Comment What? (Score 1) 81
Drakes' Fortune? No Assassin's Creed? Who are these people anyway to take upon themselves to decide which game to nominate or not. [LOB].
Feed The Register: Land Registry denies ID fraud risk (theregister.com)
Journal Journal: Bush Censored Climate Reports
The Bush administration actively censored reports on the environment from the World Bank. This was discovered by the Government Accountability Project (GAP). Apparently Paul Wolfowitz was actively engaged in this censorship. How does this effect the deminishing credit of the World Bank. And can it lower the faith in the Bush administration even more?
Journal Journal: 2nd Biggest Patch Tuesday of 2007 is Broken Vista Promise? 3
Microserfs, everywhere enjoyed the second largest patch Tuesday of 2007 today (see here also). Some see this as
Feed The Register: Google spinmeisters defend video refund policy (theregister.com)
Two buck Chuck
After summarily shutting down the buy-rent feature on Google Video, leaving customers unable to watch videos they paid good money for over the past 19 months, the world's most popular search engine has defended its less-than-satisfying refund policy.
Journal Journal: Team finds way to create cancer stem cells 124
MIT scientists and colleagues have found a way to create in the lab large amounts of cancer stem cells, or cells that can initiate tumors. The work, reported in the August 13 issue of Cancer Cell, could be a boon to researchers who study these elusive cells. Labs could easily grow them for use in experiments.
Journal SPAM: Skydiver plans head-first freefall from the edge of space 1
Fancy some skydiving?
He will leap head-first from a weather balloon 25 miles above Earth and plummet at more than 1,000mph with only a parachute for company.
He will face external temperatures of minus 100c while inside his carbon-fibre suit it will be a stifling 65c - almost 150 fahrenheit.
Feed The Register: Teaching hacking helps students, professors say (theregister.com)
'The students love it'
When Sam Bowne visited the DEFCON hacking conference in 2006, he saw a lot of people having fun with a really interesting topic: computer security.
Patent Lawsuits Galore 149
eldavojohn writes "Guess who owns the patent on the touch-screen keyboard. Not Apple — SP Technologies has filed a suit based on just that. Ars brings out the intriguing detail that the founder of the patent troll company is serving prison time for health-care fraud." Read on for four more patent developments in the day's news.
Feed The Register: Broadband claims mislead on speed (theregister.com)
Which? calls on Ofcom and Trading Standards to investigate
There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown.
Feed Engadget: Latest iPods to be flash-based, only up to 16GB? (engadget.com)
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
[Thanks, Sam]
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FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker 608
During the hours that Congress was debating codifying the Bush administration's wiretapping by revising the FISA law, the Department of Justice was raiding the home of former Justice official Thomas M. Tamm to identify the person who first brought the illicit program to light: "The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files... the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media... James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the raid was 'amazing' and shows the administration's misplaced priorities: using FBI agents to track down leakers instead of processing intel warrants to close the [purported surveillance] gaps."
Journal Journal: Hacking a game machine
This Google Video is on game machine hacking. It was posted on kotaku a while ago and about hacking various game machines, arcade machines, home consoles, and handhelds. the speakers are from dorkbot among others.
iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim 312
An anonymous reader writes "After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone using NightWatch's toolchain. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter what. People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner." It's fairly thin on information but if true, this will lead to good things. Like hopefully permission from apple.
Feed Engadget: iPhone hacked for untethered EDGE data on laptop (engadget.com)
Filed under: Cellphones
While this would be all the more sweet on a 3G iPhone, a new series of hacks will now give you untethered EDGE networking from your laptop. Starting with jailbreak as any proper iPhone hack must, the latest hack installs a new SOCKS server on your iPhone. Join your iPhone and laptop to the same ad-hoc WiFi network and you're pretty much good to go. The procedure is a bit cumbersome if this is your first hack attempt so be sure to check the YouTube video-how-to before you get going. Check it after the break.[Via MacRumors]
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