Radio Signal Spawns 'Alien' Art. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats transforms an anomaly originally mistaken for an extraterrestrial transmission into an out-of-this-world abstract exhibition. Keith Axline reports from Berkeley, California. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

10:34:43 AM    

 

The Fabulous Reign of Photo Sites. Ballooning bandwidth brings an explosion of online picture trafficking. What are the best tools at your disposal? By Sean Hamilton Alexander from Wired magazine. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

10:33:48 AM    

 

Gallery: Crop Circles. Since showing up in English wheat fields 30 years ago, crop circles have become increasingly beautiful and intricate. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

10:27:57 AM    

 

Crop Circles Gain Perspective. The latest wheat-field artwork displays a complex, 3-D design and reignites the age-old debate about the origin of the farmland phenomenon: crafty humans or little green men? By Nigel Watson. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

10:27:18 AM    

 

VectorWorks User Wins Awards (Nemetschek NA).

VectorWorks User Kiss + Cathcart Wins Three Awards in The Green Building Competition for New York City

From: Nemetschek NA
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:25:45 AM    

 

Graphisoft to Host Construction Conference (AECCafe.com).

Graphisoft to Host Virtual Construction Conference

From: AECCafe.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:24:09 AM    

 

Primavera Contractor Now Available (Primavera).

Two New Versions of Primavera Contractor Simplify Construction Scheduling

From: Primavera
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:23:03 AM    

 

Photos transformed into 3D model. Technology that can transform digital photographs to 3D will be unveiled at a conference. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

10:20:12 AM    

 

How the web went world wide. Fifteen years ago web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee published details of his technology online. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

10:19:06 AM    

 

Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Medard, Jon Crowcroft: XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding. [Hack the Planet]

 

10:18:10 AM    

 

Defcon 14 Full of Amazing Hardware Hacks. nTrfAce writes "Defcon 14 is taking place right now in Las Vegas. You know it's serious when you see things like an IPV6 enabled refrigerator with an IP address of 1337:sec:badd:a22:DEF:C012::14. And of course using a rocket for war driving, er WarRocketing. And Joe Grand has created the absolutely coolest Defcon badge ever out of a PCB, PIC, and LEDs."

[Slashdot]

 

10:15:31 AM    

 

VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment. IO ERROR writes "The mysterious phone number stations appearing on Craigslist for the last three months, which resembled their shortwave radio cousins, and which Slashdot reported on in June, were an experiment devised by security researcher Strom Carlson and a group of Los Angeles hackers to determine if encrypted messages could be passed using unwitting third parties to foil traffic analysis by hostile intelligence agencies. Carlson and the hackers presented their findings at DEFCON earlier today and gave away CDs with "Make your own Mein Fraulein station" kits and posted one final number station for people to try to decrypt."

[Slashdot]

 

10:13:19 AM    

 

You're 0wn3d! Wi-Fi driver hack attack demoed.

Third party, fire and theft

Updated White Hat hackers have demonstrated how to use low-level hacking exploits on wireless drivers to gain control of Apple MacBook PC, albeit one running a third-party wirless card.…

[The Register]

 

10:11:27 AM    

 

e-passport cloning risks exposed.

RFID hack attack

A security consultant has shown how to clone electronic passports based on internationally agreed designs due to begin distribution this year.…

[The Register]

 

10:09:09 AM    

 

Researchers warn over web worms.

Right here, right now

LAS VEGAS - Exploiting a lack of security checks in browsers and Web servers, web worms and viruses are likely to become a major threat to surfers, security researchers speaking at the Black Hat Briefings warned on Thursday.…

[The Register]

 

10:07:04 AM    

 

Disney design exec touts pen and paper (CNET News.com).

Disney design exec touts good ol' pen and paper

From: CNET News.com
Type: News Report

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:04:53 AM    

 

Diamonds in the Data. Federal agencies increasingly use data mining to extract valuable info buried in large databases. [ESRI.com - News]

 

10:03:39 AM    

 

ESRI Announces Enhanced Standards Support. Commitment to Open and Interoperable GIS Platform [ESRI.com - News]

 

10:02:16 AM    

 

It ain't just about making maps...

Learn the GIS Lexicon from A to Z - New ESRI Press Book Teaches the Technology's Terminology. Packed with 1,800 definitions, 'A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems' helps users understand key GIS terms such as geocoding, polylines, and georeferencing. [ESRI.com - News]

 

10:01:25 AM    

 

States, Cities, and Counties Win Mobile GIS and GPS Grants. ESRI and Trimble Announce Recipients of Mobile Government Grants for Coastal Communities [ESRI.com - News]

 

9:59:41 AM    

 

New Video Series Gives People a Window into GIS. CD Available at No Cost for GIS Day Events around the World [ESRI.com - News]

 

9:58:49 AM    

 

MetaCarta Expands ESRI Relationship with New Product Offering. MetaCarta has signed an agreement with ESRI to provide MetaCarta GeoTagger as a component of ESRI's ArcWeb Services. [ESRI.com - News]

 

9:57:52 AM    

 

New Case Study: Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. Ordnance Survey sought to develop a new geospatial data storage, management, and maintenance infrastructure. [ESRI.com - News]

 

9:57:04 AM    

 

This is the future of our landscape photos...if you are not already there...

Photos: Vivid photos via HDR technique. High dynamic range photography helps you make up for a light-sensitivity shortcoming of your digital camera. [CNET News.com]

 

9:56:17 AM    

 

Why RSS should be decentralized.

Steve Rubel reports that China is blocking RSS hosted by Feedburner.

5/21/06: "It's absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at, so that, in case of emergency, they can switch to a different hosting service. If they don't own the domain, it doesn't matter how many promises the vendor makes, or how well-intentioned they are, an act of god could result in a blackout of a huge portion of the RSS network." Or an act of government.

It would be possible for the Chinese to block RSS even if it were totally decentralized, but it would be expensive, they'd have to actually look at the payload and see if it contained RSS. But when all the feeds come from one domain, it's easy and cheap, as easy as blocking CNN. That's why we should decentralize as much as possible, and every move to centralize has costs, because it makes it easier for censors.

[Scripting News]

 

9:54:38 AM