Robert Scoble

I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling

It's my first class of the semester at New York University. I'm discussing the evils of plagiarism and falsifying sources with 11 graduate journalism students when, without warning, my computer freezes. I fruitlessly tap on the keyboard as my laptop takes on a life of its own and reboots.

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-investigate-me-and-what-they-found-out-is-chilling/

It's everywhere! The day Hadoop took over the cloud

With Rackspace granting early access to its Hadoop service on Sunday night, Cloudera announcing a handful of new cloud partners (Amazon Web Services, SoftLayer and Verizon, in addition to Savvis) on Monday and Microsoft making HDInsight on Windows Azure a reality, pretty much every infrastructure-as-a-service cloud around now offers a managed Hadoop service.

http://wp.me/p10LZV-2YBE

White House OKd spying on allies, U.S. intelligence officials say

WASHINGTON - The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, pushing back against assertions that President Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping. Professional staff members at the National Security Agency and other U.S.

http://ow.ly/qgNcC

Motorola announces Ara, an open hardware project to create customizable smartphones

If you thought Motorola and its Moto Maker builder helped you customize a unique smartphone, then prepare for more. The Google-owned company has just announced Ara, a hardware platform that is entirely open to customization - essentially letting tinkerers develop their own smartphones.

http://tnw.to/s8xN

Rackspace Expands Data Services With Hortonworks' Hadoop In the Cloud

Rackspace is offering Hortonworks' Apache Hadoop platform as a service. Rackspace continues to expand its Data Services, a collection of SQL and no-SQL data offerings available as a service in order to serve Big Data needs.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/28/rackspace-expands-data-services-with-hortonworks-hadoop-in-the-cloud/

Senator changes tune, now is "totally opposed" to foreign leader surveillance

NSA leaks View all... Just four days ago, National Security Agency-leaker Edward Snowden issued a rare statement, forcefully arguing against the American government's line that what it does is not surveillance. In particular, it appeared that Snowden was directly challenging Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

http://ars.to/HmMEJ5