Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Lavabit, Silent Circle Email Shutdown: What’s Next?

  [caption id="attachment_11487" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lavabit's message.[/caption] On August 8, anyone attempting to login to Lavabit found the secure email service’s homescreen replace…
• Citrix Shipping Way to Customize Golden Image

  Citrix Systems plans on introducing a new version of its XenClient desktop hypervisor-based virtual desktop next week with better server-based management and support for virtual storage. The new…
• Pentaho, Splunk and the Great Machine-Data Blending

  [caption id="attachment_11448" align="aligncenter" width="500"] There are a lot of ghosts in the machines.[/caption] Pentaho and Splunk have announced a new collaboration over machine data, with…
• Amazon Opens Kindle Fire to HTML5 Web Apps

  Amazon has opened up its Kindle Fire tablet to HTML5 Web apps. The online retailer’s newly released tools for HTML5 Web apps include a Web App Tester (complete with debugging tools and a producti…
• The Science Behind 'Elysium'

  [caption id="attachment_11432" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Matt Damon (l) and Sharlto Copley (r) have a reasoned discussion about inequality. Just kidding, they spend the whole movie shootin…
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  How Bezos Buying The Washington Post Could Strengthen Amazon

  [caption id="attachment_11410" align="aligncenter" width="510"] Amazon's Kindle Fire.[/caption] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has purchased The Washington Post, one of the largest U.S. newspapers still s…
• Hurricane Season Coming: Prepare Your Datacenter

  [caption id="attachment_11401" align="aligncenter" width="500"] It pays to be prepared.[/caption] It’s August, and that means hurricane season for the U.S. East Coast is rapidly approaching. In 2…
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  Hacking a Bluetooth-Enabled Toilet

  Think it’s bad when someone hacks your PC or smartphone? Welcome to our interconnected future: thanks to Bluetooth, a determined hacker can now do malicious things to your Bluetooth-enabled toile…
• Supercomputer Launches World's Largest Neuronal-Network Simulation

  Researchers in Japan and Germany have carried out what’s being described as the largest neuronal network simulation to date. That simulation leveraged open-source NEST software running on K compu…
• NSA Director Tries Playing Nice With Black Hat Hackers

  U.S. Army General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, pled for a bit of understanding from attendees at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. “You’re the…