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The Military

Submission + - Nvidia lands $25 million US defence grant (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Nvidia has been awarded a $25 million research grant by the US Defence Department to help solve its 'crisis in computing'.

Nvidia now has a four-year contract to work with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on its Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) programme.
Iphone

Submission + - Flash ported to iPhone 4 (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: We've all been looking for a viable reason to jailbreak the iPhone 4 for some time now but as yet have remained unconvinced by most arguments to footle with the innards of our precious handset.

But if there's one application bound to send iPhone users scurrying off to jaibreakme.com in order to open up the Holey Handset to the big bad world outside of Apple's walled garden, it's probably Adobe's video and animation package Flash.
Games

Submission + - PC gaming: a platform to rule them all (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG
KingofGnG writes: It’s one of the most debated issues within the PC world: how much is the computer video games market worth, what financial results does the PC gaming hardware gain compared to the — seemingly much healthier — major home consoles one? The reply comes from the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), the publishers and producers non-profit organization “dedicated to driving the worldwide growth of PC gaming” which details heavy numbers and proclaims: the computer definitely is the largest, most widespread and financially important gaming platform out there.
Google

Submission + - Google is testing Airborne Camera Drones (www.wiwo.de)

Submitted by mbone
mbone writes: According to the German language site WirtschaftsWoche (an English version is available from the IBTimes) Google has purchased a German "Microdrone" for evaluation. These devices can take off, fly a mission and land automatically using GPS, and can carry night vision cameras or even "see through walls" Far IR cameras. Of course, the maker of these drone assures us that they cannot be a "Big Brother der Lufte" because that is "verboten."

Is it just me, or is Google entering into dangerous airspace here ? It seems like the ruckus from a backyard-after-dark addition to Street View could make the legal tussles Google has already encountered with the driving vans seem minor by comparison.
Google

Submission + - What Are Google and Verizon Up To? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by pickens
pickens writes: Robert X. Cringley has an op-ed in the NY Times in which he contends that Google has found a way to get special treatment from Verizon but without actually compromising net neutrality by beginning to co-locate some of their portable data centers with Verizon network hubs. "With servers so close to users, Google could not only send its data faster but also avoid sending it over the Internet backbone that connects service providers and for which they all pay," writes Cringley. "This would save space for other traffic — and money for both Verizon and Google, as their backbone bills decline (wishful thinking, but theoretically possible). Net neutrality would be not only intact, but enhanced." So why won't Google and Verizon admit what they're up to? "If my guess is right, then I would think they’re silent because it’s a secret. They’d rather their competitors not know until a few hundred shipping containers are in place — and suddenly YouTube looks more like HBO."

Comment Re:Very interesting (Score 1) 150

by Nunavut (#33134222) Attached to: Artist Photoshops Scenes From WWII Into Present Day

A lot seperates us between now and then. Countless dead, every family across the planet touched by it. Nobody on this planet has a family that was untouched by that war. Absolutely Everyone lost someone in that war.

That is an interesting thought there; but consider the Inuit of Canada. It wasn't until the 50's and 60's that we were finally introduced to "modern technology". We literally went from isolated hunter gatherers using spears and still living off the land to meeting explorers who came by airplane introducing us to rifles and automobiles. We didn't have the slow technological advance that the rest of the world adjusted to; it was a huge leap for us up here and most of the elders are still trying to adjust. I'm 99.9% sure my family has never been touched by war! I'm not saying we don't sympathize for anyone and everyone that has lost someone to war; but not every family on Earth has direct decedents of war casualties
GNOME

Submission + - Who really contributes to open source? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Andrew Orlowski of The Register picked up on a census of GNOME contributors that confirms what many of us have long believed: contributions to open source projects are very heavily skewed to a few key individuals. But then Orlowski goes off the deep end, turning it into a rant against companies that benefit from open source while allegedly contributing little. The reality is that 75% of Linux kernel contributions come from the very companies he singled out (http://blogs.computerworld.com/14576/who_writes_linux_big_business), and a similar picture emerges at Eclipse and many Apache projects. Why does the myth that corporations take but not give persist? And more importantly, what does it mean for certain open source projects to be so dependent on company employees rather than independent individuals?
Privacy

Submission + - RIM to allow India to monitor Blackberry services (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Research in Motion has agreed to allow Indian security agencies to monitor its BlackBerry services, after pressure from governments worried about national security. RIM has offered to share with Indian security agencies its technical codes for corporate email services, open up access to all consumer emails within 15 days and also develop tools in six to eight months to allow monitoring of chats.

Submission + - Wikileaks "a clear and present danger"

Submitted by
bedmison
bedmison writes: "In an op-ed in the Washington Post titled "WikiLeaks must be stopped", Marc A. Thiessen writes that "WikiLeaks represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.", and that the United States has the authority to arrest its founder, Julian Assange, even if it has to contravene international law to do so. Thiessen also suggests that the new USCYBERCOM be unleashed to destroy WikiLeaks as an internet presense. From the article:

"With appropriate diplomatic pressure, these governments may cooperate in bringing Assange to justice. But if they refuse, the United States can arrest Assange on their territory without their knowledge or approval. In 1989, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memorandum entitled "Authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Override International Law in Extraterritorial Law Enforcement Activities."

This memorandum declares that "the FBI may use its statutory authority to investigate and arrest individuals for violating United States law, even if the FBI's actions contravene customary international law" and that an "arrest that is inconsistent with international or foreign law does not violate the Fourth Amendment." In other words, we do not need permission to apprehend Assange or his co-conspirators anywhere in the world.

Arresting Assange would be a major blow to his organization. But taking him off the streets is not enough; we must also recover the documents he unlawfully possesses and disable the system he has built to illegally disseminate classified information.

This should be done, ideally, through international law enforcement cooperation. But if such cooperation is not forthcoming, the United States can and should act alone. Assange recently boasted that he has created "an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking." I am sure this elicited guffaws at the National Security Agency. The United States has the capability and the authority to monitor his communications and disrupt his operations.""
Microsoft

Submission + - Bing enticing Google users (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Strudelkugel
Strudelkugel writes: Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing’s flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography buff in Chicago, fell for Bing’s vivid background images. When Microsoft introduced it last year, Bing made a splash with its vivid background images. In June, Google presented searchers the option of a colorful background rather than the stark, white page.Like most Americans, they still use Google as their main search tool. But more often, they find themselves navigating to Microsoft’s year-old Bing for certain tasks, and sometimes they stay a while.

Submission + - Hacker Uses XSS & Google to Find Physical Loca (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Hacker Uses XSS and Google Street View Data to Determine Physical Location

The hacker, by getting a user to visit a malicious Web site, used remote JavaScript and AJAX to acquire a routers MAC address. When the unsuspecting user visits the malicious Web site, JavaScript remotely scans for the type of router used, accesses the routers MAC address and sends it directly to the attacker. From there, he was able to utilize Google Street View data to determine the location of a router – in his case, accurate within 30 feet...
Movies

Submission + - Why bad 3D, not 3D glasses, gives you headaches (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: The most common complaint about 3D is that the glasses give you a headache, but that's not actually true, according to the man who teaches the pros how to make better 3D. Speaking at the BBC in London, Buzz Hays, chief instructor for the Sony 3D Technology Center in Culver City, California, explained: “It’s not the technology’s fault, it’s really the content that can cause these problems. It’s easy to make 3D but it’s hard to make it good – and by ‘good’ I mean taking care to make sure that this isn’t going to cause eyestrain.” He went on to detail some of the mistakes made by inexperienced 3D film makers, from poor composition of shots, through uncomfortable convergence settings, to overuse of on-set monitors without viewing their content on a big screen. But the biggest admission Buzz made was that not even the 'experts' know all the tricks yet, which is why 3D should only get better from here. In the same seminar, Buzz also explained why 3D glasses are here to stay — at least for the next few years.

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