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Scientists at an aquarium just figured out how to save Florida’s ‘Great Barrier Reef’

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Scientists in Florida may have just saved the the third largest coral reef on the planet. Florida Aquarium Senior Coral Scientist Keri O’Neil, aka “The Coral Whisperer,” and her team of researchers today announced they’d successfully spawned Atlantic coral in a laboratory – the first time this has been accomplished. The implications for their work will almost certainly save “America’s Barrier Reef,” and will probably have a huge impact on efforts to resuscitate coral populations around the world. Not bad for a group of people who’ve spent the last few years teaching sex ed. Coral colonies throughout the world’s oceans…

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The Club, an ‘MMO’ from one of the Stanley Parable devs, is bonkers

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 5:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Sometimes I come into work and my European colleagues have had a relatively quiet day. Other days I come in and someone tells me they’ve spotted something so bizarre, so wonderful that I immediately think, “I gotta check this shit out.” In this case, it was my boss telling me he’d just found out that the developers of The Stanley Parable had made a 90s-esque browser MMO set in a dance club. I’m sorry… what? It’s simply titled The Club. If you’d told me this time yesterday that I’d be checking out a game like this, I’d have told you to lay off the…

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Ignore these 3 cybersecurity risks at your own peril

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 5:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


Cybersecurity is often described as a 360-degree threat. That term refers to the fact that cyberattacks can come from any direction, in hundreds of different forms — many of them unfamiliar and unexpected. At this point, it’s unrealistic to expect 360-degree protection. The cybersecurity landscape changes so quickly as hackers adapt new techniques. Last year Cisco’s annual cybersecurity report went so far as to describe adversaries striking an organization as inevitable and recommended ways to reduce rather than eliminate risks. That’s because businesses suffering security breaches are becoming a commonplace occurrence, and while you cannot omit all cyberthreats, you can…

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3 pivotal Bitcoin figures thought to be Satoshi that you should know about

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 1:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Hard Fork Basics


Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. One of today’s greatest technology mysteries is not how Bitcoin works, but who created it. On October 31, 2008, someone, somewhere, published Bitcoin‘s white paper on a cryptography mailing list under the ‘Satoshi Nakamoto‘ pseudonym. It’s been well over 10 years but despite the many Faketoshis, we aren’t any closer to knowing who the real Nakamoto is. There have been many candidates, some of them even self-nominated (aka Craig Steven Wright and most recently James Bilal…

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Liquidators of dead shitcoin factory Cryptopia must reconcile 900,000 user accounts one-by-one

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The liquidator overseeing the slow death of New Zealand-based shitcoin factory Cryptopia has issued its latest update and states progress is “pleasing.” However, it’s not all been plain sailing for liquidators Grant Thornton. It took several months for the liquidator to obtain Cryptopia‘s data from the exchange’s third-party data servers. What’s more, the data appears to show that users didn’t have individual wallets. Yikes. While that might sound trivial, it was the only record of customer holdings Cryptopia maintained. In some cases, it was also the only place certain crypto-assets were stored. In reality, obtaining this data was one of…

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