Score: 0)Posted by: Posted by sysop on Friday, June 18 @ 21:57:28 CDT
IT Pro Portal writes "IBM has created the world's greatest pub quizzer: a supercomputer that the company reckons can match the intelligence of the best trivia buffs.
The electronic mastermind, Watson, has been entered into popular American TV game show 'Jeopardy!', where it will be pitted against some of the best Jeopardy players of all time.
The New York Times reports that researchers at IBM have been developing the supercomputer over the last three years, making it capable of understanding any question put to it in 'natural language' and coming up with factual answers to the questions from the data stored in its 'brain'."
Score: 0)Posted by: Posted by sysop on Friday, June 18 @ 21:55:41 CDT
Computer Weekly writes "The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to move toward giving itself the authority to regulate the transmission component of broadband Internet service.
The FCC wants to re-establish its authority after a US federal appeals court found in April that the regulator had exceeded its authority in asking cable network provider Comcast to stop throttling BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic.
Google, Amazon and other content providers have been pushing for net neutrality regulations that will prevent telecoms firms from favouring or discriminating against certain types of content. The FCC argues that the additional power is central to expanding the availability of broadband in the US, according to the New York Times."
News : Computer hacker used fraud money to buy Porsche and gold
Score: 0)Posted by: Posted by sysop on Friday, June 18 @ 21:54:33 CDT
Telegraph (UK) writes "Alistair Peckover, 21, systematically defrauded legitimate online businesses and unsuspecting members of the public with his self-taught computer skills. Peckover, of London Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, was jailed for 20 months at Southend Crown Court in Essex after admitting two counts of fraud.
A further 50 offences were taken into consideration, Sussex Police said.
Using sophisticated computer programmes, some of which he wrote himself, ''obsessive loner'' Peckover remotely viewed files of other computer users without their knowledge or consent.
Systems by Google and BT were misused by Peckover who breached security barriers to target online betting sites and individual email accounts."
Score: 0)Posted by: Posted by sysop on Friday, June 18 @ 21:50:32 CDT
Tech World writes "Mac users are being offered a new and feature-rich alternative to Apple's in-house OS X VPN client, free of charge to individual users.
NCP's Secure Mac Client for Leopard 10.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6 claims to greatly extend the basic features of Apple's built-in client while offering compatibility with a wider range of IPSec VPN gateways.
Notably, the software comes with a built in firewall that can make decisions about the sort of connection available, activating security rules as appropriate. It can also overcome the limitations of IPSec tunnelling, such as where a firewall will not permit such connections, using what the company calls 'VPN Path Finder'. This is basically a fall back to https on port 80."
