Yearly Archives: 2020

Enterprises Should Fix These 25 Flaws

The United States National Security Agency identified 25 vulnerabilities in software that are most commonly targeted by state-sponsored attackers from China. Setting aside the question of whether or not the enterprise is more likely to be targeted by nation-state attackers or cyber-criminals, the list provides enterprise IT staff with a good starting place on which vulnerabilities to prioritize. The vulnerabilities on NSA’s list can be used to gain initial access to enterprise networks by targeting systems directly accessible from the Internet. Seven of the flaws are in remote access gateways, three are found in networking equipment, and three impact public-facing servers. Once in the network, the attacker can use other vulnerabilities to find other systems to… Source link

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Hype isn’t just annoying, it’s harmful to science and innovation

Hype tends to be denounced as the fuel of the substandard, the fraudulent and the disappointing. It’s what we blame when companies, technologies or ideas dominate the public consciousness, only to let us down; the invisible force that tricks us into believing the con; the eye-roll-inducing words that tell us to over-invest our time, money and faith into unique “solutions” that within a few months will turn out to be useless. In short, hype is seen as the domain of hucksters and snake oil salesmen peddling the ordinary as exceptional. And hype has another, pernicious role – that of current-day… Source link

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Is It Possible To Power a Car With Nuclear Energy?

 Added on October 16, 2020  Aaron DiManna  alternative fuels , climate change , fission , Green driving , greenhouse gasses , Nuclear energy , Nuclear Power , Nuclear power plant , Nuclear reactor No Comments Just like this, but in your carPhoto: Pxfuel via DMCA When you think of the word “nuclear,” you probably think of Chernobyl, Fukushima, or one of the countless mid-2010’s movies where the hero needed to stop a bomb from detonating inside of one major city or another. However, it’s also an extremely efficient, clean source of energy that generates about 20 percent of America’s electricity. Which led me to ask, could we use it to power a car? It’s not nuclear but it is a powerhouse: The 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 The science Before we examine the… Source link

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This is why Adobe’s called Adobe and how one of its founders was kidnapped for $650,000 ransom

For anybody working in the photography or video industries today, it’s difficult to escape from the behemoth that is Adobe. Whether you use their software or not, they’re still everywhere you look and if you don’t use their software yourself, you still often have to deal with people that do, and wanting to know how they can make their workflow fit with yours. But how did Adobe’s rise to fame happen? Where did it all begin? And why was one of is founders kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom to the tune of $600,000? This video from ColdFusion takes a look at Adobe’s history and some of the controversy along its journey. Like most 80s tech startups, Adobe began in a garage, founded by John Warnock and Charles… Source link

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Video charts how Adobe went from garage start-up to editing software giant

You might assume the story of computer software giant Adobe is standard corporate fare, but Adobe’s history is a tale of humble beginnings, countless inventions and a kidnapping. YouTube channel ColdFusion has released a fantastic video on its history.  The video tells of how Charles Geschke and John Warnock left Xerox PARC in 1982 to found Adobe from the latter’s garage. The pair had developed the page description language PostScript, but with little interest from Xerox they struck out on their own and Adobe was born (named after a stream that passed by John’s house). ColdFusion tells of how PostScript revolutionized printing and would play a key role in the emerging laser printers, which were vastly superior to the crude… Source link

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The Disrupted Universe | Midas Letter

This month, I launched a new product called “The Disruptors.” (Check out our shop page) I wanted to talk today about why I am so thrilled to have this new service rolling out on the Wealth Press platform.  I’m not just thrilled – I’m proud. Proud of the people on the Wealth Press and Midas team for coming together in such a tremendous demonstration of what can be accomplished when the focus is on creating a product that reflects not just the character but the values and standards of the person for whom the product is being developed. It means that I have been able to, for the first time, focus on identifying and articulating the opportunity inherent in our disrupted universe and how, with a little help, every single investor across every walk of life should be able to… Source link

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Rudy Giuliani and Roger Ailes: Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion “I THINK WE HAD a great week,” Rudy Giuliani’s deputy campaign manager, Ken Caruso, said Satur­day at the official unveiling of the TV ad on Dinkins’s failure to file tax returns 20 years ago. “Jackie Mason went too far, and he was removed from the campaign. But today the issue is taxes…” A campaign is like a miniseries: It develops the hero’s character slowly until a defining moment broadcasts it in simplified form to everyone. Many voters now think Rudy has the sense of humor of a wet troll, especially after the infamous “fancy schvartze” joke, and that will be hard to shake in the month left before election day. “The question isn’t really how Jack­ie… Source link

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Why is Adobe Called Adobe? The Story of Garage Startup to Empire

Have you ever wondered why Adobe is called Adobe? Or perhaps you are curious about how the company went from a garage startup to one of the most powerful software companies in the world. In this 17-minute video, ColdFusion answers those questions and more. John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the founders of Adobe, left their employer Xerox Parc to create their own business after Xerox refused to commercialize a technology the two developed. That technology, called PostScript, is today still the graphics industry standard for printers. As we know now, the decision to leave Xerox was the right one. Why did they choose the name Adobe? The answer is rather simple: it was the name of a creek that ran behind Warnock’s house. The… Source link

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10 big things: A VC-backed breakthrough in nuclear fusion

At the center of our solar system is the sun, a turbulent sphere of incandescent plasma that has burned for the past 4.6 billion years, providing the energy that powers almost every living thing on Earth. The means of creating this energy is relatively simple, but also mind-boggling: Every second, the sun transforms some 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium through a process called nuclear fusion, converting tiny bits of matter into almost unfathomable amounts of energy.  Scientists have long dreamed of mimicking the sun’s immense power here on Earth. A startup that has raised nearly $265 million in venture capital is working with researchers from MIT to do just that. And now, they’ve published a series of new studies indicating that the fusion revolution may be closer than anyone… Source link

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Listings – ARCHER on FXX

ARCHERAir Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020Time Slot: 10:00 PM-10:30 PM EST on FXXEpisode Title: (#1108) “Cold Fusion” [NOTE: The following article is a press release issued by the aforementioned network and/or company. Any errors, typos, etc. are attributed to the original author. The release is reproduced solely for the dissemination of the enclosed information.] Archer Season 11 Episode Descriptions Cold Fusion 1108 10/28/2020 10 p.m. ET/PT Archer and the gang travel to Antarctica to solve a murder mystery with international implications. Written by Mark Ganek.

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