A sophisticated botnet called TDL-4 has infected more than 4.5 million Windows-based PCs worldwide, according to Kaspersky Labs. TDL-4, a TDSS variant, uses encryption and has avoided detection. Kaspersky’s Sergey Golovanov said the creators of TDL-4 are trying to build an indestructible
botnet that can survive having its control shut down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tell you what really annoys me — when estate agents market houses for knocking down
. Not least, when it’s as interesting as Deodar in Trip Garth, Linton, Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Anyway, large house, large plot, sought-after location. Never going to be cheap. Offers are invited around the £1,300,000 mark. Find out more at Rightmove — via WowHaus
Urban Motor is a CR&S dealer in Berlin, Germany, but it doesn’t just sell new motorcycles. The company has put together a lovely classic BMW café racer, using a 1983 R80 G/S as the base. Earl Grey
has been upgraded with a R100RS front fork, motor and driveline, putting a healthy 70hp at the rider’s disposal — via Bike EXIF
It’s actually a Nautilus, I converted its shell into Guy-Manuels’ helmet — via deviantART
Craftster user TroubleT made this wonderful Father’s Day gift for her husband, a Portal fan. They’re a rather clever and appropriate use for embroidery hoops, don’t you think? — via Neatorama
As I wrote yesterday, News Corp was on the verge of selling the incredibly shrinking social networking site Myspace for anywhere between $20 million and $35 million, with two bidders vying for the deal.
Well, we have a winner, and it’s Golden Gate Capital.
Meanwhile, the other bidding finalist, Specific Media, has purchased Myspace for $35 million, proving that Rupert Murdoch still knows how to drive a hard bargain! — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Traditional solar cell production techniques are usually time consuming and require expensive vacuum systems or toxic chemicals. Depositing chemical compounds such as CIGS on a substrate using vapor phase deposition also wastes most of the expensive material in the process. For the first time, engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have now developed a process to create CIGS
solar cells with inkjet printing technology that allows for precise patterning to reduce raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lower the cost of producing solar cells with promising, yet expensive compounds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s hard to deny the cuteness of a raccoon, so I’m loving these little guys. Disney of Ruffles and Stuff shares a pattern and tutorial for making these cute raccoon softies — via CRAFT
Human remains discovered beneath the floors of mud-brick houses at one of the world’s first permanent settlements, were not biologically related to one another, a finding that paints a new picture of life 9,000 years ago on a marshy plain in central Turkey.
Even children as young as 8 were not buried alongside their parents or other relatives at the site called Çatalhöyük, the researchers found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We [Guilhem Eustache] used local materials and techniques like clay, tadelack, Pierre de Ourika. We have preserved the wildness of the land although we have planted more than 500 trees. We doubled the walls to help deal with the climate, creating room high-rise and sun protections. Each region and country deserves architectural answers, adapted in line with requirements climatic, cultural and economic conditions — via ArchDaily
Italian Moto Guzzi guru Filippo Barbacane has just finished a new custom, Black Jack
. Simple and understated in silver and black, it’s based on the 1000 SP — a somewhat ungainly tourer built between 1977 and 1985. Barbacane has transformed the machine with his usual painstaking attention to detail, creating a stylish, usable and fast bike — via Bike EXIF
— via Brandon Bird-O-Rama!
The number of British children abducted by a parent and taken to a country beyond Foreign Office protection has risen by 10% in the past year, it says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In his first public appearance since his appointment to the top job, HP Enterprise Services Asia-Pacific boss Alan Bennett said that the cloud debate over data sovereignty could become a lot more complicated as some state agencies develop a preference for in-state storage of citizen data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in Melbourne say they have found out why a high proportion of people with HIV develop dementia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via deviantART
Taiwanese users of Google Inc’s Android Market were left in the dark yesterday as the search engine giant removed the paid app section from its online store.
The removal of the paid app section came after the Taipei City Government slapped Google with a NT$1 million (US$34,550) fine for failing to offer Taiwanese consumers a seven-day free-trial mechanism as mandated by law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google on Tuesday unveiled Swiffy, a free tool for developers to convert some Flash files (.SWFs) into HTML5 code. The upshot? It’s now easier than ever to get Flash content visible on platforms that don’t support Adobe’s Flash Player — like the iPhone and iPad — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since we began in 2007, the Data Liberation Front has been focused on one thing: making it easier for you to take your data in and out of Google. Our first step was to make it easier to get your data out of our products, one product at a time. While we’ve made great progress on this front, we’ve been on the lookout for even better ways to let you take your data out of Google.
Today we’re pleased to announce the Data Liberation Front’s first revolutionary product: Google Takeout — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 2009, Satoshi Nakomoto (possibly a real person, possibly a pseudonym for one or more hackers) invented Bitcoin, the first peer-to-peer currency. Bitcoin, which works along the same lines as the Bittorrent network you might use to download movies and music, isn’t the first online currency. Linden Dollars, the unit of exchange in Second Life, are widely traded and regulated by game’s maker, Linden Lab. Nakomoto’s innovation was using math-heavy cryptography techniques to create a medium of exchange that doesn’t require a central authority or physical tangibility (like gold) to deter counterfeiters and regulate the money supply.
Each time bitcoins change hands, so does a transaction history encoded in a string of characters. This hash value
or digest can be decoded by anyone with sufficient computer power and time to devote to the effort. When bitcoins are exchanged, a digest is broadcast to the network of users, a participant does the work of decoding the transaction history, and other users quickly confirm their history is accurate. (The decoders earn a 50-bitcoin bounty for their work.) This happens about once every 10 minutes. Everyone who holds the currency agrees on who owns what, which ensures people can’t copy-and-paste their way to millions or defraud other users without the whole network agreeing that it happened.
In other words, Bitcoin isn’t just a currency, it’s a massive experiment in group trust. It’s also a hint of the financial system to come and, ultimately, a scam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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