CERN: End of the world Sept. 10th
Nope – that’s when the Large Hadron Collider finally gets fired up!
Day: August 7, 2008
Google Insights for Search
Google has released a way updated version of Google Trends, namely Google Insights for Search. Insights allows you to compare search query popularity over regions (globally, continents, countries, counties, etc), show you what each search term is used for within context and allows you to specify time ranges. It doesn’t have an export to csv Read more about Google Insights for Search[…]
UK Passport troubles… again!
So after having had 3000 new blank ‘unbreakable’ passports stolen during delivery from the truck, they’ve (well, specifically, Jeroen van Beek of the UvA) now discovered that the passports can be cloned and altered (eg. have digital images inserted on them or other different biometrics, such as thumbprints, eyeprints) within a few minutes. The fraudulent Read more about UK Passport troubles… again![…]
Nitrogen oxide purifying concrete
The Dutch town of Hengelo will be trying out concrete that binds nitrogen oxide particles and using an additive turns these into harmless nitrates which are washed clean by the rain. Hengelo is testing this in one half of the new roads and measuring the effecacity by next summer.
Kaminsky DNS Flaw explained
So this is what we all had to fix for: basically a cache poisoning attack.