Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government
June 6th, 2011Via: Guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success […]
New Flow Battery Technology from MIT
June 6th, 2011Via: Technology Review: A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid. The technology could even make “refueling” such batteries as quick and easy as pumping gas into a conventional car. The new […]
Miami Police Smashed Mobile Phones Belonging to People Who Witnessed Shooting; One Witness Hid His Phone’s Memory Card in His Mouth
June 4th, 2011Update: Narces Benoit’s Video —End Update— This is a pretty timely development, coming just a day after the news about Apple’s iCensor technology. Via: Miami Herald: On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a […]
Introducing iCensor: Apple Is Patenting Technology That Will Cripple Its Devices When They Are In the Proximity of ‘A Concert or a Classified Facility’
June 3rd, 2011Forget Apple’s sycophantic entertainment industry boot licking for a moment. Will agents of the state have a kill switch on recording devices as well? Apparently so. The patent itself, U.S. Patent #20110128384 uses the phrase, “classified facility” as an example of a venue where the devices would be crippled. (Can you hear that sickening sound? […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals HEAT-1X Launched
June 3rd, 2011Via: Copenhagen Suborbitals:
China: Teenager Sells Kidney for iPad, Laptop Computer
June 3rd, 2011Via: BBC: A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report. The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.
Sony Hacked Again, One Million Accounts Compromised
June 3rd, 2011Via: Reuters: A hacker group has engineered yet another attack on the computer networks of Sony Corp, a setback to the Japanese company’s efforts to move past a security crisis that erupted in April. The group, which calls itself LulzSec, said on Thursday that it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites, and […]
Flashback 1969: GE Walking Truck
June 2nd, 2011Look familiar?
U.S. to View Major Cyber Attacks as Acts of War
May 31st, 2011The Bin Laden spectacle was completely absurd from top to bottom—and now… Via: AFP: The Pentagon has adopted a new strategy that will classify major cyber attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the Pentagon plans to unveil its first-ever […]
Test: Javascript Bitcoin Miner
May 30th, 2011Update: Good Video Cards for GPU Mining XFX Radeon HD 6990 XFX Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 —End Update— Update: HAHA Never Mind This misses doing anything worth doing by about four orders of magnitude. lol. Thanks to everyone who tried this out, but it’s the Bitcoin equivalent trying […]
