Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Gauss: Another Cyber-Espionage Toolkit Based on Flame Platform
August 9th, 2012Via: Kaspersky Lab: While analyzing the Flame malware that we detected in May 2012, Kaspersky Lab experts identified some distinguishing features of Flame’s modules. Based on those features, we discovered that in 2009, the first variant of the Stuxnet worm included a module that was created based on the Flame platform. This indicates that there […]
Kamikaze Drones
August 9th, 2012Via: Army Technology: From the earliest days of military bomb-disposal robotics, their very purpose embraced the possibility that they may be damaged or destroyed during their mission, while protecting the lives of humans who would otherwise be doing the job. But the great expense involved in their development and production meant that every precaution possible […]
Kremlin Wiretaps Dissident Blogger — Who Tweets the Bug
August 9th, 2012Via: Wired: Alexei Navalny showed up to work in Moscow on Monday to discover he was being bugged. He called the police, like many perhaps would, but not before tweeting photos and video of himself and his colleagues taking the Kremlin’s monitoring devices apart. It’s not hard to figure out why Navalny was bugged. He’s […]
3-D Printer Brings “Magic Arms” to a Two-Year-Old
August 9th, 2012Via: AllThingsD: Two-year-old Emma Lavelle was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (or AMC), a condition that stunts the development of her muscles and stiffens her joints. As a result, her capacity for movement has been severely limited, and she has spent much of her life undergoing surgeries and corrective treatments. One of the most promising […]
NYPD and Microsoft Team Up to Peddle Retroactive Surveillance System
August 9th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Microsoft helped the New York Police Department build a surveillance and intelligence sharing network to fight terrorism and help investigators solve crimes. Now the NYPD will get a hefty cut of the revenue as the partners prepare to jointly market the intelligence system to other police departments around the world. Microsoft […]
FastStone Image Viewer
August 9th, 2012I’ve recently gotten back into photography a bit. I bought a Sony RX-100 (which I think of as producing results akin to a pocketable DSLR) and a Canon PIXMA iP4950 photo printer. The print quality that’s available to people at home is just amazing with these tools. One thing I was missing was a fast […]
Internet Archive: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies
August 8th, 2012Via: Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow).
Chart of the Day, HFT Edition
August 8th, 2012Via: Reuters: This astonishing GIF comes from Nanex, and shows the amount of high-frequency trading in the stock market from January 2007 to January 2012. (Which means that the Knightmare craziness of last week is not included.) More: Nanex
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
August 8th, 2012Via: Wired: The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program. “This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts […]
Possible Egyptian Pyramids Found Using Google Earth
August 8th, 2012Via: Archeology News Network: Two unidentified, possible pyramid complexes have been located with satellite imagery from Google Earth. One of the complex sites contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width. This site contains three smaller mounds in a very clear formation, similar to the diagonal alignment of the […]
