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A Big Data Rescue Mission for Sandy Storm Survivors
The East coast has been drenched with “Frakenstorm” Hurricane Sandy and once again this highlights how social media and Big Data come to the front with any large scale human event—we’ve seen Big Data put to use for disaster prediction and prevention, as well as social media projects rise out of citizen journalism during Sandy; ...
Forget SOPA, Russia Activates Web Censorship Blacklist Law
Wednesday, the Russian parliament unanimously adopted a controversial bill that would give them a tremendous amount of control over the Internet. Not so ironically, Wednesday was also October 31st—Halloween—the day of the year that the horrors, specters, and ghouls walk the land (in costume) and in this fashion, Russia managed to costume up SOPA and ...
Instagramming in Hurricane Sandy’s Wake: Postcards from the Windy Edge
Hurricane Sandy is a very human event and humans are inventing ways to better represent the experience of living through a storm. Mobile Photo Group has released a live curated feed of the #hurricanesandy Instagram tag, as well as plotted together images of the storm’s damage. Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing writes about this and it’s ...
#HurricaneHackers is Here to Organize Technology and Social Media Projects Related to Sandy
Right now, Hurricane Sandy is chewing on the East coast and the weather service is in a frenzy to get all its predictors in a row and even Google is getting in on this with an interactive crisis map. Everyday citizens and very smart technical geeks are also in the path of this upcoming “Frakenstorm” ...
Hurricane Sandy and the Big Data of Disaster Prediction
The science of meteorology is a game of numerous big numbers, a great deal of data from myriad sources, and historical regressive analysis of past events to understand the future. Right now, the East Coast is looking at a storm that has been seen before and NASA is using satellites to track it—Hurricane Sandy is ...
PlayStation 3 Low Level Decryption Codes Leaked, Console Hackers Descend
PlayStation 3 security isn’t what it used to be—or perhaps it’s never been so great, it’s just taken the hacker community to catch up with it. This isn’t the first time that the PS3 has been hacked, the first was a jailbreak technique, but Sony managed to defeat that with a firmware update. This time, ...
IBM Getting Smart on Big Data Security, Appoints Christina Peters as Chief Privacy Officer
IBM announced the new appointment of the top management of the company–Christina Peters was promoted to Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and will lead a team of lawyers, experts in data security and technical staff who are engaged in policies and practices of protection of personal data of more than 400 thousand employees and hundreds of thousands ...
Telerik Unveils the Cloudy Side of Mobile Development with Icenium Tools
The folks over at Telerik have been busy, today the end-to-end mobile software application developers have announced the industry first Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE). Known as Icenium, this platform will introduce a new way for developers to produce applications that fully use the cloud in all its glory to produce, update, and maintain software across ...
Ubuntu Has the Juju in the Open Source, ARM DevOps Revolution for Cloud and Big Data
The open source community seems like a very likely place for a great deal of DevOps breakthroughs to rise out of, after all many of the products that live in that community address individuals who wear many hats: developers, system administrators, technology officers. Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux flavor Ubuntu, has been working ...
Malware Problem on the Rise, Hospitals Suffer “Rampant” Infections
With the proliferation of highly computerized and networked systems for healthcare, it’s not unexpected that they’re opening themselves up to new vectors for invasion of privacy—including the automated type presented by malware. Worse, medical information is confidential and valuable to bad people, not to mention that malware on sensitive medical equipment could lead to serious ...
