Facebook to Debut Own Search Tool on Monday
Facebook has been steadily improving its own search engine for a while now and lately has been dropping some major hints about the service. I guess Facebook felt it was about time for the other shoe to drop and that shoe was Bing Search. A report from Reuters has Facebook dropping Bing in favor of the in-house Facebook Search with the official announcement coming on Monday.
Facebook was using Bing to produce search results as its in-house search engine, allowing Facebook users to look for more information about their friends. Selecting Bing as a partner was also a way for Facebook to keep rival Google's search engine away from the social network.
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Computer Glitch Brings London's Airports to a Standstill
If you haven't heard, all flights in or out of London's airports were cancelled for hours yesterday causing a ripple effect that went all around the globe. Human error or bad weather are the first things that come to mind, but in this case, you can blame technology.
As for the root cause of the glitch, a post on the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation website suggested that a faulty server was to blame for the system going down.
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US Navy's Laser Cannon Warship Deployed to the Gulf
It's been a long time coming, but after years of development and testing, the Navy's very first operational laser cannon equipped ship, the USS Ponce, has been deployed in a combat zone. The ship carries a 30 kilowatt laser system (LaWS) and has a range of around one mile.
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The FBI Is Warning US Businesses About Iranian Hackers
In a new paper just released, Reuters is reporting that the FBI is issuing warnings to critical US businesses of the danger of being targeted by Iranian hackers in an operation named Operation Cleaver. The FBI has warned defense contractors, research firms, universities doing studies for the US government and utilities of looming attacks that may be waged on their facilities in the near future.
In case you needed the point stressing any further, this week's hacks on Sony have shown the damage that can be done through infiltration of IT systems — and that was just a movie-maker. What could be done if defense and energy companies get that thoroughly hacked is just plain scary.
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Critical Security Bugs Dating Back to 1987 Found in X Window
This is one of those times where you shrug and say 'well, better late than never' when you talk about patching security flaws. X.org has overlooked a critical flaw that could be exploited for the past 27 years, but the good news is there are patches, fixes and workarounds in the offing. The really good news is the bad guys never found it either.
How critical these vulnerabilities are to any given installation depends on whether they run an X server with root privileges or reduced privileges.
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Patch 1.5.0 for the PC Version of Far Cry 4 Has Been Released
If you have been experiencing problems with mouse acceleration and stuttering, Ubisoft has issued a patch to address those problems along with other fixes and tweaks. At this moment, the fix is only for the PC with consoles patches on the way.
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eBay Planning Massive Job Cuts Following PayPal Split
Ever since PayPal began separating from eBay's combined operations, business analysts predicted the axe would fall, and fall hard to trim expenses. Reports have eBay looking at cutting almost 10% of its entire workforce or a grand total of about 3K jobs sometime in 1Q2015. Merry Christmas from eBay.
The purge would be the most significant round of layoffs for eBay since 2008, when it shed some 1,600 jobs.
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Official Elite: Dangerous Launch Trailer Released
Frontier Developments have begun beating the drums for the upcoming release of Elite: Dangerous on December 16th for both Mac and PC platforms. Check out the video.
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Pirate Bay Search and Data Resurrected by IsoHunt
Earlier this week, Pirate Bay was raided and taken down by the Swedish Police. Peter Sunde, one of the co-creators of Pirate Bay announced that the site should never be resurrected and just left to die on its own, but some people just can't take a hint. The ISOHunt team considers Pirate Bay worth saving and put up a new site for users to search for content stored in the Pirate Bay database.
It its honor we're making the oldpiratebay.org search. We, the IsoHunt team, copied the database of Pirate Bay in order to save it for generations of users. Nothing will be forgotten. Keep on believing, keep on sharing.
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Samsung Merging Its Two Main U.S. Subsidiaries
Facing declining overall profits, Samsung has made the decision to combine its two major United States subsidiaries into one corporation. The new combined operation will be known as Samsung Electronics America.
Samsung has also said it will narrow its smartphone product line in an effort to improve the unit's profitability.
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Chromecast Initiates Guest Mode for TV Sharing
Google promised back in June that the Chromecast dongle would support a guest mode which would allow friends to share use of Google Chromecast without using your WiFi network or needing access to your password. Google made good on that promise this week.
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General Mayhem "Sneak Peek" Happening Now!
It's been quite a while since we opened up the secret door and granted access to our subscription forum. This weekend, we invite you to join us for free, so Shuffle on over to General Mayhem, the BreadBox, [H]obbies, and Cars forums that normally are not visible without a membership. Come join us now and see what you have been missing.
Pricing for the entire General Mayhem forum, which includes the General Mayhem forum itself, WLWC (Web Linkage Worth Clicking), the infamous Soapbox, the Breadbox, Cars/Motor Vehicles, [H]obbies and all of their sub-forums is a mere $5 bucks for a year's membership or all of you with long term plans, there is a $15 Lifetime Membership. It's money well-spent regardless of the plan you choose.
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Instagram Gains Momentum, Passing Twitter
Instagram announced this week that the active user base had made a giant leap, crossing the 300 Million threshold mark and in doing so, surpassing Twitter by 16 Million active users, according to Computerworld.
Instagram's impressive growth stems from its population with millennials, who have a strong connection with social networking, selfies and journeys.
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Lenovo Recalls Computer Power Cords Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall on Lenovo's LS-15 AC power cord due to a known fire hazard. If you own one, stop using immediately and contact Lenovo for a free replacement. There are no reported injuries, so don't become the first.
Consumers should immediately unplug and stop using the recalled power cords and contact Lenovo for a free replacement.
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EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W Power Supply Review
EVGA has a bit of a rocky road with HardOCP when it comes to PSU reviews. Today we give EVGA the opportunity to redeem itself with its 1300 watt powerhouse touting "exceptional efficiency" and a fully modular design that is "silent and optimized for the enthusiast." All this with a 10 year warranty? It must be a badass.
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XFX Radeon R9 290 Double Dissipation Edition Review
Today on our test bench we will pit the XFX Radeon R9 290 Double Dissipation Edition against a pair of green team cards to determine the king of the mid range. Prices have fallen a dramatically in recent weeks on AMD R9 290 GPU based video cards. Should you count these out in light of the new GeForce GTX 970? We will find out today.
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