The Hydra Project is a new script for private BitTorrent trackers designed to resist any attack or raid, and to guarantee the privacy and anonymity of its users. It’s truly hydra compatible, which is much needed quality in these turbulent times.
The encryption on Microsoft’s wireless keyboards is so simple it only has 256 possible keys. You can guess the key using only 20-50 keystrokes. Someone could potentially create a wireless keylogger that captures characters from every keyboard in the office.
A report by Microsoft security researcher Jeff Jones has thrown down the gauntlet by releasing a report that challenges the assumption that Firefox is inherently more secure than Internet Explorer. Mozilla takes issue with Jones’ methodology and Microsoft’s lack of transparency.
No, it’s not the name of a new console for Dracula, but China’s most blatant knock-off yet. Attempting to ride high on Nintendo’s coattails, the system comes with plenty half-assed facsimiles of popular Wii software from Bowling to Cooking Mama.
Mozilla COO John Lilly has revealed statistical data that provides insight into Firefox adoption levels and growth rate. Based on statistics collected internally by Mozilla from the Firefox application update service, Lilly estimates that Firefox is used by over 125 million people around the world.
AT&T clearly thinks that the sidewalk stalwart is at the end of its shiny metal rope, although it will continue to provide related services until the dial tones go silent at the end of 2008.
Net Applications browser survey released today puts iPhone at 150% of WinCE browser marketshare. WinCE has been around 10 years. iPhone only 5 months. Damn. Hard to argue with those numbers!
In another demonstration of Humanity’s relentless quest for fun, a guy has installed a touchscreen on a Guitar Hero guitar as well as a magnetic switch that allows him to play it with a magnetic pic. Pointless? Maybe, but according to Cyberpyrot, it “plays much better than before.” Video, pics, details and his plans for version 2.0 after the jump.
An important rule of playing chicken in the business world is that someone, sooner or later, needs to blink. Otherwise deals don’t get made, consumers don’t get to spend money on anything, and summer mansions in extravagant locations sit lonely year round.
The payments are made possible by a $20,000 donation from Philip Greenspun, who said he was moved to give the money because of his experience seeing technical books he had originally published online appear in print.
But filming needs to begin by June of next year to hit the planned Summer 2009 release date, then concept art and designs for locations and props need to finalized by early next year. What will happen if the writers strike isn
’t over by then? Will the movie be delayed? It appears that the current screenplay draft is far from final.
Using linux to power your robot doesn’t have to be big, difficult, and expensive…
Say hello to the new user-friendly age of linux robots (and goodbye to RISC based microcontrollers)
