The embattled News Corporation is facing more hacking dramas this week, after a News Limited subsidiary today revealed that it had been forced to remove malware that was being transmitted to readers from the websites of the Herald Sun and The Weekly Times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a depraved criminal
was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbour lives into a living nightmare.
Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbours’ WiFi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.
His motive was to get back at his new neighbours after they told the police he’d kissed their 4-year-old son on the lips — via ars technica
Online payments giant PayPal has today revealed that it plans to roll out person-to-person payments with embedded near-field communication (NFC) technology for the Australian market in the next two months — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Luxury watch brand Frédéric Jouvenot presents a new watch: Inti, a world premier timepiece featuring jumping heliocentric display.
Telling the time remains instinctive. Each hour keeps its conventional position and the minutes are indicated by a central cartouche fitted with an index that completes a revolution on the fixed minute disc. The display maintains the conventional angular gap of a watch for instinctive reading — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
Yesterday brought major news for horror fans that their is a new Evil Dead
movie in that works according to Bloody Disgusting. They also have revealed that Federico Alvarez will be directing the film. He made the robot invasion short Panic Attack!
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ability to breathe has been restored to mice with spinal cord injuries, in what US researchers describe as a medical first — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited has announced an audit of expenditure by its Australian newspapers in a bid to ensure their journalistic practices are clean — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. collected $4.8 billion in income tax refunds in the last four years, an investigation has uncovered.
The payback means Murdoch’s US-based media empire has actually made money on tax rebates on top of its $10.4 billion in profits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rupert Murdoch capitulated to parliament and abandoned News Corporation’s £8bn bid for BSkyB, as he faced the prospect of appearing in front of a judicial public inquiry to salvage his personal reputation and the right for his company to continue to broadcast in the UK — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US fast food chain McDonald’s has persuaded the Russian authorities that its outlets are supermarkets rather than restaurants in a landmark lawsuit that blocked an attempt by the Russian taxman to almost double its tax bill — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New graduate student office in the Sieg 2000 east stairwell (note attractive high-intensity task lighting, as well as OSHA-approved rope ladder at far right) — via University of Washington
I’ll admit it: I’m a confirmed hooker. I have an embarrassing number crochet projects running amok in my apartment, and a yarn stash that is threatening to break free from its box at any moment. So, of course, I was absolutely delighted to see this tutorial for Granny Square Cookies from Sugar & Meringue. There’s just something so right about crocheted goodness in cookie form — via CRAFT
The idea came when we [T3arc] built Cafe Five, where we saw the need to adapt an inexpensive room for users. In our search for solutions, we found Desparkhotel, the work of the architect Andreas Strauss in 2006, using recycled concrete pipes for hotel rooms. Our client decided to make a hotel with the same characteristics as the Desparkhotel on a ground that is located on the outskirts of Tepoztlan, with excellent panoramic views of the Sierra del Tepozteco. Located in a wooded setting of unusual features, the surrounding environment provides an unique natural environment and for our project — via ArchDaily
Amazon has speedily become one of the largest players in the burgeoning global cloud computing market since it launched its Web Services division in mid 006. A wide number of online services are available through the service, including the provision of storage, virtual compute instances and databases.
In that time, the company hasn’t put down roots in Australia, with local organisations instead using Amazon’s services hosted in datacentres located within countries such as Singapore and the US. However, all that may be about to change, according to The Australian.
This morning, the newspaper reported that a local datacentre was slated to be unveiled by early 2012. Three Sydney sites were on the selection list, with one datacentre provider being Equinix, which maintains one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest datacentres in Sydney’s Darling Harbour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There’s a fundamental flaw with fan-and-heatsink cooling systems: no matter how hard the fan blows, a boundary layer of motionless, highly-insulating air remains on the heatsink. You can increase the size of the heatsink and you can blow more air, but ultimately the boundary layer prevents the system from being efficient; it’s simply a physical limitation of fan-and-heatsink cooling systems in specific, and every kind of air-cooled heat exchanger in general, including air conditioning and refrigeration units.
But what if you did away with the fan? What if the heatsink itself rotated? Well, believe it or not, rotating the heat exchanger obliterates the boundary layer, removes the need for a fan, and it’s so efficient that it can operate at low and very quiet speeds. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger [PDF]. Developed by Jeff Koplow, a researcher at the US government’s Sandia National Laboratories, the new heatsink (which has also been dubbed the “Sandia Cooler”) basically resembles a big, metal fan. The cooler consists of a static metal baseplate, which is connected to the CPU, GPU, or other hot object, and a finned, rotating heat exchanger that are cushioned by a thin (0.001-inch) layer of air. As the metal blades spin, centrifugal force kicks up the air and throws it up and outwards, much like an impeller, creating a cooling effect — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thieves have been caught trying to shove an ATM into the back of a car after they stole it from what is believed to be a Sydney brothel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new IWC Montre d’Aviateur Chronographe Edition Patrouille Suisse (Ref. 3717) limited edition pilot’s watch was issued to support the famous aerobatics team of the Swiss Air Force that was formed in 1964 and changed its paint scheme exactly 20 years ago to incorporate the red and white colors of the Swiss flag.
Limited at only 300 pieces, the watch differs from the other members of the family only with its color scheme and with the shape of the counter tip on the central chronograph hand. The latter is formed to resemble the Northrop F-5E Tiger II as seen from above — via World Watch Review
A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon ended up as the victim when the female shop owner overpowered him, tied him up naked and then used him as a sex slave for three days.
Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police that he had gone to the salon in Meshchovsk, Russia, with the intention of robbing it.
But the tables were turned dramatically when he found himself overcome by owner Olga Zajac, 28, who happened to be a black belt in karate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Spammers today favour compromised accounts for sending spam, gradually shifting distribution away from botnets, according to Commtouch. The changed tactic has emerged as spam levels dropped dramatically, following several high-profile botnet takedowns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A half-male, half-female butterfly has hatched at London’s Natural History Museum.
A line down the insect’s middle marks the division between its male side and its more colourful female side.
Failure of the butterfly’s sex chromosomes to separate during fertilisation is behind this rare sexual chimera — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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