US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says |
- US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says
- Oz gov launches $AU200m green energy fund
- BigPond customers targeted by phishers
- Foo Fighters gig goes seismic
- Ballmer can exhale: Bill Gates rules out Microsoft return
- Visa probes reported security breach of card processor
- Facebook won't deny it is sitting on huge mountain of cash
- Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owner's iMessages
- Amazon goes south with São Paulo data center
- Microsoft copies Google with silent browser updates
- Apple's Galaxy Tab ban was best advertising ever - Samsung
- Comet Lovejoy spotted plunging toward fiery doom
- Journos can tweet from UK courts: But who's a journo?
- Carrier IQ meets with feds 'to educate them'
- London 'Tech City' quango burns through £1m on admin
- Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off his chair
- Cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries
- Cheap energy revives US manufacturing, skint Brits shiver
- Lloyds TSB online banking, ATMs titsup in server crash
- Facebook rolls out Timeline to world+dog
- Logica axes 1,300 jobs as profits set to be just £240m
- Nokia lightens Dark Knight with Batman blower
- EC resolves antitrust probe into IBM mainframe biz
- Phone-hack saga: Cop bung probe nets seventh suspect
- Apple mulls new chip boffinry HQ in Israel
- Mario decorations drive gamers up the wall
- Regulator reckons telly advert caps are just peachy
- 2011's Best... Hi-Fi and AV Kit
- Feds cuff KISS rock star's DDoS suspect
- Prada and LG peg up third fashion phone
- Grand Theft Auto 3 fires towards fondleslabs
- How to get a top 10 iOS app: a Wednesday launch in Italy
- Google Wallet fails to encrypt punters' personal data
- Southampton Uni climbs aboard LOHAN spaceplane project
- Super black hole about to scoff speeding space dinner
- The moment a computer crash nearly caused my car crash
- LG to tune in TVs to Intel's WiDi
- Dermandar Panorama
- Sony: PS3 sales ahead of target
- ICO warns: Just six months to comply with EC cookie rules
- Whitehall Post-Its, Ministers' GMail to come under FOIA?
- Google gives £550k to Bletchley Park
- WD slashes warranty periods on Blue and Green drives
- 'Flash Gordon' supercomputer powers up in January
- Asus Zenbook UX31E
- Feds charge eight former Siemens officials with bribery
| US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:27 PM PST Electronic warfare comes of age – in IranThe US stealth drone broadcast last week on Iranian state television was captured by spoofing its GPS coordinates, a hack that tricked the bird into landing in Iranian territory instead of where it was programmed to touch down, The Christian Science Monitor reported.… |
| Oz gov launches $AU200m green energy fund Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Softbank, Southern Cross score eco-fee bonanzaSouthern Cross Venture Partners has been appointed the lead fund manager of a $AU200 million renewable energy venture capital fund, Australia's largest to date.… |
| BigPond customers targeted by phishers Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST One week after major security breachTelstra's beleaguered BigPond customers, who suffered a major security breach last week when customer details were leaked to the web, are now subject to a targeted phishing campaign.… |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:40 AM PST Bass lines like volcanoes shake the KiwisIn a scene that could have been written by Douglas Adams, a Foo Fighters gig in Auckland in quake-prone New Zealand has shown up on seismic monitoring stations.… |
| Ballmer can exhale: Bill Gates rules out Microsoft return Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:33 AM PST Microsoft cofounder also feels no pain from Jobs jibesBill Gates won't be coming back to Microsoft to retake the reigns from embattled CEO Steve Ballmer – so says none other than Bill Gates himself.… |
| Visa probes reported security breach of card processor Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:25 AM PST 17,000 cards already blockedCredit card |
| Facebook won't deny it is sitting on huge mountain of cash Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:29 AM PST Mole says Zuck still owns a quarter of itFacebook has declined to comment on a report that suggested the dominant social network had already tucked away sales of $2.5bn for the first nine months of 2011.… |
| Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owner's iMessages Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST Crafty internet SMS app proves impervious to scrubbingVictims of iPhone theft have discovered that remotely wiping the nicked kit won't stop iMessage content being delivered to the thief, who can continue to respond under the owner's name.… |
| Amazon goes south with São Paulo data center Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST Brazilian wax to speed Latin latency problemsAmazon's expanded its server footprint for a second time just over a month, this time opening a data center serving customers in South America.… |
| Microsoft copies Google with silent browser updates Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:23 AM PST No more clinging to old IE versionsInternet Explorer is about to do more than just look like Chrome - it'll silently update on your PC just like Google's browser, too.… |
| Apple's Galaxy Tab ban was best advertising ever - Samsung Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:59 AM PST Thanks a lot, Cupertino!Ah, sweet revenge! After winning its court battle to lift the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, Samsung is making the most of the fondleslab injunction saga.… |
| Comet Lovejoy spotted plunging toward fiery doom Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:36 AM PST Space ice-lump to melt away above the far side of the SunThe comet Lovejoy has been snapped by ESA and NASA's SOHO spacecraft merrily continuing on its path to obliteration in the Earth's sun.… |
| Journos can tweet from UK courts: But who's a journo? Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST If you aren't a hack, you have to askJournalists will be able to tweet freely from courts says new guidance from the UK Judiciary, but members of the public will still have to ask the judge's permission to be able to use Twitter in a court-room.… |
| Carrier IQ meets with feds 'to educate them' Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:52 AM PST Smartphone-probing app firm seeks to avoid being probedThe makers of the controversial smartphone app Carrier IQ have reportedly been quizzed by federal regulators over concerns that its technology tracked user activity and uploaded data to mobile operators behind the back of consumers.… |
| London 'Tech City' quango burns through £1m on admin Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:38 AM PST The Silicon roundabout - it's a nonstop social whirl!The taxpayer-funded quango given the job of rebranding and promoting the nontrepreneurs of Shoreditch has blown through £1m on admin costs alone in a year.… |
| Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off his chair Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:31 AM PST 'We're all made out of bits of exploding star, you know'Boffins across the world have united to study a young supernova just 21 million light years away, to help figure out more about the way that various chemical elements - including those making up our own bodies - are formed.… |
| Cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:19 AM PST Hardware seized in UK, feds request evidence in AmericaPolice have targeted at least four climate bloggers in three countries, with constabulary taking computers and networking equipment from a science blogger in the UK.… |
| Cheap energy revives US manufacturing, skint Brits shiver Posted: 15 Dec 2011 06:54 AM PST Energy policy here and thereThe battle of crystal ball gazers over how much we'll be paying for energy in the future rages on. The government's advisory panel on global warming has weighed in, with a report on household energy bills. The Climate Change Committee uses slightly different assumptions to the Energy Department, and only looks at a slice of the market, but arrives at the same cheery conclusion: carbon policies will add a mere £110 a year to fuel bills by 2020.… |
| Lloyds TSB online banking, ATMs titsup in server crash Posted: 15 Dec 2011 06:23 AM PST Festive rage from frustrated shoppersLloyds TSB's online banking and cash machines went down this morning due to network server cutting out, the Register has been told.… |
| Facebook rolls out Timeline to world+dog Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST Brace yourself for 'frictionless sharing' ... bitchFacebook is finally rolling out its Timeline feature worldwide, after the company first announced the latest tweak to its social network in September.… |
| Logica axes 1,300 jobs as profits set to be just £240m Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:38 AM PST 225 to go in BlightyLogica is cutting jobs across Europe as it tries to sell its wares in the increasingly gloomy IT services market.… |
| Nokia lightens Dark Knight with Batman blower Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:23 AM PST The cased crusaderNokia has created a run of limited edition Lumia 800 handsets to tie in with Christopher Nolan's next Batman blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises.… |
| EC resolves antitrust probe into IBM mainframe biz Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:21 AM PST Big Blue to play nicely on big iron in binding agreementIBM rivals now have a better chance of competing with the tech giant in the mainframe market, after the European Commission got Big Blue to loosen its grip on the business.… |
| Phone-hack saga: Cop bung probe nets seventh suspect Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:02 AM PST Woman cuffed by Yard this morningA 37-year-old woman was arrested this morning by Scotland Yard officers working on Operation Elveden, which is an investigation into allegations of "inappropriate payments to police".… |
| Apple mulls new chip boffinry HQ in Israel Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:43 AM PST R&D centre threat to SamsungApple is planning to set up a research and development centre in Israel, the first ever outside of its Cupertino HQ.… |
| Mario decorations drive gamers up the wall Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:29 AM PST Stick 1upHere's a cute one for all you retro game fanatics: fully licensed Super Mario wallpaper... that moves. Sort of. If you move it.… |
| Regulator reckons telly advert caps are just peachy Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:21 AM PST Nine minutes per hour - and staying that wayOfcom has taken a long, hard, look at the quantity of advertising on television, and concluded that the existing caps are just fine and nothing needs to be done.… |
| 2011's Best... Hi-Fi and AV Kit Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Sonic boonXmas Gift Guide With hi-fi and home cinema now two sides of the same coin, it's inevitable that these 2011's Best... heroes come in every shape and size. But while price points and technologies differ, all can be considered solid gold entertainers.… |
| Feds cuff KISS rock star's DDoS suspect Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:42 AM PST Bloke accused of flooding Gene Simmons' websiteThe FBI has arrested a man suspected of taking part in a DDoS attack that smashed KISS bassist and reality telly star Gene Simmons' web site off the internet.… |
| Prada and LG peg up third fashion phone Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:35 AM PST Smart move?The tech meets trendsetter partnership between the fashion tour de force Prada and Korean electronics giant LG continues where others have failed. Indeed, that was the message both companies were pleased to convey as the third Prada phone by LG was unveiled with some seriousness at Claridges in London yesterday.… |
| Grand Theft Auto 3 fires towards fondleslabs Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:29 AM PST Liberty to roam the cityThis time ten years ago, Rockstar's first 3D rendition of the GTA series was keeping PlayStation 2 owners up all night. Grand Theft Auto 3 now seeks to inflict similar insomnia on fondleslab fanatics, after it was released today for iOS and Android.… |
| How to get a top 10 iOS app: a Wednesday launch in Italy Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:24 AM PST The numbers you need for the iTunes store hit paradeGetting into the top ten apps on iTunes is something developers aspire to, but figures from Distimo show the huge disparity between iTunes markets around the world and across the week.… |
| Google Wallet fails to encrypt punters' personal data Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:02 AM PST Your mobile knows what you spent last summerSecurity researchers have discovered that Google Wallet stores sensitive information unencrypted on devices, including the cardholder's name, transaction dates, the last four digits of credit card numbers, email address, and account balances.… |
| Southampton Uni climbs aboard LOHAN spaceplane project Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:51 AM PST Heavyweight postgrads to tackle Vulture 2 designThe Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team is delighted to announce today that a heavyweight team of postgraduate students from the University of Southampton will be tackling the design of our Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| Super black hole about to scoff speeding space dinner Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST Gas cloud barrels toward event horizon ... and oblivionStar-gazing boffins using the European Southern Observatory's aptly-named Very Large Telescope have discovered that supermassive black hole Sagittarius A is about to chow down on a huge gas cloud.… |
| The moment a computer crash nearly caused my car crash Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:19 AM PST Engineering mustn't succumb to 'blame the user' cultureSysadmin blog I very nearly had a terrible car accident: my car almost left me stranded on the tracks of my city's light rail transit. The short version of the story is that my car started acting up, of all times, as I was on the way to the mechanic for an oil change.… |
| LG to tune in TVs to Intel's WiDi Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:08 AM PST First tellies with laptop streaming tech on boardIntel has won LG's backing for its Wireless Display (WiDi) video-over-Wi-Fi initiative.… |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST 360-degree photography made easyiOS App of the Week There are quite a few apps that can be used to stitch together a series of overlapping photos in order to create a single, wide-angle panoramic picture.… |
| Sony: PS3 sales ahead of target Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:53 AM PST Will meet FY2012 sales goalSony will sell 15m PlayStation 3 consoles by the end of March 2012, the consumer electronics giant has insisted.… |
| ICO warns: Just six months to comply with EC cookie rules Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:37 AM PST No 'wave of knee-jerk enforcement' come 26 May, thoThe Information Commissioner's Office won't begin enforcing the new cookies law for another six months yet - in the meantime, the regulator has issued a reminder to web outfits warning them to prepare to comply with the legislation.… |
| Whitehall Post-Its, Ministers' GMail to come under FOIA? Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:18 AM PST Mandarins 'sh*tting bricks' at possible disclosuresComment If you see puffs of black smoke drifting over Whitehall this week - don't be alarmed. The Information Commission is expected to rule that "backchannels" such as private email accounts, and other information recorded by Ministers and public servants must be revealed to the public.… |
| Google gives £550k to Bletchley Park Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:58 AM PST 'Profoundly historically significant huts' get makeoverGoogle has donated over half a million pounds for restorations at Bletchley Park, the site which commemorates the birth of modern computing and the code-breakers who helped bring the Second World War to an end.… |
| WD slashes warranty periods on Blue and Green drives Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:33 AM PST But you'll be able to buy it back, maybe!Western Digital is cutting the distribution warranty period for Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue drives from three to two years.… |
| 'Flash Gordon' supercomputer powers up in January Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST Solid-state 'science ship' casts anchor in San DiegoSay hello to Flash Gordon; the world's first flash-powered supercomputer will come online in the San Diego Supercomputer Centre in January.… |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST The finest ultrabook on the market?Review I honestly thought it would take the industry a lot longer to start producing Windows ultrabooks for under a grand that are this good. The Asus Zenbook is as flat and skinny and as light as a MacBook Air without trying to look like one, and is a darn sight better connected.… |
| Feds charge eight former Siemens officials with bribery Posted: 14 Dec 2011 05:00 PM PST $100m allegedly paid to secure Argentine identity cardsUS officials have charged more than a dozen former executives and contractors of Siemens of conspiring to spend $100 million in bribes to secure a $1 billion contract to produce national identity cards for Argentine citizens.… |
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