Is this the ring that helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien to write about the One Ring of Middle Earth? This Roman ring, which is associated with a divine curse, is part of a new exhibition at the Vyne in Hampshire, England, investigating its links to Tolkien and its possible influence on his work. Read more…
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Behold the cursed ring that may have inspired Tolkien’s One Ring
Dubstep doesn’t get much love these days, but that hasn’t stopped it from dominating the top 40 charts. Here’s the story of where dubstep came from and why there’s more to it than meets the ear. Read more…
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Why Dubstep Comes From the Future
3D printing isn’t all about making guns and toys —some researchers are using it to make real medical advances . Now, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford has managed to create a 3D printer that can produce synthetic tissue using just water and oil. More »
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Scientists Can Print Synthetic Tissue Using Just Water and Oil
bshell writes “According to the CBC, there was a massive leak of “files containing information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170 countries. The leak amounts to 260 gigabytes of data, or 162 times larger than the U.S. State Department cables published by WikiLeaks in 2010…In many cases, the leaked documents expose insider details of how agents would incorporate companies in Caribbean and South Pacific micro-states on behalf of wealthy clients, then assign front people called “nominees” to serve, on paper, as directors and shareholders for the corporations — disguising the companies’ true owners.” Makes a good read and there are some good interactive components. Perhaps Slashdot readers can figure out how the source of the leak, the D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists got their hands on this data.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth
An anonymous reader writes “MIT announced that despite a long history of running an open network (so that any student can run a server on any port, without any questions asked), it will now end this policy due to recent denial-of-service attacks and gunman hoax. From a letter sent by Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz: ‘I am deeply and personally committed to safeguarding our community, protecting our campus and securing our systems. Together with our colleagues dedicated to campus safety and security, with the support of senior academic leadership and in collaboration with the campus community, we are deploying all necessary resources to this effort. It will require the dedication of all of us to promote safety awareness, complete necessary emergency training, and adhere to reinforced cyber security guidelines. IS&T staff members are working with information technology (IT) leadership and partners across campus in making the changes described above. We continue to explore all opportunities to further strengthen our preparedness, and will communicate additional information as these plans evolve.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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MIT To End Open-Network Policy In Response To Recent Attacks
It’s no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there’s a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. More »
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The Russian Government Has Started Censoring the Internet
While The Pirate Pay is certainly notorious, it’s always oddly lingered in the mid-table when it comes to real-world file sharing. No longer, though: according to fresh analysis by Torrent Freak , the site has now sailed into the top spot as the world’s most-used file sharing site. More »
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The Pirate Bay Is Now the World’s Largest File-Sharing Site
Twitter is lighting up with a backlash against the choice from prominent Christians. [Read more]
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Google Cesar Chavez doodle on Easter ignites furor
It’s useful for blasting dust, crumbs, and other crap off your keyboard and electronics, but those overpriced compressed air cans are almost as big a rip-off as printer ink . So here’s a brilliant and relatively simple hack that makes a compressed air can refillable with a standard tire pump. And just to highlight what’s probably the most crucial step in this project: you’ll want to make sure the can you’re using is completely and thoroughly empty before going at it with a drill. [ YouTube via Dooby Brain ] More »
The upcoming new release of Windows will add your Start screen to the list of items that can be synced across multiple devices, says Supersite for Windows’ Paul Thurrott. [Read more]
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Windows Blue to let you sync your Start screen across devices