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Wednesday Afternoon
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Wednesday, 18-May-2011 16:42:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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An Australian technology journalist has been arrested for recieving some photos used to demonstrate a Facebook insecurity. Detective Superintendent Hay used an analogy to describe why Grubb was targeted. "Someone breaks into your house and they steal a TV and they give that TV to you and you know that TV is stolen," he said. Surely in that example the person is just giving me my TV back, but anyway, this whole thing seems very odd, especially given the actual "hacker" has not been arrested.
Also fairly lame is this apparent media stunt by Vodafone, pretending a shipment of Xperia Play smartphones has been stolen. The tweet said Vodafone has suffered a major security breach and the shipment of phones had been stolen. However Vodafone New Zealand spokesman Matthew East told The Australian this morning the company had made up the claim on Twitter for marketing purposes.
There are some free goodies in store for people returning to the PlayStation Network. Two PS3 games from the following list: LittleBigPlanet, Infamous*, Wipeout HD/Fury, Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty, Dead Nation*.
You can now run Linux in your browser, because Qemu has been ported to javascript. Since javascript is slower than native code, one would expect slower boot times for the Linux, but it boots amazingly fast. With a very minimal download and couple of seconds, your browser window boots into an actual Linux based on commandline. Ofcourse CLI-only makes the OS snappy for executing all your shell commands. Amazing stuff.
Bing and Facebook have teamed up for a "social search". According to Microsoft: “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your friends. Search is now more than a fact finder — [In this update] we’re marrying fact-based search results with your friends’ street smarts to combine the best data on the Web with the opinions of the people you trust the most and the collective IQ of the Web.”
Meanwhile Lamborghini have announced their new supercar, the Aventador. Today’s world is extremely high-tech and many new players have entered the arena. Lamborghini has been promoting its carbon-fiber monocoque technology and the Aventador’s 2.9 second 0-62mph, but will that be enough? More here and discussion here.
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