Techy news picks of the day.

Jade

I hate it when people talk about a problem but do nothing about it. We need some serious action is we're going to stop the global warming.

I want snow!

Mr. Roboto

We just had snow in the Baltimore area; Just enough to make commuting a problem. It melted away already, but they're calling for more this coming week, plus it will be below freezing all week so it should stick around for a while. If it comes and sticks, I'll try to get some pix to post... just in case.

From the "History repeats for those who do not study it" department, the Veterans Administration proved they learned nothing about data security from the earlier loss of a laptop with personal information on it by now reporting a portable hard drive unit with personal information on it was lost late January.

Ak!mbo · Last edited by Ak!mbo on Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:48 pm; edited 2 times in total

Okay, tech heads, it's monday which means I've got a lot of time to spare and a lot of fellow students to kill violently. Maybe you'll get to read abouts it here..

News!

Nanotech engine, go!
One step closer to making nanomachines, apparently.
In older "news" scientists used nanomachines to move a drop of water up a slope. Slightly newer news, nanomachines where used to replace a blind hamsters damaged optical nerve and the little critter can see again!
As a drummer I find nanotech drum kit pickups way fucking cool!

Our pollution of space is showing effects and there's a ring of space debris slowly developing around Earth.
I say "Fuck yeah!", I always wanted a ring around the planet anyways! PLanet rings are dead cool, simple as that.
Of course, equatorial space launches will be a little risky..

Anonymous grow even anonymouser.

Police helmets fitted with audio/video recording gear. Pretty soon, we'll have cops running around in Jin Roh style hemlets!

Yahoo is about to compete with google ads.
Hoo-fucking-ray. As if google monitoring my habits wasn't bad enough..
This kind of stuff really reveals how much we're being monitored theough new tech..

Google Earth gets blurred by public government demand.

More on nanotech. Nano is definitly going to make itself heard during the new era of technology and research, nanotech will open so many doors in surveilance, cosmetics and computing.

Mr. Roboto

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev asks Bill Gates and company to show mercy for teacher who had, apparently unknowingly, violated Microsoft's licensing agreement.

ZDNet's Roland Piquepaille has a couple of blogs of research that can affect biotechnology. First, Duke University chemists discover that electrons travel through proteins like urban commuters.

Next, we discover that it only takes one picosecond (1E-12) for UV to damage DNA. Something to think about while working on your tan.

Jade

Hmm.. I really should know more about nanotech and biotech, because I'm doing a research for school Neutral

This topic is a good resource of information! Thanks, guys!

Mr. Roboto

Ever wonder if Bill Gates secretly wants M$ to fail? Vista, the "most secure version of Windows," is only one week old and already there are problems with its anti-virus and firewall. Now Gates is daring people to exploit Vista. Maybe he should change his name to "Elmer FUD." Heh heh heh heh.

MIT succeeds in putting optics on a silicon chip. They predict that optic chips will be in demand in five years.

Mr. Roboto

Breaking news on the hacker front:

DNS servers were targeted in an apparent DoS attack earlier today. There are 13 "root" DNS servers that help translate site names like "cyberpunkreview.com" to an IP address, but servers run by the US Department of Defense and ICANN seem to be the main targets of this attack.

The attack failed to crash the servers or any part of the Internet, though slowdowns were reported. A similar DoS attack occurred in 2002 also failed due to the distributed nature of the Internet.

sfam

Mr. Roboto

Here's the latest Big Brother news: New York senator Carl Krueger wants to ban pedestrians from using iPods and similar devices. He's an obvious sellout to the SUV-drivers-who-chat-away-on-cellphones special interest group.

At the RSA security conference, there's a new handheld called Silica that can hack into WiFi networks. The makers of Silica, Immunity Inc., have been filling orders for law enforcement and government agencies, but it won't be long before we hear of these "tools" being used as "weapons" by hackers... or Big Brother.

Ever wish you can do more with an iPod than listen to music or watch videos? There's a utility that can turn your iPod media player into a Mac OS X diagnostic and repair tool. Now if they can do the same for Windows and Linux...

Mr. Roboto

Canadian nuclear safety site defaced with photos of nuke explosions. Kovacs, you might want to consider staying in Syracuse as a permanent resident.

With biotechnology advancing rapidly, one question will eventually need to be answered: Which protein is better, natural or artificial?

Ak!mbo

Haha!
Hackers rule sometimes.
This just shows how much power they actually possess and how much they could fuck stuff up, but they chose to just deface the website and leave everything else be.

Raskol

Intention reading brain scan...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2009217,00.html

Scared? Anyone?

Jade