Category Archives: Technology, Science
Telstra’s Interpol filter goes live
[via] Australia’s largest telco (Telstra) has confirmed it had started filtering its customers’ Internet traffic for a blacklist of sites containing child pornography as compiled by international policing agency Interpol. Customers who visit one of the sites on Interpol’s list will be greeted by an Interpol ‘stop page’ which will explain that the content they […]
Microsoft and the USA Patriot Act
[zdnet/Zack Whittaker] LONDON – At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless of where it is in the world — is not protected against the USA PATRIOT Act. [...] The question put forward: “Can Microsoft guarantee that EU-stored data, held in EU […]
The Data Liberation Front Announces Google Takeout
[via/DataLiberation][YT video link] The Data Liberation Front The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create […]
Protect Your Computer and Phone from Illegal Police Searches
[EFF] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has up-dated its “Know Your Digital Rights” guide, including easy-to-understand tips on interacting with police officers and other law enforcement officials. “With smart phones, tablet computers, and laptops, we carry around with us an unprecedented amount of sensitive personal information,” said EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury. “That smart phone […]
Thank-you for sailing The Lulz Boat
[via] In a pastebin press release, @lulzsec says good bye, thank you, and carry on without us: Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, […]
Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers
[Guardian/Ryan Gallagher, Charles Arthur] • LulzSec IRC leak: the full record It was a tight-knit and enigmatic group finding its feet in the febrile world of hacker collectives, where exposing and embarrassing your targets is just as important as protecting your own identity. But leaked logs from LulzSec’s private chatroom – seen, and published today, by the […]
Google Begins Tracking/Ranking Individual Content Creators
[via/Marshall Kirkpatrick] Google has announced that it’s begun indexing attribution of content to particular authors, not just to the websites they appear on. Links associated with the author of a page can now have the code rel=”author” added to them and Google will understand that to mean that the linked name is the linking page’s author. That’s […]
Solar Flare
[via/Phil Plait][video link] What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region […]
WWDC 2011: The Musical
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Monash student finds Universe’s missing mass
[via Monash University] A Monash University student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe’s ‘missing mass’. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team at the Monash School of Physics, conducted a targeted X-ray search for the matter and within just three months found it […]
Chrome Angry Birds
Chrome Angry Birds Some Bits: Nelson’s weblog says One of Google’s big announcements this week was the launch of Chrome Angry Birds, a port of the hugely popular mobile game to Google’s browser. But calling it “Chrome Angry Birds” is missing the point because what’s really interesting is that it’s a real-time multimedia cross-platform HTML 5 […]
Sky-Net
MicroSkype: Andreessen settles accounts with Ballmer (The Register) – The story of Marc Andreessen, pioneer of Netscape, had been about how Microsoft fought dirty during the 1990s browser wars. Redmond, so the story goes, killed little Netscape by telling PC makers who dared drop Explorer from their machines in favour of Andreessen’s rival browser that Microsoft […]
Square Kilometre Array
The Australian Federal Government’s Budget 2011 provides $40.2 million over four years to support the country’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), in partnership with New Zealand. The SKA will be the largest and most advanced radio telescope ever constructed. It will consist of thousands of antennas, spread out across a continent and connected […]
iPhone Tracker
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn’t record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. more … Meanwhile… Mashable reports: Two security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of a user’s location and saves that information to a file […]
The Zodiac Calendar
[MetaFilter by FatherDagon] The zodiac calendar has been corrected based on the original Babylonian setup. “When [astrologers] say that the sun is in Pisces, it’s really not in Pisces,” said Parke Kunkle, a board member of the Minnesota Planetarium Society. [Star Tribune Article] The corrected zodiac: Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16. Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11. Pisces: March 11-April 18. […]
