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12 Sep 01:12

U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data

by timothy
Advocatus Diaboli writes The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over user data that the company believed was unconstitutional, according to court documents unsealed Thursday that illuminate how federal officials forced American tech companies to participate in the NSA's controversial PRISM program. The documents, roughly 1,500 pages worth, outline a secret and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle by Yahoo to resist the government's demands. The company's loss required Yahoo to become one of the first to begin providing information to PRISM, a program that gave the National Security Agency extensive access to records of online communications by users of Yahoo and other U.S.-based technology firms.

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02 Aug 14:22

American Doctor With Ebola En Route to US - ABC News


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American Doctor With Ebola En Route to US
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An American doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa will arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, today. Samaritan's Purse confirmed that Dr. Kent Brantly was on board a plane currently flying back to the U.S. Brantly ...
Ebola patient arriving in Atlanta on Saturday, and doctors are readyLos Angeles Times
Ebola Patient Dr. Kent Brantly on Flight From Liberia to AtlantaNBCNews.com
Dr. Kent Brantly named first Ebola patient on plane back to USFox News
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18 Jun 14:18

Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator

by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes Jake Wharton, Android Engineer at Square, has written an article about one of the big problems with building apps for Android: developers need a simulator for testing their software, rather than an emulator. He provides an interesting, technical explanation of the difference between them, and why the status quo is not working. Here are the basics of his article: "A simulator is a shim that sits between the Android operating system runtime and the computer's running operating system. It bridges the two into a single unit which behaves closely to how a real device or full emulator would at a fraction of the overhead. The most well known simulator to any Android developer is probably (and ironically) the one that iOS developers use from Apple. The iPhone and iPad simulators allow quick, easy, and lightweight execution of in-development apps. ... There always will be a need for a proper emulator for acceptance testing your application in an environment that behaves exactly like a device. For day-to-day development this is simply not needed. Developer productivity will rise dramatically and the simplicity through which testing can now be done will encourage their use and with any luck improve overall app quality. Android actually already has two simulators which are each powerful in different ways, but nowhere near powerful enough."

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12 Mar 23:21

Move over, small-time Bitcoin exchange startups—Wall Street has arrived

by Cyrus Farivar

On Wednesday morning, Perseus Telecom and Atlas jointly launched their new high-speed trading platform for Bitcoin and likely other cryptocurrencies in the future. Perseus is a firm that specializes in high-speed financial data networks, while Atlas is a relative newcomer to the Wall Street scene since starting in 2013.

The platform's debut puts Bitcoin trading much closer to the modern world of automated and secure trading. Atlas deals will have a matching speed of 30 millionths of a second. Modern trading firms colocate their systems as physically close to the “matching engines” as possible as a way to gain a few milliseconds of edge over others.

“Perseus offers high precision trading access in colocation centers worldwide, and adding Atlas as a new and highly liquid platform is an immediate response to customers demanding Bitcoin trading,” Perseus CEO Jock Percy said in a statement. “The Perseus Digital Currency Initiative is providing governance strictly supporting KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) principles.”

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