Topic: Bdays - on August 6, 2013 at 5:43:00 PM CEST
Andy Warhol
To honor the anniversary of Warhol’s birthday, August 6, 2013 The Andy Warhol Museum and EarthCam launched a collaborative project titled Figment, a live feed of Warhol’s gravesite. This live feed, viewable 24 hours a day, seven days a week worldwide is available above.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 6, 2013 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
First 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Shots
A riflemaker in Canada has made and tested what he says is the world's first 3D-printed rifle. He follows gunsmith Cody Wilson who fired the first 3D-printed handgun earlier this year.
When the riflemaker, known as "Matthew," first fired the .22-caliber rifle, the gun cracked after the first shot. Now, the rifle, known as the "Grizzly," is back and better than ever, according to Matthew, who furnished the rifle with a thicker barrel.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 6, 2013 at 5:27:00 PM CEST
TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript
The anonymizing network gives some advice following a startling Firefox zero-day vulnerability
The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network.
The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion Router (TOR) network.
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Topic: food - on August 6, 2013 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
First lab-grown hamburger gets full marks for 'mouth feel'
All it took was a little butter and sunflower oil and, in less than 10 minutes, the world's most expensive burger, grown from muscle stem cells in a lab, was ready to eat.
"I was expecting the texture to be more soft," said Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio, who researches food trends and was the first to get a taste of the synthetic beef hamburger at a lavish event in London on Monday that bore more resemblance to a TV set than a scientific press conference.
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Topic: food - on August 6, 2013 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
5 Surprising Genetically Modified Foods
By now, you've likely heard about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the controversy over whether they're the answer to world hunger or the devil incarnate. But for right now, let's leave aside that debate and turn to a more basic question: When you go to the supermarket, do you know which foods are most likely to be—or contain ingredients that are—genetically engineered? A handy FAQ:
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 6, 2013 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA
Reuters is reporting on a secret effort by the Drug Enforcement Agency to collect data from wiretaps, informants, and other sources. Considered most troubling is a systematic campaign to hide this program from the courts, denying defendants their right to know how evidence against them was obtained. This agenda targets U.S. citizens directly, as it is mainly focused on drug trafficking. From the article: 'Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 6, 2013 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
Special Operations Division der DEA: Big Data im Kampf gegen Drogen
In einem Exklusivreport berichtete die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters heute über die ‘besondere’ Nutzung von Geheimdienstinformationen der Special Operations Division (SOD) der US Amerikanischen Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Die Mitarbeiter der SOD setzen sich aus zwei Dutzend unterschiedlichen Behörden zusammen, u.a. NSA, FBI, CIA und Homeland Security. Die SOD versorgt die DEA-Mitarbeiter mit Informationen aus Abhöraktionen der NSA im Ausland, Informationen von ausländischen Informanten und Hinweise aus der hauseigenen DICE Datenbank, die Metadaten zu Internet- und Mobiltelefonkommunikation aus alten DEA-Ermittlungsverfahren enthält – etwa 1 Milliarde Datensätze.
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Topic: FUN - on August 5, 2013 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
Riesen Salzbergwerk
In Rumänien gibt es mehrere große Salzbergwerke. In den letzten Jahrzehnten haben sich diese Minen begonnen, nicht nur für die Produktion von Salz, sondern auch als Ort für Einheimische.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 5, 2013 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
'New-pot in bloom': Cannabis plants found growing in Newport Council flower pots
It was high time gardeners did some weeding when cannabis was found in council flower pots.
About 20 plants could be seen sprouting from among flowers in six separate boxes in Newport city centre – passed by thousands of motorists every day and half a mile from the city’s main police station.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 5, 2013 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
Zitate zur NSA-Affäre: Die besten Sprüche aus Neuland
Überwachungskritiker sind naiv und antiamerikanisch, das Internet noch Neuland und die Angst vor dem Staat wahnhaft: Seit Beginn der NSA-Affäre wurde viel geredet, oft aber wenig gesagt. Es wurde verschleiert, gelogen, abgewiegelt. Eine kurze Geschichte der NSA-Enthüllungen in Zitaten
Ein Zitat zur Prism-Affäre wird uns sicher noch lange erhalten bleiben: "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland". Das sagte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel anlässlich des Besuchs von Barack Obama in Berlin - zur Belustigung und zum Entsetzen sehr vieler Netznutzer.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 5, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail
The founder of Freedom Hosting has been arrested in Ireland and is awaiting extradition to USA. In a crackdown the FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half of the onion sites in the TOR network have been compromised, including the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail. The FBI has also embedded a 0-day Javascript attack against Firefox 17 on Freedom Hosting's server.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 4, 2013 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
500 Millionen Verbindungsdaten im Monat: BND betreibt Vorratsdatenspeicherung durch die Hintertür
Der BND sammelte allein im Dezember 2012 500 Millionen Verbindungsdaten. Diese werden in großem Umfang an die NSA übermittelt. Diese de facto Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist laut BND durch das BND-Gesetz und das G10-Gesetz zur Beschränkung des Brief-, Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnisses gedeckt. Zudem erfasse man gar keine Telekommunikationsverkehre deutscher Staatsangehöriger. Das berichtet der SPIEGEL auf Basis von Dokumenten aus dem Fundus von Edward Snowden.
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