Thursday, July 22, 2010

22-Jul-2010 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Facebook now has half a billion users. They reckon the next half billion won't take nearly as long:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10713199

Apple Store apps now starting to sprout hidden functionality to get around Apple's application censorship:
http://gizmodo.com/5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-disguised-iphone-tethering-app

Dell discovers firmware trojans in PowerEdge server motherboards:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/07/pc-giant-warns-of-hardware-tro.html

And finally. An ecobot that runs on food waste sounds like a good idea, until you realise what goes in must, eventually, come out:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/07/21/ecobot-iii-eats-poops-moves/

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