12th August 2012 Archive

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• Acer dishing out 16,400 cheap OLYMPIC laptops to schools

  That's the Back2School market stuffed...with Acer kit

  Acer plans to flog 500 "Olympic" laptops to school children in North East London after the Games close. The Taiwanese firm has also promised that the other 15,900 computers they put into London 2012 will be packaged up and sent into schools around the UK. The PCs were used for everything from planning athletes' travel to …

  PCs & Chips 12 Aug 10:01

• Anonymous stalking Australian spooks

  Hacktivists circling law enforcement and intelligence agencies

  The Australian chapter of hacktivist prankster cabal Anonymous has been engaging in prolific white noise activity down under making numerous threats via Twitter that it has infiltrated numerous law enforcement sites including Australia’s spy agency ASIO. On Friday, Anonymous claimed on Operations Australia Twitter account, …

  Security 12 Aug 22:08

• Hipster craft site bans sales of blood and skulls

  Human teeth and hair still are okay though

  Etsy, the crafty hipster’s version of eBay, has issued an edict curbing its contributor’s creativity with raw materials such as drugs and human body parts. The online shopping site prides itself on being the purveyor of the offbeat and eclectic when it comes to self-made objects but has had to draw the line on some or its …

  Odds and Sods 12 Aug 23:00

• Patent troll Intellectual Ventures is more like a HYDRA

  1200+ shell companies guard 10,000 patents very fiercely

  Stanford University researchers have compiled the most extensive set of documentation to date of the activities of patent troll Intellectual Ventures – and their work reveals a behemoth of truly epic scale. The study, The Giant Among Us, turned up an impressive 1,276 shell companies operated by Intellectual Ventures, at least …

  Public Sector 12 Aug 23:45