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- Moore's Law making data centers more 'green'
- At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., last week, Allyson Klein, eco-technology initiatives manger at Intel, talked about how Moore's Law is helping driving energy efficiency in the data center. Klein also discussed Intel's association with SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, and how the two organizations...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Moore, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Intel, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Videos 2008-06-20
- Moore's Law and health care
- Roland Piquepaille's latest take on nanobots in the bloodstream has me reflecting on the greatest force we have available for surviving health care inflation. Moore's Law. Moore's Law, the idea that technology gets faster-and-faster faster-and-faster, is not applied often enough to health care. Regulation...
- Tags: Health Care, Moore, Law, Nanoscience, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- A Moore's Law for medical breakthroughs
- In the world of medical research the chief contribution of this decade has been breaching the wall between organic and inorganic chemistry. Computing has made this possible. It can take a vast amount of computing power to create an enzyme from scratch. Thanks to distributed computing and...
- Tags: Rice University, Computing, Moore, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- The Moore's Law of open source
- Before joining ZDNet I wrote a lot about Moore's Law, the idea that things get faster-and-faster faster-and-faster. I found exponential Moore's Law effects everywhere. Not just in chips, but in magnetic storage, in optical storage, in optical transport, even in radios. The only place...
- Tags: Moore, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- The open source link of AMD and Nvidia
- About a week ago I got an e-mail asking me to comment on rumors that Nvidia might buy AMD. A research company had floated this trial balloon, hoping it might ease out AMD CEO Hector Ruiz. Yesterday, however, came some news relevant to this...
- Tags: Open Source, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Announcement, Chip, Moore, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Is it bling or innovation?
- I read a great piece by my colleague, Chris Dawson, this morning entitled I love Linux, but it's not going to save the world and after reading a few of his readers comments, I felt compelled to get in my two cents. His point (at least what I took away from...
- Tags: Innovation, Linux, Hardware, Tax Law, Moore, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Google and IBM partner to teach "Internet-scale computing"
- Students at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and other universities will now have the opportunity to learn hands-on about so-called "cloud computing" as the result of a new joint venture between Google and IBM. Also known as grid, large-scale distributed, or Internet-scale computing, cloud computing refers to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Processor, Partnership, Article, Computer Science, Computing, IBM Corp., Moore, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Can I have a PSP?
- "It has a web browser, so I can use it for school..." So says my 12-year-old after his older brother bought himself one of Sony's latest handhelds this weekend. If I remember correctly, I used a similar argument on my own father quite a few years ago. ...
- Tags: Ultramobile PC, Sony PlayStation Portable, Moore, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Keyboards, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-09-30
- Moore's Law: No more
- At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore discusses the end of Moore's Law, which he believes will hit a wall in the next 10 to 15 years.
- Tags: Intel Corp., Moore, Construction, Computer Hardware, Gordon Moore, Semiconductors, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-19
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- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploitSo, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...So, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...Nice work!CoolNate, nice post and analysis!Wasn't the replacing the ns.victim.com cache entry part of the Halvar Flake speculation? I thought first part of the exploit was to...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Alecco, DNS, ruid, exploit, HD Moore, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
- [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...
- Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Attack code published for DNS flaw
- Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...
- Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Attack code published for DNS flaw
- The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*
- * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008. If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big. Yesterday Sun...
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins
- Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...
- Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...
- Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- 2008 Pwnie Awards
- Don't forget to go and vote on the Pwnie Awards, which will happen at Black Hat Vegas again this year. I don't want to campaign for votes, but I wouldn't be pissed if some of my loyal readers out there voted for me, Billy Rios, Rob Carter, and John Heasman and...
- Tags: Category, Nomination, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...
- Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
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