For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest. Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not being …
[Police have suggested that Canberra's new point-to-point speed cameras be linked to unmanned aerial surveillance drones and used to track vehicles of interest to authorities. The first of the cameras, which use automated number plate recognition technology to calculate a car’s average speed and whether it is within the legal …
The sneaky science of “cloaking” just keeps getting richer. Physicists and engineers had already demonstrated rudimentary invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, and water waves. Now, they’ve devised an “antimagnet” cloak that can shield an object from a constant magnetic field without disturbing that field. If realized, …
The man, who wished to be identified only as Aiden, was an hour south of Tennant Creek on his way to Melbourne when he noticed a bright light following him closely, the Katherine Times reported. Aiden said he had left Tennant Creek at about 3.30am. “About an hour after I …
I got shown this today…. and i laughed my arse off. http://www.moanmyip.com/ That is all.
When a star is torn apart it’s a rare event, happening only once every 10,000 years per galaxy. The odds of the light show also being captured by telescope or analysed by astronomers are slim. So there was some excitement when an international group of astronomers reviewing observations taken in …
A street magician helped catch a gang of thieves by distracting them with tricks until the police arrived. David Alnwick realised the gang were the same one who had stolen a friend’s laptop from a cloakroom just days before. The 22-year-old spent five minutes showing tricks while waiting nervously for …
Last week Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale turned up to a pub in Brisbane and decided the cover band playing weren’t good enough and what people needed to hear was his rendition of Let It Be or as he calls it Motherfucker Let It Be. Now the singer has been fined …
A female NSW police officer who urinated on a Sydney war memorial has escaped a conviction, despite a magistrate describing the offence as “vile and despicable”. Jessica Mary Lodge, a 29-year-old constable based at Redfern police station in the inner city, pleaded guilty at Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday …
Now here’s a crazy look into the world of Major record labels, Torrentfreak reports that Interscope/Universal Records has used the youtube DMCA policy to takedown a song they wanted to buy for Eninem. The story starts with North London Hip Hop artist Skepta. A few weeks ago he released his …
Rupert Murdoch’s flagship daily UK tabloid The Sun was this evening hacked by a group claiming to be Lulzsec, who uploaded a fake front page story that Murdoch’s cold, lifeless body had been found in his private glasshouse, after overdosing on palladium. Oh, if only. The website still seems to …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oUp_JjPJok[/video] Source
The Call of Duty XP Event is set to be the gala of the year for fans worldwide, with an international Black Ops tournament worth $1 million and the chance to play Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer two months early — and Australia has snagged the first invitation. **in a radio …
To understand who/what lulzsec/gn0sis are/is you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the *chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. This internet subculture is pretty much the dregs of the internet. It’s a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-xj4Q8ocg[/video] Tunesday goodness. Its so politically incorrect its piss funny. n.b in before meme. Source
These beautiful speakers can focus their beam of sound so tight that only you can hear it. In fact, you can tune each speaker to send sound to just one of your ears, giving true binaural stereo. It’s like wearing headphones, only without the headphones. The Klang Ultrasonic Speakers are …
She says they’ve stolen his confidence and may end up isolating her autistic son even more than he is now. Jennifer Zdenek, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who lives with autism, is outraged at Microsoft Xbox Live for labeling her son a “cheater” and taking away everything he’s earned …
Soon the decision of Parliament to impose new requirements on telecommunications companies to store information about their customers, but there are telephone companies that have decided to oppose the law. Internet operator Bahnhof for example, will do everything it can to make the law as toothless as possible. Telco’s in …
If you’re an orc or a wizard, you’d better keep your nose clean. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday on a matter of grievous import to the nation’s prisons: Dungeons & Dragons. And the Court’s ruling was bad news …
The courts have just issued a temporary restraining order against George Hotz (Geohot). Sony filed this lawsuit because they were unhappy that Geohot had released the Playstation 3 decryption keys so other people could play unsigned games on it. And that is actually a pic of Geohot in the pic. …