If you can’t raise a plant to save your life you know the appeal of terrariums, which can sustain themselves for months on end without being watered. But a retiree in the UK says he sealed up his bottle garden in 1972—and hasn’t watered it since.
It may be easy to report and track stolen smartphones in the UK, but that’s not preventing some of the country’s shops from selling these ill-gotten handsets. A BBC undercover operation has revealed that at least eight stores in London are willing to…
This week T-Mobile USA has made clear that they’ll be trashing all overage charges for smartphones, tablets, and any other device on their network. This move was started with their … Continue reading
T-Mobile hasn’t quite been as UnCarrier as some would like. Despite the network’s turn toward overage-free service, there’s still occasional chances that you’ll pay extra for heavy use — especially if you’re on a grandfathered plan. That won’t be a…
There aren’t that many Tesla Model S owners around, but those who are do seem to comprise of people who have a different way of seeing things. Apparently, some Tesla Model S owners have already tried to hack their ride by wiring into the Model S’ communications system. A forum user who goes by the moniker of “nlc” managed to locate a number of ports and tap into the data which flows straight to the center console and navigation screens. It seems that these “hackers” found out that the sub-system actually ran on a version of the Ubuntu operating system, which so happens to be a variant of Linux.
Heck, there was even someone who managed to circumvent this discovery in order to have Firefox up and running on the center console touchscreen, although it does not seem as though there are other more invasive efforts to be made via the Ethernet entry point.
Tesla is not too happy to hear about this news, where via its service center, it has already informed the original Ethernet exploiter that Tesla knows what has gone on, and that such activity would lead to the warranty being void. After all, the Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement (MVPA) comes with a clause which reads, in part, “You may not, or may not attempt to, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, tamper with or engage in any similar activity in respect of a Tesla Vehicle, nor may you permit any third party to do so, save only to the extent permitted by applicable law.”
Tesla Model S Owners Hack Own Cars, Discover Ubuntu , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Transportation, Hack, tesla, ubuntu,
When you want a frosty cold one, you usually don’t have the time to wait for your pint glass to actually get frosty sitting in a fridge. So you probably settle for a less satisfying can or bottle—a compromise you’ll never have to make again with this countertop glass frosting contraption.
T-Mobile continues to push for change in the wireless provider industry by abolishing consumer overages – and T-Mobile CEO John Legere has called on consumers to urge the likes of AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to bring the age of overages to an end. Over 20 million folks in the US were slapped with punitive overage charges last year alone, with penalties from three of the largest US carriers bringing home more than $1 billion annually from overage charges alone.
Legere shared, “Today I’m laying down a challenge to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to join T-Mobile in ending these outrageous overage penalties for all consumers – because it’s the right thing to do. Overage fees are flat out wrong. Agree with me? Join me in putting this challenge to all the major national carriers by signing my petition on Change.org. Right here. Take one minute to be a part of this consumer movement.”
T-Mobile began to phase out overage charges last year with the launch of Simple Choice, where that also saw the abolishment of annual service contracts. Legere continued, “Charging overage fees is a greedy, predatory practice that needs to go. Starting in May for bills arriving in June – regardless of whether you’re on Simple Choice, Simple Starter or an older plan, we’re abolishing overages for good. Period.”
Do you like what T-Mobile is doing, and will their call have an impact on the other three major mobile carriers and the way they do business? [Press Release]
T-Mobile Abolishes Consumer Overages , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, T-Mobile,
The NSA is an organization that has its fair share of detractors, where we did mention how the NSA was aware of the Heartbleed vulnerability for years at the end of last week. It seems as though the US National Security Agency (NSA) has stepped forward to deny any knowledge of the Heartbleed online security flaw since, touting that they do not know and were not aware of the flaw in OpenSSL which could be exploited to harvest data.
Just a side note here for the uninitiated – OpenSSL happens to be an online-data scrambling software that is used to protect sensitive data, with passwords being one of them. It was in 2013 that NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed the NSA themselves introduced vulnerabilities to security software on purpose, which has led to such speculation that has since been denied by the NSA.
In fact, Robin Seggelman, a German computer programmer, has already stepped forward to accept responsibility for the Heartbleed bug’s existence, saying, “It’s tempting to assume that, after the disclosure of the spying activities of the NSA and other agencies, but in this case it was a simple programming error in a new feature, which unfortunately occurred in a security-relevant area. It was not intended at all, especially since I have previously fixed OpenSSL bugs myself, and was trying to contribute to the project.”
Well, there you have it – Heartbleed stemmed from Seggelman’s effort in making amends to the OpenSSL cryptographic library at the end of 2011.
NSA Denies Knowledge Of Heartbleed Vulnerability , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Computers, heartbleed, nsa,
Modern stealth action video games like the Metal Gear Solid series and the new Deus Ex often have a radar feature that lets you see enemies and cameras, among other things. New media artist Sander Veenhof made a similar app for Google Glass. He calls it Watch Your Privacy, and it uses open data to locate nearby surveillance cameras. That includes the mobile kind, i.e. other Glass users.
Watch Your Privacy uses a database of surveillance cameras called OSMcamera. Sander didn’t elaborate how his app spots other Glass users, just that it maps “the latitute/longitude coordinates of each Google Glass user.”
The app marks both cameras and users with a triangular warning sign along with a number, their distance from you and their coordinates. In addition, it marks the approximate coverage area of surveillance cameras. You can either have the area appear mark them as non-safe (red) or safe zones (green). If you want to stay hidden like Solid Snake, you’ll want to mark those areas red. If you feel more comfortable in a place with security cameras then you’ll mark their coverage areas green.
Glass users, crawl to your browser and head to Sander’s website to download his app.
[via Prosthetic Knowledge]
The idea of closing surgical incisions without a needle and thread is a revolutionary concept. Out of Israel comes the brainchild for a brilliant innovation that utilizes cold plasma technology to close surgical wounds. Read on and…be amazed.
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