is being activated.

GOG’s Take On Steam Goes Live Today

GOG Galaxy, which you can download here, is now in open beta. Like Steam, Origin, and other PC gaming clients, it’s a stand-alone program with its own achievements, friend lists, and massively restrictive DRM. Just kidding. Anyone who follows the people behind GOG—a subsidiary of _Witcher 3 _developer CD Projekt Red—knows they’re as anti-DRM as it gets.

CoreOS Gives Up Control of Non-Docker Linux Container Standard | Data Center Knowledge

Taking a major step forward in its quest to drive a Linux container standard that’s not created and controlled by Docker or any other company, CoreOS spun off management of its App Container project into a stand-alone foundation. Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera have announced support for the standard.

Becoming a more formalized open source project, the App Container (appc) community now has a governance policy and has added a trio of top software engineers that work on infrastructure at Google, Twitter, and Red Hat as “community maintainers.

Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch

The Verge has learned that Apple has been pushing major music labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers, which will dramatically reduce the competition for Apple’s upcoming offering. DOJ officials have already interviewed high-ranking music industry executives about Apple’s business habits, but it appears the FTC has taken the lead in recent weeks.

Hello Sense Reveiw

Sense is a simple system that tracks your sleep, monitors the environment in your bedroom and reinvents the alarm, so you can sleep better.

Sense tracks the environmental data in your bedroom and disturbances such as noise and sound. Sense combines this data with your sleep cycle information to give you a complete picture of your night.

With all this information clearly presented to you, over time you will know how to set yourself up for the best night’s sleep, every night.

Sleep as Android – Android Apps on Google Play

Smart alarm clock with sleep cycle tracking.

LG G Watch R – Was $299, now $249 – Google Store

The stunning full-circle P-OLED display fills the entire round 1.3″ watch face and delivers clear visibility in bright sunlight and at acute angles.¹

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IPv6 The Road Never Taken | Tech Talk Today 160

chris — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:17:06 +0000

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Chris and Noah argue over the practicality of IPv6 & if it will ever take off. Plus the big player that just got into Cyber security, Stingray’s big Baltimore outing & the big Google algorithm change this week.

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Raytheon to Plow $1.7 Billion Into New Cyber Venture

Raytheon Co. RTN 0.89% is betting it can leverage the cybersecurity skills it honed for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to sell to banks and retailers, investing almost $1.7 billion to establish a stand-alone business in an area where its defense peers have struggled to make money.

The company on Monday said it would buy control of Websense Inc. from private-equity firm Vista Partners LLC. Raytheon said Austin, Texas-based Websense, which has 21,000 data-security clients, half of them overseas, will form the core of a new cyber joint venture with forecast sales of $500 million this year and margins of around 20%.

Baltimore Police Used Stingrays For Phone Tracking Over 25,000 Times

The Baltimore Police Department is starting to come clean about its use of cell-phone signal interceptors — commonly known as Stingrays — and the numbers are alarming. According to recent court testimony reported by The Baltimore Sun, the city’s police have used Stingray devices with a court order more than 25,000 times. It’s a massive number, representing an average of nearly nine uses a day for eight years (the BPD acquired the technology in 2007), and it doesn’t include any emergency uses of the device, which would have proceeded without a court order.

Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled

The writing’s on the wall about the short supply of IPv4 addresses, and IPv6 has been around since 1999. Then why does the new protocol still make up just a fraction of the Internet? Though IPv6 is finished technology that works, rolling it out may be either a simple process or a complicated and risky one, depending on what role you play on the Internet. And the rewards for doing so aren’t always obvious. For one thing, making your site or service available via IPv6 only helps the relatively small number of users who are already set up with the protocol, creating a nagging chicken-and-egg problem.

Big Google algorithm change this week will usher in a new mobile era

The change has been a long time coming — Google first announced it back in November — but starting Tuesday, companies that haven’t made the switch will start feeling the hit in Google’s search results. The changes will favor sites that avoid technologies like Flash that don’t work on phones, have layouts that automatically scale so that users don’t have to scroll side-to-side or zoom, and have links placed far enough apart that they can be easily tapped with a finger.

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Importance of Meetups | WTR 21

chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:20:23 +0000

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Caterina Paun is a front end developer and a product consultant. She stresses the importance of meetups and networking for getting into the technology field.

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The Forced Touchables | Tech Talk Today 155

chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:57:52 +0000

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Apple Watch reviews are hitting the web & we’ll give you a quick meta-roundup of the Internet’s opinion of Apple’s new wearable.

Plus the Android App that truly saves battery life, Popcorn Time expands & more!

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Apple Watch Review Roundup: The ‘World’s Best Smartwatch’, But ‘Not For Everyone’

Apple has given members of the media several hands-on experiences with the Apple Watch following its special events, but ahead of Apple Watch pre-orders, select sites have been able to get a much closer look at the device. Apple has provided a handful of publications with Apple Watch review units, giving them a chance to spend multiple days with the watch, and they’ve now shared their opinions in reviews published today.

Stop Android Lollipop from killing your battery – TechRepublic

I was wrong. As is the case with many upgrades, I quickly ran into a troubling side effect: significant battery issues.

Greenify

Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery, in an unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground, similar to iOS apps!

Popcorn Time’s Launched on iOS

While Popcorn Time has been available on Android for some time, it’s now arrived on iOS with an installer that can put the app on non-jailbroken devices. It’s likely that it uses a test key from an enterprise device to achieve that.

The new development could cause serious headaches for both Apple and legal streaming services like Netflix. In fact, Netflix itself singled out Popcorn Time as a serious competitor in a shareholder letter earlier this year.

Heartbleed One Year Later: Has Anything Changed? – Slashdot

It was on April 7, 2014 that the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability titled “TLS heartbeat read overrun” in OpenSSL was first publicly disclosed — but to many its a bug known simply as Heartbleed. A new report from certificate vendor Venafi claims that 76% of organizations are still at risk, though it’s a statistic that is contested by other vendors as well as other statistics. Qualys’ SSL Pulse claims that only 0.3 percent of sites are still at risk. Whatever the risk is today, the bottom line is that Heartbleed did change the security conversation — but did it change it for the better or the worse?

@ChrisLAS got my shirts today! pic.twitter.com/LYRQDjrjgU

— Erik (@Erikwas) April 7, 2015

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Bitcoin Trolls | Tech Talk Today 63

chris — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:53:57 +0000

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Steam rolls out a big overhaul that leaves us quite impressed, the FTC goes after Butterfly Labs for scamming their customers, and Chris shares his personal story.

Plus the bugs biting iOS 8 users, 4k TV gets cheaper & much more!

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Steam Is Getting A Massive Overhaul

The revision—which Valve is calling the Steam Discovery Update and which goes live today—will implement a number of big changes including a revamped recommendations system, a queue in which you can swipe through new games based on what you’ve played and liked before, and a new program called Steam Curators that will allow anyone to take the role of tastemaker, recommending games to the public and accumulating followers based on their tastes.

We have made great efforts to increase the number of titles we can publish on Steam, which means more choices for customers,” Valve UI designer Alden Kroll said in a press release. “This update introduces multiple features and functionality to help customers explore Steam’s growing catalog and find the games they are most interested in playing.”

iOS 8 Users Report Slow Wi-Fi, Battery Drains | News & Opinion

“Wi-Fi problems on iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display and iPhone 5S after upgrading to iOS 8,” an Apple user wrote in a Saturday post on the Apple forums. “I am thinking about going back to my iPad 2 with iOS 7.1.2 that is working perfectly until the Wi-Fi issues are resolved.”

Wi-Fi woes were not the only thing plaguing iOS 8 users. Others reported battery-drain issues. “My battery drains very fast (100 percent to zero in about 4 hours with minimal usage), started happening right after I upgraded to iOS 8. Issue started happening both on my iPhone 5S and on my iPad Air after iOS 8 upgrade,” one user wrote.

Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception” | Ars Technica

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil lawsuit against Butterfly Labs (BFL), an embattled Kansas-based Bitcoin miner manufacturer. The FTC alleges that the company engaged in fraudulent and deceptive practices.

Federal authorities believe that the three named members of the company’s board of directors—Jody Drake (aka Darla Drake), Nasser Ghoseiri, and Sonny Vleisides—spent millions of corporate revenue on all kinds of things, including saunas and guns, while ignoring many customer orders that went unfulfilled or were significantly delayed.

“The FTC alleges that one corporate defendants and three individual defendants have taken in over $50 million by operating a scheme that required consumers to pre-pay for machines that would allow consumers to ‘mine’ for Bitcoins, a new virtual currency,” the complaint states. “Defendants either never delivered these machines or delivered them so late that they became obsolete.”

Vizio takes 4K mainstream with launch of $999.99 P-Series TV | The Verge

Vizio has just announced that the P-Series 4K LED HDTV line we first saw way back at CES is now available. And it starts at only $999.99 for the 50-inch model,

4K content is getting easier to come by, too; Netflix is still your primary source, but its catalog is growing (albeit slowly) and Amazon plans to offer 4K video later this year. Both of those apps can be streamed on the P-Series. The main takeaway is this: 4K TVs aren’t new, but Vizio is here now. And when a $999 4K TV has floor space at Walmart, that’s (hopefully) going to push companies to move even faster in getting 4K movies and TV shows out there.

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