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Wired
Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics
The Eastern European practice of speleotherapy claims salt air helps breathing issues, which leads to patients lining the halls of subterranean caves.
by Pete Brook
7 Sep 2010 at 3:16pm
Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz
You live your life at 2.4 GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen.
by Gizmodo
7 Sep 2010 at 1:30pm
William Gibson Talks Up Twitter, Zero History
The Neuromancer author digs deep into the vertigo-inducing machinations of modern life to spin a story about militarism, marketing and "gear queers." He also calls Twitter "the most powerful novelty aggregator that has ever existed."
by Scott Thill
7 Sep 2010 at 1:26pm
Read an Excerpt From William Gibson's New Novel, Zero History
Get a look at the sci-fi writer's latest future-present story, in which a detail-obsessed Russian translator named Milgrim, a postmodern marketing mogul known as Hubertus Bigend and a taste-making detective called Hollis Henry tussle with technology and its far-reaching tentacles.
by Scott Thill
7 Sep 2010 at 1:20pm
Sound of Justin Bieber's Data, and Other 'Hack Day' Mashups
LONDON ? Every so often, in cities across the world, a group of digital music professionals get together for a Hack Day, where they'll cobble together hardware, software and anything else they can get their hands on into innovative musical mashups. London's event took place last weekend, and it was an orgy of creativity. Here are 10 of our favorites.
by Duncan Geere
7 Sep 2010 at 1:10pm
Google Lets Yahoo Users Sign In With OpenID
Google is now allowing any Yahoo user to sign in to Google using OpenID, the company announced Tuesday. Anyone with a Yahoo account can start using Google's web apps with a new one-click sign up process.
by Michael Calore
7 Sep 2010 at 1:06pm
Photo: Galactic Cannibals Discovered in Deep Space
A new survey has caught several distant galaxies ripping up their dwarfish galactic neighbors and devouring them whole.
by Lisa Grossman
7 Sep 2010 at 1:00pm
Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip
Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, recently pulled off the world's first wheelchair double backflip, after several failed (and painful-looking) attempts at Camp Woodward, just east of State College, Pennsylvania.
by Erik Malinowski
7 Sep 2010 at 12:31pm
New iPod Touch Has a Vibrator
Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he called the iPod Touch the "iPhone without a phone." We have been calling it that for years, of course, but with each iteration the two iOS devices get closer and closer in terms of features. Now a vibrating alert has been added to the Touch.
by Charlie Sorrel
7 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
Google TV Revealed: One Screen to Rule Them All
BERLIN - Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin?s IFA Tuesday, and CEO Eric Schmidt promised it would be a couch potato?s dream come true. 'Once you have Google television, you?re going to be very busy, he said. 'It?s going to ruin your evening.'
by Eliot Van Buskirk
7 Sep 2010 at 10:48am
MacWorld News
Review: iTunes 10
For the third year in a row, Apple has released a major version upgrade to iTunes, the center of its entertainment and mobile app universe. This time around, however, the new version of iTunes is predominantly a foundational update?less about new features and buttons, and more about laying the groundwork for important new avenues for the iTunes Store.
by David Chartier
7 Sep 2010 at 3:01pm
HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen
The World Wide Web Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into the Web standard.
by Joab Jackson
7 Sep 2010 at 1:13pm
Review: You Gotta See This for iPhone
This app, which uses the gyroscope in the iPhone 4 to help create a panoramic-style view, has a few shortcomings. But it's a fun app to use and a great way to show off to friends.
by Jeff Phillips
7 Sep 2010 at 12:50pm
Macworld introduces Macworld Insider
Macworld's new premium online product, Macworld Insider, has arrived! Get full-text RSS feeds, a back-issue PDF archive, ad-free layouts on our Website, and more.
by Jason Snell
7 Sep 2010 at 11:45am
Send HTML e-mail from your iPhone with MarkdownMail
A new app, MarkdownMail, lets you send HTML-formatted e-mail from your iOS device, via the Markdown formatting language.
by Dan Moren
7 Sep 2010 at 10:49am
Nike releases new Nike+ GPS app for runners
Nike has one-upped its own app built into iOS by releasing Nike+ GPS, a new App Store app designed for runners. The decision to release a separate app is a little confusing, but it offers a couple unique features such as GPS tracking and Challenge Me.
by David Chartier
7 Sep 2010 at 9:59am
Ping attracts 1 million users in 48 hours
Apple's new iTunes-based social network, Ping, registered more than one million members within 48 hours of its launch.
by Lex Friedman
7 Sep 2010 at 9:38am
Review: FontXChange 2.5
You can't go wrong with FontXChange 2.5. Its support for .dfont, Multiple Master, OpenType, Mac and Windows PostScript and TrueType, and the new Web Open Font Format is a huge help for Web and print designers and publishers.
by Jay J. Nelson
7 Sep 2010 at 8:15am
Master your RSS feeds
Overwhelmed by information? Using Yahoo?s Pipes you can create your own custom RSS feeds that filter information from other RSS feeds, Web sites, and more. Glenn Fleishman shows you how.
by Glenn Fleishman
7 Sep 2010 at 8:00am
Review: Google Earth for iPhone and iPad
We take a second look at Google's free app that puts the world at your fingertips and find that many complaints remain, even after an update to optimize Google Earth for the iPad. This iOS version of the software really pales in comparison to the desktop version, with bizarre omissions of seemingly perfect-for-mobile features.
by Lex Friedman
7 Sep 2010 at 7:47am
US CERT Technical Cyber Alert System Documents
SB10-249: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 30, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 30, 2010
SB10-242: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 23, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 23, 2010
TA10-238A: Microsoft Windows Insecurely Loads Dynamic Libraries
Microsoft Windows Insecurely Loads Dynamic Libraries
SB10-235: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 16, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 16, 2010
TA10-231A: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities
SB10-228: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 9, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 9, 2010
TA10-223A: Adobe Flash and AIR Vulnerabilities
Adobe Flash and AIR Vulnerabilities
TA10-222A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
SB10-221: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 2, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 2, 2010
SB10-214: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 26, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 26, 2010
Slashdot
White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack
Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by samzenpus
7 Sep 2010 at 2:23pm
Sony Releases PS3 Firmware Update To Fight Jailbreaks
RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "Destructoid is reporting that the 3.42 firmware has been released for the PlayStation 3, and it has fixed the USB vulnerability that allows the PSJailbreak exploit to work." Sony's brief announcement of the update refers only to "additional security features," though the EU blog post acknowledges that a vulnerability was addressed. PS3-Hacks.com confirms that the patch is effective against the various jailbreak tools, and they point out a different tool for bypassing t...
by Soulskill
7 Sep 2010 at 2:07pm
Robot Snake Can Climb Trees
kkleiner writes "The latest in a line of 'modsnakes' from Carnegie Mellon's Biorobotics Lab, Uncle Sam can move in a variety of different ways, including rolling, wiggling, and side-winding. It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically, and even scale a tree. You have to watch this thing in action. There is something incredibly life-like and eerie about the way it scales the tree outdoors and then looks around with its camera 'eye.' Projects like Uncle Sam show how life-mimickin...
by Soulskill
7 Sep 2010 at 1:17pm
NSA Director Says the US Must Secure the Internet
Trailrunner7 writes "The United States has a responsibility to take a leadership role in securing the Internet against both internal and external attackers, a duty that the federal government takes very seriously, the country's top military cybersecurity official said Tuesday. However, Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the US Cyber Command, provided virtually nothing in the way of details of how the government intends to accomplish this rather dau...
by Soulskill
7 Sep 2010 at 12:35pm
Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75k
SpuriousLogic writes "Does happiness rise with income? In one of the more scientific attempts to answer that question, researchers from Princeton have put a price on happiness. It's about $75,000 in income a year. They found that not having enough money definitely causes emotional pain and unhappiness. But, after reaching an income of about $75,000 per year, money can't buy happiness. More money can, however, help people view their lives as successful or better. The study found that people's ...
by samzenpus
7 Sep 2010 at 11:52am
NYT Password Security Discussion Overlooks Universal Logins
A recent NYT piece explores the never-ending quest for password-based security, to which reader climenole responds with a snippet from ReadWriteWeb that argues it's time to think more seriously about life beyond passwords, at least beyond keeping a long list of individual login/password pairs: "These protective measures don't go very far, according to the New York Times, because hackers can get ahold of passwords with software that remotely tracks keystrokes, or by tricking users into typing ...
by timothy
7 Sep 2010 at 11:18am
The Gaping Holes In the UAE's Net Firewall
Barence writes "The United Arab Emirates has its own Chinese-style firewall to weed out pornography and other 'unsavory' content. But as PC Pro's correspondent has found out, the firewall has more than a few holes in it. ISP helplines routinely suggest proxy server software that circumvents the filters. Access to Flickr is blocked, in case citizens' eyes should fall upon a naked buttock, but The Pirate Bay, which 'offers a range of bottoms to suit every need, including midget and donkey botto...
by timothy
7 Sep 2010 at 11:18am
Separating Hope From Hype In Quantum Computing
pgptag writes "This talk by Dr. Suzanne Gilbert (video) explains why quantum computers are useful, and also dispels some of the myths about what they can and cannot do. It addresses some of the practical ways in which we can build quantum computers and gives realistic timescales for how far away commercially useful systems might be." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
7 Sep 2010 at 9:34am
Behind the Scenes and Inside Workings of a CERT
An anonymous reader writes "Ireland's Computer Emergency Response Team differs from what you can find in most other countries, since it's not government-backed and relies mainly on the good will of several security professionals. In this interview, the founder and head of the CERT, Brian Honan, talks about how the CERT was formed, what equipment they use and what challenges they face in their daily work without having a government to back them up." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
7 Sep 2010 at 8:51am
Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe
Stoobalou contributes a link to this story at Thinq.co.uk, from which he excerpts: "Torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently unavailable as reports come in of co-ordinated police raids against file sharers across Europe. Police in up to 14 countries carried out raids against suspected file-sharing servers this morning. According to file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, the bulk of police action seems to have taken place in Sweden. Swedish Internet service provider ISP, which hosts bot...
by timothy
7 Sep 2010 at 8:08am
Sophos Latest Virus Alerts
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Agent-OOC
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Voleur-A
7 Sep 2010 Sus/TDSSFN-A
7 Sep 2010 Troj/TDSSFN-A
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Mdrop-CXC
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Backdr-DK
7 Sep 2010 Spyware Vanisher Installer
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Agent-OQJ
7 Sep 2010 Troj/Netan-A
7 Sep 2010 Spyware Vanisher
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