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Submission + - Bringing old arcade machines into the Internet age (hackaday.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: To celebrate the opening of their hackerspace, Sprite_tm of SpritesMods hacked an old 1943 arcade machine to record its high scores, as well as post them on Twitter, via a newly added TCP/IP stack. The bus-tapping module he added to the machine lets him read the full contents of the Z80 logic board's memory, allowing him to store high scores for posterity as well as add an Ethernet interface. The device should work on any Z80-based machine, which makes it easy to add these same capabilities to any old arcade cabinet.
IBM

Submission + - Restoring a 46-year-old IBM mainframe

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's one thing to refresh a last-decade server, or to hack on an 8-bit microcomputer, but imagine what's involved to even begin restoring an IBM 1130 mainframe from 1965 with a live audience of hundreds of nerds looking over your shoulder. Yet that's exactly what Norm Aleks and Brian Knittel of ibm1130.org will do at the Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 next week.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Anonymous Denies It Was Behind Sony Hack - Again (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: The hacker collective Anonymous has denied that it took part in the attack on Sony's systems, saying that the group or its members have not been known to steal credit card numbers.

A press release posted on Daily Kos, by Barret Brown, who claims extensive contacts with the collective, says, "Anonymous as never been known to have engaged in credit card theft." The release also says that the perpetrator could have left a 'calling card' to frame the group's members.

Sony was hit with a massive cyber attack on April 19, which resulted in the theft of details for nearly 100 million users of the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online. Credit card details for millions of users were also taken. Sony has said that the attack displayed a high level of sophistication, and that it came right on the heels of a distributed denial of service attack that took Sony's PlayStation Network offline for a few hours.

Submission + - Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers new clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, say researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University. In their experiments, the scientists used a virtual neural network to simulate an excessive release of dopamine in the brain and found that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion. The results bolster a hypothesis known in schizophrenia circles as the hyperlearning hypothesis, which posits that people suffering from schizophrenia have brains that lose the ability to forget or ignore as much as they normally would. Without forgetting, they lose the ability to extract what’s meaningful out of the immensity of stimuli the brain encounters.
Idle

Submission + - Boeing 747-8 Extreme Braking Test Video (nycaviation.com)

Submitted by
longacre
longacre writes: "How does Boeing test the braking limits on the largest aircraft they've ever built? File the brake pads down to the rivets, load up the plane to nearly a million pounds, gun the engines to 200 mph, then mash the brakes as hard as possible and watch them burst into flames."
Government

Submission + - DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
Davis Freeberg
Davis Freeberg writes: "The Department of Homeland Security is hard at work again, protecting the industry from websites that the big studios don't want you to see. This time they're targeting the Mafiaafire plugin by asking Mozilla to disable the addon at the root level. Instead of blindly complying with the government's request, Mozilla has decieded to ask some tough questions instead. Unsurprisingly, when faced with legitimate concerns about the legality of their domain seizure program, the DHS has decided to clam up."
Security

Submission + - Sony hack highlights need for breach analysis (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Sony's apparent difficulty in figuring out the extent of the damage from the recent intrusion into its PlayStation Network, while frustrating for those affected by it, is not too surprising, given the bag of tricks that hackers employ to hide their tracks. All too often, companies simply don't have the forensic tools or enough log data to be able to reliably piece together what might have happened and to determine the true scope of a breach. Sony has offered no reason why it waited more than six days to inform consumers that their account information had been compromised. nd it has said nothing about why it's taking so long to restore the network. In all, a staggering 77 million consumer records, including those of many minors, were potentially exposed, making it one of the largest data breaches ever. IT managers and security analysts said it's possible that Sony's initial silence was prompted by PR worries, a law enforcement request or both. It's also possible that the company did not have the data it needed to quickly determine the true scope the problem."
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Playstation Network Hacked (playstation.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Playstation network servers were taken offline on April 20th due to a outside network attack in order to verify the security of their servers.
Oracle

Submission + - Openoffice.org to be given back to community (h-online.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Oracle has stated that the will give back the open source productivity suit to the community. Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, said the company intends "working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office."
He said that because there was a "breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications", that the company believed the OpenOffice.org project would be "best managed by an organisation focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis".
News

Submission + - Murdoch hacking story "ain't over yet," (fullchannel.net)

Submitted by
lee317
lee317 writes: "Reuters is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's headache over the alleged phone hacking by his News Corp's reporters could be small compared to what is ahead. So far, around 20 public figures who believe their voicemail messages were intercepted by journalists at the popular News of the World tabloid are suing News International, the UK newspaper arm of News Corp. After a public apology from the newspaper aimed at "put(ting) this problem into a box", a UK judge eluded to the fact that civil cases against the firm could run into next year at least."

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