An early heads-up. (Good) No details available.
(Typical)
'Data
incident' may have exposed Chili's credit card data
Chili's Grill & Bar has reported a "data
incident" of credit card information at some locations between
March and April.
Brinker
International, the owner off the restaurant chain, said Friday
data was breached at undisclosed "certain" locations. The
number of customers affected also were not disclosed.
The company said it learned Friday that it
believes malware was used to collect credit and debit card numbers
along with the names of cardholders from its payment systems.
The company said third-party forensic experts are
attempting to learn incident details.
Improved computers – better weather guessing.
Supercomputers
are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting
Back in 1998, the European Center for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts housed the 27th
most-powerful supercomputer in the world, with 116 cores providing a
maximum performance of 213 gigaflops. Today, the ECMWF forecasting
center has the world's 27th and 28th most powerful
supercomputers, each with 126,000 cores and 20,000 times the
computing power of its machine two decades ago.
This dramatic increase in computing power at the
European center—as well as similar increases at US-based and other
international numerical modeling centers—helps to explain the
dramatic increase in hurricane-forecast accuracy over the same time
period.
Based upon new data from the National Hurricane
Center for hurricanes based in the Atlantic basin, the average track
error for a five-day forecast fell to 155 nautical miles in 2017.
That is, the location predicted by the hurricane center for a given
storm was just 155 nautical miles away from the actual position of
the storm five days later. What is incredible about this is that,
back in 1998, this was the average error for a two-day track
forecast.
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