1   | How to break iTunes for lawful purposes (copying for back-up, transcoding into different devices) |
A lot of people complain about the DRM found on music bought at the iTunes Music Store. This is quite natural, since iTunes is by far the biggest supplier of music files, and the only legal place to buy files that play on iPods. iTunes only allows you to upload the files to a few iPods, burn them to a few CDs, and play them on a few computers. And you can only upload files to YOUR iPods; If someon...
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1 | Quantum Computing Reaches for True Power + The Pioneers of QC |
Among other important tasks of quantum photonics there is a problem of building an interface between atoms and light photons. Joint think-tank of physicists from Russia and United States studies how single photons interact with quantum objects and has already built a prototype device for transferring information from an atom to a photon. The device is an integrated chip in an artificial atom with ...
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1 | Are You living in a computer simulation? |
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the b...
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1 | Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion |
Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you’ve worked so hard to build. That’s the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network. Facebook has confirmed that it is automatically blocki...
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1 | How U.S. Cyber Command want to control the internet |
Squared-jawed, with four stars decorating each shoulder, General Keith Alexander looks like a character straight out of an old American war movie. But his old-fashioned appearance belies the fact that the general has a new job that is so 21st-century it could have been dreamed up by a computer games designer. Alexander is the first boss of USCybercom, the United States Cyber Command, in charge of ...
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1 | Bad flash drive caused worst U.S. military breach + Video documentary: Cyber War: Sabotaging the Sys |
A malware-laden flash drive inserted in a laptop at a U.S. military base in the Middle East in 2008 led to the “most significant breach of” the nation’s military computers ever. The malicious code on the flash drive was placed there by a “foreign intelligence agency.”
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1 | Password crackers have a surprising secret weapon |
Graphics processing units are powerful enough to conduct quick, effective brute-force attacks on password-protected systems. The researchers pointed out that GPUs have been amped-up over the years to handle increasingly sophisticated computer games, and in the process have achieved the power of a mini-supercomputer.
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1 | It is official! Fring for the Nokia N8 coming soon. |
Jonathan from the fring Team making a video call over 3G. If you happen to have the N8, you can sign up to the early access at www.fring.com/blogs
Fring is a peer-to-peer Mobile VoIP based internet telephony network, that enables users to talk and chat using ICQ, Google Talk, MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and SIP providers (Skype was banned in 2010). fring is h...
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1 | Getting Top Summer Movies on Your iPhone4 or iPad |
Ah, summer. The chance to take a break from worrying about work, go on vacation, and spend time with your friends and family. Well, with the new iPhone 4 and iPad gadget, your vacation life will be more colorful. The 9.7-inch high-resolution screen of iPad and 960*640 retina display of iPhone 4 make them perfect for watching DVD movies on the go. Pack you iPhone 4 or iPad with the top 2010 movies ...
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1 | Palm Pre overclocked to 1GHz |
PsychoKernel is the name of a series of experimental kernels from WebOS Internals kernel developer uNiXpSyChO, currently including F102A, F104A and F105.
This experimental series of kernels is where new features are alpha tested before being incorporated into the mainstream stable UberKernel release.
There is a continuous cycle of adding new features to PsychoKernels, then moving them to alpha...
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