Topic: COMPUTER - on June 10, 2016 at 9:53:00 PM CEST
Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer
Combining the best of analog and digital approaches could yield a full-scale multipurpose quantum computer. For 30 years, researchers have pursued the universal quantum computer, a device that could solve any computational problem, with varying degrees of success. Now, a team in California and Spain has made an experimental prototype of such a device that can solve a wide range of problems in fields such as chemistry and physics, and has the potential to be scaled up to larger systems. Both IBM and a Canadian company called D-Wave have created functioning quantum computers using different approaches. But their devices are not easily scalable to the many quantum bits (qubits) needed for solving problems that classical computers cannot.
nature.com Google combines two main quantum computing ideas in one computer phys.org
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 10, 2016 at 9:51:00 PM CEST
DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah’s Unified Fire Authority, was snared in a dragnet pulled through the state’s program to monitor prescription drugs after someone stole morphine from ambulance in 2012. To find the missing morphine, cops used their unrestricted access to the state's Prescription Drug Monitor Program database to look at the private medical records of nearly 500 emergency services personnel—without a warrant.
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Topic: Phone - on June 10, 2016 at 9:49:00 PM CEST
The Amazing iPhone-sniffing Prison Dogs
Two years ago, a Belgian Malinois named Drako earned a flurry of press attention when his proud owners at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced he had found his thousandth contraband cell phone in the state’s prisons. He’d once found thirty stashed in a microwave, and one hidden in a jar of peanut butter. But Drako was only the most famous of a growing number of dogs around the country trained to find cell phones. Usually they are a specially-trained subset of canine units employed to find drugs. They have been used by prisons in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. Texas and California have 13 cell phone dogs each.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2016 at 9:47:00 PM CEST
New router chips could save open source firmware from FCC rules
A company that designs MIPS processors for networking hardware says it is developing technology that would allow installation of open source firmware on wireless routers while still complying with the US Federal Communications Commission's latest anti-interference rules. The FCC now requires router makers to prevent third-party firmware from changing radio frequency parameters in ways that could cause interference with other devices, such as FAA Doppler weather radar systems.
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Topic: Terror - on June 10, 2016 at 9:46:00 PM CEST
The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater scale than ever before
The FBI has ramped up its use of sting operations in terrorism cases, dispatching undercover agents to pose as jihadists and ensnare Americans suspected of backing the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. Today, roughly 67% of prosecutions involving suspected ISIS supporters include evidence from undercover operations, according to the In many cases, agents will seek out people who have somehow demonstrated radical views, then coax them into plotting an act of terrorism — often providing weapons and money. Before the suspects can carry out their plans, they’re arrested.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2016 at 9:42:00 PM CEST
Tracking Earth's Secret Spy Satellites
With the right gear and know-how, anyone can keep tabs on the clandestine ”moons” that surround our planet. Behind the night sky is another sky, one obscured by legal darkness and criss-crossed by satellites we’re not meant to know exist. This is the “other night sky,” as geographer-turned-artist Trevor Paglen calls it, a world of clandestine moons and unacknowledged orbiters. Kept out of official reach by defense and intelligence services, this hidden sky nonetheless can be uncovered—if you have the gear to track and observe it.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2016 at 9:40:00 PM CEST
SECRET REPORT: UK spies have more data than they know what to do with
UK spies have more data at their disposal than they know what to do with, according to a new leaked document. The Intercept has published a secret document written by British intelligence officials back in 2010 expressing concerns that spies are being overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information collected by spy agencies - making it more difficult to act on the data collected.
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Topic: Phone - on June 10, 2016 at 9:37:00 PM CEST
Anonyme SIM-Karten: Europäischer Menschenrechtsgerichtshof schaltet sich ein
Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte hat die Bundesregierung aufgefordert, sich zur Ausweispflicht für Prepaid-SIM-Karten zu äußern. Damit soll ein Verfahren vorangetrieben werden, das seit über zehn Jahren durch die Instanzen geht.
Dem Plan der Bundesregierung, im Rahmen des neuen Anti-Terror-Pakets unter anderem eine Ausweispflicht für Prepaid-SIM-Karten einzuführen, könnte sich der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in den Weg stellen. Dabei geht es im vorliegenden Fall gar nicht mal um den aktuellen Gesetzentwurf, der anonyme beziehungsweise pseudonyme Mobilfunk-Kommunikation abschaffen will: Bereits seit der Novellierung des Telekommunikationsgesetzes (TKG) im Jahr 2004 ist es gesetzlich vorgeschrieben, dass auch solche SIM-Karten auf einen Anschlussinhaber registriert werden müssen – selbst wenn Mobilfunkanbieter bei der Anmeldung nicht überprüfen müssen, ob die angegebenen Daten tatsächlich korrekt sind, indem sie sie etwa mit einem Personalausweis abgleichen.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 9, 2016 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Welcome to Larry Page’s Secret Flying-Car Factories
With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies. Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., which was curious, because Google tightly controls most of the land in the area. Then a reporter spotted patent filings showing Zee.Aero was working on a small, all-electric plane that could take off and land vertically—a flying car. In the handful of news articles that ensued, all the startup would say was that it wasn’t affiliated with Google or any other technology company. Then it stopped answering media inquiries altogether. Employees say they were even given wallet-size cards with instructions on how to deflect questions from reporters. After that, the only information that trickled out came from amateur pilots, who occasionally posted pictures of a strange-looking plane taking off from a nearby airport.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 9, 2016 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Drugs Map of Britain | Scotland's Valium Crisis
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 9, 2016 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Miles Davis Septet - Live @Stadthalle Vienna Austria (3/11/73)
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Topic: ART - on June 9, 2016 at 2:03:00 PM CEST
The Floating Piers
From June 18 to July 3, 2016, Christo will reimagine Italy’s Lake Iseo. The Floating Piers will consist of 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes floating on the surface of the water.
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