Topic: PHOTO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Einer flog über den Moskauer Kreml
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Topic: LEGO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
LEGO: Can You Explain It?
Here are three impossible #LEGO constructions for you to solve. Can you explain them?
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Topic: GFX - on September 10, 2013 at 2:38:00 PM CEST
Manipulating objects in photos in 3D
This is a bit of a mindblower...this software presented at SIGGRAPH Asia lets you pluck objects out of photos and edit them as if they were in 3D.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 10, 2013 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests
Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the number of data requests it receives per year from the spy agency.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
NSA hat angeblich Infrastruktur von Google und SWIFT gehackt
Die NSA spioniert gezielt interne Netzwerke großer Unternehmen, fremder Regierungen und von Finanzinstitutionen aus. Das berichtet der brasilianische Fernsehsender Globo unter Berufung auf neue Dokumente des NSA-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden. In einer Auflistung geknackter Netzwerke findet sich demnach unter anderem das des größten brasilianischen Erdölunternehmens Petrobras, die Infrastruktur von Google, ein internes Netz des französischen Außenministeriums und das Netzwerk von SWIFT, über das alle länderübergreifenden Finanztransaktionen laufen. Andere Ziele habe der Journalist Glenn Greenwald zum Schutz von US-Interessen vor der Übergabe des Dokuments geschwärzt.
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Topic: CARS - on September 9, 2013 at 3:48:00 PM CEST
1.100 PS - Semi Truck Drift Gymkhana 1
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 2:37:00 PM CEST
How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch
The more we learn about the breadth and depth of the NSA and GCHQ's programmes of spying on the general public, the more alarming it all becomes. The most recent stories about the deliberate sabotage of security technology are the full stop at the end of a sentence that started on 8 August, when the founder of Lavabit (the privacy oriented email provider used by whistleblower Edward Snowden) abruptly shut down, with its founder, Ladar Levison, obliquely implying that he'd been ordered to secretly subvert his own system to compromise his users' privacy.
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Topic: Green - on September 9, 2013 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
Formula E to use Qualcomm technologies in electric cars
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has signed a sponsorship deal with the forthcoming Formula E championship.
The FIA international motorsports body plans to launch the electric-car competition next year as an alternative to Formula 1.
Qualcomm will provide wireless-charging and augmented-reality technology to help the teams taking part and the public watching the races.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 1:21:00 PM CEST
Pay Us $85 To Avoid Full-On Airport Molestation
Travelers could soon be able to keep their shoes on while going through security at more airports around the country.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that it will expand faster screening lanes to 100 airports by year end, up from 40 now. The agency says the expansion is part of its attempt to make screening more effective by breaking away from a single approach at all airports.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 1:20:00 PM CEST
iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data
The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.
Michael Hayden has an interesting story to tell about the iPhone. He and his wife were in an Apple store in Virginia, Hayden, the former head of the United States National Security Agency (NSA), said at a conference in Washington recently. A salesman approached and raved about the iPhone, saying that there were already "400,000 apps" for the device. Hayden, amused, turned to his wife and quietly asked: "This kid doesn't know who I am, does he? Four-hundred-thousand apps means 400,000 possibilities for attacks."
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 8, 2013 at 6:35:00 PM CEST
Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser
I've been advising Epic Browser, a startup building a privacy-focused, Chrome-based browser that starts where incognito mode ends. Epic employs a host of tactics designed to make what happens inside your browser stay there, to the tune of a thousand blocks in a typical hour of browsing. They also provide a built-in proxy service. If the corporations and governments are going to watch us, there's no reason to make it any easier for them. Epic has Mac and Windows builds for now. Their site goes into far greater detail about how they block tracking methods most browsers don't.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 8, 2013 at 6:33:00 PM CEST
Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data
SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.
The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google's Android mobile operating system.
The documents state that it is possible for the NSA to tap most sensitive data held on these smart phones, including contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been.
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