The Jean-Yves Bordier Butter factory in France looks like a wonderful place to get lost in. Mind of a Chef toured the factory with chef Ludo Lefebvre, and just judging from Lefebvre’s pure joy in seeing all that butter get made, it seems like it’s heaven on Earth. Hell, even from just watching the video of the…
Source: Gizmodo – This Butter Factory Sure Looks Like Heaven
For his part in the “celebgate” celebrity hacking scandal, 29-year-old Chicago man Edward Majerczyk will be sentenced to nine months in federal prison. Last July, Majerczyk agreed to plead guilty to felony computer hacking charges, admitting that he…
Source: Engadget – Second ‘celebgate’ hacker sentenced to nine months in prison
Vampire shows are a constant on TV—but The Passage, a pilot just ordered by Fox, has some unusual elements lifting it above the pack. Behind the scenes, it has Liz Heldens (Friday Night Lights), Matt Reeves (Felicity, Cloverfield, War for the Planet of the Apes), and Ridley Scott (you know his credits). And its story…
Source: io9 – There’s Room for Yet Another Vampire TV Show if Ridley Scott Is Producing It
It’s a brave new world out there, but we don’t have to go quietly into 1984.
Source: TreeHugger – Flex your political activist muscles with these resources
Tesla has sued former Autopilot program manager Sterling Anderson, alleging that he stole company information and tried to recruit other employees to join a competing venture in collaboration with Chris Urmson, the former head of Google’s self-driving car project.
Source: Gizmodo – Tesla Alleges Former Autopilot Manager Stole Company Secrets In Lawsuit
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Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who says he invented e-mail, has already sued two different tech publications for writing about his controversial claims. Now he also wants posts that he believes are defamatory to be removed from at least one social media network.
Charles Harder, the attorney representing Ayyadurai, sent an e-mail on Tuesday to Diaspora, an open-source social network, demanding that three allegedly defamatory posts be removed. The posts were written by Roy Schestowitz, who also writes the blog Techrights.org.
“Schestowitz is engaged in harassment, character assassination and unlawful conduct against Dr. Ayyadurai, including falsely accusing him of being a ‘liar’ and a ‘fraud,’” writes Harder. He continues:
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Source: Ars Technica – Lawyer for “inventor of e-mail” sends threat letter over social media posts
Breach notification service LeakedSource may be permanently shut down after the owner of the site was raided earlier this week. “At the start of the new year, LeakedSource indexed more than 3 billion records,” reports CSO Online. “Their collection is the result of information sharing between a number of sources, including those who hacked the data themselves. Access to the full archive requires a membership fee.” From the report: On the OGFlip forum Thursday, a user posted vague details about the LeakedSource raid, but Salted Hash has been unable to verify the claims. The U.S. Department of Justice will not comment, refusing to confirm or deny any investigations related to LeakedSource. The operators of the notification service itself have been offline for several days, and the LeakedSource website stopped working late Tuesday evening. The message from OGF reads as follows: âoeLeakedsource is down forever and won’t be coming back. Owner raided early this morning. Wasn’t arrested, but all SSD’s got taken, and Leakedsource servers got subpoena’d and placed under federal investigation. If somehow he recovers from this and launches LS again, then I’ll be wrong. But I am not wrong. (sic)”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Breach Notification Website LeakedSource Allegedly Raided By Feds
If you’re looking to make a career change, or not sure what to strive for, job-search site Glassdoor has 50 recommendations for you to consider in 2017.
Source: LifeHacker – The 50 Best Jobs In 2017, According to Glassdoor
Source: Engadget – Chrome warns you when a shopping site isn’t secure
In its second quarter of its 2017 financial year, Microsoft posted revenue of $24.1 billion, up 1 percent year on year, with operating income of $6.0 billion, up 3 percent, net income of $5.0 billion, up 4 percent, and earnings per share of $0.62, up 6 percent.
As ever, Microsoft also offered alternative figures that book Windows 10 revenue up front instead of amortized over several years, and which hold exchange rates constant to remove the impact of rate fluctuations year-on-year (which gives some indication of year-to-year changes in actual sales transactions, if not of money in the bank). Using that regime for both this year and last, revenue was up 4 percent at $26.1 billion, operating income was up 8 percent at $8.2 billion, net income up was up 10 percent at $6.5 billion, end earnings per share were up 13 percent at $0.83.
Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition completed on December 8, 2016, with the company saying that this small contribution added $228 million in revenue, and losses of $201 million, $100 million, and $0.01, to operating income, net income, and earnings per share, respectively.
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Source: Ars Technica – Microsoft’s second quarter shows a surprise uptick in Windows revenue
The two weeks are up, and it’s time to put Taco Bell’s new fried chicken taco shell creation into our mouths, for science. Sometimes science is pretty awesome. Believe it or not, this is one of those times.
Source: Kotaku – Snacktaku Eats Taco Bell’s Surprisingly Tasty Naked Chicken Chalupa
Facebook now supports security keys, an additional two-factor authentication method. Such keys plug into a USB port and work like a literal key, only allowing access to the account when the key is inserted. That and more in today’s news.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: Facebook Now Supports USB Security Keys
For users of Scientific Linux, the 7.3 release is now available based off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3…
Source: Phoronix – Scientific Linux 7.3 Released
The FCC’s first action under new Chairman Ajit Pai will direct up to $170 million in federal funding to help ease the digital divide in New York State. The commission voted Thursday to approve the funds as part of the Connect America program, which i…
Source: Engadget – FCC approves 0 million for New York broadband rollout
Tesla has filed a lawsuit Thursday against its former director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson, for breach of contract. The company alleges Anderson took proprietary information about the Autopilot program and recruited fellow Tesla employees to work with him at another autonomous driving company. In addition, the lawsuit names the former head of Google’s autonomous car project, Chris Urmson, as a defendant, and alleges both executives were attempting to start a company together, called Aurora. CNBC reports: According to TechCrunch, Anderson had acted as Tesla’s director of Autopilot Programs for a little over a year. Tesla alleges that Anderson, while still a Tesla employee, pulled “hundreds of gigabytes” of proprietary data from company computers, and installed it on a personal hard drive. Tesla also alleges that Anderson tried to hide his tracks by wiping phones, deleting browser histories, permanently erasing computer files, and even manipulating time stamps on related files, “in an apparent effort to obscure the dates on which they had last been modified or accessed.” Tesla also alleges the pair attempted to poach at least 12 other Tesla employees, though they only successfully recruited two. “Automakers have created a get-rich-quick environment. Small teams of programmers with little more than demoware have been bought for as much as a billion dollars. Cruise Automation, a 40-person firm, was purchased by General Motors in July 2016 for nearly $1 billion. In August 2016, Uber acquired Otto, another self-driving startup that had been founded only seven months earlier, in a deal worth more than $680 million,” the company said in the suit.
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Source: Slashdot – Tesla Sues Former Autopilot Executive For Allegedly Stealing Secrets, Poaching Coworkers
Want to learn more about the cast of Rogue One before they became the fearless thieves of the Death Star plans? Well, good news: Disney is publishing two new novels for young audiences that will give insight into the lives of Jyn, Chirrut, and Baze before they became heroes of the Rebellion.
Source: io9 – Your Rogue One Faves Are Getting More Backstory In Two New Star Wars YA Novels
Artist Antoine Collignon wanted to “create a more mature version of D.Va”, and came up with this image of the Korean in her 30s, still fighting, albeit with an improved (and beat to hell) mech.
Source: Kotaku – When D.Va Is All Grown Up
Long sous vide cook times means evaporation, and low water levels can ruin your meal. You can retain all that moisture with this simple, reusable trick.
Source: LifeHacker – Float Ping Pong Balls On Top of a Sous Vide Bath to Prevent Evaporation
Source: Engadget – Alphabet’s moonshots are making more money, still aren’t profitable
Sex and sexuality isn’t one size fits all in real life. But in Fallout 2, there’s a literal formula that determines how good your character is at boning.
Source: Kotaku – Fallout 2 Had A Secret Sex Formula
