Topic: SECURITY - on January 7, 2017 at 2:14:00 PM CET
WikiLeaks Announces Dangerous Plan to Publicly Expose Verified Twitter Accounts – Listing Families, Location, and More
On Friday, popular hacker and political leak organization WikiLeaks made a startling announcement that they would soon begin gathering together all available information on all verified accounts on Twitter in a list that has many disturbed. Many have responded in outrage to what they consider to be “doxxing,” which is the illegal search and publishing of private information on a public forum, usually with malicious intent. In the tweet, the WikiLeaks Task Force informed the social media site of their possible next venture and then asked the public to assist in the selection of key criteria for their upcoming list.
We are thinking of making an online database with all “verified” twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships. — WikiLeaks Task Force (@WLTaskForce) January 6, 2017
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Topic: JOEOEOEORG - on January 7, 2017 at 2:13:00 PM CET
Ex-CIA head quits Trump team amid intelligence standoff over Russian election hacks
Former CIA Director James Woolsey says he is no longer serving as an advisor to President-elect Donald Trump. “I didn't want to fly under false colors,” Woolsey told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “I'm not really functioning as an adviser anymore, and so when I'm on the screen, everybody announces that I'm former CIA director and that I'm a Trump adviser. And I'm really not anymore.” Woolsey was the head of the Central Intelligence Agency from February 1993 until January 1995. He began advising Trump in September.
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Topic: WEB - on January 7, 2017 at 2:05:00 PM CET
Trump, Prince, and Queen Elizabeth: 2016’s most-read Wikipedia articles
The English Wikipedia’s list is led by the United States president-elect, who topped all other articles with nearly three times more views than last year’s #1. But the second-screen effect powered Britain’s queen, Pablo Escobar, and O. J. Simpson to surprisingly high places.
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Topic: ART - on January 7, 2017 at 2:01:00 PM CET
Peter Kogler Uses Optical Illusions to Transform Museums Into Works of Art
When visiting a Peter Kogler exhibition, you might think you made a wrong turn into a hall of mirrors. It’s actually his art. What M.C. Escher did with his trippy drawings, Kogler does on walls, floors, and ceilings. For more than 30 years, the Austrian artist has been transforming subways, art museums, and lobbies using computer-generated optical illusions. Kogler also uses projections and silkscreens that morph solid structures into abstract, sinuous surfaces.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 7, 2017 at 1:56:00 PM CET
Iceberg the size of Delaware to break off from Antarctica
A large sheet of ice is set to break away from Antarctica and scientists say it will be one of the largest breaks of its kind recorded. Larsen C -- a sprawling sheet of ice in western Antarctica -- is currently attached to its parent shelf by 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) of ice, according to UK-based research team Project MIDAS. Once it splits, the crack will produce an iceberg around 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) -- approximately the size of the state of Delaware.
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Topic: Space - on January 7, 2017 at 1:52:00 PM CET
Stunning Video Of Earth By NASA Astronaut Shares Beauty Of Our Big Blue Marble
When you’re the country’s astronaut who has clocked the most days in space, such as NASA’s Jeff Williams with his 534 days of space time, you still may not be a household name or a social media star, but when you bring home ultra high-def (UHD) footage of the Earth, the internet loves you.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 6, 2017 at 2:05:00 PM CET
Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1980s-90s
Računari was a computer magazine of the former Yugoslavia which lasted from 1984 until the late 1990s – surviving the economic turbulence and wars of the 1980s-90s, and even outlasting the country itself. The title simply means “computers” in Bosnian – and its content was just that: very bland, very technical, nothing flashy… but its covers were another matter entirely. Despite the very low-key tech content, the guys at Računari decided to put some spice on just about every cover. Nearly every issue featured a ravishing Eastern Bloc Beauty straddling computer hardware. Let’s have a look at some of these covers spanning the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Enjoy.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 6, 2017 at 1:57:00 PM CET
Are pop conceptualists The KLF returning in 2017?
The disruptive UK duo once burned £1 million and refused to talk about it for 23 years – as that anniversary approaches, a 45-minute documentary about the band has now appeared.
The KLF, one of pop music’s most subversive groups, broke up in 1992 by deleting their entire back catalogue, teaming up with Extreme Noise Terror at the BRIT Awards, taking a machine gun on stage, and shooting the audience with blanks. After their retirement, the duo of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty formed the K Foundation with the royalties they made with the band and proceeded to wreak havoc on the art world. Eventually they decided to burn £1 million in August 1994 for a piece titled K Foundation Burn A Million Quid.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 6, 2017 at 1:48:00 PM CET
How to make a hempcrete wall
The development of hemp in the United States has been ridiculous, because idiot politicians thought it was the same thing as marijuana (it's not) and banned it back in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug. In actuality, though hemp is a variety of Cannabis sativa, it has less than a 0.3% concentration of THC, the psychoactive ingredient that you need to get stoned. (Marijuana has a 5%-plus concentration.) Nowadays, thankfully, open-minded materials scientists and builders have discovered hemp's value as an eco-friendly building material. As host of the UK's Grand Designs TV show for nearly two decades, British designer Kevin McCloud has seen his fair share of building techniques and materials.
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Topic: PHOTO - on January 6, 2017 at 1:47:00 PM CET
Kodak Ektachrome Film is Coming Back from the Dead
It’s not every day that you hear about a classic film line being brought back from the dead, but that’s what’s being announced today. Kodak Ektachrome film is coming back for film photographers. The announcement was made today at CES in Las Vegas by Kodak Alaris, the separate company owned by the Kodak Pension Plan in the UK that runs Kodak’s old Personalized Imaging division.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 6, 2017 at 1:44:00 PM CET
Razer’s Insane Project Valerie Laptop Packs Three 4K displays
Two years ago at CES, Razer teased us with their Project Christine modular gaming PC. This year they decided to show off something a little more portable: a gaming laptop with three 4K displays.
geek.com I played Battlefield on Razer’s three-screen laptop
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 6, 2017 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Österreichs Innenminister will „in allen Fragen eine lückenlose Überwachung“
In einem Hintergrundgespräch hat der österreichische Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka mehr Überwachung angekündigt, berichtet der Standard: Delikte wie der Tritt gegen eine Frau in einer Berliner U-Bahn-Station oder unterlassene Hilfeleistung im Fall eines in einer Essener Bankfiliale gestürzten 82-Jährigen rechtfertigen laut Sobotka auch in Österreich „in allen Fragen“, und diesen Satzteil wiederholt der Innenminister stark betont, „in allen Fragen eine lückenlose Überwachung“. Die vom Minister vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen haben es in sich. Neben elektronischen Fußfesseln für verdächtige Gefährder und einem Ausbau der akustischen Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum, fordert der ÖVP-Mann eine Vernetzung und Zugriff des Staates auf alle in Österreich eingesetzten privaten Überwachungskameras.
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