Technology related news.
A presentation at Black Hat on hacking into ATM’s was halted. Reassuring.
Barnaby Jack, a security researcher at the computer networking giant Juniper, had planned to hack into an automatic teller machine (ATM) live onstage at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas later this month. But his presentation, designed to demonstrate the [...]
Some charts to consider regarding the new energy supply vs demand balance. as oil is back above $70 per barrel today on data showing dwindling US inventories going into summer.
Production is falling away quite rapidly. The last time production was at this level the suppliers were getting about half as much for it – and [...]
I’ve been meaning to post on the newspaper business for some time, and a couple of recent articles have pushed me over the line.
China will invest $15bn to increase wind power generation from 12kMW to 30kMW by 2010.
The world’s third-largest economy will increase its wind power capacity by fivefold to 100,000 megawatts by 2020… five megawatts is sufficient to power about 1,000 households in China on average…
Healthy competition on fuel standards (and autos).
Chinese officials [...]
This sale surprises me. E Ink is one of the most promising and successful private tech companies, with its technology key to the Kindle, the Sony e-reader and many other new consumer products, yet it’s selling itself to a key supplier at only a 50% premium to capital invested over a decade. That is not [...]
Apparently the Chinese have decided they can do better on computer security (via Schneier). They are using linux. You can download your own copy if you don’t mind being seen as a cyberwar threat.
China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on [...]
Very clever work by Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, which shares processing between your Android mobile and a cloned version in the cloud. This will happen and become the norm.
CloneCloud, invented by Chun and his colleague Petros Maniatis, uses a smart phone’s high-speed connection to the Internet to communicate [...]
Not sure if this is a red herring like Bush’s mission to Mars but GM and Segway have collaborated to do a dual wheel-chair type version of the Segway.
The PUMA prototype is designed to work much like the original Segway Personal Transporter, balancing on two wheels and stabilized (or not) by the rider’s [...]
Swine flu is still developing rapidly. For an hour by hour update subscribe to the W.H.O. RSS feed. Otherwise, there are pages from WHO, CDC, and CIDRAP.
As of 07:30 GMT, 10 May 2009, 29 countries have officially reported 4379 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
Unintended consequences. Helmet laws reduce net health.
A model [...]
This windmill is big. This windmill is big. As Bernard says, find the person in the first picture.