20 de outubro de 2012

Kim Dotcom reveals details of MegaUpload successor.

2012 hasn't exactly been the best year for Kim Dotcom. MegaUpload, the popular file sharing website he helped to create, was shut down by the US government in January. It also executed a raid of his home in New Zealand at the same time. Dotcom was briefly put in jail, along with other MegaUpload team members, and he and his legal team have been fighting in court and awaiting a possible extradition to the US to face online piracy charges ever since.

Samsung Galaxy S III remote data-wipe hack reportedly discovered.

A single line of code can apparently trigger an unstoppable factory-reset of the Samsung Galaxy S III, security researchers have discovered, with the potential for malicious websites to wipe out users’ phones. The hack was detailed by Ravi Borgaonkar
at the Ekoparty security conference, with a simple USSD code – that could be sent from a website, or pushed to the handset by NFC or triggered by a QR code – that can reset the Galaxy S III or indeed other Samsung handsets.

18 de junho de 2012

As 100 maiores canções de jazz da história com vídeo e áudio incorporados

Os sites Jazz24 e NPR Música fizeram uma enquete mundial para eleger as 100 melhores canções de jazz em todos os tempos.

1500 canções foram citadas por cerca de 10 mil participantes. No topo da lista aparece “Take Five”, composição escrita por Paul Desmond e apresentada pelo The Dave Brubeck Quartet, no álbum “Time Out”, de 1959. “Take Five” foi o primeiro single de jazz da história a vender 1 milhão de cópias.
O segundo lugar da lista ficou com “So What”, de Miles Davis, gravada no álbum “Kind of Blue”, também de 1959. Em terceiro lugar aparece “Take The a Train”, composta por Billy Strayhorn e gravada por Duke Ellington, no álbum “Uptown”, de 1952.
John Coltrane é o músico que aparece mais vezes, com oito canções. A lista traz ainda uma galeria de lendas como Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Oliver Nelson, Herbie Hancock, Coleman Hawkins, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Glenn Miller, Ray Charles, Charlie Parker, Errol Garner, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk e Nina Simone.

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A maior e melhor rádio de jazz on-line do mundo

A Accu Jazz é considerada a maior e melhor rádio de jazz on-line do mundo. São mais de 50 canais divididos em dezenas de categorias como estilo, instrumento, compositor, região e período.
Faça um passeio pela história do jazz, do Dixieland da década de 1910, passando pelas Big Bands dos anos 30, pelo Bebop dos anos 40, pelo Jazz latino das décadas de 50 e 60, pelo Fusion das décadas de 70 e 80 até os ritmos jazzísticos dos dias atuais.


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29 de abril de 2012

Proposed UK law would monitor all emails and web access

If you live in the UK, your emails and website visits could soon be monitored, in real time, by the country's government if a proposed law is put into effect. The BBC reports that the intelligence agency GCHQ would be able to monitor emails, website access, texts and phone calls under the proposed legislation.

The report claims that the proposal could be officially announced this May as part of the annual Queen's Speech before being voted on in Parliament. The GCHQ would not look into the content of any of these communication services without first getting a warrant. However, the law would allow the government to know the name of the person who is using the service, who he or she is contacting and for how long.
In a statement, the Home Office claims it needs to have these additional monitoring rights to «maintain the continued availability of communications data as technology changes». However, some UK politicians have already slammed the proposal. One of them is Conservative MP David Davis. He states:

What this is talking about doing is not focusing on terrorists or criminals, it's absolutely everybody's emails, phone calls, web access… All that's got to be recorded for two years and the government will be able to get at it with no by your leave from anybody.





Flashback Trojan Reportedly Infected Roughly 600,000 Macs Worldwide

Roughly 600,000 Macs around the world have been infected with a trojan horse virus named “Flashback” that surfaced last year and is believed to have created a botnet. The Russian antivirus company named Dr. Web issued a report recently noting that 550,000 computers running on mac OS X had been infected by BackDoor.Flashback variants of the virus.




12 de janeiro de 2012

iShower Rocks your Shower with Bluetooth Tunes...

If you are the sort that likes to have music wherever you are, including the shower the new iShower might be perfect for you. This is a waterproof Bluetooth enabled shower speaker that has 200-foot wireless range and can stream from any Bluetooth device.
It can also be used outside and by the pool while you leave your smartphone or other device safely away from water and splashes. The device has pause, play, forward, and rewind functions along with volume controls. The three AA batteries are good for 15 hours of streaming.
The iShower also has a clock on it and needs no tools to install. The device is easy to remove so you can take it out of the shower when needed. It can also be fitted with an anti-fog shower mirror. The device sells for $99.99 and is available now.

Symantec acusada de assustar consumidores

A Symantec está ser acusada de assustar os consumidores com possíveis problemas no PC, para os incentivar a comprarem antivírus da empresa.
A informação é avançada pela agência Reuters, que refere que o processo foi apresentado por James Gross num tribunal norte-americano.
Nos documentos do processo, citados pela agência noticiosa, o queixoso acusa a empresa de segurança informática de fornecer versões de teste de alguns dos seus antivírus aos consumidores, para fazerem uma análise ao sistema.
Contudo, sempre que estes programas efectuam a análise ao PC em busca de problemas de segurança, o resultado é sempre positivo, mesmo que a máquina não tenha qualquer problema, acusa James Gross.
Citado pela Reuters Chandler Givens, o advogado que representa James Gross, refere que «o software está a informar erradamente o consumidor sobre erros que são de alta prioridade e além disso informa falsamente o consumidor que a saúde geral do sistema e da privacidade é baixa».
De acordo com o causídico o problema foi identificado em três ferramentas da Symantec: Norton Utilities, PC Tools Registry Mechanic e PC Tools Performance