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Twitter Scapegoat?
Blaine Cook, lead architect at red-hot, sometimes-down Twitter, has left the company. Blaine describes his departure at an “amicable” one.
I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth, and I’m looking forward to a new challenge after nearly [...]
The IMAGINATION Project: Picture-based CAPTCHAs
“Researchers at Penn State have developed a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA technology for next-generation computer authentication. A user is asked to pass two tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite image, and (2) annotate an image using a word selected from a list. These images shown to the users have fake colors, textures, and edges, based on a sequence of randomly-generated parameters. Computer vision and recognition algorithms, such as alipr, rely on original colors, textures, and shapes in order to interpret the semantic content of an image. Because of the endowed power of imagination, even without the correct color, texture, and shape information, humans can still pass the tests with ease. Until computers can ‘imagine’ what is missing from an image, robotic programs will be unable to pass these tests. The system is called IMAGINATION and you can try it out.”
iGoogle transmogrifies into a Social Network
Google has long used its personalized homepage, iGoogle, as a launching point for its foray into social-networking applications. Any developer who builds an OpenSocial app, for instance, can make it work as a widget (er, gadget) on iGoogle. So far, it’s been more of a personal home page. But now iGoogle is taking another step towards becoming a full-fledged social network in its own right.
The World Of Warcraft Keyboard, If Your Serious About You are Game Play
If you ask people if they know any online game, chances are the first name they come up with is World of Warcraft. Even if these people never play online games most of the time they ll come up with that name. That s not so strange if you consider the number of people playing [...]
RSA finds new malware enhanced phishing technique
RSA said Monday that it discovered a new phishing technique that uses elements of a malware attack to swipe personal information.
The discovery illustrates a series of attacks from the Rock Phish group, which is a gang reportedly based in Russia that has been targeting financial institutions since 2004.
Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion: Standish Group
“Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies,” said Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group International,
$549 Eee PC 900 to hit US on May 12th
RedHat giving out statements of un-profitability and un-viability of Linux for Desktop has not been the end of the world. This has reinforced the determination of some of the other players! Check this out - $549 Eee PC 900 is ready to hit the US market on May 12 ($549 is the list price for the new ultralight notebook).
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Release Candidate Released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed “Hardy Heron”, 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Microsoft’s Ozzie Talks Open Source, Mesh
Microsoft has “dramatically” changed because of open-source software, the company’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft’s mesh concept and the importance of virtualization.
Police use Facebook for crime reporting
Police use Facebook for crime reporting
