Cane uses facial recognition to steer the blind to friends and family
Students at Birmingham City University in England have created a cane that recognises familiar faces and vibrates to let its blind owner know that they’re near people they know. Incoming search termsSilong Teernitcom more…Planned VOIP Network Disruption
On Friday, January 9th, beginning at 5:00AM and ending at 6:00AM, TNS will be performing maintenance on Paterno VOIP AG 2 and Paterno VOIP AG 4. During this work voice services will be disrupted to the building listed below. Paterno Voip AG 2 Pond VoIP Recreation VoIP Oswald VoIP Rackley VoIP Music II VoIP Chambers […] more…Doing more with less: Steering a quantum path to improved internet security
New research may lead to greatly improved security of information transfer over the internet. Physicists have demonstrated the potential for ‘quantum steering’ to be used to enhance data security over long distances, discourage hackers and eavesdroppers and resolve issues of trust with communication devices. more…Scheduled power disruption – Pattee Library
OPP has scheduled an electrical services shutdown affecting the basement Telecom room at the Pattee Library on Wednesday, September 24 at 4:30 AM. Immediately prior to the shutdown, ITS staff will power down the VoIP aggregate equipment that will be affected. Upon power being restored, expected to be shortly before 5:00 AM, ITS staff will […] more…Civilians steer NASA satellite from an old McDonald’s
I hadn’t been aware that, if you ask NASA nicely, you’ll be allowed to take the controls of a satellite floating in outer space. Clearly, I need to get out more, as this is what a group of very interested civilians are doing from their headquarters in a McDonald’s. Let’s be fair, it’s an old […] more…22-year-old "organized crime" cybercrook convicted under racketeering law gets TWENTY years
David Ray Camez was just 17 when he embarked on life as a cyberfraudster, ending up in prison for seven years. But he was subsequently also convicted under racketeering laws, which provide for stiffer penalties. Now he’s been sentenced… more…22-year-old “organized crime” cybercrook convicted under racketeering law gets TWENTY years
David Ray Camez was just 17 when he embarked on life as a cyberfraudster, ending up in prison for seven years. But he was subsequently also convicted under racketeering laws, which provide for stiffer penalties. Now he’s been sentenced… more…US racketeering law enters the world of cybercrime
A Las Vegas court convicted a cybercriminal under RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act) law last week, in what may well turn out to be a landmark case. more…Resolved: Resolved: Wireless Network Service Disruption: Multiple Buildings at University Park
This morning, between 6:30 AM and 7:45 AM, wireless network service was disrupted at the buildings below. ITS was able to restore services and they are currently operating normally. Arts Burrowes Cedar Chambers Eisenhower Chapel Executive Education Ford Forum Hamilton Hall Irvin Hall Jordan Hall Keller Kern Mateer McKee Hall Music Building II Nittany Landscape […] more…IBM to acquire endpoint security company Trusteer
IBM has signed an agreement to acquire security company Trusteer, and plans to set up a cybersecurity software lab in Israel. read more more…How NASA steers the International Space Station around space junk
Orbiting about 250 miles (400-ish km) above our heads is one of the most complex and expensive engineering projects that the human race has ever put together: the International Space Station (ISS). The station masses around 450 tons (400 metric tons) and is a bit larger than an American football field. Tags: NASA Industry News more…Teenage WikiLeaks volunteer: Why I served as an FBI informant
A young Icelandic boy’s journey as an informant all began with a cryptic e-mail sent to the United States Embassy in Reykjavík from Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson (Sigurður Ingi Þórðarsson), then an 18-year-old. Thordarson had been involved with WikiLeaks during the previous 18 months, moving ever-closer to the inner circle of the group—Julian Assange eventually promoted […] more…Free iPad 3 Scams Steer Users to Bad Sites
Scammers have snatched up the opportunity to victimize people by leveraging the interest and anticipation over the upcoming release of iPad 3. Just days before its supposed launch, we have noted several posts on Facebook that claim to give away free iPad 3s to some “lucky” users. Unlike previous Facebook threats we’ve blogged recently, this […] more…Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
I go to a lot of tech conferences — 13 in 2025 — and many of those I attend are outside the US; several are in London, one is in Amsterdam, another in Paris, and two in Tokyo. Wherever I went this past year, when we weren’t talking about AI, Linux, the cloud, or open-source […] more…22 tech luminaries we lost in 2025
As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, philosophers, psychologists, developers, entrepreneurs, and more. These pioneers and those who followed tackled issues and solved problems that future generations may never know existed — but without their […] more…More information
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