Starting today, TorrentSpy blocks all searches from US visitors and redirects them to a privacy statement. TorrentSpy is caught up in a lawsuit in which the MPAA demands that TorrentSpy hands over all user info stored in “random access memory†(RAM).
Large corporations tell a lot of secrets and they don’t even know it. The DomainTools Name Server Spy allows people to monitor name servers for changes. To test our own service I monitor a few interesting name servers. Disney Internet Group is one of them. For example, on the 25th of this month we spotted Super Blu Ray.com get registered. Could this be the name of the second generation Blu-Ray discs? I think so. I am still confused. Sony developed the Blu-Ray disc so I am not sure what Disney is doing yet. I guess we will wait and see.
After investing a cool $84 million in devising a porn filter the Federal Government in the land down under are now reeling, thanks to a 16-year-old schoolboy. Tom Wood, (who could actually be a porn star with that name), managed to hack the security measure within 30 minutes of it going live, last Tuesday (21/08/07).
A New Jersey teenager has unlocked the iPhone, opening the way to Apple’s iconic mobile telephone being used by non-US networks. The Associated Press news agency confirmed George Hotz, 17, had unlocked the iPhone and used it on T-Mobile, a rival to its sole US operator, AT&T.
People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.
Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show “Family Guy” and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show “That’s So Raven,” will be distributed over Google Inc.’s AdSense network, it was announced Thursday.
Media Rights Capital, the financing company that backed last year’s film “Babel,” is supporting the two projects. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a theoretical model of a time machine that, in the distant future, could possibly enable future generations to travel into the past. An article on this research was published last week in the scientific journal Physical Review.
But that plan should be expanded to include a way to preserve humanity’s learning, culture, and technology if Earth is hit by a doomsday asteroid or comet, said Jim Burke, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
“Galactic Suite,” the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay.
A robotic dirt and ice digger blasted off Saturday on a 680-million-kilometre journey to Mars that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planet’s polar region.