Adobe Edge Promises Flash-Style Animation with HTML5 →
The new motion and interaction design tool will let customers build Flash-like content using Web standards like CSS and JavaScript. It also supports the animation framework built on JQuery, a popular JavaScript library used widely on the Internet.About time...
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History →
In June 2009, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran with just one aim — to sabotage the country's uranium enrichment program and prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from building a nuclear weapon.Threat Level dives into Stuxnet with interviews from the security researchers, the history of the virus, and even source code(!).
But it would be nearly a year before the inspectors would learn of this. The answer would come only after dozens of computer security researchers around the world would spend months deconstructing what would come to be known as the most complex malware ever written — a piece of software that would ultimately make history as the world's first real cyberweapon.
Mac OS X Lion Login Passwords Extracted With Ease →
The Mac OS vulnerability relates to user login passwords that are stored in the system memory even if the computer is locked or put into a sleep mode. Passware's software captures live Mac computer memory over FireWire and analyzes it, extracting these passwords, a process that the company says takes just a few minutes--regardless of password strength and use of a FileVault encryption. The vulnerability is present in all modern versions of Mac OS, including Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, released last week.
How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy →
Apple has struck upon a devastating strategy for taking control of the consumer electronics industry and mainstream computing: Build simple, elegant, functional and beautiful devices at all points in the consumer electronics chain. The cheap little devices like iPods and iPhones charm people, and build trust and affinity for Apple, predisposing them to choose Apple for the bigger-ticket items.
If Apple can turn the editor of Windows Magazine into a fanboy, no one is safe.
Happy WiFi Day! 8.02.11
Transparent Lithium-Ion Batteries →
Using silicon lithography, liquid silicone, and electrodes that are fashioned into patterns that are invisible to the naked eye, researchers at Stanford University have created a transparent battery.
Uses include various gadgets, but most importantly, futuristic flexible OLED displays that may serve as digital paper.
California Enacts Law Letting Illegal Immigrants Pay In-State Tuition →
The California law updates a previously enacted law that allows all people who have attended high school in the state for three or more years to pay cheaper in-state tuition rates to attend one of its public universities, colleges or community colleges.This is the same California school system that has raised tuition as much as 32% in its struggle to stay afloat.
The Horrifying AAA Debt-Issuance Chart →
On a micro level, triple-A securities are safer than any other securities. But on a macro level, they're much more dangerous, precisely because they're considered risk-free. They breed complacency and regulatory arbitrage, and they are a key ingredient in the cause of all big crises, which is leverage.
Lion Downloads Top One Million in First Day →
Ben Brooks:
Wow.By itself this is a respectable number, now take into account this Tweet from Thomas Ricker:
In other words, Apple moved over 3.6 petabytes in the last 24 hours.Wow.