A new way to crack RSA by deliberately fiddling with the voltage of the CPU on the machine with the private key. University of Michigan press release here. (Image from Engadget.)
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March 9, 2010
March 8, 2010
Recession: the United States is winning fewer Oscars each year.
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Watch “Logorama”, the Oscar-winning animated short
May not be up there forever. If you want to be good, you can buy a high quality copy on iTunes. (Via Daring Fireball.)
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“ The next morning, as Mark Thompson announced his plan to close a couple of radio stations, slim down the website, spend less on imported programmes and sport and generally get his tanks off the Murdochs’ lawn, and reseed it, he insisted in the Guardian: “The proposed changes are not a piece of politics.” Smashing! That means they can’t be. If politics were involved, he’d have to say so, wouldn’t he?
David Mitchell on the BBC.
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If you’ve ever wondered what the underside of Boeing 747 looks like, this is the video for you. Don’t forget you can watch it in 720p.
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Lush: screen grab from Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The game really does look like this when you’re playing it.
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Should we call it “Legs”? The first iPad TV commercial aired last night during the Oscars. (YouTube version here.)
(6 days ago) Link to this post“Nobody fucks with the Jesus”: John Turturro talking about his role in The Big Lebowski.
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March 7, 2010
OK, as a special Sunday treat here’s another crazy game: Angry Birds on the iPhone.
(6 days ago) Link to this postJoe Danger: well this looks suitably nuts. (Best watched in HD, btw.)
(6 days ago) Link to this postSoundville: a Sony “advertisement” by Juan Cabral set in Iceland. (From a Gizmodo article about how Sony’s ads used to make some sort of sense.)
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So a total bullshit iPhone “radiation measuring” app is rejected by Apple, and the “tech journalism” world goes crazy, apparently having quaffed heartily of the Kool Aid being offered by the people behind the app.
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March 6, 2010
Apple historical product porn.
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