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Wi-Fi-Blocking Wallpaper Protects Your Web Fortress by Keeping Neighbours Out
Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper...
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How to Destroy the Internet
Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet? We...
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Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What the Face of the Internet Should Look Like
Bing’s homepage is wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated timelapse of concentric startrails at Mountain Valley in Utah (for us Brits to see it you’ll need to...
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Java Hack Will Bring About the End of the World
A rather huge exploit has been used to attack users of Java, which has been found to operate within browsers on PCs, OS X and even the more robust Ubuntu. Everything that runs Java is now vulnerable....
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Java Hack Gains Momentum as Firefox Advises All Users to Switch it Off
The recently discovered potentially apocalyptic Java exploit has been spreading, with the hack now part of a commonplace malware bundle that’s doing the rounds on the hacking scene. According to...
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Java Patched, New Java Security Holes Discovered
Just days after Oracle took the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled patch to fix the huge security flaw found in the most recent update of its Java platform, more ways to exploit the code have...
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Xbox 360 Isn’t an Unstoppable Porn Hub, Says Microsoft
One big provider of internet porn took the imminent arrival of Internet Explorer on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to issue a press release, claiming the console was about to become every child’s favourite way...
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Microsoft Puts Tesco to Shame in Sheer Number of Stalker Points
You’d have thought that the supermarkets, what with their club card and electronic tracking of your every move, might be the biggest stalkers, but no. Apparently Microsoft’s the worst offender of them...
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This Cool Internet Toy Will Consume Most of Your Evening
This is Silk, an soothing web-based graphical toy that allows you to draw using swirly patterns in a two- and four-way symmetrical configurations, as well as totally freeform. Go play with it. It’s...
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You’ll Pick Up More than You Bargained for Guzzling Porn on Your Mobile
An online security firm has sounded the alarm about mobile internet porn, claiming you’re three times as likely to pick up a mobile malware STD on your phone when browsing adult sites as you are when...
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Samsung and Mozilla Developing a New Mobile Browser Standard
Mozilla is enlisting Samsung to help bring its new web rendering tech to market, with the smartphone giant helping to push its “advanced technology Web browser engine” Servo, built on Mozilla’s own...
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Google Experimenting With Ditching the Omnipresent Black Bar for Chrome-Like...
There’s a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested out there right now, which does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to to populate a...
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Samsung Browsers Beat Apple Fans in Worldwide Mobile Web Use War
Samsung’s squeezed ahead of Apple in one vague global metric of technical popularity, with Samsung-made mobiles now generating more mobile internet traffic than Apple devices. The sheep have turned....
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Google Helpouts is Here to Help You With Basically Anything
Have you ever been working on something, a special project or something outside the realm of normal day-to-day work stuff, and you find yourself totally stuck? As in, you have absolutely no idea what...
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.UK Domains to Land Along With .London in 2014
We’ve got .co.uk, .gov.uk and .org.uk, .london is on its way and come 2014 you’ll be able to register plain old .uk domains too. While the main aim of internet domain regulators ICANN is to court...
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Police Say Silk Road Kingpin Ordered Six Murders for £450,000
Things aren’t looking so good for Ross Ulbricht, the alleged Silk Road mastermind. Federal prosecutors in New York just filed paperwork accusing the 29-year-old of ordering six murders for the lofty...
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Cameron’s ISP Porn Filters Backfire, Blocking Safe Sex Education Sites
We never wanted ‘em, but we got ‘em anyway. The roll-out of UK ISP’s government-mandated porn filters is in full swing, with the four major providers switching on their blockers. But, as expected, each...
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BBC Server Hacked and Offered For Sale on Christmas Day
How about giving a nerdy Doctor Who fan the ultimate gift this year — hacked access to a BBC server. That was the deal apparently on offer on some “underground” internet sites on Christmas Day, after a...
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The Internet’s a Gift From God, Claims Technically-Unaware Pope
The Pope’s come out as an unlikely contributor to World Communications Day, suggesting the internet is “a gift from God” but one that “exceeds our capacity for reflection and judgement” thanks to its...
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Coding Typo “Hacked” the NHS and Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites
The online advice services offered by the NHS are currently under siege, after a reader discovered that pages on the NHS Choices web portal were redirecting users to ad-serving and malware sites. But...
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