Month: March 2017

WikiLeaks reveals how CIA hacks YOUR phones, TVs

WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America’s premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance. WikiLeaks says: The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell’s 1984, but ‘Weeping Angel;, developed by the CIA’s Embedded Devices Branch, which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realization.

Brainy schoolgirls make engineering shortlist

Rachel Barham and Issy George, both 15, and pupils at Portsmouth High School have been short-listed for the Talent 2030 National Schools Engineering Competition for Girls. Now it will be showcased at the Big Bang Fair at the NEC in Birmingham on March 18 when prizes will be dished out.

Love Beer? You Can Thank Women For That

Somehow, the world went on for thousands of years falsely believing men were the inventors of one of the most important contributions in history. Well, the cat is finally out of the bag: women invented beer, people! POPSUGAR, the #1 independent media and technology company for women.

US Senate resolution aims to roll back privacy rules for ISPs

A resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday aims to roll back privacy rules for broadband service providers that were approved by the Federal Communications Commission in October. The rules include the requirement that internet service providers like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon should obtain “opt-in” consent from consumers to use and share sensitive personal information such as geolocation and web browsing history, and also give customers the option to opt out from the sharing of non-sensitive information such as email addresses or service tier information.

Associate Director, Engineering

Reporting to the Director, Engineering and Facility Services, this position directs and coordinates activities of the engineering department and contract services to operate and maintain all power plant and related facility, mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems ensuring the highest level of efficiency and reliability. Direct activities in preventative maintenance, operation and upgrades of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life safety and vertical circulation systems to maximize the provision of these services in an efficient, cost-effective and code compliant manner.

Finding power in nuclear medicine

Doctor Tian Mei stands next to a PET-CT scanner at Zhejiang University Medical PET Center. [Photo provided to China Daily] Seeing a new major that combines medicine and physics on the syllabus in the 1990s was a tipping point for then-medical graduate Tian Mei.

Wikileaksa release of secret CIA files seen as a very, very damaginga

WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features intended to keep the private information of citizens and corporations safe from prying eyes.

Product Analyst at Showtime Networks Inc.Showtime Networks Inc. – New York, NY, United States

SHOWTIME and its critically-acclaimed, award-winning original series continue to make their mark on the cultural landscape, with one of the most successful programming lineups in all of television. The SHOWTIME programming slate has made the network among the most talked about in the business, with hits that have included HOMELAND, SHAMELESS, BILLIONS, RAY DONOVAN, THE AFFAIR, DICE, the upcoming series I’M DYING UP HERE , the limited series GUERRILLA and PURITY , and the highly anticipated return of TWIN PEAKS .

Robert Coover–fiction writer 8/26/96 –1– loucks

Author Robert Coover, who famously declared “The End of Books” in an influential 1992 essay published in The New York Times, stepped to the podium not with an iPad or e-reader but with a sheaf of pages. At the Jan. 31 Writers Institute event, the father of hypertext and metafiction read from his new novel, “Huck Out West,” from honest-to-God ink pressed into dead trees.

Exploring Titan with Balloons and Landers

Last week – from Monday, February 27th to Wednesday, March 1st – NASA hosted the ” Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop ” at their headquarters in Washington, DC. In the course of the many presentations, speeches and panel discussions, NASA’s shared its many plans for the future of space exploration with the international community.

Microsoft Adds ‘BigInt’ Data Type Support to Access 2016

“When creating new local tables or editing existing ones, Access now allows users to add fields that store BigInt numbers.” The upgrade, which adds a Large Number option to the Click to Add menu used when adding a new field to local tables, opens up new possibilities, allowing users to work with SQL data and other external data sources that use BigInt.

Making coding fun with game-based code kit

The concept is simple: Build games. Learn to code. Students will learn the foundations of coding & engineering by building hands-on games with electronic building blocks and coding them using block programming based on Google’s Blockly on the littleBits Code Kit app.

The Wall Street Journal: WikiLeaks release likely to drive deeper wedge between spies, tech companies

The release of documents that purportedly describe hacking of consumer gadgets by the Central Intelligence Agency fueled new concern in the technology industry that U.S. intelligence agencies are working at odds with tech companies. WikiLeaks said the 8,761 documents and files it made public Tuesday describe techniques the CIA uses to circumvent the security of dozens of products, including mobile phones from Apple Inc. If accurate, the documents could point to new security weaknesses for the products and their customers – although some experts on Tuesday said the techniques described in the documents don’t appear especially sophisticated.

Q&A-What do I need to know about the CIA’s hacking program?

WikiLeaks, the website that specializes in exposing secrets, on Tuesday released what it said were thousands of documents that described internal U.S. Central Intelligence Agency discussions on hacking techniques it has used to circumvent security on electronic devices for spying. Reuters could not immediately verify the contents of the published documents.

WikiLeaks claims to have CIA hacking war chest

WikiLeaks says the archive appears to have been circulated among former government hackers and contractors, one of whom provided WikiLeaks with portions of it. The website says the CIA hacking division involved “more than 5,000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other ‘weaponized’ malware.”

The Latest: House intel chair ‘concerned’ about WikiLeaks

The Latest on the publication by WikiLeaks of what it described as thousands of pages of confidential files about CIA hacking activities : The chairman of the House intelligence committee says he is “extremely concerned” about WikiLeaks’ release of documents it says came from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., also has had no comment on the release.

College For Every Student Connects Rural Students to STEM Learning Experiences and Career Resources

Students at the CFES Center participate in a robotics workshop led by faculty and cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point CFES STEM week offers opportunities for over two thousand rural students from Adirondack K-12 schools to see what STEM careers are and hear how to pursue them on the college pathway.” ESSEX, N.Y., UNITED STATES, March 7, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Throughout last week, College For Every Student connected rural students to a series of learning experiences and career resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics .

WikiLeaks reveals CIA trove alleging wide-scale hacking

WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features intended to keep the private information of citizens and corporations safe from prying eyes.

WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents about – secret CIA hacking tools’

WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the US government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs. The documents describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features intended to keep the private information of citizens and corporations safe from prying eyes.

The Latest: WikiLeaks claims Samsung TVs enable surveillance

The Latest on the publication by WikiLeaks of what it described as thousands of pages of confidential files about CIA hacking activities : Samsung smart TVs have microphones so viewers can make voice commands, such as requests for movie recommendations. The commands typically aren’t transmitted outside the home unless users activate the feature.

Twitch Gets Facebook-Like Social Feed

Can’t stop watching someone’s Twitch streams? The game-streaming platform is making it easier for you to engage with that person, instead of just lurking like a creeper. Twitch on Monday launched Pulse , a Facebook-like social feed that lets broadcasters and viewers interact.

Research: Cloud Impacts ‘Data Management Solutions for Analytics’

The latest Gartner Inc. report about the “Data Management Solutions for Analytics” market is still dominated by big, traditional vendors with on-premises legacy-like solutions, but cloud computing companies are making disruptive headway. In the for-pay ” Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics ” report, cloud vendors figure prominently and are “gaining traction,” according to Gartner.

CSUN Launches First VARJAM Event

Will Goldstein, second-year electronic media management major, tests out the Google Tilt Brush Virtual Reality game streaming on a Steam VR system as multimedia student assistant, Jared Berman, monitors the game play. Photo by David J. Hawkins.

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Names Tony Pan and Max Mankin 2016 Strauss Award Winners

March 7, 2017 – The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering America’s most brilliant scientific minds, today announced Tony Pan and Max Mankin as the 2016 Strauss Award winners. Pan and Mankin were nominated by Hertz Fellows Dr. Dan Goodman and Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, and were ultimately selected for the tremendous work they have done to revolutionize electric power generation and their effort to find a solution to an issue that impacts everyone around the globe: energy consumption.