Tuesday, March 22, 2011

22-Mar-2011 AM clippings

Enjoy:

NZRise is formed from a group of New Zealand IT firms as a non-profit organisation to promote home-growm IT expertise:
http://nzrise.org.nz/about/

The US is designing surveilance robots that know how to hide from human sentries. No news on the counter-surveilance robot yet:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928044.700-surveillance-robots-know-when-to-hide.html

Ars Techinca asks why the web is not using the HTTPS protocol by default, rather than only for shopping carts? :
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/https-is-more-secure-so-why-isnt-the-web-using-it.ars

Nanotchnology promises low-power CPUs and is touted ans making mobile phones last longer. But call time is related to transmit power:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanotechnology-could-make-batteries-in-mobile-devices-obsolete

And finally. A shipwreck in The Pirate Bay as the user database is compromised and used to send out spam. Again:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-user-database-compromised-and-exploited-again-110320/

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