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- Intel Bay Trail-T to launch on 11 September
- Siemens CEO: I didn't knife Peter Loescher
- Top prof claims new tech eroding need for spelling or gramma
- FBI hacks Tor
- Japanese toilet can be hacked
- Obama protects Apple from thermonuclear war backlash
| Intel Bay Trail-T to launch on 11 September Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:28 AM PDT Intel’s new Bay Trail-T SoC appears to be ready for launch. According to VR-Zone, the new SoC will official launch on 11 September, giving manufacturers plenty of time to come up with cheap x86 tablets in time for the holiday season. It appears that Intel will introduce a total of four SKUs in the first batch. The Z3740 and Z3770 feature two memory channels, four CPU cores and 2MB of L2 cache. The Z3740D and Z3770D will be cheaper versions, with a single memory channel. The core count and cache size are the same across the range. The Z3740 and Z3740D should end up clocked at 1.8GHz, while 3770-series parts will run at 2.4GHz. That sounds rather high for an x86 quad-core with a mobile thermal envelope. The dual channel parts should offer 17.1GB/s memory bandwidth, while D-series parts with a single memory controller top out at 10.6GB/s. Non-D parts also support DDR3L-RS 1333 memory and up to 4GB of memory, while D-parts support DDR3-1066 and up to 2GB of memory. The GPUs are different, too. D-parts support resolutions up to 1920x1200, while their non-D siblings can handle displays up to 2560x1600. Since Intel doesn’t like to talk TDPs anymore, it is merely stating that the Scenario Design Power (SDP) of the chips is between 2W and 2.4W. |
| Siemens CEO: I didn't knife Peter Loescher Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:18 AM PDT The new Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser says he played no role in his predecessor's ousting after his ex-boss was spectacularly fired last week Rumours have been flying that Joe Kaesar had played a brilliant Game of Thrones style campaign which poisoned Peter Loescher's influence with the Siemens board. The rumours are so persistent that he has had to take the extraordinary step of denying them to a German newspaper. Loescher was dumped in a boardroom battle after the company issued its second profit warning of the year last week. Kaeser, previously finance chief at Siemens, became the company's new CEO pretty quickly afterwards. The German daily Nuernberger Nachrichten quoted Kaeser as saying he worked very well with Loescher and was not involved in his replacement. That probably does not deal with the persistent rumors over the past year that Kaeser had his eye on Loescher's job and that there was considerable friction between the two execs. Both have insisted that they worked well together. "The fact is that the supervisory board had to decide whether my predecessor should remain in office, and if not, who should succeed him. Those are two completely separate processes," Kaeser told Nuernberger Nachrichten. To be fair to Kaeser, Loescher did seem to be making a few big mistakes. After initially turning the outfit around, his latest cunning plans had left Siemens lagging behind rivals such as General Electric. Kaeser reiterated that he aims for Siemens to close the gap with competitors with a back to basics approach. He wants Siemens to develop pumps used for fracking and create tools for uninterrupted electricity, as well as cooling supplies for server farms. |
| Top prof claims new tech eroding need for spelling or gramma Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:05 AM PDT A Newcastle professor claims that English spelling and grammar rules have gone the way of the dodo thanks to new technology. Sugata Mitra, a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University in northeast England, announced that traditional language rules are out of fashion. According to Yahoo, the kids of today don't need to waste time on those things because computers and mobile phones can make the necessary corrections. Spelling and grammar were essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now, Mitra said. Mitra said his phone corrects his spelling and he often skips grammar and writes in a cryptic way. We know what he means. His statement is going down like a bucket of cold sick with the British government, which is rolling out a host of educational standards including one that will require students to take a spelling test involving 200 complex words near the end of grade school. Conservatives love exams like the 11+ because it reminds them of their salad days at prep-school where they fagged the bigger boys without the front page tabloid coverage. The Conservatives want another exam for 11-year-olds that tests spelling, grammar and punctuation, launched this year. But Mitra is one of the new breed of high tech educationalists. He has won a $1 million TED prize to found "cloud schools." The goal is to allow children to learn from each other and from retired specialists. In 1999 he conducted a series of Hole in the Wall experiments. He set up computer kiosks in poor areas of India where kids could play with computers. The goal was to show that kids could learn to use computers and the internet with no formal training and even without knowing English. That particular experiment partially inspired the film "Slumdog Millionaire". |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:49 AM PDT FreedomWeb, an Irish company which provides hosting for "hidden services" over the Tor network, has been shut down after its owner, Eric Eoin Marques, was accused of helping spread child abuse images. Alarmingly, the FBI have managed to hack Tor. According to the Tor Open Watch blog, users of Tor hidden services report that their copies of the browser were infected with malicious javascript that de-anonymised them. The belief is that the FBI has hacked them. Tor Browser originally shipped with Javascript disabled but it was switched back on again recently to make the browser more useful. Although this would be a victory for the FBI against child pornographers who use the Tor network, it means a serious security breach for international activists and internet users living in repressive states who use the services to practice free speech online. In its attempts to bring down child abuse images, the FBI might have exposed countless activists to arrest and torture. But we guess as far as the untouchables are concerned, they are foreigners and very far away. OpenWatch has been in the early stages of designing a new alternative to Freedom Hosting, called OnionCloud, to allow anonymous Heroku-like application hosting. |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:41 AM PDT A high tech Japanese toilet can be hacked remotely according to the latest security advisory from TrustWave. The company has noticed that security is fast becoming a problem in high tech loos with lots of security problems coming up. In fact, the outfit found security vulnerabilities in high tech loos since 2009, and it appears manufacturers are not trying too hard to tackle the problem. After all the last thing you want when you have your trousers around your ankles is a hacker infringing your privacy. These high tech loos can shoot hot water into your undercarriage or eject rather than flush. Otherwise they could just keep flushing like the loos in our pub. There is not much worse than a loo which is vulnerable to phishing. In the USA, there's always the risk the NSA might use a backdoor to access your backdoor. The latest warning is about a new Satis-brand internet toilet. Apparently it is not enough to control it on the throne, you have to be able to flush it while you away on business. Or, on a cold-winter's day, heat up the seat for when you come home. According to Trustwave, every Satis toilet has the same hard-coded Bluetooth PIN, which means any person using the 'My Satis' [Android] application can control any Satis toilet. |
| Obama protects Apple from thermonuclear war backlash Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:38 AM PDT President Barack Obama has said that every time Samsung wins a court case he will veto the decision. So far he has not said what will happen every time Apple beats the South Korean company. Effectively Obama has rewarded the antics of a patent troll which actually claimed it invented the rounded rectangle while taking no steps to protect Samsung from Apple's own trolling antics. Victory by Samsung would have protected it from the iPhone 4 and some iPads entering the US from China if they used technology which the patent office and several judges ruled stole the company's ideas. According to the China Post, it is the first time since 1987 that a president has interfered with an ITC order. "This is an important element of the Administration's policy of promoting innovation and economic progress," the White House statement said. The question is what Obama has done to stop Apple in its patent trolling - the company's late CEO Steve Jobs famously said a "thermonuclear war" would be waged against the competition. The veto means Apple will be free to continue importing and selling those devices in the US, but the White House said that the veto in no way addresses the legal merit of Samsung's claims. "My decision to disapprove this determination does not mean that the patent owner in this case is not entitled to a remedy. On the contrary, the patent owner may continue to pursue its rights through the courts." Obama's administration wants to see itself as trying to shut down the use of import bans as a weapon for patent trolls. Instead he has indicated that the White House will to prevent the ITC from awarding product bans in the future in cases involving standards-essential patents. But it is not clear if this will apply to non-American companies. Samsung is furious with the situation as the White House has effectively taken away its bargaining chip to stop Jobs' Mob doing the same trick to it. A spokesperson said that the ITC's decision recognised that Samsung has been negotiating in good faith and that Apple remains unwilling to take a licence. Apple, on the other hand, really rubbed it in. Apple invented everything and all rivals will be exterminated. In the worst case of hypocrisy we have ever seen from a company, an Apple spokesperson: "Thanks to the Administration for standing up for innovation in this landmark case. Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way". Apple, of course, is known to never abuse the patent system by trolling its rivals off the shelf. |
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