Month: September 2022

The Internet Without The Computer: 1990s Style

We think of the Internet extending to small devices as a modern trend, but it actually is a good example of how everything makes a circle. Today, we want the network to connect to our thermostat and our toaster. But somewhere between the year 1990 and the year 2010, there was a push to make the Internet accessible to the majority of people who didn’t own a computer. The prototypical device, in our mind, was Microsoft’s ill-fated WebTV, but a recent video from [This Does Not Compute] reminded us of another entry in that race: The Audrey from 3COM. Check out the video, below.

Many devices, like the WebTV, wanted to take over your TV set to save on a display. That doesn’t sound bad today, but you have to remember, the typical TV set in those days was not the high-resolution digital monster you have today, so the experience

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Cutting-edge data management project in progress at Northeastern

When it comes to the world of scientific research, Sherlock Holmes once said it best. It’s all about: “Data! Data! Data!”

Indeed, the beloved Arthur Conan Doyle character understood the value of following the data—the basic building block of science, human advancement and, in effect, truth.

Today, scientific applications are producing an unprecedented amount of data, so much so that it is prompting a demand for better data management techniques. As a result, practitioners and researchers in computer science are working on more sophisticated methods to store, process, secure, and ultimately leverage data in business and research settings.

Headshot of Devesh Tiwari.
Devesh Tiwari, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

That’s what Devesh Tiwariassociate professor of electrical and computer engineering, hopes to do with new funding from the US Department of Energy. Tiwari is part of a multi-university and national lab team that was recently

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Computer experts urge Georgia to replace voting machines

ATLANTA (AP) — A group of computer and election security experts is urging Georgia election officials to replace the state’s touchscreen voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, citing what they say are “serious threats” posed by an apparent breach of voting equipment in one county.

The 13 experts on Thursday sent a letter to the members of the State Election Board and to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who’s a non-voting member of the board. It urges them to immediately stop using the state’s Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen voting machines. It also suggests they mandate a particular type of post-election audit on the outcome of all races on the ballot.

The experts who sent the letter include academics and former state election officials and are not associated with efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020

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King IT computer store in Caloundra, Sunshine Coast, charges unwitting grandma $1600 to remove virus

Outrage after a computer store charges an unwitting grandma $1,599 as it makes her pay for things usually done for FREE

  • A grandma had to fork out a whopping $1,599 for a regular iPhone repair
  • The King IT store charged her $978 for malware removal and $98 for iOS update
  • The woman’s son wrote a scathing Google review about the huge invoice
  • The computer shop regretted the error and said the woman was fully refunded

A grandmother has been hit with a massive $1,599 bill after she took her iPhone to a computer repair shop.

The 80-year-old woman went to the King IT store in Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, this week for an iPhone repair.

The shop charged her $978 for checking and removing malware –

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More efficient data center computing – News Center

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A University of Texas at Arlington computer science team is using a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop algorithms for microservice-based data center services that allow for quicker, more efficient use of data center computing resources.

In addition, the grant will boost curriculum while supporting several doctoral students working on the project and providing research experiences for undergraduate and underrepresented students.

Hong Jiang, chair and Wendell H. Nedderman Endowed Professor of the UTA Computer Science and Engineering Department, is leading the project titled, “SHF: Small: A Distributed Scalable End-to-End Tail Latency SLO Guaranteed Resource Management Framework for Microservices.” Microservices is a type of computer software construction that Jiang compared to building something with Legos.

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Hao Che

Each individual microservice can be viewed as a Lego part, and one can enable a specific computing service by simply putting

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Vanderbilt vs. Hawaii odds, spread, line: 2022 college football picks, Week 0 predictions by proven model

Vanderbilt will be looking to open the 2022 season on a positive note when it faces Hawaii on the road on Saturday night in the Week 0 nightcap. The Commodores finished 2-10 under head coach Clark Lea last year, while Hawaii hired Timmy Chang to take over his alma mater’s program in the offseason. Hawaii went 11-11 in two seasons under head coach Todd Graham, but he resigned following allegations of mistreatment from players.

Kickoff is set for 10:30 pm ET on CBS Sports Network. The Commodores are 9.5-point favorites in the latest Hawaii vs. Vanderbilt odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while the over/under for total points scored is 54.5. Before making any Hawaii vs. Vanderbilt picks or college football predictions, you need to see what SportsLine’s advanced computer model has to say.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past six years,

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North Texas vs. UTEP odds, spread: 2022 college football picks, Week 0 predictions by proven computer model

North Texas and UTEP will meet in a season opener on Saturday night after the Mean Green picked up a thrilling 20-17 victory when they met last November. UTEP earned a bowl bid last year and recorded the program’s first winning season since 2014, as the Miners’ seven wins matched their total from the previous five seasons combined. North Texas won five straight games to close the regular season before losing its bowl game.

Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. ET. The Mean Green are 1.5-point favorites in the latest UTEP vs. North Texas odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while the over/under for total points scored is 52.5. Before making any vs. North Texas picks or college football predictions, you need to see what SportsLine’s advanced computer model has to say.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past six years, the proprietary

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Advanced Skateboard Systems Of The Future In 2025

Futuristic TechnologyIn this write up, the readers will get info on future know-how and study to what extent fashionable know-how has been developed to assist the expansion of human civilization. Whereas robots aren’t quite as sophisticated as Knowledge was, we have now seen examples of talkative bots in space. In 2013, a talkative Japanese robot named Kirobo launched into an 18-month mission to the International House Station. The bot, designed to assist researchers research human-robot interactions, chatted with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata; on the time, its designers speculated it could possibly be used to help lonely seniors who cannot go away the home a lot.

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This popular game gives hackers access to your entire PC

Hackers have been abusing the anti-cheat system in a massively popular game, and you don’t even need to have it installed on your computer to be affected.

The game in question is called Genshin Impact, and according to a new report, hackers are able to utilize the game’s anti-cheat measures in order to disable antivirus programs on the target machine. From there, they’re free to conduct ransomware attacks and take control of the device.

An overview of the Genshin Impact hack.
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Trend Micro prepared a lengthy report about this new hack, describing the way it works in great detail. The attack can be carried out using a Genshin Impact driver called “mhypro2.sys.” As mentioned above, the game doesn’t need to be installed on the targeted device. The module can operate independently and doesn’t need the game in order to run.

have found proof of threat actors using this vulnerability to conduct ransomware attacks since

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