Wednesday, April 15, 2009

15-Apr-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

A search warrant is issued in Boston on the grounds that the victim uses Linux and can jailbreak iPhones:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/13

Skype is up for grabs from eBay, having forked out about US$3 billion for it. Telcos will probably bid just to kill it off:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10566748

A cross-site scripting worm hits Twitter over the Easter break:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/13/weekend_twitter_worm_attacks/

Google release a preview of the Android 1.5 SDK including upload APIs for YouTube and Picassa and support for previous versions:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/14/android_early_look/

Happy birthday to Leonardo Da Vinci, who would by now be 557 and flying around with his personal helicopter backpack:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html

And finally. Plans for a spacecraft weighing 7.5 milligrams and machined from silicon - complete with solar sail:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/04/passive-microscale-solar-sail-computer.html

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