Topic: GOOGLE - on June 9, 2016 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Welcome to Larry Page’s Secret Flying-Car Factories
With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies. Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., which was curious, because Google tightly controls most of the land in the area. Then a reporter spotted patent filings showing Zee.Aero was working on a small, all-electric plane that could take off and land vertically—a flying car. In the handful of news articles that ensued, all the startup would say was that it wasn’t affiliated with Google or any other technology company. Then it stopped answering media inquiries altogether. Employees say they were even given wallet-size cards with instructions on how to deflect questions from reporters. After that, the only information that trickled out came from amateur pilots, who occasionally posted pictures of a strange-looking plane taking off from a nearby airport.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 9, 2016 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Drugs Map of Britain | Scotland's Valium Crisis
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 9, 2016 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Miles Davis Septet - Live @Stadthalle Vienna Austria (3/11/73)
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Topic: ART - on June 9, 2016 at 2:03:00 PM CEST
The Floating Piers
From June 18 to July 3, 2016, Christo will reimagine Italy’s Lake Iseo. The Floating Piers will consist of 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes floating on the surface of the water.
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Topic: logisch - on June 9, 2016 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Wittgenstein’s Handles
What was it about handles—door-handles, axe-handles, the handles of pitchers and vases—that transfixed thinkers in Vienna and Berlin during the early decades of the twentieth century, echoing earlier considerations of handles in America and ancient Greece? Ludwig Wittgenstein, as everyone knows, abandoned philosophy after publishing his celebrated Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921. He took up gardening instead, in a monastic community on the outskirts of Vienna, where he camped out for a few months in a toolshed. It was in part to draw him back into “the world” that his sister Margarete (Gretl) invited him to join the architect Paul Engelmann in designing her new house, a rigorous Modernist structure that, much changed, now houses the Bulgarian Embassy.
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Topic: WEB - on June 9, 2016 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
One of the World's Largest Botnets Has Vanished
With no warning, one of the world's largest criminal botnets—a massive collection of computers used to launch attacks—has disappeared. Researchers have reported huge drops in traffic for two of the most popular pieces of malware which rely on it. “We can only tell that the Dridex and Locky spam campaigns stopped since June 1 in our observation. We cannot confirm how the botnet was brought down yet,” Joonho Sa, a researcher for cybersecurity company FireEye, told Motherboard in an email.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2016 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
32m Twitter passwords may have been hacked and put up for sale on the Dark Web
Just days after Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were found to be hacked, it appears that more folks will need to change their passwords.
ZDNet reported that a Russian hacker claimed to have a massive cache of millions of Twitter account logins for sale, for 10 bitcoins or about $5,807. LeakedSource, which indexes hacked credentials from data breaches, noted in a blog post that the database, of which it received a copy, contains more than 32 million accounts.
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Topic: WEB - on June 9, 2016 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
Belgium tops list of nations most vulnerable to hacking
Tajikistan comes second, Samoa third and Australia fourth as new ‘heat map of the internet’ reveals which countries are most at risk due to exposed servers.
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