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• Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin?

  26-11-2017 23:24 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes CryptoCoinsNews:
  It should be no surprise that the elusive hunt for Satoshi, often referred to as the father of Bitcoin, has led to the theory that Elon Musk has been hiding a big secret from all of us. Sahil Gupta, a computer science student at Yale University and former intern at SpaceX, believes just this... Bitcoin was written by someone with mastery of C++, a language Musk has utilized heavily at SpaceX. Musk's 2013 Hyperloop paper also provided insight into his d
  
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• FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers

  26-11-2017 22:19 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes the AP:
  The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin's crosshairs, The Associated Press has found. Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned cyberespionage group, turned up only two cases in which the FBI had provided a heads-up. Even senior policymakers discover
  
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• Motorola Ad Mocks Samsung Ad Mocking Apple

  26-11-2017 21:14 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes BGR:
  A few days after the iPhone X launched in stores, Samsung came out with an anti-iPhone campaign... I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that, but it sure looks like the iPhone X is a pretty scary device to fight against. But what probably nobody saw coming is Motorola trolling Samsung with an ad of its own... The "Up-upgrade to Motorola" ad offers the alternate ending to Samsung's ad, as Motorola explains on its Facebook page... Motorola
  
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• Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away

  26-11-2017 20:09 via rss.slashdot.org
  "Computer pioneer Geoff Tootill passed away in October," writes long-time Slashdot reader tigersha. Born in 1922, Tootill began his career troubleshooting airborne radar systems during World War II, leading him to some pioneering research in the late 1940s. "He worked on the first computer that stored a program in main memory, as opposed to a paper tape, and actually had the opportunity to teach Alan Turing and debug one of Turing's programs." The Guardian remembers:
  The computer could store jus
  
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• Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker

  26-11-2017 19:09 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
  A young Russian alleged to have masterminded a massive hacking of social networks including LinkedIn and Dropbox is now at the center of an extradition struggle between the United States and Russia. Yevgeniy Nikulin was detained in October 2016, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, after US authorities issued an international arrest warrant for him. He was on vacation there with his girlfriend. A grand jury indictment filed in 2016 in California charges him wi
  
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• Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million

  26-11-2017 18:04 via rss.slashdot.org
  schwit1 tells us that "Robby the Robot" -- a prop from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet -- has just been auctioned for $5.3 million, making it the second most-expensive movie prop in history. New Atlas reports:
  The complete Robby suit, control panel, his jeep, numerous spares, alternate original "claw" hands, and the original wooden stage shipping crates, were sold Tuesday by Bonhams in New York for US $5,375,000 including buyers premium. The only purpose-built movie prop to have ever sold for mo
  
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• Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That?

  26-11-2017 16:59 via rss.slashdot.org
  jespada writes:
  New York Times has an article warning that the Patent Appeal and Trial Board is being challenged on the basis that patents represent real property and that a government agency is not empowered to take real property.
  Here's a quotes from the Times article. (Non-paywalled version here):
  In the five years since it began its work -- a result of the America Invents Act of 2011 -- the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has saved companies more than $2 billion in legal fees alone, according
  
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• There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab

  26-11-2017 15:54 via rss.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader overheardinpdx shares a video from the SC17 supercomputing conference where Bruce Tulloch from BitScope "describes a low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that Los Alamos National Lab is using to simulate large-scale supercomputers." Slashdot reader mspohr describes them as "five rack-mount Bitscope Cluster Modules, each with 150 Raspberry Pi boards with integrated network switches."With each of the 750 chips packing four cores, it offers a 3,000-core highly parallelizable platform that e
  
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• Dell U3818DW Curved Monitor Review

  26-11-2017 15:00
  
  Curved ultra-wide monitors aren’t just for gamers; professionals can enjoy them too. Today we’re checking out Dell’s U3818DW.
  
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• Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality'

  26-11-2017 12:49 via rss.slashdot.org
  Robert Cringely has a plan to ensure that internet providers will never profit from the end of net neutrality:
  We are being depended upon to act like sheep -- Internet browsing sheep, if such exist -- and without a plan that's exactly what we'll be. The key to my plan is that this is a rare instance where consumers are not alone. There are just as many or more huge companies that would prefer to keep Net Neutrality as those that oppose it... Those companies in favor of Net Neutrality obviously i
  
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• Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired

  26-11-2017 09:44 via rss.slashdot.org
  Wired's senior staff writer David Pierce says Firefox Quantum "feels like a bunch of power users got together and built a browser that fixed all the little things that annoyed them about other browsers."
  The new Firefox actually manages to evolve the entire browser experience, recognizing the multi-device, ultra-mobile lives we all lead and building a browser that plays along. It's a browser built with privacy in mind, automatically stopping invisible trackers and making your history available t
  
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• Yesterday Americans Spent $5 Billion Online

  26-11-2017 05:39 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes CNN Money:
  Black Friday 2017 was all about digital sales. American shoppers spent a record $5 billion in 24 hours. That marks a 16.9% increase in dollars spent online compared with Black Friday 2016, according to data from Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks 80% of online spending at America's 100 largest retail websites... Meanwhile, malls and big-box retailers were left only slightly emptier. Early estimates from ShopperTrak, a data analytics company that measures t
  
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• Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Are Surging Again

  26-11-2017 03:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
  Bitcoin is getting a Black Friday boost. The digital currency climbed above $8,700 to a record high Saturday following increased investor interest around the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday shopping. Bitcoin rose more than 6 percent to a record high of $8,725.13, according to CoinDesk, trading around $8,674 midday on Saturday. [Bitcoin passed $8,000 for the first time just six days earlier]. Another digital currency, ethereum, also hit an all-time high
  
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• ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Professional Gaming i7 Review

  26-11-2017 03:00
  
  ASRock improves upon the Taichi's performance with the Gaming i7, but is the price increase worth it?
  
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• After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them

  26-11-2017 01:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes BuzzFeed:
  In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com, arguing that the billionaire has been unfairly excluded from bidding for the assets of the defunct news website... Whoever ends up buying the site will also buy its archives, which are still up, and will have the right to do with them what they want, including delete them. In the filing, Thiel's lawyers allege that
  
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• Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology?

  26-11-2017 00:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  "Tesla's newest promises break the laws of batteries," writes Bloomberg. Long-time Slashdot reader rudy_wayne summarizes their report."Elon Musk knows how to make promises. Even by his own standards, the promises made last week while introducing two new Tesla vehicles...are monuments of envelope pushing. To deliver, according to close observers of battery technology, Tesla would have to far exceed what is currently thought possible." The Tesla Semi, which Musk claims can haul 80,000 pounds at hi
  
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