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The visualising data blog has a few interesting graphs of how the wikileaks data shows the war in Afghanistan is spreading and getting progressively worse. They’ve also used data analysis to show that the data isn’t faked. Visualising the wikileaks war logs using tableau public Wikileaks War Logs: A triumph in ‘data journalism’?.
PhoneAble takes your iPhone library key and applies it to any number of other iTunes installations, allowing you to manage your music on whatever computer you happen to be at. via MemeCode – PhoneAble.
1. Open Cydia > Manage > Sources 2. Edit source and add http://repo.benm.at 3. Search Frash and install it. NB. it’s still very very beta… via The Easier Way to Install Flash on iPhone 4 and iPad.
Not only do you get to feel like a criminal upon entering the US, but your private information is also shared with other governmental agencies for no apparent reason. And if you come from the EU, you get to pay for the privelige on entry too. VS belast verplicht afgeven Nederlandse privédata | Webwereld.
This system uses a laser and a webcam to scan an item, which can then be printed with the cheap Markerbot 3D printer, or other printers. MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning.
This is pretty clear: Apple has submitted a patent using a picture that looks exactly like an app which has been in the app store for a few years. Bastards. Slashdot Apple Story | Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas.
IBM has published the most detailed map of a macaque brain ever, with 6602 of it’s pathways in 383 regions of the brain. Besides being pretty it’s very interesting
Well, there’s a surprise: airport full body scanners not only get peeked at by their collegues and turn into full colour pictures when you put a negative filter on them in photoshop, but they’ve been storing the images for ages. For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all Read more about Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images[…]
This works on laptops and is very customisable. MouseFIGHTER – mouse free PC !.
To get apps outside of the app store mafia, you had to jailbreak and install Cydia. Now you can use this. This will allow web based apps. Only for Iphone for now, but hoping to expand to other devices. OpenAppMkt.
Which basically means that the arm of the law becomes the arbiter of the law, instead of just carrying out the aims of the law. As this concerns freedom of speech and expression, these decisions need to be made by judges. Hosters furieus over ‘censuurplan’ Justitie | Webwereld.
Ultrasn0w has been updated to work for IOS4 and the new basebands for both the 3G/3GS and Iphone4 Dev-Team Blog.
This shows which devices can be jailbroken by what software and links to a tutorial. Very friendly. iPhone & iTouch Jailbreak / Unlock Matrix | jailbreakmatrix.com.
All you do after the update is surf to the site and make it run JailbreakMe 2.0.
Why don’t people get it? Centralised databases are dreadfull things! The CIOT (Centraal Informatiepunt Onderzoek Telecommunicatie) database, which contains IP addresses, email addresses and name and address data, is accessed around 3m times a year. Apparently only 1% of these accesses is legal. Not only that, but users freely trade logins to the database, meaning Read more about NL telecomdatabase used very incorrectly[…]
Wikileaks has released logs from the Afghanistan war covering 2004 – 2010. The amount of data is massive and Wikileaks is down Wikleaks The Guardian has a good rundown going on about the data and has some analysis. Afghanistan war logs: live blog | World news | guardian.co.uk.
So anyone with a friend in the Greek police force (and by friend I mean name and bank account number) can find out allll kinds of stuff about anyone in the database – which will soon be everyone. Sounds secure. Not. Vingerafdruk Nederlanders in 2011 Europees gedeeld | Webwereld.
Apple claims that allthough it the new privacy policy enables them to gather and share this information, the information is anonymised and is currently not being shared with anyone. The information is sent in batches every 12 hours and the collection can be turned off by changing the setting on locational services to off. So… Read more about Apple responds to locational data questions in US Congress[…]
This cracks the encryption or forces a mobile to drop the encryption much much faster than traditional methods. New ‘Kraken’ GSM-cracking software is released – Telecommunication, security, mobile, GSM Association, black hat, A5/1 Security Project – PC World.
Basically it’s a web based virtualbox interface that allows you start or stop virtual machines as well as change their settings. phpvirtualbox – Project Hosting on Google Code.
India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer – Yahoo! News.
This is what it looks like to be lasered down Raytheon airs video at Farnborough Airshow of CIWS laser shooting down drone | News.com.au.
This thing basically uses a line scanner which rotates quickly enough to give the illusion of a 360o viewable 3d image Sony 360-Degree Autostereoscopic Display Prototype « THE FIRE WIRE.
In a growning and disconcerting trend among hardware manufacturers, TI has released a new version of it’s OS for the TI-Nspire series, that blocks off a whole load of its’ user base from using the machine the way they want to. I guess Apple, Android, TI, et al are afraid that the community will program Read more about Texas Instruments doesn’t want you to own your hardware either[…]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA would like to announce that we have confirmed the successful acceleration of the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator “IKAROS” by photon 1 in the course of determining its precise orbit after its sail deployment. The IKAROS was launched by JAXA on May 21 2010 Japan Standard time and all Read more about IKAROS Solar Sailing[…]