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NanoDuke pointed out that Skynet attacked us yesterday. Skynet was now implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. So keep an eye on your gadgets.. just in case.
Top story today would be the allegations that certain Apple products track your movements without your consent. If you haven't yet enabled encrypted backups for your iPhone or iPad, now's definitely the time to start. Two security researchers have discovered a simple way to map out where you've been almost anywhere in the world—without any hacking involved. The ABC have a video story about it. US Senator Al Franken has some questions for Apple, and Privacy International have sent an open letter to Steve Jobs. Warcom have taken a look at one of their own files and found some worrying things. There's a tool here to let you view your own data.
Next up, concerns about wake/sleep cycles in certain WD HDDs under certain conditions. This sounds oddly familiar, but I can't remember if it was WD last time. Anyway, more info here on NGOHQ. Western Digital has released a DOS-based utility to modify the behavior of the HDD to wait longer before invoking idle mode. However, since most of their latest HDDs still ship with the default setting of 8 seconds, we strongly recommend users with affected HDDs to use the utility immediately. Discussion here.
Sniper spotted these photos of the NBN rollout in Brunswick. We consider this one of the best photo galleries we’ve seen of the actual NBN, as it goes into great detail about the actual NBN equipment, as well as the fibre being rolled out in the street and so on.
Hulu are coming to Australia. I've only ever seen their stuff on YouTube and didn't really get the point of it at the time. Hulu, which offers free ad-supported on-demand streaming of TV shows and movies, has been a runaway hit in the US, where it garners hundreds of millions of streams a month on desktop computers and internet-connected TVs.
Samsung are planning to counter-sue Apple, apparently. "We think Apple has violated our patents in communications standards," Chung Jae-woong, a spokesman at Samsung Electronics, said by phone. "We are considering a counterclaim."
MaximumPC report on tonnes of e-waste. Ultimately, one can say with some confidence that literally billions of cell phones have been discarded over the course of the last three decades, all of which are now in the process of breakdown.
There's a special OCAU Iron Chef contest this weekend, thanks mrs_dan77: The theme for this Iron Chef is - Easter. The theme must be referenced in the dish. You can opt for a dish that you typically cook at easter, take advantage of all the available chocolate and seafood, or cook something of cultural/traditional significance to you. As it is that time of the year, you may also submit a dish with the theme ANZAC. If that is open to loose interpretation, please explain your thought process in selecting the dish you choose for submission. Thread here.
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