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Facebook atoned for “Year in Review” Posts

December 29, 2014 By June Harris

The social networking site, Facebook has apologized to the users to whom “Year in Review” has brought bad memories.
The new app actually compiles the most interacted photos of the users and presents them in with a caption “It’s been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it.”

Eric Meyer, a Web design consultant and writer, who lost his daughter to brain cancer earlier this year on her sixth birthday, wrote a blog post addressing the fact that the preview for his “Year in Review” post featured her photo, along with clip art of figures enjoying festivities.

Meyers wrote on Dec, 24 saying “For those of us who lived through the death of loved ones, or spent extended time in the hospital, or were hit by divorce or losing a job or any one of a hundred crises, we might not want another look at this past year,”

Jonathan Gheller, product manager for the “Year in Review” app, told the Washington Post that he reached out to Meyer to apologize on behalf on the company for causing him pain.

“[The app] was awesome for a lot of people, but clearly in this case we brought him grief rather than joy,” Gheller said. He added that Facebook’s team would take Gheller’s concerns into account for next time.

NASA’s NuSTAR Captures Most Delicate Pictures Of Our Sun

December 23, 2014 By Carol Harper

NASA’s NuSTAR has enjoyed a reprieve from peering into the far-away Universe and utilized its high-energy X-rays to snap the most delicate and shocking pictures of our Sun to date, putting any Christmas shows on Earth to disgrace.

The NuSTAR, or Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, mission was sent into space in 2012, intended to recognize black holes and other space articles found outside our earth’s planetary group. So why would researchers utilize the most delicate high-energy X-ray telescope ever constructed to take a picture of the Sun? Well, the Sun may be well-studied on and near and dear, generally talking, yet it still has its coverts.

Moreover, NuSTAR, which can manage the strong intensity of the Sun without being harmed, contrasting to various other telescopes, may be the way to opening some of those mysteries. For instance, specialists expect to increase understanding into the amazingly high temperatures found above sunspots – cool, dark patches on the Sun.

However, maybe most charming is the thing that they may find out nanoflares – little versions of the Sun’s monster flares that emit with charged particles and high-energy radiation. Nanoflares are just a theoretical thought, however if they do certainly exist, they may help clarify the “coronal warming issue.” The corona, or the Sun’s external environment, on average is 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit (1 million degrees Celsius), while the surface of the Sun is “just” 10,800 Fahrenheit (6,000 Celsius). The scorching hot corona contrasted with the generally cooler surface has been a long-standing riddle among researchers, and NuSTAR could help figure out if nanoflares are the cause of this severe heat.

“NuSTAR will provide us an exclusive gaze at the Sun, from the deepest to the most astounding parts of its environment,” David Smith, a solar physicist and part of the NuSTAR group at University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an announcement.

Additionally, the telescope’s accurate X-rays may have the capacity to spot another hypothetical riddle – dark matter. Particularly, the dark matter particles called axions, which would show up as a spot of X-rays in the heart of the Sun.

SONY Attackers Leaked Trove Of Records Including Employee Passwords

December 2, 2014 By Carol Harper

Everybody is terrible at passwords; that is nothing new. Yet if you’re working at a prominent studio like Sony, maybe you ought to pick a finer secret word than “s0ny123” or “password.”

Days after the enormous hack against Sony, a group of hackers calling themselves “GOP”(Guardian of Peace) discarded online a trove of records that seem to be from the internal computers of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The documents contain all types of data, for example, sales reports, syndication contracts, and employee salaries.

Along with the hacked trove is also a folder called, just, “passwords.” And much the same as you’d expect, inside the folder there’s a document called “passwords.doc” dated March 2, 2011, which contains what resembles a rundown of worker usernames, passwords, and even credit card numbers.

One more folder in the trove contained payroll spreadsheets, with details, for example, workers’ names, occupation titles, home addresses, and current pay rates. A portion of the spreadsheet records is ensured by a password — a decent security practice. Sadly, within the same folder, there’s also a file named “passwords” which contains the password to open the documents.

It’s still misty how the hacker got access to Sony’s computer systems, and how they found themselves able to siphon out a huge number of documents. However, judging from the utilization of frightful passwords and the act of placing passwords in folders right beside the files they are suppose to protect, Sony’s security practices may be worthy of some responsibility.

Certainly, this isn’t the first time Sony has been trapped using awful security and password rehearses. Way back in 2011, Sony was broken numerous times, hitting the organization’s Playstation Network and Sony Pictures, uncovering 37,000 client accounts. The hack uncovered that Sony was putting away those clients’ passwords in plaintext instead of encrypting them, which is currently the diligence standard.

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