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| Boot up: Iran's internet clampdown, the $13bn superbrain project and why Twitter security doesn't work | Boot up: Iran's internet clampdown, the $13bn superbrain project and why Twitter security doesn't work |
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| A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team | A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team |
| Iran's approaching vote brings receding web access >> SFGate | Iran's approaching vote brings receding web access >> SFGate |
| Iran has just opened a 5,000km fiber-optic route through Russia to Germany, the latest part of a strategy to take control of information on the country's communications networks. Communications minister Mohammad Hasan Nami - who was trained in North Korea - said it will improve security, which is likely to mean an internet-within-the-internet, vetting Facebook, Twitter and anything else the regime objects to. | Iran has just opened a 5,000km fiber-optic route through Russia to Germany, the latest part of a strategy to take control of information on the country's communications networks. Communications minister Mohammad Hasan Nami - who was trained in North Korea - said it will improve security, which is likely to mean an internet-within-the-internet, vetting Facebook, Twitter and anything else the regime objects to. |
| Iran is believed by many security experts to be behind computer-virus attacks last year on Saudi Arabian state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas. Last week, The New York Times reported that Iran is considered a chief suspect in a series of malware breaches into U.S. energy companies, citing American officials and corporate security experts. Iran has repeatedly denied similar claims. But Iran also has been hit by viruses it claims were launched by the U.S. and Israel. A date-siphoning program known as Flame forced Iran's Oil Ministry to completely shut down its computer system last year. Three years ago, Iran's uranium-enrichment labs were penetrated by a virus called Stuxnet, which was tailored to disrupt Iran's nuclear centrifuges. | Iran is believed by many security experts to be behind computer-virus attacks last year on Saudi Arabian state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas. Last week, The New York Times reported that Iran is considered a chief suspect in a series of malware breaches into U.S. energy companies, citing American officials and corporate security experts. Iran has repeatedly denied similar claims. But Iran also has been hit by viruses it claims were launched by the U.S. and Israel. A date-siphoning program known as Flame forced Iran's Oil Ministry to completely shut down its computer system last year. Three years ago, Iran's uranium-enrichment labs were penetrated by a virus called Stuxnet, which was tailored to disrupt Iran's nuclear centrifuges. |
| The $1.3bn quest to build a supercomputer replica of a human brain >> Wired | The $1.3bn quest to build a supercomputer replica of a human brain >> Wired |
| Essential reading, if you missed it first time round: | Essential reading, if you missed it first time round: |
| Even by the standards of the TED conference, Henry Markram's 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and announced a plan that--if it panned out--would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade. He dedicated himself to wiping out all mental disorders and creating a self-aware artificial intelligence. And the South African-born neuroscientist pronounced that he would accomplish all this through an insanely ambitious attempt to build a complete model of a human brain--from synapses to hemispheres--and simulate it on a supercomputer. Markram was proposing a project that has bedeviled AI researchers for decades, that most had presumed was impossible. He wanted to build a working mind from the ground up. | Even by the standards of the TED conference, Henry Markram's 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and announced a plan that--if it panned out--would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade. He dedicated himself to wiping out all mental disorders and creating a self-aware artificial intelligence. And the South African-born neuroscientist pronounced that he would accomplish all this through an insanely ambitious attempt to build a complete model of a human brain--from synapses to hemispheres--and simulate it on a supercomputer. Markram was proposing a project that has bedeviled AI researchers for decades, that most had presumed was impossible. He wanted to build a working mind from the ground up. |
| How to hack Twitter's two-factor authentication >> PC Mag | How to hack Twitter's two-factor authentication >> PC Mag |
| Two factor unravelled by the pro's: | Two factor unravelled by the pro's: |
| In a short, droll video about Twitter's two-factor authentication, Alexander congratulates Twitter for joining a "security two-step program" and taking the first step, admitting a problem exists. He then goes on to illustrate just how little the SMS-based two-factor authentication helps. "Your new solution leaves the door wide open," said Alexander, "for the same man-in-the-middle attacks that compromised the reputations of major news sources and celebrities." | In a short, droll video about Twitter's two-factor authentication, Alexander congratulates Twitter for joining a "security two-step program" and taking the first step, admitting a problem exists. He then goes on to illustrate just how little the SMS-based two-factor authentication helps. "Your new solution leaves the door wide open," said Alexander, "for the same man-in-the-middle attacks that compromised the reputations of major news sources and celebrities." |
| Privacy challenges of wearable computing >> NYTimes | Privacy challenges of wearable computing >> NYTimes |
| Nick Bilton explores the code of social propriety and privacy around wearable tech, from Memoto to Google Glass and the rumoured Apple wearable products: | Nick Bilton explores the code of social propriety and privacy around wearable tech, from Memoto to Google Glass and the rumoured Apple wearable products: |
| This is not just a Google issue. Other gadgets have plenty of privacy-invading potential. Memoto, a tiny, automatic camera that looks like a pin you can wear on a shirt, can snap two photos a minute and later upload it to an online service. The makers of the device boast that it comes with one year of free storage and call it "a searchable and shareable photographic memory." Apple is also working on wearable computing products, filing numerous patents for a "heads-up display" and camera. The company is also expected to release an iWatch later this year. And several other start-ups in Silicon Valley are building products that are designed to capture photos of people's lives. | This is not just a Google issue. Other gadgets have plenty of privacy-invading potential. Memoto, a tiny, automatic camera that looks like a pin you can wear on a shirt, can snap two photos a minute and later upload it to an online service. The makers of the device boast that it comes with one year of free storage and call it "a searchable and shareable photographic memory." Apple is also working on wearable computing products, filing numerous patents for a "heads-up display" and camera. The company is also expected to release an iWatch later this year. And several other start-ups in Silicon Valley are building products that are designed to capture photos of people's lives. |
| Noise-canceling tech could lead to ultra-fast internet connections >> VentureBeat | Noise-canceling tech could lead to ultra-fast internet connections >> VentureBeat |
| The speed and reliability of internet connections could be improved by the mechanisms of noise-cancelling technology, a report has found: | The speed and reliability of internet connections could be improved by the mechanisms of noise-cancelling technology, a report has found: |
| Noise-cancelling headphones use a microphone to pick up any outside noises within range of your ears. It then sends an inverse set of sounds picked up by the background noise to cancel it out. Researchers think they can essentially do the same thing with fibre optic cable Internet, which uses light waves to transmit data. However, this requires a lot of power to make the process fast, and this results in lots of "noise" that would otherwise slow down Internet speeds and reliability. | Noise-cancelling headphones use a microphone to pick up any outside noises within range of your ears. It then sends an inverse set of sounds picked up by the background noise to cancel it out. Researchers think they can essentially do the same thing with fibre optic cable Internet, which uses light waves to transmit data. However, this requires a lot of power to make the process fast, and this results in lots of "noise" that would otherwise slow down Internet speeds and reliability. |
| Brussels probes Apple's iPhone tactics >> FT.com | Brussels probes Apple's iPhone tactics >> FT.com |
| Brussels is investigating whether Apple is muscling out rival smartphone makers from the European market with anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions on the handset, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. The scrutiny adds to the pressure Apple is facing from government regulators, coming in the week that US senators questioned Apple chief executive Tim Cook for the technology company's tax accounting practices. | Brussels is investigating whether Apple is muscling out rival smartphone makers from the European market with anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions on the handset, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. The scrutiny adds to the pressure Apple is facing from government regulators, coming in the week that US senators questioned Apple chief executive Tim Cook for the technology company's tax accounting practices. |
| The EC concluded that Apple's market practices could be considered to be unfair after evaluation responses sent to European telecoms groups. | The EC concluded that Apple's market practices could be considered to be unfair after evaluation responses sent to European telecoms groups. |
| Samsung sold 12.5m smartphones in China during Q1 2013 >> The Next Web | Samsung sold 12.5m smartphones in China during Q1 2013 >> The Next Web |
| Samsung takes top spot in Chinese smartphone market for the first time, according to Strategy Analytics: | Samsung takes top spot in Chinese smartphone market for the first time, according to Strategy Analytics: |
| The research firm's latest figures are reported by the Korea Herald (via Sammy Hub) and are particularly impressive given that Samsung sold a total of 30.06 million smartphones last year. That 2012 figure was a record annual sales haul for the firm -- and tripled its sales from 2011 -- but, given its early progress this year, Samsung looks set to smash that record once again in 2013. Strategy Analytics's Q1 2013 data put Huawei behind Samsung in second place on 8.1 million units sold, having overtaken Lenovo -- which has announced its intention to launch devices in the US within one year -- which sold 7.9 million smartphones. Chinese phone makers Coolpad (7 million smartphones sold) and ZTE (6.4 million) rounded out the top five, with Apple coming in sixth with an estimated 6.1 million iPhones sold during the three-month period. | The research firm's latest figures are reported by the Korea Herald (via Sammy Hub) and are particularly impressive given that Samsung sold a total of 30.06 million smartphones last year. That 2012 figure was a record annual sales haul for the firm -- and tripled its sales from 2011 -- but, given its early progress this year, Samsung looks set to smash that record once again in 2013. Strategy Analytics's Q1 2013 data put Huawei behind Samsung in second place on 8.1 million units sold, having overtaken Lenovo -- which has announced its intention to launch devices in the US within one year -- which sold 7.9 million smartphones. Chinese phone makers Coolpad (7 million smartphones sold) and ZTE (6.4 million) rounded out the top five, with Apple coming in sixth with an estimated 6.1 million iPhones sold during the three-month period. |
| Samsung teases 'Premiere 2013' event >> The Next Web | Samsung teases 'Premiere 2013' event >> The Next Web |
| New Galaxy devices to be unveiled on 20 June: | New Galaxy devices to be unveiled on 20 June: |
| Rumors of a smaller Galaxy S4, appropriately named the Galaxy S4 Mini, have been circulating for some time now, although the moniker is so strong - and synonymous with Android - that it's also possible we could see multiple devices being announced simultaneously. The ATIV range, meanwhile, is Samsung's ongoing foray into the Windows Phone mobile operating system. The company is yet to make much of a dent; the ATIV S, released last year, was met with some pretty middling reviews. | Rumors of a smaller Galaxy S4, appropriately named the Galaxy S4 Mini, have been circulating for some time now, although the moniker is so strong - and synonymous with Android - that it's also possible we could see multiple devices being announced simultaneously. The ATIV range, meanwhile, is Samsung's ongoing foray into the Windows Phone mobile operating system. The company is yet to make much of a dent; the ATIV S, released last year, was met with some pretty middling reviews. |
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