Amazon has once again cracked the upper echelons of the Top 500 supercomputer list with a cluster that hit nearly half a petaflop per second to claim the title of the 64th fastest supercomputer in the world.
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Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information
by Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO
Today we are announcing that we will extend that effort acrossall Yahoo products. More specifically this means we will:
- Encrypt all information that moves between our data centers by the end of Q1 2014;
- Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014;
- Work closely with our international Mail partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded Mail accounts are https-enabled.
« You shouldn’t let poets lie to you ». (via Bjork Explaining Television Is Everything You’d Imagine Bjork Explaining Television to Be – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic)
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‘We’ve fine-tuned Google Search to prevent links to child sexual abuse material from appearing in our results.’ The restrictions, which have been designed to apply in English-speaking countries, will be expanded to cover the rest of the world and 158 other languages in the next six months. Mr Schmidt also reveals that Google has developed breakthrough technology that will allow illegal videos to be ‘tagged’ so that all duplicate copies can be removed across the internet.
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The story of Luci both highlights the vulnerability of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, where virtually anyone can raise money, and the power of online crowds as a regulatory force.
Le réseau social en ligne américain Facebook a fait une offre d’achat de 3 milliards de dollars pour l’application de messages mobiles Snapchat, qui l’a rejetée…
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Wunderlist. One that is very much centered around a new partnership and a very bright future. We are incredibly excited and well, downright honored to welcome Sequoia Capital on board, and to confirm that we have a major update to Wunderlist in the works.
« If you live in Moscow, your morning commute can now include a brief fitness session. To promote the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, subway stations in Moscow have added these impressive new machines which allow passengers to do 30 squats for a train ticket ». (via Russian Subways Now Accept Squats for Payment)
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As digital agenda commissioner I have long fought hard to keep the Internet driving positive change – helping Europe’s economy and society. And now we are asking for your views on internet governance, based on these questions [pdf].