Topic: GOOGLE - on September 4, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Android 4.4 Kitkat: Nestlé macht sich in Video über Apple lustig
Gestern verkündeten Google und Lebensmittel-Konzern Nestlé, dass die nächste Android-Version Kitkat heißen wird. Dazu hat der Hersteller des Schoko-Riegels ein Video veröffentlicht, welches durchaus als Seitenhieb auf Apple gesehen werden dürfte.
Das war eine ziemliche Überraschung, als gestern bekannt wurde, wie die nächste Iteration des mobilen Betriebssystems aus dem Hause Google betitelt wird. Es dauerte auch nicht lange, bis die ersten Menschen fragten, was Kitkat wohl für so einen mächtigen Deal auf den Tisch geblättert hätten.
Vertraut man jetzt den Aussagen von Google, geht es bei der ganzen Geschichte überhaupt gar nicht um Geld. Ausschlaggebend war schlicht, dass man im Android-Team gerne diese Schokoriegel verschlingt und einfach mal bei Nestlé angeklopft hat, ob man sich so eine Zusammenarbeit vorstellen kann.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 4, 2013 at 2:43:00 PM CEST
NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches
The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden show. But unlike conventional cybercriminals, the agency is less interested in hacking PCs and Macs. Instead, America’s spooks have their eyes on the internet routers and switches that form the basic infrastructure of the net, and are largely overlooked as security vulnerabilities.
Under a $652-million program codenamed “Genie,” U.S. intel agencies have hacked into foreign computers and networks to monitor communications crossing them and to establish control over them, according to a secret black budget document leaked to the Washington Post. U.S. intelligence agencies conducted 231 offensive cyber operations in 2011 to penetrate the computer networks of targets abroad.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux
SolidRun refreshed its line of tiny 2 x 2 x 2-inch mini-PCs with four new community-backed models based on 1.2GHz multi-core Freescale i.MX6 SoCs. The CuBox-i devices support Android 4.2.2 and Linux, offer HDMI, S/PDIF, IR, eSATA, GbE, USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth interfaces (depending on model). All the models offer 1.2GHz clock speeds, OpenGL/ES 2.0 3D support, and video acceleration for 1080p video, while the two higher-end ones supply more robust GPUs that add OpenCL 1.1 support.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 3, 2013 at 4:46:00 PM CEST
USB-Tastatur kapert Linux-Kern
ChromeOS-Entwickler Kees Cook hat beim Experimentieren mit USB-Endgeräten zwölf Schwachstellen im Code des Linux Kernels entdeckt, der für die Interaktion mit HIDs (Human Interface Devices) zuständig ist. Der gravierendste Fehler kann dabei eine Speicherverletzung auslösen, wenn das USB-Gerät mehr "Report ID" Felder generiert, als der Kernel erwartet. Einen entsprechenden Patch, der das Problem behebt, hat Cook ebenfalls vorgelegt
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 3, 2013 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
Daft Punks “Get Lucky”, gespielt in Mario Paint
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 3, 2013 at 1:32:00 PM CEST
NSA BANGERS
NSA BANGERS is an audio landscape full of paranoia, espionage, epic snooping, unhealthy obsession, and the stress of being a contemporary type human being. Basically, NSA BANGERS is the soundtrack of Freedom! And Freedom is expensive y'all! Apparently, it like, costs your Freedom!
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Topic: FUN - on September 3, 2013 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Wieder brannte ein Mann in der Wüste
Mehr als 61.000 Menschen ließen heuer wieder das alltägliche Leben hinter sich, um am Burning Man Festival 2013 teilzunehmen. Jährlich wird die Black Rock Wüste im US-Bundesstaat Nevada zum Schauplatz einer künstlerischen Subwelt. Das Thema war in diesem Jahr "Cargo Cult" und spielte auf die Landung von außerirdischem Leben auf der Erde an.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 3, 2013 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
With $7.17 Billion Nokia Buy, Microsoft Brings Its Trojan Horse Home
Microsoft is paying about $5 billion to buy a majority of Nokia’s cellphone business, while shelling out another $2.17 billion to license the struggling Finnish company’s patent portfolio. And none of this should surprise you.
With this $7.17 billion play, Microsoft has redoubled its efforts to compete with Apple and Google in the smartphone game, nabbing a handset maker that can more closely combine its Windows Phone operating system with the hardware that runs it, and expanding an already massive smartphone-related patent portfolio that can jockey with rivals in other ways. But it has also bought itself the new CEO it so dearly needs: Stephen Elop, the former head of Microsoft’s business division who left Redmond in September 2010 for the top post at Nokia.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 3, 2013 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
Thai prosecutors to issue arrest warrant for Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya
Thai prosecutors have said they will issue an arrest warrant for an heir of the Red Bull energy drink creator who failed to show up to hear charges against him in a fatal hit-and-run case that sparked nationwide outrage.
Vorayuth Yoovidhya, 28, is accused of being behind the wheel of his Ferrari sports car when it collided with an on-duty policeman in the early hours of 3 September 2012.
"Investigators will issue an arrest warrant for the suspect tomorrow and he can be arrested anywhere in Thailand," Reuchai Krairerk, a senior public prosecutor at Bangkok South criminal court, said on Monday.
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Topic: WAR - on September 2, 2013 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Sarin chemicals' export claim rejected by UK
The Government was accused of “breathtaking laxity” in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will today be asked by MPs to explain why a British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while Syria’s civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month’s atrocity in Damascus.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 2, 2013 at 2:03:00 PM CEST
DRUMMER einigen Gitarren
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 2, 2013 at 2:02:00 PM CEST
Angela Steinbrück
Merkel's Germany Necklace' clear winner of debate on Twitter
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