Blackhat will hit theaters on January 16th, 2015. The movie features Chris Hemsworth as an arrested hacker brought in by the government to stop another hacker that acts more like a cyber-terrorist. The trailer is embedded below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CA95Bzpy7s Set within the world of global cybercrime, Legendary’s Blackhat follows a furloughed convict and his … [Read more...]

"Turns out you should totally be talking to your server engineers when you have a plan like this." Jump ahead to 24:15 in the video World of Warcraft: Looking for Group to see the discussion of implementing the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj patch. It consisted of a large event per server that brought tons of people together, so much that CPUs were maxing out and servers were … [Read more...]

G4 - TV for Gamers, was a TV channel created in 2002 to capitalize on the growing gamer community. Unfortunately, it died a slow, painful death and alienated its audience as time went on. As its focus shifted further from games or even technology after absorbing the channel Tech TV, its audience and sponsors drifted further away. Ironically, streaming games like Minecraft, … [Read more...]

CBS's 60 Minutes had a segment this past Sunday on the topic of credit card breaches. Given the number of attacks at large retailers like Target, Home Depot, Michaels, PF Chang's, Dairy Queen, Jimmy Johns, and others, credit card breaches are making headlines and costing companies millions. Home Depot reported that its breach has cost the company over $43 million in the third … [Read more...]

NVIDIA announced last week that with IBM they will be building two supercomputers for the US Department of Energy. The supercomputers will be installed in 2017 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The supercomputers will use NVIDIA's Tesla GPU accelerators and using NVIDIA NVLink GPU interconnect technology. NVLink allows the … [Read more...]