One of the better, understandable, but still technical, explanations of why the encrypted password list of 38 million users being out in the open is such a disaster. Anatomy of a password disaster – Adobe’s giant-sized cryptographic blunder | Naked Security.
This biological microcomputer sprang from the mind of Drew Endy, PhD, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford. In three scientific papers released over a 13-month span in 2012 and 2013, Endy and a team of researchers from his lab showed how they used ordinary genetic engineering techniques to turn the bacterium E. coli — Read more about Microbe computers – Biological computers in living cells[…]
A Melbourne security professional has sent ear-piercing ‘garbage’ tunes to the top of online music charts by spoofing track plays. Despite that Peter Filimore (@typhoonfilsy) has never played an instrument, in a month he accrued hundreds of thousands of plays for his tunes hosted in online music charts, trumping artists like P!nk, Nicki Minaj, Flume Read more about Hacker uses bots to top music charts, earn royalties without being able to make music[…]
So does the British Phonography Industry RIAA Uses Pirated Code on Its Website Because of Course It Does.
Turns out DIY wifi extenders really do work! Fact or fiction: What affects Wi-Fi speed? | Macworld.
Of the 150,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy snapped by the NASA probe in the past three years, more than 3,000 planets have been identified. Scientists then focused on the stars similar to our Sun and tried to find planets between one and two times the size of Earth in those stars’ Goldilocks orbital Read more about 22% of sunlike stars could house water[…]
In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers http://gizmodo.com/i-bought-an-apartment-just-to-rent-it-out-on-airbnb-1458666661/@whitsongordon?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29