Terrapower, a company founded by Bill Gates is discussing with China for a new design of nuclear reactors. The fourth generation nuclear reactors research will cost about one billion dollars over five years, that’s an one followed by nine zeros. The plan is to produce less nuclear waste, be safer and cheaper. Terrapower also talked to other nuclear nations, India and Russia, for the new design which is called traveling wave reactor. The reactors will be disaster proof, they will be designed to be resistant to natural disasters like tidal waves and earthquakes. We all want to avoid another incident similar to what happened to Japan. What will come first then, the fourth generation of nuclear reactors or the cloned woolly mammoth?
Greek Hacking Scene Hacked Coca-Cola Norway Website
Coca-Cola Norway website has been hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS). This was the first attack of the operation Greek Hacking Scene vs Corruption and it was executed by the hacker called Napsterakos. Internal links of the website were defaced and they were replaced by the message of Napsterakos “when the future is based on lies, then everyone is corrupted…”. Coca-Cola added strong security to that website long before the attack but it was apparently not enough to prevent the attack. We will wait to see the next target of the Greek Hacking Scene.
AlpHaNiX defaced Google, Gmail, Youtube, Yahoo and Apple
Hacker AlpHaNiX defaced Google, Gmail, Microsoft, Hotmail, Youtube, Samsung, Yahoo and Apple domains of Democratic Republic of Congo by using DNS cache poisoning. He altered the Domain Name System (DNS) records which show to which IP a website points to and instead of pointing to the original servers they were pointing to hacker’s IP. With this way when a user was trying to visit for example google.cd, instead of seeing Google’s page he was seeing hacker’s page with the message that the website was hacked by AlpHaNiX (Haxored by AlpHaNiX). We see the domain names of the biggest IT companies poisoned and understand that security in more fragile than we used to think.
Google search now draws graphs
There are many Google funny things and Easter eggs, some of them are described in the Funny Google Stuff article. Google has also useful stuff like the calculator which can calculate almost any equation. For example you can search for 3+5*5-2 and gives you 26 as a result (3 + (5 * 5) – 2 = 26) before the search results. Also you can convert currency, for example I searched for 200 usd to eur and it gave me as a result 200 U.S. dollars = 148.776315 Euros. This is a very fast and easy way to calculate things. But Google does not stop, it continues to add functionality and now it shows graphs.
Yeti Crabs grow their food
In the deep waters of Costa Rica you can find Yeti Crabs, crabs that grow their own food. I read this post after another post about economy today and how difficult is for most of the people and it was like those post were linked together. With this economy, crabs are forced to grow their own food to survive. Kiwa hirsuta was the first Yeti crab discovered in 2005. Yeti crabs have hairy claws and are covered with bacteria which is their main source of food. They wave their claws like dancing to farm the bacteria because with this action they provide additional nutrients to bacteria. Usually Yeti crabs are found in areas with methane and hydrogen sulfide because their bacteria grow on those environments.
Bombs from the past
Two active bombs from World War 2 were found in Germany. German bomb squads defused both of them successfully after the evacuation of the city of Koblenz that they were found at. About 45000 people, half population of the city, were moved to safe locations for the diffusion. The big one is an air mine and it had the power to destroy the entire city and the smaller one is a high-density explosive bomb. Bombs were dropped by American and British warplanes during the World War II about 65 years ago. There was a third device, a fog generator, which was destroyed with a controlled detonation. Bomb diffusion is a common task in Germany as there are many missing bombs that appear occasionally and need to be disposed.
Cloned woolly mammoth
Most of us enjoy watching dinosaurs on the screen and one of the reasons is the fact that they are extinct. There are many species that are extinct but my second favorite extinct animal is mammoth. If you like mammoths then you should read this because you may soon see a live one. Scientists found a thigh bone in Siberia having a well-preserver bone marrow of mammuthus primigenius, also known as woolly mammoth. Now scientists believe that they can create a clone of the mammoth within five years. This will be possible by replacing the nuclei of an elephant’s egg cells with the mammoth’s as elephants and mammoths are closed relatives.
Find the phone spy
Recently, an Android developer found an app that it is used to spy on you without your permission. The application is called Carrier IQ and it is on most smartphones. It tracks your location and records your keystrokes. If you want to know it that little spy is on your smart phone you can get the app called Voodoo Carrier IQ detector from the market and scan your phone. Although it is not very reliable yet, this means it is not 100% accurate, you will get a hint if you have it or not. The source code is released and soon we will have a more accurate version of it. Keep in mind that Voodoo Carrier IQ detector does not delete Carrier IQ, it just finds it and informs you with a score.
Find the numbers – 003
This is the third challenge with the title “Find the numbers”. It requires both basic math knowledge and logic (or programming skills for brute force if you are too lazy to find the answer). Using all digits from 1 to 9, only once, you have to find the two numbers that give the highest product. For example 123456 * 789 = 97406784. In your answer you should include both numbers and their product and I will let you know if it is correct. Like all other challenges, if you find the answer post it in a comment and not by using the contact form. It is easier to check it and give you credit for it.
Anonymous and Team Poison Together For OpRobinHood
Anonymous and Team Poison, two of the biggest hacking groups, join forces for the operation Robin Hood (OpRobinHood). The plan is to take money from banks using stolen credit cards and bank details and donate that money to charities and movements. Most of the stolen money will be given back by banks to their customers and hackers are relying on that. Now everyone should be more careful with credit cards and bank details. Forces merging is called p0isAnon and the following video is their press release. I can’t say if I agree or disagree with them but I can understand why they are doing this.