ModernityBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Netbooks and Firefox. Simpler solution: switch off plug-ins. Phoronix news. Broken IMacs, Apple loses fans. Avoid M$ Office, try the newer KOffice. Air Force and toys, as Super Computers. Robots for oldies. Even a GCHQ supplier don’t like the new British government’s approach to the web. Free labour quits, Wiki losing people. The Why? I’m [...]
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
An announcement this week from one of the investors in Twitter has managed to surprise the usually unflappable Web 2.0 crowd by revealing that the company will begin charging for some services in January next year. Japanese firm DG Mobile, which is part-owned by Digital Garage, a Twitter investor, revealed that the microblogging site would charge users not to write tweets, as had been anticipated,...
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
There is no way that the British government wouldn’t either extradite Mr McKinnon (Labour) or invite him into a darkened room in Vauxhall Cross with the Americans in attendance (Conservatives), even the Liberal Democrats if you explained it to them slowly and often enough would allow the Yanks to talk to him. He’s the perfect Cut-out/false flag to any number of intelligence services who...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A new study has found that people aren't just using internet search engines for fact-finding missions but as part of their learning processes. The study extensively looked at 72 participants, who partook in 426 searching tasks. Researchers at Penn State University found that instead of looking for new information, search engines are primarily used to fact check information that you already know. Moving...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
File-sharing has hit the headlines yet again this week, what with Peter Mandelson's new plans to cut off persistent offenders from their internets and, more recently, BitTorrent site Mininova removing all copyrighted material links from its site. The latest company who has entered the debate is a GCHQ tech supplier, Detica, who has criticised the UK Government's latest half-baked file-sharing plans...
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
GCHQ supplier pans government file-sharing plans Tags: , , , Tom Espiner ZDNet UK Published: 27 Nov 08:22 GMT One of the companies that supply intelligence technology to the government has criticised UK plans to monitor file-sharers.Detica told ZDNet UK on Thursday that government plans to force ISPs to identify unlawful file-sharers were not proportionate."If the government chose to go down that...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Hacker and Asperger's sufferer Gary McKinnon has lost his final appeal to the UK government to halt his extradition to face trial in the US. Home Secretary Alan Johnson is coming under fire from civil liberties campaigners following his decision to let the extradition of McKinnon go ahead. McKinnon's family fears that the hacker – who also suffers from Asperger's syndrom – is now at a...
No Right Turn (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
WikiLeaks has got themselves a gold mine: 573,000 intercepted pager messages from 9/11 . They're releasing them in real time throughout the day, as they were sent on 9/11. Why is this interesting? As they note, Text pagers are usualy [sic] carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The long-awaited inquiry into one of the most contentious decisions taken by a British government in modern times opens tomorrow, with the task of uncovering how and why the country went to war against Iraq. The former Whitehall mandarin Sir John Chilcot faces a formidable test as chairman of a five-member team appointed by the prime minister. The government did not want the inquiry and when Gordon...
Geeky-Gadgets (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
GCHQ, the UK intelligence agency that looks after MI5 and MI5, intends to run a new advertising campaign on Xbox Live in the UK, in order to recruit new people into their intelligence agencies, and it is looking to recruit people between the ages of 18 to 34, I guess that rules me out then. “As [...] This is a post from Geeky Gadgets , who bring you the latest cool Gadgets. UK Spy Agency Recruiting...
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Soon, interactive video adverts by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) will appear on the Xbox LIVE dashboard as part of an integrated online campaign by the UK government.
Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
FROM GAMERTELL - British government agency GCHQ will begin a six-week ad campaign on Xbox Live to boost recruitment numbers… MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article »
Techorade.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
You know that old trope about children who play videogames that are actually secret government evaluation programs designed to draft quick-witted kids into secret adventures? British intelligence organization GCHQ has taken that a little too seriously, and is planning to use videogames to attract new blood. GCHQ, which works with the MI5 and MI6, will use [...]
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Government Intelligence organisation GCHQ, which reports to foreign secretary David Miliband and works with MI5 and MI6, is to run an ad campaign within Xbox Live to attract quick-thinking 18-34-year-olds. The campaign, to run on the Xbox Live platform which is home to epic games such as Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead [...]
Katie Piatt (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I can imagine the conversation in the Government Communications Headquarters: "why aren't we getting many applications from young, quick thinking, problem solving, team players?" "because they're never heard of us, and they're all too busy playing computer games..." And then the revelation, let's go to them and tell them about GCHQ - and let's use the gaming platform to do it. And...
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