The Singularity Summit 2007
The Singularity Summit 2007
The summit focussed on just one thing, are computers reaching the point where they are becoming smarter than humans, and with some of the humans that I have seen over the weekend that would not be that hard.
Yet a whole bunch of techie type people got together over the weekend just to [...]
Carphone warehouse promotion goes wrong, again!
Police in Southampton have put a stop to another Carphone warehouse promotion. The plan was that the company would place or hide fifty laptop computers worth around £500 each. The company had already been promoting this and crowds had gathered awaiting the start a citywide scavenger hunt.
But as the crowds were beginning to start their [...]
Everyone’s DNA on a computer database
A judge has demanded that the whole population of the UK should have their DNA sample on the National DNA Database.
Lord Justice Sedley has said that by everyone’s DNA on the National Database would fairer, instead of the way that it is being compiled at the moment. Anyone who is arrested whether they are later [...]
The pentagon is hacked by the Chinese military
But this is not new news, this happened back in June its just that the story has come out as the Chinese military are accused of using hacking techniques as a first strike tool in their build up to their end game, whatever that maybe.
The Pentagons response was to shut down part of the system [...]
Largest botnet created
Malware is such a terrible thing that it is surprising nothing serious has been done it. One gang has developed a network of infected computers that is reportedly the largest ever created.
The creatiors of this malware use every single trick that there is in order to assimilate more victims into their collective. These can be [...]