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Club Nintendo Suffers Hacking Attempt that Compromises 24,000 Accounts
Last week 24,000 user accounts associated with the Japanese Club Nintendo website have been compromised after a month-long campaign by hackers to break in. According to the Japan Times, Nintendo gave warning via a press release last Friday that the accessed data included names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Club Nintendo members. ...
Windows that Talk to Sleepy Passengers Coming to Sky-Deutschland Trains
Here’s a direction I didn’t quite expect bone-conduction audio to go—that is, a technology that enables audio devices to use human bones as resonators to play sounds (this technology would be good for hearing aids, and low-noise audio devices that are not “in ear.”) But, being able to put your head to a glass pane ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 3: Winklevoss Twins Plan Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Foundation Tells California to Talk to the Hand, China Gets into the Bitcoin Game
Instead of a lot of financial drama or even regulation, this week Bitcoin has seen its share of good news. A Bitcoin Trust being planned by none other than the Winklevoss twins might inject some new value into the market—or cause turmoil, it’s hard to say. The Bitcoin Foundation has responded to California about the ...
Winklevoss Twins File Plans for $20m Bitcoin Trust IPO with the SEC
The Winklevoss twins—famous for suing Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook—have unveiled plans to fund a Bitcoin-related trust. The application, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1st, 2013 outlines a trust that will initially sell approximately $20m worth of shares to investors. The trust is sponsored by one Math-Based Asset Services, a Delaware-based ...
Minecraft 1.6: Horses—Need I Say More?
The much-anticipated latest-and-greater version of Minecraft developed by Marcus “Notch” Persson and published by Mojang hit the Internet today with v1.6 and it adds horses. It adds a lot of other things, like bug fixes, better performance, a new launcher, and a lot of other stuff—but for many players, this update is all about the horses. ...
When Culture Shock Meets Social Media: League of Legends Player in Jail Over Facebook Comments
A Texas teen could face up to eight years in prison over a comment left on Facebook that took place as part of an exchange about the online game League of Legends. Justin Carter was 18 years old back in Feburary of this year when a series of comments between him and a friend about ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 26: California Threatens the Bitcoin Foundation, BitAngels First Investment, and a Bitcoin Pub
Lots of random little things around the Bitcoin world this week. The government of California threatened The Bitcoin Foundation with an odd cease-and-desist letter that alleged that the foundation does something it doesn’t do. BitAngels made its first investment into a startup. And, a pub in London has started accepting bitcoins for booze. California takes ...
Hadoop and Splunk Make Hunk: A Cute Name for a Powerful Big Data Tool
Hadoop is by far one of the most powerful and most popular open-source frameworks for supplying Big Data applications with much needed storage and access to terabytes of data and more–and as well all know storage and collection are becoming easier, but as a result analysis is becoming more complex. Splunk is already also an ...
California Sends Cease and Desist Order to the Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation caught the attention of California’s Department of Financial Institutions after last month’s Bitcoin 2013 conference and this prompted the CFDI to send a cease and desist letter alleging that the Foundation was engaged in “the business of money transmission without a license or proper authorization.” An odd cease-and-desist to say the least ...
Raspberry Pi and Tor: Meet Adafruit’s Onion Pi Wireless Privacy Router
The amazing Adafruit Industries has come up with a combination of the Raspberry Pi–a small, micro form factor general purpose computer–with a wireless card and Tor–a powerful Internet anonymizing network and service–in one device: the Onion Pi. For just $90, you can get a kit to construct this little hardware-based peace-of-mind-and-privacy device. The idea is ...
