13 November 2013

As part of a Russian campaign to make citizens healthier

 
As part of a Russian campaign to make citizens healthier, Moscow subway riders have the option of paying for their tickets in 30 squats: http://cnet.co/1gEmSik

10 November 2013

dotcms Open Source CMS - Open Source Java CMS

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Léa Fares

09 November 2013

Should Google Be Forced To Filter Search Results?

There are a lot of people out there with things in their past that they're not proud of. Sometimes those things make there way to the Internet and do a great deal of damage to their reputation. This stuff comes up when people search on Google, and Google traditionally has not removed such content unless required to do so by law.

One man is currently trying to get his damaging content out of Google, and not just removed, but filtered as it's created. A French court has sided with him, and ordered Google to comply.

Do you think Google should be forced to filter results? 

24 September 2013

Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud

MIT News (09/11/13) Larry Hardesty 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a system that can quickly verify if a program running on the cloud is executing properly, and that no malicious code is interfering with the program. The system also protects the data used by applications running in the cloud, cryptographically ensuring that the user will not learn anything other than the immediate results of the requested computation. The system currently only works with programs written in the C programming language, but the researchers say adapting it to other languages should be straight forward. MIT's Alessandro Chiesa notes that since the system protects both the integrity of programs running in the cloud and the data they use, it is a good complement to the cryptographic technique known as homomorphic encryption, which protects the data transmitted by the users of cloud applications. The system implements a variation of a zero-knowledge proof, a type of mathematical game that enables one of the game's players to prove to the other that he or she knows a secret key without actually divulging it.

05 September 2013

DuckDuckGo Friends Newsletter #42


> Dear DuckDuckGo friends,
>
> Two new search records last month: breaking 4 million a day and 115 million for the month! https://duckduckgo.com/traffic/
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> We've continued to roll out changes to our community platform at http://dukgo.com/ and have a bunch more in store over the next few months. We're trying to consolidate all of our secondary sites onto this open-source platform. From this past month check out:
> -- new help pages: https://dukgo.com/help/en_US
> -- new feedback system: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback
> -- new blog posts highlighting some of our search partners: https://dukgo.com/blog
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> Thank you for your continued support!
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> The DuckDuckGo Team