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Submission + - Cameron Threatens To Shut Down UK Social Networks (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Thursday August 11, 2011 @09:10AM

Stoobalou writes: In a move worthy of China's communist regime, UK PM David Cameron wants to shut down social networks whenever civil unrest rears its head in Britain's towns and cities.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Cameron said, "Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were, organised via social media.

"Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality."

Submission + - ARM Bets Big On The Future Of Gaming (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @09:17AM

Stoobalou writes: British chip designer ARM's Mali graphics technology drives one of the fastest smartphones on the market today, but the company isn't going to stop there. Thinq_ chats to Ian Smythe and Simon Hickman to find out what the future will bring for the world of gaming.

Submission + - Apple iOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:37AM

Stoobalou writes: The cat and mouse game between Apple and the jailbreaking community continues unabated as an updated version of PwnageTool hits the web just hours after apple updated its iOS mobile operating system to lock out the JailbreakMe PDF-based exploit.

Submission + - Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:11AM

Stoobalou writes: Microsoft exec Tami Reller told attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 taking place in Los Angeles yesterday that any PC capable of running Windows 7 today would be capable of running Windows 8 when it is released, towards the end of the year.

Submission + - AMD Grabs Fastest Mobile GPU Crown From Nvidia (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:56AM

Stoobalou writes: AMD has scored another point over its graphics rival Nvidia with what it claims is the world's fastest single-GPU mobile graphics processor, the Radeon HD 6990M.

While the red team is unlikely to hold the crown for long in the fast-moving world of discrete graphics, the company's latest chip is certainly impressive enough. Based on the TeraScale 2 unified processor architecture and the Barts GPU core, the Radeon HD 6990M — a mobile equivalent to the company's high-end Radeon HD 6990 PCI Express graphics card design — features 1,120 stream processing units, 56 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 colour ROP units.

Submission + - Acorn's Steve Furber Looks to ARM Supercomputers (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: Veteran of microcomputing Steve Furber, in his role as ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, has called upon some old friends for his latest project: a brain-simulating supercomputer based on more than a million ARM processors.

Submission + - World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition (thinq.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:41PM

Stoobalou writes: Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its enormously popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft will be free to play for characters up to level 20.
WoW has always offered free trials of one of the world's biggest multi-player online games but previous offers have always been limited to a set number of days.
The new policy means that first-time visitors to Azeroth will be able to build an unlimited number of characters and classes up to level 20 at their leisure, although there will be some limitations.

Submission + - Sony Canned Security Staff Just Before Data Breach (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday June 24, 2011 @11:30AM

Stoobalou writes: A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a group of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company's servers were hacked and its customers' credit card details were leaked.

The suit, which seeks class action status, is being brought by victims of the massive data breach that took place in April.

Comment Re:An Apology (Score 1) 146

by Stoobalou on Thursday June 23, 2011 @10:45AM (#36541410) Attached to: Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/3/25/government-gives-250000-to-bletchley-park/ PM Gordon Brown said sorry for all the chemical castration and that back in March. And coughed up Â£250,000 for the park's upkeep

Submission + - Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Monday June 20, 2011 @08:09AM

Stoobalou writes: An eight-petaflop Japanese supercomputer has grabbed the title of fastest computer on earth in the new Top 500 Supercomputing List to be officially unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg today.
The K Computer is based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and smashes the previous supercomputing records with a processing power of more than 8 petaflop/s (quadrillion calculations per second) — three times that of its nearest rival.

Submission + - Microsoft brands WebGL a 'harmful' technology (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17, 2011 @06:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced that it has no plans to support WebGL — a cross-platform low-level 3D graphics API designed for web use — in its future browsers, citing numerous security concerns over the technology and branding the basic principles as 'harmful.'

Submission + - NATO Report Threatens to 'Persecute' Anonymous (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @12:08PM

Stoobalou writes: NATO leaders have been warned that Wikileaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary — and promise to 'persecute' its members.

In a toughly-worded draft report to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, General Rapporteur Lord Jopling claims that the loose-knit, leaderless group is "becoming more and more sophisticated", and "could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files".

Submission + - Skype Crashes and Burns in Worldwide Outage (thinq.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Stoobalou on Thursday May 26, 2011 @08:49AM

Stoobalou writes: VoIP and instant messaging service Skype has disappeared from the Internet, nary a fortnight after Microsoft snaffled up the outfit in an overpriced $8.5 billion deal.

Submission + - The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory | (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday May 13, 2011 @01:40PM

Stoobalou writes: A pair of mathematicians have created an electronics project that nostalgic computer buffs will likely recognise straight away: a magnetic-core memory shield for the Arduino electronics prototyping platform.

Submission + - Anonymous Civil War as AnonOps Sites are Hacked (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Monday May 09, 2011 @06:03AM

Stoobalou writes: Civil war appears to have broken out in the ranks of headless 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous, with claims that a rogue admin has seized control of two key sites used to coordinate the loose-knit group's online direct action.
The news follows speculation that a breakaway group of Anonymous members was responsible for the hacking attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment Network, which saw personal information, including credit card details, stolen from as many as 100 million users' accounts.

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