April 20, 2014 A Swarm of Ant-Sized Robots at Your Service by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON SRI International has developed a technology that can make a swarm of “Micro-Robots” build small things on small scales. Published: April…
April 19, 2014 Hackers Use Heartbleed to Hit Major Corporation by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH A security firm revealed that the Heartbleed flaw was used last week to break into the network of an undisclosed company…
April 19, 2014 How Urban Anonymity Disappears When All Data is Tracked by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY At some point very soon, a large amount of public information, like a car license plate, will be part of a…
April 19, 2014 Fixing a Broken Smartphone by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Plus, sharing settings and more among Windows 8 PCs. Published: April 18, 2014 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1mk1Ea9 via…
April 19, 2014 OpenSSL and Linux: A Tale of Two Open-Source Projects by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH For years, Linux has enjoyed the backing of a range of big tech companies. How has Linux flourished while other open-source…
April 19, 2014 Heartbleed Highlights a Contradiction in the Web by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH The bug that rattled the Internet last week exposed the paradox that some of the web’s most crucial coding depends on…
April 19, 2014 In the Battle for Best Smartphone Apple Still Beats Samsung by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Samsung’s newest phone, the Galaxy S5, is a very nice device. But it falls far short of Apple’s iPhone. Published: April…
April 18, 2014 Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of Condoleezza Rice to Board by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON After Dropbox appointed Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, to its board of directors, some users have complained about her…
April 18, 2014 Heartbleed Internet Security Flaw Used in Attack by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH On Friday, cybersecurity experts said they had evidence of the first confirmed attack on a major corporation using the Heartbleed bug….
April 18, 2014 Facebook’s Existential Crisis by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Is Facebook’s main service still relevant? An argument for why it feels fusty, and why Mark Zuckerberg seems to know it….