September 2011

The story began in July when DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority, identified an intrusion into their systems with an SSL certificate being compromised. As the days passed the investigation has unearthed a very worrying situation finding that the SSL certificates stolen are more than five hundred.

The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber (Italian edition)

The novel “The Silver Eggheads” by Fritz Leiber was published for the first time in 1963. It was originally a novella that appeared in the “Magazine of Fantasy & SF” in January 1959 and was expanded later. In the future, writers just provide the basic ideas to wordmills, machines created to materially write novels. Writers just show off to their fans adopting ways and looks precisely defined in their contracts. One day writers rebel.

A picture of the Tisdale 2 rock taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity (photo NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The Mars Rover Opportunity reached the Endeavour crater about three weeks ago after a long journey and it’s already making discoveries that are very interesting from a scientific point of view. In fact the first analysis confirms that the environmental conditions of ancient Mars were favorable to life.