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Thursday, 10-November-2011 23:09:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A Japanese company called Cyberdyne have made a robot suit to protect nuclear workers. Waaaait a second, Cyberdyne? Robots? Am I the only one seeing this? Cyberdyne, based northeast of Tokyo, demonstrated an upgraded version of the robot device called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, that can be worn under anti-radiation tungsten vests as heavy as 60 kilograms. They called it HAL?! Are they TRYING to make it go rogue?!
There's some chatter about Viacom apparently suffering due to piracy, yet still managing to give their CEO a $50M raise. His total pay was $84.5 million last year -- a 148.6% raise on his previous year's take home. Yes, that's a $50 million raise. Admittedly, much of that comes from stock options, but still. Not bad for a company being "decimated" by kids in their basements on the internet, huh? Discussion here.
CN spotted a story about an Australian Government email breach. Australian departments listed on the breach included AusTrac, IP Australia, the Bureau of Meterology, NSW Police, local councils, and hundreds of senator email addresses including Treasure Wayne Swan. Nine accounts for Britain's Ministry of Defence included usernames and passwords.
Fujitsu have a new supercomputer on the way. Ahead of the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle next week, Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu says it's not only going to commercialize the K supercomputer that just busted through the 10 petaflops barrier, but that early next year it will double-stuff the design with a new Sparc64 chip, and sell it to entities other than the Japanese government.
It seems Anonymous have pursuaded a Mexican drug cartel to release a hostage. Televisa reported that the man kidnapped in the eastern port of Veracruz was released ahead of a November 5 deadline set by Anonymous, after which it planned to divulge the Zetas's links to politicians and others. According to Reuters, Anonymous Veracruz released a YouTube video threatening to publish the names of "taxi drivers, journalists and police officers" that it said were "loyal servants" to the Zetas.
The AFACT vs iiNet battle continues, ahead of the High Court appeal. In what will be the final legal appeal by AFACT against the Federal Court's two rulings in the internet service provider's (ISP's) favour, the High Court will hear both sides of the argument on 1 and 2 December.
IntelInside spotted this video about the GIGABYTE 3D BIOS. The revolutionary GIGABYTE 3D BIOS™ application is based on our new GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™ technology and is available to consumers in two new exclusive modes of interaction never before seen in a BIOS environment. GIGABYTE has re-drawn the traditional BIOS experience providing mainstream and enthusiast users with a choice of unique and powerful graphical interfaces.
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