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BlogsTags > hackingFour short links: 8 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2013 How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little … Four Short Links: 7 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 7, 2013 Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit allows your to easily select between several attack modes and is specifically designed to … Glowing PlantsBy Mike LoukidesApril 26, 2013 I just invested in BioCurious’ Glowing Plants project on Kickstarter. I don’t watch Kickstarter closely, but this is about as fast as I’ve ever seen a project get funded. It went live on Wednesday; in the afternoon, I was backer … Masking the complexity of the machineBy Jon BrunerFebruary 15, 2013 The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of larger systems that can take advantage of the most … NASA launches second International Space Apps ChallengeBy Alex HowardJanuary 31, 2013 From April 20 to April 21, on Earth Day, the second international Space Apps Challenge will invite developers on all seven continents to the bridge to contribute code to NASA projects. Given longstanding concerns about the sustainability of apps contests, … The bicycle barometer, SCADA security, the smart city in a disaster (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerJanuary 24, 2013 The Bicycle Barometer (@richardjpope) — Richard Pope, a project manager at Gov.uk, built what he calls a barometer for his bike commute: it uses weather and transit data to compute a single value that expresses the relative comfort of a bike … Four short links: 24 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 24, 2013 Google’s Driverless Car is Worth Trillions (Forbes) — Much of the reporting about Google’s driverless car has mistakenly focused on its science-fiction feel. [...] In fact, the driverless car has broad implications for society, for the economy and for individual … Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfareBy Alistair CrollJanuary 18, 2013 First, technology is good. Then it gets bad. Then it gets stable. This has been going on for a long time, likely since the invention of fire, knives, or the printed word. But I want to focus specifically on computing … DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source futureBy Alex HowardDecember 18, 2012 As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. This fall, the (retired) eighth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs … To eat or be eaten?By Mike LoukidesNovember 30, 2012 One of Marc Andreessen’s many accomplishments was the seminal essay “Why Software is Eating the World.” In it, the creator of Mosaic and Netscape argues for his investment thesis: everything is becoming software. Music and movies led the way, Skype … George Church and the potential of synthetic biologyBy Mike LoukidesNovember 9, 2012 A few weeks ago, I explained why I thought biohacking was one of the most important new trends in technology. If I didn’t convince you, Derek Jacoby’s review (below) of George Church’s new book, Regenesis, will. Church is no stranger … Charging up: Networking resources and recovery after Hurricane SandyBy Alex HowardNovember 2, 2012 Even though the direct danger from Hurricane Sandy has passed, lower Manhattan and many parts of Connecticut and New Jersey remain a disaster zone, with millions of people still without power, reduced access to food and gas, and widespread damage … Biohacking: The next great wave of innovationBy Mike LoukidesOctober 3, 2012 I’ve been following synthetic biology for the past year or so, and we’re about to see some big changes. Synthetic bio seems to be now where the computer industry was in the late 1970s: still nascent, but about to explode. … Four short links: 27 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 27, 2012 International Broadband Pricing Study Dataset for Reuse — 3,655 fixed and mobile broadband retail price observations, with fixed broadband pricing data for 93 countries and mobile broadband pricing data for 106 countries. The Dictator’s Practical Internet Guide to Power Retention … Four short links: 4 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 4, 2012 How Anonymous Works (Wired) -- Quinn Norton explains how the decentralized Anonymous operates, and how the transition to political activism happened. Required reading to understand post-state post-structure organisations, and to make sense of this chaotic unpredictable entity. Kanban For 1 -- very nice progress board for tasks, for the lifehackers who want to apply agile software tools to the... Announcing Make's Hardware Innovation Workshop 
By Dale DoughertyApril 6, 2012 We're announcing the Hardware Innovation Workshop, a new business conference being held during the week of Maker Faire. Developer Week in Review: The hijacking of an insulin pump 
By James TurnerNovember 3, 2011 If you own an insulin pump, someone out there might have a hack with your name on it. Google decides to make high-volume Maps API users pony up some cash, and the creator of Linux goes after C++. Developer Week in Review: Android proves fruitful for Microsoft
By James TurnerSeptember 29, 2011 Samsung agrees to pay Microsoft royalties for Android use. Elsewhere, Oracle keeps the SPARC line alive, and the hackability of voting machines is exposed. Fighting the next mobile warBy Alasdair AllanSeptember 28, 2011 While you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun. Top Stories: September 5-9, 2011 
By Mac SlocumSeptember 9, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: Christopher Groskopf explained how he's going to hack a Texas city, Nat Torkington said goodbye to Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart, and the value of government data visualizations reached a new standard thanks to LookatCook.com. 3 Android predictions: In your home, in your clothes, in your car
By Mac SlocumJuly 7, 2011 "Learning Android" author Marko Gargenta believes Android will soon be a fixture in our homes, in our clothes and in our vehicles. Here he explains why and how this will happen. Four short links: 28 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 28, 2011 NiftyUrls -- open source elegant wee RSS dashboard. I haven't looked into the source yet, but I'm already thinking of applications. The PirateBox -- small piece of hardware that creates a wifi network for local filesharing. Not connected to the Internet. (via BoingBoing) More Hammer, Less Yammer (Julian Bleecker) -- If you’re not also making — you’re sort of,... Four short links: 23 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 23, 2010 Goodbye App Engine -- clear explanation of the reasons why Google AppEngine isn't the right thing to build your startup on. Don't read the comments unless you want to lose faith in humanity. (via Michael Koziarski on Twitter) Neato Robotics XV-11 Tear-down -- the start of hackable LIDAR, which would enable cheap and easy 3D mapping, via a Roomba-like... Four short links: 16 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 16, 2010 A Room to Let in Old Aldgate -- a lovely collection of photographs of lost buildings from The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London. Think of them as the Wayback Machine of their day. (via Fiona Rigby on Twitter) Wikipedia Fundraising A/B Tests -- get a glimpse into the science that resulted in Jimmy Wales's hollow haunted gaze... Four short links: 21 October 2010
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 21, 2010 Using MysQL as NoSQL -- 750,000+ qps on a commodity MySQL/InnoDB 5.1 server from remote web clients. Making an SLR Camera from Scratch -- amazing piece of hardware devotion. (via hackaday.com) Mac App Store Guidelines -- Apple announce an app store for the Macintosh, similar to its app store for iPhones and iPads. "Mac App" no longer means generic... Four short links: 18 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 18, 2010 BBC Dimensions -- brilliant work, a fun site that lets you overlay familiar plcaes with famous and notable things so you can get a better sense of how large they are. Example: the Colossus of Rhodes straddling O'Reilly HQ, the Library of Alexandria vs the Google campus, and New Orleans Mardi Gras began at the headquarters of Fred Phelps's... Four short links: 2 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2010 Hidden Features of Google (StackExchange) -- rather than Google's list of search features, here are the features that real (sophisticated) users find useful. My new favourite: the ~ operator for approximate searching. (via Hacker News) Natural Language Parsing for the Web -- JSON API to the Stanford Natural Language Parser. I wonder why the API to the library isn't... The Watering Hole - A Little Social Engineering
By James TurnerJuly 27, 2010 In any organization, your most vulnerable security assets are the ones standing around the water cooler... Four short links: 20 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 20, 2010 Dangerous Prototypes -- "a new open source hardware project every month". Sample project: Flash Destroyer, which writes and verifies EEPROM chips until they blow out. Wabit -- GPLv3 reporting tool. Because No Respectable MBA Programme Would Admit Me (Mike Shaver) -- excellent book recommendations. The Most Prescient Footnote Ever (David Pennock) -- In footnote 14 of Chapter 5 (p.... Hardware hacking heaven 
By Edd DumbillJuly 9, 2010 Hacking isn't just for software anymore. A full range of open source hardware hacks -- everything from Arduino to parallel programming to small-form computing -- will be discussed at OSCON this year. With the current slate of tools, it's never been easier to write code that runs on low-power, small-format devices. And many of these tools are familiar to conventional software developers. Four short links: 7 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 7, 2010 UKI: Simple UI Kit for Complex Web Apps -- Uki is a fast and simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications. It comes with a rich view-component library ranging from Slider to List and SplitPane. Includes the now-ubiquitous Mail.app mockup, which has become to UI library webpages what the bucket of grease and dirt is to household... Four short links: 4 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 4, 2010 HomeSense -- an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart and networked technologies in the home, with uber-Arduino-rockstar Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino. (via titine on Twitter) Kelvin's Thunderstorm (Instructables) -- "create lightning from water and gravity". Simple and impressive science. (via Paul Fenwick) Graph Visualization Code in Javascript (Stack Overflow) -- good pointers to interesting libraries. ChEMBL - Neglected... "Hackers" at 25
By Mac SlocumJune 3, 2010 In mid-1980s, Steven Levy wrote a book that introduced the term "hacker" to a wide audience. In the ensuing 25 years, that word and its accompanying community have gone through tremendous change. In this Q&A, Levy discusses the book's genesis, its influence and the role hackers continue to play. Four short links: 24 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 24, 2010 Google Documents API -- permissions, revisions, search, export, upload, and file. Somehow I had missed that this existed. Profile of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange (Sydney Morning Herald) -- he draws no salary, is constantly on the move, lived for a while in a compound in Nairobi with other NGOs, and cowrote the rubberhose filesystem which offers deniable encryption. OpenPCR... Four short links: 3 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 3, 2010 Science Hack Day -- Saturday, June 19th and Sunday, June 20th, 2010, in the Guardian offices in London. A meeting place for the designer/coder class and scientists, with datasets as the common language. (via timoreilly on Twitter) Facebook's Evil Interface (EFF) -- Facebook's new M.O. is to say "to better help you, we took away your privacy. If you... Four short links: 28 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 28, 2010 Fair Use in the US Economy (PDF) -- prepared by IT lobby in the US, it's the counterpart to Big ©'s fictitious billions of dollars of losses due to file sharing. Take each with a grain of salt, but this is interesting because it talks about the industries and businesses that the fair use laws make possible. Disassembled Household... Four short links: 16 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 16, 2010 Buckets and Vessels (Aaron Straup Cope) -- amazing collection of projects and the cultural shifts they illustrate. Michal Migurski's Walking Papers, software designed to round-trip paper and digital edits to Open Street Map, has recently been used by professors at the University of California’s Berkeley’s School of Information to enable “a sort of psychogeographical dispute resolution between high school... We are iPad. Resistance is (not) futile
By Brett McLaughlinApril 9, 2010 When did developers ever need permission to break things? When did Steve Jobs become not just rule maker, but some sort of deity that actually prevented me from ignoring said rule maker, and doing whatever I could with my device? The Watering Hole - Even Legends Have Limits
By James TurnerFebruary 25, 2010 The real question isn't whether God can make a rock so big he can't move it, it's whether he could get James Cameron a Best Screenplay Oscar... Four short links: 17 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 17, 2010 Off-the-shelf camera hacked to grab high-speed video (New Scientist) -- scientists used a chip from a home cinema projector to record 400fps on consumer video hardware. They put the chip, which has tiny moving mirrors, in front of the digital camera and it directs the incoming light sequentially over a grid of pixels in the digital camera, meaning that... Four short links: 6 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 6, 2009 Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via Ed Corkery... Four short links: 3 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 3, 2009 First Test for Election Cryptography (MIT Technology Review) -- The first government election to use a new cryptographic scheme that lets both voters and auditors check that votes were cast and recorded accurately will be held tomorrow in Takoma Park, MD. Founder of the company behind the technology is David Chaum, who ran the first electronic currency company in... Five projects for Open Source for America, and other reports from the Open Source convention 
By Andy OramJuly 24, 2009 A group of companies and projects announced Open Source for America at the O'Reilly Open Source convention on Wednesday. I already have five projects they could take on. The Hacker Ethic - Harming Developers?By Jim StogdillJuly 1, 2009 Is the hacker ethic harming developers? We don't think so, but maybe the idea resonates a little bit? Four short links: 4 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 4, 2009 Old Japanese Maps on Google Earth Unveil Secrets -- Google criticised for putting up map layers showing the towns where a discriminated-against class came from, because that class is still discriminated against and Google didn't put any "cultural context" around it. Google and their maps didn't make the underclass, Japanese society did. Because they're sensitive about having the problem,... Four short links: 31 Mar 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 31, 2009 Web traffic, web design, hacker spaces, and feature spaces: iPhone and Android Make Up 50% of Google's SmartPhone Traffic Worldwide -- Matt Gross found this interesting tidbit in a TechCrunchIT story. Refining Data Tables -- Luke Wroblewski gives some seriously good tips for designing usable tables in web pages. After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface... Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?By chromaticOctober 8, 2008 I'm profoundly uncomfortable purchasing devices which, by default, do not provide the freedoms I desire. I'm starting to believe it works against my desire for open, unencumbered hardware. Learn how to bypass the iPhone 3G's Passcode - iPhone Forensics 101 Webcast
By Kathryn BarrettSeptember 8, 2008 In this free, live webcast, iPhone hacker and data forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski guides you through the steps used by law enforcement agencies to bypass the iPhone 3G's passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. The presentation is aimed towards law enforcement and anyone else who has a need to access the not-so-readily available data on an iPhone. To find out more or register for the event, read more. The Last HOPEBy Jim StogdillJuly 21, 2008 The Last HOPE conference in NYC was a great mix of hardware hacking, open source, phone phreaking, lock picking, sleeping on the floor, and good old fashioned paranoia mongering. How Hackerteen Helps... By a White-Hat Hacker
By Mary RotmanJune 23, 2008 In this short video, Dylan, a white-hat hacker himself (watch the video for a definition), comments about the purposes of Hackerteen, as well as the pros of teaching kids to be hackers who accomplish things for the good, rather than the harm, of the internet. 1 to 50 of 50 Stay Connected
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