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Can Power Grid Be Hacked?
A smarter network doesn’t necessarily mean a safer network, or so goes the thinking when it comes to the new intelligent power grid. It is seen as an increased security risk. It has been rumored that Chinese paramilitary hackers have taken tried to take down parts of the U.S. power grid and caused blackouts. Former CIA director-turn-venture-capitalist James Woolsey asked a panel of energy experts at the Google/Brookings plug-in electric vehicle conference in Washington this month what is being done to address this threat. We wanted to know too so we asked some smart grid startups. The threat is real, they say, and the solution is IP. Continue reading at Earth2Tech and watch the video.
Programming Alert: Structure 08 & GigaNET
The big day has finally come. In a few hours we are going to kick off Structure 08, which we will be covering extensively today - from live blogs to video interviews to a live video stream. So stay tuned for more and in the meantime please check out these articles from our network:
- NewTeeVee: Flick write, change channels. All you need is a Hillcrest remote.
- NewTeeVee Station: Shaq raps, slams Kobe. Now on tape. … or whatever!
- Earth2Tech: Interviews René Penning de Vries, an SVP and chief technology officer of NXP about the business of designing energy efficient gadgets.
- OStatic: Symbian goes open source.
- WebWorkerDaily: Tips to aggregate all your social networks and stay on top of the data flow.
June 20: What’s on GigaNET
There is some seriously good stuff on our network of sites today. Here are our top picks, for your Friday reading pleasure:
- NewTeeVee: Liz Gannes has a simple and logical way for YouTube to monetize the much-loathed but very popular user-generated videos, including Nora the piano-playing cat.
- Earth2Tech: T. Boone Pickens is set to spend $12 billion on the world’s largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, but his water investment in the area — around $100 million so far — could make an equally big splash for the ex-oilman.
- OStatic: Red Hat has entered the virtualization game by announcing their own hypervisor.
- WebWorkerDaily: Coping with FON-liness. One user decides that the WiFi-sharing service FON is not for him; he explains why he’s giving up on the service that promised to change the world.
- Refresh the Net: Why Five Nines is not enough when it comes to web infrastructure, considering how flexible the term availability has become.
June 16: What’s On GigaNET
- Earth2Tech: Tech giants are going solar. Intel spins out (and funds) SpectraWatt.
- NewTeeVee: BitTorrent client, Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has gone social and more webby.
- OStatic: Open source is everywhere: electoral voting & census are two of the more interesting mainstream efforts.
- Webworkerdaily: Can’t wait for the most devastating kiling machine every built. Aka Firefox.
- NewTeeVee Station: One week old and already tearing it up. Including post father day tips at Dadlabls.
What’s On GigaNet: Weekend Edition
Here are some of the stories on our network of sites that are worth reading this weekend.
- OStatic: Opensource Dia takes on Microsoft Visio. It is pretty good.
- WebWorkerDaily: Many many things that are wrong about Google’s products, including lack of an integrated experience.
- NewTeeVee: tells you how to promote your television show on P2P networks, and not hate on them.
- Earth2Tech: Despite selling tons of power guzzling monster processors, Intel says it has a green plan. Stacey gives us a quick glimpse here.
- NewTeeVee Station: Why the Internet loves Barack Obama
What’s On GigaNET: Late Night Edition
- NewTeeVee: ISPs shut down Usenet to save children and cash.
- NewTeeVee: Cat lovers may get their video fix with secret Cheezburger Video Project.
- Earth2Tech: SF Mayor says City’s Solar Program by July 2008.
- WebWorkerDaily: The importance of pursuing offline interests.
- NewTeeVee Station: A conversation with Rocketboom creator, Andrew Baron.
GigaNET PM: Cable Woes Open Source Google
- NewTeeVee: Try as he might, writer Chris Albrecht just can’t break up with cable. Any suggestions?
- Web Worker Daily: It may not be Web 2.0, but it’s darned useful: Eights ways to use a whiteboard in your home office.
- OStatic : Google’s now allowing the download of five well-known Ajax libraries (Dojo, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Mootools, and jQuery).
GigaNET Headlines: Weekend Edition
Meet Refresh The Net, an accompanying blog for our conference Structure’08. The mini-blog is going to feature thoughts from some of the speakers and attendees at the conference, and why they believe that the Internet infrastructure should be rethought. We hope to offer these articles and our own work on cloud computing as a PDF download on the day of the conference. We already have three excellent articles that are worth your time this weekend.
- Dr. Larry Roberts: Why achieving equality is critical to the future of the Internet.
- Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge: The geography of Internet Infrastructure.
- Surj Patel: Why Google Needs its own nuclear plant.
Also check out these posts from rest of our network.
- WebWorkerDaily: The Perfect Productivity System.
- Earth2Tech: Major League Solar: Baseball Goes Green.
- OStatic: Phoenix Mars Lander, a victory for Open Source software.
- NewTeeVee: Google thinks YouTube is all about Paris Hilton.
- NewTeeVee: What’s hot on BitTorrent? Check out the NTV weekly report, thanks to data from Big Champagne.
GigaNET AM: Millennial TV, Comcast DVR & More
- Earth2Tech: 5 Energy monitoring start-ups to help you cut home power.
- NewTeeVee: How Generation Millennial control the future of video and television.
- WebWorkerDaily: How to switch from Exchange to Google Apps.
- NewTeeVee: Comcast DVR: Still dumb, but doing better.
- Found|Read: 8 commandments for marketing your startup.
GigaNET: Obama Girl, EQAL & TwitterFone
- NewTeeVee: The men behind Obama Girl are going to the movies.
- NewTeeVee: Quincy Smith Q&A: CNET, EQAL and embeds.
- WebWorkerDaily: Do apps like TwitterFone signal the future?
- OStatic: How to download and save web videos, the Firefox way.
- WebWorkerDaily: Putting VoIP to work.
What’s On GigaNET: BitTorrent, Sun, Craig Venter & More
- FoundRead: 2 Common mistakes in negotiations and how to avoid them.
- Earth2Tech: How Artificial Life will re-energize the planet
- NewTeeVee: BitTorrent reveals its DNA
- WebWorkerDaily: 5 Things that will improve your website traffic(and 1 to avoid)