Adobe Flash Woes Prove Steve Jobs Was Right

The hack of Hacking Team has been enlightening on a number of levels. It appears to show that Hacking Team has been dishonest about the nations on its client list and at the same time it was a wakeup call that Hacking Team is not unique in providing subversive tools and zero day exploits to customers—including government agencies. One thing we’ve learned from the Hacking Team hack is that Adobe Flash has serious issues and hackers know how to exploit those issues to execute malicious code.

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The Simplest, Cheapest, Most Effective Task Management Solution I’ve Found

Managing a To-Do List has been the bane of my existence for more years than I care to think about. As the CEO of a growing company I tried out countless Task Management Software programs along with exploring about every To-Do App that got released. Yet, no matter how many systems I tried I couldn’t seem to make one work. Usually I ended up spending so much time creating the To-Do Lists in these systems that I had no time to actually do my To-Dos! After repeated failed attempts I was beginning to have a complex – Was I really incapable of staying on top of everything that needed to get done? Finally I decided to really dig into the root cause of why I couldn’t make these systems work for me, and the things I discovered led me to implement the simplest, cheapest, most effective task management solution imaginable. Yet that solution genuinely changed my life!

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What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?


What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?
In 2014 the White House commissioned a 90-day study that culminated in a report on the state of “big data” and related technologies. The authors give many recommendations, including this central warning: “algorithms can facilitate illegal discrimination!”

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Lucius II tendrá una versión para Linux

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Lucius II es un juego desarrollado por Shiver Games, que ha conseguido hacerse con una base de fanáticos realmente muy importante, ello gracias a sus muy buenos gráficos pero fundamentalmente a la historia en la cual nos sumergimos, que cuenta con una cantidad de atractivos muy grande.

Ahora, Lucius II llegará a Linux, al menos eso se desprende de la base de datos de Steam, en la cual se registran todos los juegos y suscripciones que ofrece Valve para su servicio de juegos. Y aunque no haya fecha concreta de lanzamiento, el hecho de aparecer en ella indica que en un tiempo, seguramente más pronto que tarde, tendremos una versión de este juego para nuestro sistema operativo preferido.

Para quienes no conozcan la trama de Lucius II, decir que se trata de la segunda entrega de la saga, y continúa donde la primera había quedado: un muchacho (Lucius) es internado en el ala psiquiátrica del Hospital St. luego de ser el único sobreviviente de los misteriosos asesinatos acontecidos en su hogar; de los cuales ha salido indemne al convencer a la policía de que todo ha sido obra de su padre. Una vez dentro del hospital, su afiebrada mente le convence de que es parte de un plan superior: así, luego de una sesión de electroshock comienzan los asesinatos en serie.

Habrá que ver cuando termina por producirse la llegada de Lucius II a Linux, pero en todo caso quienes gustan de los juegos de suspenso tendrán en poco tiempo un título más que interesante y con mucho por pensar y recorrer, más allá de un puntaje que en Steam apenas pasa de discreto (3 estrellas sobre 5).

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Tesla CTO: Batteries + Solar Will Lead to Cheap Electricity Within 10 Years

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Energy storage technology is key to popularizing solar energy generation, and that point was underscored by the feature speaker at a large solar energy conference in San Francisco Monday: Tesla Motors’ chief technology officer, JB Straubel. Straubel took the stage at Intersolar’s opening ceremony to extol the energy density and other

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Samsung Leak Claims Galaxy S6 Edge+ Announcement Set For August 12th

Every September since 2011, Samsung announced a new Galaxy Note at the IFA conference in Berlin. However, sources with The Wall Street Journal have reported that Samsung is moving up the announcement for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 this year. By debuting the Galaxy Note 5 sooner, Samsung would be able to get ahead of the new iPhone unveiling.

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Early image captured using OnePlus 2 appears online

An image captured using the upcoming OnePlus 2 smartphone made the rounds on Twitter, courtesy of @MKBHD. The successor of OnePlus One will make its official debut later this month, on July 27 in virtual reality.

The photo sports a resolution of 4160 x 3120 pixels, this pointing at a 13MP camera sensor. The camera has f/2.0 aperture, which doesn't quite match the f/1.9 in the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and f/1.8 in the LG G4. The device used to capture this camera is the ONE A2001 variant.

OnePlus 2 is confirmed to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 mobile chipset with Adreno 430 GPU, and 4GB of RAM. A fingerprint sensor and USB Type-C are also going to be on board. OnePlus 2 will have a sub-$450 price tag when it…

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