How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers – Network World

Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to “poison” users’ browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time.That’s according to security researcher Mike Kershaw, developer of the Kismet wireless network detector and intrusion-detection system, who spoke at the Black Hat conference

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How the PS3 hypervisor was hacked « root labs rdist

George Hotz, previously known as an iPhone hacker, announced that he hacked the Playstation 3 and then provided exploit details. Various articles have been written about this but none of them appear to have analyzed the actual code. Because of the various conflicting reports, here is some more analysis to help understand the exploit.

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Three years later, the PS3 gets hacked

After over three years on the market, the PlayStation 3 has finally been hacked. Famous iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka “GeoHot”, has become the first to achieve the feat, though what this means for the PS3 modding community remains to be seen.

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Photoshop Fail: 15 Hilariously Botched Images | Design + Ideas on WU

Forget silly things like human anatomy and the laws of physics. When it comes to Photoshop, reality needn’t apply – just clone, rotate, skew, blur and hope nobody notices.

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Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently – Knots – Lifehacker

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop.

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PayPal vs Fake PayPal: Can You Tell the Difference? [PIC]

Back in October, we wrote about a new policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN that will allow non-Latin domain names to be registered in early to mid 2010. This is really exciting for Internet users in areas that use non-Latin alphabets like Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic, who have spent the last fifteen years without full domain opportunities.

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The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century – NPR

Throughout the year 2000, NPR presented the stories behind 100 of the most important American musical works of the 20th century. These special features cover music from a wide variety of genres — classical, jazz, rock’n'roll, country, R&B, musical theatre and film scores. NPR 100 stories aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and NPR’s weekend news magazine programs.

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10 Biggest Printer Problems — And How To Fix Them – PC World

Printers: Can’t live with them, can’t nuke them. You could always toss a misbehaving inkjet or laser out the window, but where would that leave you? Truth be told, we need our printers, despite their maddening quirks. Here’s a saner idea: Take a deep breath, channel your inner tech support rep, and repair that which has failed you. Cue sitar.

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45 Breathtaking Examples of Slow Shutter Speed Photography @ SmashingApps

For today’s post, we have piled up dazzling slow shutter speed photos that will take your breath away. Using slow shutter speed photography can be a totally different phenomenon if you get it right. You can use it to inspire others, or to capture light painting, or may be some smooth water effects, or it can be anything else. So here it is an amazing collection of slow shutter speed photography for your inspiration. This is an introductory post on this style of photography, hope you’ll like this.

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Massive Camera Sharpens Our View of the Universe : Big Pic Gallery : Discovery News

December 11, 2009 — A brand new telescope called the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy VISTA has started observing the cosmos with astonishing results. Located at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory, Chile, VISTA has become the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping the southern hemisphere’s sky in visible and infrared wavelengths.

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Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times

Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided GPS location data about its wireless customers to law enforcement over 8 million times.

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Fears over future of Wikipedia as 49,000 volunteers leave site | Mail Online

Fears are rising that the usefulness of Wikipedia could be undermined as thousands of volunteer researchers abandon the site.

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