Iain Lobban, director of the UK's secretive GCHQ communications monitoring body, claims UK business and government agencies are constantly under cyber attack, with criminals trying to steal government data, company data, defence data and... all data.
After successfully taking out a child porn ring, Anonymous is threatening war on November 5th with Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, after the kidnapping of an Anonymous member from Veracruz.
It doesn't seem fair that the MacBook Air line has several features over the MacBook Pro (sleek profile; USB ports on both sides; higher-res screen...). A major design refresh to the Pro line, the first in three years, has been bandied about for months now, but according to Japanese site Macotakara, Apple's definitely working on a skinnier Pro.
London's Met Police has bought a high-grade mobile surveillance system, which can create a fake mobile network, fool your phone into connecting to it, then intercept your communications and track you via IMEI code. It is not messing about.
Virgin's after the cool kids, bundling Spotify into its broadband and mobile phone contracts. Customers taking out new or renewed broadband contracts get six months free Spotify Premium, while Virgin Mobile customers get three months free streaming without data charges.
BT's plan to connect two-thirds of the country to its new fibre network are running ahead of schedule, allowing it to connect a lucky two-thirds of the population to fibre by the end of 2014.
The Independent, which just unveiled an international paywall, is still a free read online for Brits (and there's always the paper too). While you can grab a free trial period for The Indie's first iPad app, once that runs out you'll have to cough up £20 a month -- double what The Guardian charges for its (brilliant) iPad app. [iTunes via WallBlog]
Looks like the rumours were true, Google's pushing head-long into professional content with some new YouTube original channels. Amateur-hour is out as 'well-known personalities and content producers' will be trotted out, with the fruits of their labour appearing next month.
Just in time for the zebra crossing's 60th birthday today, "experts" have foretold the death of the painted bits of road, saying traffic lights and other forms of modernisation are killing off the zebras. Apparently in just five years, over 1,000 crossings have been replaced with lights.
Quit snickering! Something on Uranus has erupted and now scientists are all in a tizzy about what and why it might be.
Apps make the iPhone shine. And you want your new (or even old) iPhone to shine, right? Here are the best iPhone apps this week! It's a solid list.
Jeannie: Another voice-control app for Android that can actually hold a Siri-esque conversation with you. You can send emails, play music, search the web, set alarms, hear jokes, find news and more with Jeannie. There's a ton of features here, Lifehacker says that you can, "control apps, start and stop music or video playback, read a poem to you, translate text or words to or from Spanish, control your phone's volume, Bluetooth state, and Wi-Fi radio all by voice."
Also, own a CNC machine and some 3D digital modeling software and have some sick design skills. Besides that, not a very difficult costume to pull off.
A hacker group has successfully ported Siri over to jailbroken iPhone 4s and 4th-gen iPod touches, marking the beginning of what could be a "whack a mole" response from Apple as it attempts to block the 4S's "killer feature."
What pours forth from that blazing glory hole? A shit-tonne of the purest gold on Earth. No joke. These fire-wielders are funneling 1000 kg of 99.99 percent pure gold into a mold to cast the hugest, most-valuable coin in history.
Have you ever heard of an endocycle? Endocycles are happening all around you! They're one way that biological cells grow, and they generate more than half the earth's biomass. But how exactly endocycles work has been elusive to scientists until now.
