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TIME Magazine have weighed in on the internet filtering proposal. The ACMA "blacklist", as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of internet depravity in one convenient package — courtesy of the Australian government.
Quan-time sent in this cool audio-tape art. Using these old tapes, iri5 has turned them into works of art in a series that she calls “Ghost in the Machine.” The series portrays celebrities and musicians such as Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Robert DeNiro, Jimi Hendrix, Ian Curtis, and Jim Morrison.
Tesla have a new electric sedan. The car will travel 300 miles on one battery charge, he said, and the battery can be recharged in 45 minutes. The car is big enough to carry five adults and fit two children in rear-facing seats in the trunk.
This is the first I've heard of this, but iNCOGNITO sent word of a parking tax hike in NSW. So, check it out and if you don't like it, sign the petition.
PCPerspective have a first glimpse of Larrabee, Intel's upcoming GPU. Larrabee is a many-core architecture design essentially based around a Pentium core with new features and vector processing units to better support floating point math used in graphics and parallel computing.
Sniper spotted this article about a huge cyber-spy network, apparently based mainly in China. Hacked systems were also discovered in the embassies of India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany and Pakistan. More info here.
TomsHardware report on a BIOS-resident virus that can survive reinstalls. Anibal L. Sacco and Alfredo A. Ortego of Core Security Technologies released a presentation detailing the exploit of this “persistent BIOS infection.”? Through the use of a 100-line piece of code written in Python, a rootkit could be flashed into the BIOS and be run completely independent of the operating system.
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