Since you last saw Frank Frankovsky, his beard has grown to epic lengths. And it suits him. As the man at the center of Facebook's Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking the very essence of the compter hardware that runs the company's massive social network -- and sharing its ever-evolving data center ideology with the rest of the tech world. He's a kind of hardware p
If you walk into one of the massive data centers that underpin Facebook’s ever-expanding online empire, you’ll find tens of thousands of computer servers, many of them designed by Facebook itself. But those aren’t the only machines you’ll see stacked by the dozens inside these warehouse-sized computing centers. You’ll also find Mac Minis. If you walk into one of the massive data centers that under
Brad Fitzpatrick was using the most routine bit of Google software you can imagine when the damn thing stalled. The download was 99 percent done and just stopped. Download stalls happen every day, but Fitzpatrick took it personally. He’s an engineer at Google, one of the most tech-savvy companies on the planet. This simply isn’t […] Brad Fitzpatrick was using the most routine bit of Google softwar
Francis Irving manages his house on GitHub, the open source software repository that has evolved into something more. Francis Irving manages his house on GitHub, the open source software repository that has evolved into something more.Photo: Hakim Cassimally When Mark Wainwright visited his friend Francis Irving in Liverpool last May, he nearly locked himself in his small guest room just beneath t
You love your Kindle, but you hate the DRM. What do you do? Well, if you like, we’ll tell you how to strip the copy-protection from your e-books, leaving a plain, vanilla e-book file in the format of your choice. This doesn’t just work for Kindle book, either. The method, detailed by Apprentice Alf, will […] You love your Kindle, but you hate the DRM. What do you do? Well, if you like, we'll tell
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. Here's the story of exactly how my hackers created havoc by exploiting Apple and Amazon security flaws. Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers.Pho
A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeaks staffers. Key members of WikiLeaks were angered to learn last month that Assange had secretly provided media […] A domino chain of resignations
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