Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

30th March 2015

A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. ...

BGP spoofing - why nothing on the internet is actually secure

7th March 2015

he scariest hack of them all on the internet has been around for a long time, but it doesn't get a lot of attention in the broader tech press. It's BGP spoofing and it compromises the most basic functions of the internet: the routing of data from one system to another.Effective use of BGP spoofing is not within the reach of script kiddies, but ...

CRTC to introduce a new area code in southwestern Ontario

13th February 2015

OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that it will introduce a new area code in southwestern Ontario. Starting on June 4, 2015, new telephone numbers assigned in the 226 and 519 regions may be given area code 548. Existing customers will keep their current area codes and phone ...

Soft Switching Fails at Scale

10th December 2014

There is a significant camp of software developers who are developing software switching solutions for hypervisors. Which is nice, I guess. The use of software switching in the hypervisor has some good points but, in my view they are heavily outweighed by the bad. Update 20140715 Although the logic of this post remains sound at the time it was ...

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