Plants have evolved all kinds of wonderful mechanisms that let them disperse their seeds and reproduce, from puffy dandy lions to maple keys that spin their way to the ground. But none are quite as impressive as the squirting cucumber, which launches its seed pods like tiny high-speed missiles. Read more…
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Did You Know Mother Nature Had Missiles Before We Did?
South Park was unable to meet its deadline for the first time in its 240+ episode history because of a power outage. That’s 17 straight seasons of somehow making things work on a short deadline until now. What a bummer! Read more…
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A Power Outage Made South Park Miss an Episode for the First Time
In China, the cockroach industry is booming… but why? Read more…
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You guys, cockroach-farming is totally the industry of the future
realized writes “Last week Slashdot covered a new vBulletin exploit. Apparently hackers have been busy since then because according to security firm Imperva, more than 35, 000 sites were recently hacked via this vulnerability. The sad part about this is that it could have all been avoided if the administrator of the websites just removed the /install and/or /core/install folders – something that you would think the installer should do on its own.” Web applications that have write access to directories they then load code from have always seemed a bit iffy to me (wp-content anyone?) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole
Twitter now allows anyone you follow to send you direct messages, if you enable the feature in your settings. The feature can be useful for people who get followers begging them to follow back in order to DM something private, but it could also lead to a ton of spam—that’s why it’s off by default. Read more…
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Twitter Now Lets Any User Send You Direct Messages (If You Enable It)
Still upset about breaking the handle on your favorite mug? A 3D printer can make it as good as new, and thanks to researchers at the University of Southern California, the process is even easier now since they’ve developed a printer that can build directly on curved surfaces. Read more…
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This Insane Six-Axis 3D Printer Even Works On Curved Surfaces
StealthHunter writes “It turned out that just by setting a browsers user-agent to ‘xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide’ anyone can remotely bypass all authentication on D-Link routers. It seems that thttpd was modified by Alphanetworks who inserted the backdoor. Unfortunately, vulnerable routers can be easily identified by services like shodanHQ. At least these models may have vulnerable firmware: DIR-100, DI-524, DI-524UP, DI-604S, DI-604UP, DI-604+, TM-G5240.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings
Production has wrapped on the final episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars . Showrunner Dave Filoni has announced on Facebook that the episodes will be released in early 2014. Read more…
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Production has wrapped on the final episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Given how important it’s been to our development, mankind will always be drawn to open flames. But if you’re tired of buying tea light candles in bulk for a little bit of accent lighting, Fabien Gerlier’s Caviar might be better suited to adding accent lighting to your home. Made of sintered bronze, the lamp stays lit without ever burning away. Read more…
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This Bronze Candle Will Burn Forever and Never Melt Away
Take this with a reasonably sized grain of salt, but Sky News Entertainment reporter Joe Michalczuk says that Star Trek movie co-writer and producer Roberto Orci has discussed bringing the franchise back to TV with CBS. Read more…
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Bob Orci is reportedly talking to CBS about a new Star Trek TV series