http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/now-graphene-can-have-a-tunable-stable-bandgap?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Making graphene suitable for digital electronics and spintronics applications. →
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/06/08/germanys-energtrag-begins-construction-power-gas-facility/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29 Clean hydrogen gas is produced in this facility. Is this process a good way to store energy when you get excess energy from renevable sources? →
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/09/microsoft_freebsd/ Makes sense to have their own FreeBSD for Azure cloud use. Good addition after their own Linux distribution http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2016/03/10/microsoft-has-released-a-debian-linux-switch-os-repeat-a-debian-linux-switch-operating-system-%e2%80%a2-the-register/ →
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/tech-firms-want-to-save-the-auto-industry-and-the-connected-car-from-itself/ Symantec has security software that monitors car’s CAN bus operation because connected cars need to be made more secure. →
Here is some very interesting reading related to the obvious buzzword of the year, The Internet of Things. This article series I was tipped to take a look is about embedded firmware hacking and reverse engineering of an IoT device, a TomTom Runner GPS Smartwatch. Hacking Smartwatches – the TomTom Runner, part 1 article introduces →
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml Guide how to write Linux shell scripts at Google style. →
https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/06/zuckerberg-dadada-linkedin-ourmine-breach/ This shows the real danger of password reuse at the time of big data breaches happening all the time. →
https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/06/vk-100-million-clear-text-passwords-stolen/ The breach was reported by LeakedSource, which has added the 100,544,934 records to its database of 1.8 billion purloined records, and has provided a searchable interface for the data. The question is what went wrong? It seems that the passwords were in clear text, system could be hacked and hack was not detected soon →
http://diply.com/viral-news/math-hacks/214065 Check out these math tips and hacks. →
93% of phishing emails are now ransomware http://www.csoonline.com/article/3077434/security/93-of-phishing-emails-are-now-ransomware.html As of the end of March, 93 percent of all phishing emails contained encryption ransomware, according to a new report from anti-phishing vendor. That was up from 56 percent in December, and less than 10 percent every other month of last year. The skyrocketing growth is due to →