Topic: ART - on April 17, 2007 at 3:26:00 PM CEST
Vladimir Kush
Vladimir Kush is a Russian born painter, who is identified with the metaphorical realism movement.
Born in 1965 in Moscow, he learned to draw at home and started attending an art school at the age of 7. He entered the Moscow art institute at 17, and when he went for his mandatory two years of military service at 18 was soon set to painting murals and canvases rather than regular infantry duties.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 17, 2007 at 3:20:00 PM CEST
Mammoth skeleton sets auction record
f you were looking for the skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth, Monday was your day to buy. Christie's auction house sold one for $421,200 - a world record.
The unidentified buyer was a European who collects contemporary art and 19th century furniture, Christie's spokeswoman Capucine Milliot said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 17, 2007 at 3:18:00 PM CEST
Mexico drugs cartels feud erupts
At least 20 people have been killed in what Mexican police say is a violent feud between rival drugs gangs across the country.
Police said bodies were found in several of the country's states from the early hours of Monday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 3:15:00 PM CEST
'Hacker Boot Camp' teaches security tactics
Trevian Mathis taps his computer keyboard just a few times to hack into Juggy Bank's customer accounts. Within minutes, he has checking, savings and credit-card numbers.
His maneuvers may look sneaky, but Mathis is on the side of justice.
He is learning to be an ethical hacker in a course offered by a Northeast Philadelphia company, Training Camp, which employs about 40 people and offers a variety of classes for computer professionals. Juggy Bank and its customers are fictional.
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Topic: Phone - on April 17, 2007 at 3:13:00 PM CEST
Deadly virus phone rumors frighten Afghans
Rumors swept through Afghanistan on Monday that a deadly virus was being spread by mobile telephone calls, and government officials scrambled to reassure the public the talk was rubbish.
Many worried Afghan mobile phone users called family and friends, warning them not to answer calls from strange numbers. Some people said they had heard that several people had been killed by the mystery virus in Kabul at the weekend.
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Topic: 911 - on April 17, 2007 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
French "knew in 2001 al Qaeda was planning hijack"
French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday.
The newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified documents that showed foreign agents had infiltrated Osama bin Laden's network and were carefully tracking its moves.
One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals," and said the operation had been discussed in Kabul at the start of 2000 by al Qaeda, Taliban and Chechen militants.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 3:02:00 PM CEST
Samsung thinks outside the box with new concept PCs
Samsung recently showed off three completely crazy concept PC designs, computers that have about a zero percent chance of ever hitting store shelves but show off the fact that Samsung has some creative designers on their payroll.
But tell me somethig, don’t you think that the first model actually looks like the Hogwarts’s Sorting Hat (From Harry Potter)?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:56:00 PM CEST
Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
The Internet Crime Complaint Center filed its annual report last month, but didn't get the attention it deserved. A look inside offers some revealing statistics on the darker side of the Web.
This is the sixth annual report by the U.S.-based center, which is run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. The complaint center, dubbed IC3, compiles its figures by drawing on the flood of complaints pouring into U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies. The list of crimes runs the gamut, led by various financial scams (auction fraud, failure to deliver goods or money, credit card fraud), followed by other acts that have become a daily feature of online life (computer intrusions, spam, child pornography).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
Adobe Feeds Apollo Ecosystem With New Internet Video Player
Today Adobe announced the launch of the Adobe Media Player, a desktop app that enables consumers to view high quality video whether they are online or offline. It is also designed for content owners to distribute, track and monetize their video. Built on their Apollo framework, the Adobe Media Player is cross-platform and based on open standards.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:00:00 PM CEST
Skype IM malware smut surfaces
Skype's Instant messaging client has once again been misused as a vector to spread malware.
The Pykse-A worm is spreading via Skype instant messages, posing as a chat message linking to a website featuring racy picture of a young, scantily-clad woman. Clicking on these messages does display pics of a model wearing black lingerie, but only after an attempt has been made to infect PCs using a Trojan downloader that installs other items of malware. Infected PCs spread the infection by sending a variety of short messages promoting soft-core smut to an infected user's online friends using the Skype API.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 17, 2007 at 1:54:00 PM CEST
Hungarian motorway blocked by escaping rabbits
Hungary's busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5,000 of the animals loose on the road, police said.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 17, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Gravity-B proves Einstein right
The first data from Gravity Probe-B has confirmed that Einstein was a pretty clever chap who knew what he was talking about when it came to space, time, and the universe.
The team working on the mission have demonstrated the so-called geodetic effect, the amount by which the Earth's mass distorts local space time.
So far, the figures are fairly broad brush, but the scientists say by the end of the year they expect to have significantly refined their results.
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