- Android Malware Numbers — (Quartz) less than an estimated 0.001% of app installations on Android are able to evade the system’s multi-layered defenses and cause harm to users, based on Google’s analysis of 1.5B downloads and installs.
- Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan — long interview about OCP’s network project. The specification that we are working on is essentially a switch that behaves like compute. It starts up, it has a BIOS environment to do its diagnostics and testing, and then it will look for an executable and go find an operating system. You point it to an operating system and that tells it how it will behave and what it is going to run. In that model, you can run traditional network operating systems, or you can run Linux-style implementations, you can run OpenFlow if you want. And on top of that, you can build your protocol sets and applications.
- How Red Bull Dominates F1 (Quartz) — answer: data, and lots of it.
- Ground-Level Air Pollution Sensor (Make) — neat sensor project from Make.
Four short links: 9 October 2013
Android Malware Numbers, Open Networking Hardware, Winning with Data, and DIY Pollution Sensor
tags: android, Big Data, environment, Facebook, hardware, Make, malware, networking, numbers, open compute, sensor network