We’ve shared quite a few DIY tips for automating your home , but YouTube user Elvis Impersonator takes it a step further with voice control, controlling everything in his house with the help of Siri and a Raspberry Pi. More »
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Automate Everything In Your Home Using Siri and a Raspberry Pi
The Federal Reserve said that one of its internal websites had been hacked today. It’s unclear who did the hacking but the Feds say that the hackers were not able to do any serious damage. Reuters says that, “no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion.” More »
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The Federal Reserve Said It Was Hacked
Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release , there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5 , and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. More »
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The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here
Released Friday, the latest critical patch update contains fixes for 50 different security flaws. [Read more]
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Oracle pushes out new Java update to patch security holes
If you’ve ever messed around with Linux, you’re probably familiar with a little program called ” Wine ,” WINdows Emulator/Wine Is Not an Emulator. With its magic, you can run Windows applications on your Linux box (as well as other operating systems), and soon, Wine could be running them on your Android phone as well . More »
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Full-Fledged Windows Apps Could Be Coming Soon To Your Android Phone
It’s one thing when malware attacks your phone, but it’s another when that same malware hops over to your PC and then uses it to listen in on all your conversations on top of just messing with your phone. A newly discovered Android app—one that’s in the Google Play store— can do just that . Beware. More »
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Terrifying Android Malware Hacks Your PC and then Eavesdrops On You With Its Microphone
The fastest microchips we have can only pass their data from side to side and front to back, no matter how close their components are squeezed together. A new chip developed by researchers at University of Cambridge, on the other hand, can pass data up and down too, making for the world’s first truly 3D microchip . More »
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Scientists Have Made the First Truly 3D Microchip
The 109,000 HP Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C diesel engine is the largest and most powerful, but at 2,300 tons, any warship it’s attached to is going to have trouble outmaneuvering jellyfish, much less torpedoes. Instead, the British Navy is relying on a new gas turbine engine that, while only half as powerful as the RTA96, weighs 68 times less. More »
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Queen Elizabeth Will Float the Biggest Marine Turbine Engine in History
An anonymous reader writes “Mozilla on Tuesday announced a massive change to the way it loads third-party plugins in Firefox. The company plans to enable Click to Play for all versions of all plugins, except the latest release of Flash. This essentially means Firefox will soon only load third-party plugins when users click to interact with the plugin. Currently, Firefox automatically loads any plugin requested by a website, unless Mozilla has blocked it for security reasons (such as for old versions of Java, Silverlight, and Flash).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default
As expected , Apple let a 128GB iPad out of the bag today. And there’s almost zero chance you should buy it. More »
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The 128GB iPad Is Real, It’s Here, and It’s Almost Definitely Not For You