Wayne Rash

For some people with the neurological condition, synesthesia can be a lovely thing when the sounds they hear also produce colors.  But computer scientists from Tel Aviv University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have discovered a computer version of synesthesia that allows them to determine what’s being displayed on a monitor […]

For many Apple observers, 2018 is looking like it’s going to be what’s called an “S” year. This means that the new iPhone X models will be called XS, and the upgrades will be relatively minor, focusing on things such as faster processors.  But there will still be changes in the iPhone lineup, including a […]

The text message arrived Aug. 24 during my morning coffee. “T-Mobile MSG: Hello – We ID’d & shut down an unauthorized capture of your info. No financial info / SSN taken but some personal info may have been.” That was followed by a link to T-Mobile’s security announcement, which basically said the same thing.  While […]

WASHINGTON—After the scandal created by the revelations that Cambridge Analytica misused the personal information of 87 million Facebook users, members of Congress began considering ways to rein in the unbridled power of social media companies and the companies known on Capitol Hill as Big Tech.  To that end, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), co-chair of the […]

Microsoft officials said Aug. 21 that it shut down six disinformation and spoofing internet domains operated by the Russian cyber-espionage group Strontium, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear.  The company announced its actions in a blog post by its President Brad Smith who said that the company obtained a court order transferring the domains […]

Lenovo’s P920 dual-processor professional workstation is designed for the kind of workloads that most computers simply cannot do. Outfit it properly, and it’s the perfect solution for research, artificial intelligence development, engineering or serious graphics rendering.  The P920 is expensive, but it’s designed to be a computer that will last for a long time, and […]

President Donald Trump has signed the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act into law requiring the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide cyber-security resources to small and medium businesses.  In this case, “resources” means guidelines, tools, best practices, standards, methodologies and other information designed to help SMBs. The law also requires the director of […]

The newly revealed Intel L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability, also known as Foreshadow, provides a new round of challenges for system administrators who must now find ways to protect their organization’s computers against what could be serious attacks.  Intel has released a blog post describing the flaws and explaining how they can affect systems through leakage […]

At first glance, the new Lenovo ThinkPad T480 appears indistinguishable from last year’s T470, and that’s no accident. For nearly two decades, ThinkPads have had the same rugged, flat-black looks, similar keyboard layouts and clear usable screens. But under that business-like appearance lives a laptop computer that keeps getting better every year.  But there’s more […]

By now, if you didn’t know that Google is tracking your movements, you at least suspected it. Google makes a vast amount of its already enormous revenue by knowing and retaining as much information as possible about as many people as possible.  This information includes your whereabouts, your travel, and how your travels intersect with […]