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Tuesday Afternoon (4 Comments) (link)
 Tuesday, 24-June-2014  12:22:09 (GMT +10) - by aftahours

A hacker has hijacked Synology NAS boxes for a Dogecoin mining operation and made himself at least $600,000 USD. Dell's SecureWorks site goes into quite a bit of detail on how the exploit was executed. Thanks mpot.

Harley-Davidson have made their first electric motorcycle, and it actually isn't too bad at all. The LiveWire offers 74 horsepower, 52 foot-pounds of torque and a (governed) top speed of 92 mph.

Techreport have performed an SSD Endurance Experiment on six SSDs. Now, after an astounding one petabyte of writes, only three of the drives remain. Join us for a closer look at how the casualties failed and how the survivors are holding up.

Interesting article on Engadget about 3D Printing, and TweakTown have a writeup on some 3D printing tips and tricks, and how to keep your electronics cool.

After Vodafone's network outages recently, they offered a free data weekend, and apparently customers consumed a record amount of downloaded data. Vodafone said its customers consumed 590 terabytes of data nationally - twice as much compared to the weekend before.

iiNet's chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby has strongly voiced its stance on Internet piracy in Australia in a blog post on iiNet's website. File sharing is a multi-headed Hydra that government filtering and legal threats will never slay.

Soon Google will provide their own independant domain registration service, shifting the company away from its dependance on companies like GoDaddy and eNom.

Legit Reviews have a round-up of E3 2014 posted.



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