Topic: SECURITY - on August 13, 2014 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.” ¶ ES is Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the world. For almost nine months, I have been trying to set up an interview with him—traveling to Berlin, Rio de Janeiro twice, and New York multiple times to talk with the handful of his confidants who can arrange a meeting. Among other things, I want to answer a burning question: What drove Snowden to leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents, revelations that have laid bare the vast scope of the government's domestic surveillance programs? In May I received an email from his lawyer, ACLU attorney Ben Wizner, confirming that Snowden would meet me in Moscow and let me hang out and chat with him for what turned out to be three solid days over several weeks. It is the most time that any journalist has been allowed to spend with him since he arrived in Russia in June 2013. But the finer details of the rendezvous remain shrouded in mystery. I landed in Moscow without knowing precisely where or when Snowden and I would actually meet. Now, at last, the details are set.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 13, 2014 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
An Impressive Array of Tricks Performed With a Yo-Yo That Comes Free From Its String
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Topic: SPORT - on August 12, 2014 at 4:54:00 PM CEST
World Yo-Yo Champion Performs Hypnotizing Routine
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Topic: Space - on August 12, 2014 at 4:52:00 PM CEST
"Monsters at the End of the Universe" --Black Holes with Masses Equaling Billions of Suns
At the ends of the Universe there are black holes with masses equaling billions of our sun. These giant bodies – quasars – feed on interstellar gas, swallowing large quantities of it non-stop. Thus they reveal their existence: The light that is emitted by the gas as it is sucked in and crushed by the black hole's gravity travels for eons across the Universe until it reaches our telescopes. Looking at the edges of the Universe is therefore looking into the past. These far-off, ancient quasars appear to us in their infancy, taken less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Since these ancient quasars were first discovered, scientists have wondered what process could lead a small black hole to gorge and fatten to such an extent, so soon after the Big Bang.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 11, 2014 at 4:50:00 PM CEST
Staatstrojaner: Gamma-Hacker dokumentiert seinen Datendiebstahl
Der Gamma-Hacker legt nach: Erst hat der Unbekannte 40 Gigabyte Daten der Firmengruppe veröffentlicht, in denen sich Hinweise auf einen Einsatz der Spähsoftware in Bahrain finden. Nun erklärt er seinen Hack im Detail.
Der Unbekannte, der offenbar 40 Gigabyte Dateien von einem Server der Gamma-Firmengruppe kopieren konnte, hat eine detaillierte Anleitung veröffentlicht. Darin erklärt der Hacker, wie er vorgegangen ist und welche Schritte er unternommen hat, um nicht erwischt zu werden. Die Anleitung zur Straftat veröffentlicht der Unbekannte nach eigenen Angaben, um zu zeigen, dass der Einbruch bei Gamma nicht besonders schwierig gewesen sei.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on August 9, 2014 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Museum in Prag beleuchtet Geschichte der Toilette
Es ist die wohl umfangreichste Sammlung historischer Toiletten und Nachttöpfe: Rund 2000 Gefäße in allen denkbaren Größen und Formen, hergestellt aus Porzellan, Holz, Metall oder Plastik, sind jetzt in einem Museum in Prag zu bestaunen.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on August 9, 2014 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Warum Hunde so gern am Anus ihrer Artgenossen schnuppern
Wissenschaftsvideos, wie sie sein sollen: Die American Chemical Society informiert über Chemie im Alltag - Prädikat: süchtig machend
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Topic: NATURE - on August 8, 2014 at 4:46:00 PM CEST
Cow farts cause barn to explode in Germany
Flatulence from 90 cows in a German barn sparked a methane gas explosion that damaged the building and left one cow slightly injured with burns, police said Tuesday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 7, 2014 at 4:37:00 PM CEST
Ultimate Close Call Compilation
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 6, 2014 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
Gamma FinFisher: Twitter-Account veröffentlicht interne Dokumente über weltweit eingesetzten Staatstrojaner
Die Firma Gamma verlangt mindestens anderthalb Millionen Euro für die Trojaner-Software FinFisher und arbeitet aktiv daran, Antivirenprogramme zu umgehen. Das geht aus anonym veröffentlichten Dokumenten hervor, die wir verifizieren konnten und spiegeln. Die deutsche FinFisher GmbH verweigert jeden Kommentar dazu.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 5, 2014 at 4:34:00 PM CEST
Berufswahl: Darknet-Drogendealer
Viele Bitcoin-Fans wollen nicht, dass ihr liebstes Zahlungssystem unter dem Ruf leidet, die Währung der Wahl von Internet-Drogendealern zu sein. Dass sogar manche Pfadfinder die Kryptowährung inzwischen akzeptieren, ist schön und gut—aber um zu verstehen, wo in diesem neuen digitalen Wirtschaftszweig das große Geld gemacht wird, musst du einen Blick auf die Deepweb-Schwarzmärkte werfen.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 5, 2014 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Move Over Schlieren, Scientists Are Upping The Sound Wave Photography Ante
Okay, Schlieren photography is still pretty awesome. I’m actually still quite fascinated with our ability to photograph sound waves. I also love that I can do it myself for less than $10. But, this project announcement from MIT is pretty wicked, too. Scientists from Microsoft, MIT, and Adobe have developed a way to use similar science to recover the audio from images taken using high speed cameras and even a prosumer level DSLR.
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