Cellular Carrier IoT Connections Jump 33% in 2Q
But cellular IoT connections are just a small portion of IoT end points.
The Middle Ground for the Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU
Although the launch of Pascal stole headlines this year on the GPU computing front, the company’s Tesla K80 GPU, which was launched at the end of 2014, has been finding a home across a broader base of applications and forthcoming systems.
A quick look across the supercomputers on the Top 500 list shows that most sites are still using the Tesla K40 accelerator (launched in 2013) in their systems, with several still on the K20 (emerged in 2012). The Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (sports 2 K80s across 36 out of 1944 system nodes), an unnamed energy …
The Middle Ground for the Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
snaproute Go BGP Code Dive (7): Moving to Connect
In last week’s post, we looked at how snaproute’s implementation of BGP in Go moves into trying to connect to a new peer—we chased down the connectRetryTimer to see what it does, but we didn’t fully work through what the code does when actually moving to connect. To jump back into the code, this is where we stopped—
func (st *ConnectState) processEvent(event BGPFSMEvent, data interface{}) {
switch event {
....
case BGPEventConnRetryTimerExp:
st.fsm.StopConnToPeer()
st.fsm.StartConnectRetryTimer()
st.fsm.InitiateConnToPeer()
....
When the connectRetryTimer timer expires, it is not only restarted, but a new connection to the peer is attempted through st.fsm.InitiateConnToPeer(). This, then, is the next stop on the road to figuring out how this implementation of BGP brings up a peer. Before we get there, though, there’s an oddity here that needs to be addressed. If you look through the BGP FSM code, you will only find this call to initiate a connection to a peer in a few places. There is this call, and then one other call, here—
func (st *ConnectState) enter() {
....
st.fsm.AcceptPeerConn()
st.fsm.InitiateConnToPeer()
}The rest of the instances of InitiateConnToPeer() are related to the definition of the function. Continue reading
I gamergate Meredith Mciver
One of the basic skills of hackers is "doxxing". It's actually not a skill. All you need to do is a quick search of public records databases through sites like Spokeo, Intelius, and Ancestry.com and you can quickly dox anybody.During the Republican convention, Trump's wife plagiarized Obama's wife in a speech. A person in the Trump organization named "Meredith Mciver" took the blame for it. Trump haters immediately leapt to the conclusion that this person was fake, pointing out her Twitter and Facebook accounts were created after the controversy started.
So I'm going to go all gamergate on her and see what I can find.
According to New York public records, somebody named "Meredith Mciver" has been working for a company called the "The Trump Organization" as "Staff Writer" for many years. Her parents are Phyllis and James Mciver. Her older sister is Karen Mciver. She has an apartment at 588 W End Avenue in Manhattan (though I won't tell you which apartment -- find out for yourself). Through Ancestry.com, you can track down more information, such as her yearbook photo from 1962.
Now, all these public records could be fake, of course, but that would require Continue reading
Network Break 99: No Pay Rises But Bonuses Maybe
Are pay rises over pay rises for network pros ? The post Network Break 99: No Pay Rises But Bonuses Maybe appeared first on Packet Pushers.SDN Security Researchers State Their Case at Black Hat
When Seungwon Shin was a grad student, few people wanted to talk about software-defined networking (SDN) security. So say two of his grad students, Seungsoo Lee and Changhoon Yoon (left and right, respectively, in the photo above). But along with Shin, who’s now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology... Read more →
Worth Reading: The languages that almost became CSS
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Three “Telco Catastrophes” Hackers are Able to Cause
Privacy catastrophe, financial catastrophe, and performance catastrophe are three vulnerabilities hackers might take advantage of.