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It sounds like a rejected Game of Thrones city… Well, the Internet practically fell apart yesterday.  It was revealed that there is an incredibly serious bug in Open SSL, nicknamed “Heartbleed”, that allows hackers to access pretty much all the information […]

I’ll take a mocha and your Wi-Fi password, please… Everyone likes quick Wi-Fi—that’s a fact.  Wi-Fi is like the lifeblood in a bloodless, non-connected world.  Well, things are about to get a whole heck of a lot quicker in the […]

I’ve always wanted to build my own satellite orbiting software… Space is vast, but the world of space exploration is about to get a lot more open…sourced.  NASA has officially decided to release all of its software code for all […]

Ever want to see a visual map of cyber-attacks?  Sure you do… We talk a little bit about security, keeping safe online and how to keep your data secure in the case of a threat.  One of the major threats […]

Healthcare.gov went down this morning to the surprise of nobody… If you were one of the millions of people trying to sign up for healthcare under the ACA this morning, and you tried to use Healthcare.gov, you probably still haven’t […]

Encrypting your data for security is good.  Encrypting your data for ransom is terrible. Encryption can help protect your data in the event of some prying eyes by encoding the data so that only authorized users can see it.  Encryption […]

Big companies need big software for big data. Big data, “Big Table” and now big collaboration.  Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn went all ‘Avengers’ on everyone and teamed up to develop a new database based off the MySQL database program […]

In your face, spies! It took a long while, but they’re about to finally change things around with how the NSA works.  President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection of phone metadata by the NSA, […]

Because banning people from a free service always works out well… If you haven’t been paying attention to the news (how dare you!), then you likely haven’t seen that Turkey (the country, not the bird) has tried to ban Twitter […]