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Hacking network Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and UK police in which they discuss efforts against hacking.The conversation covers the tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police.Anonymous also published an email, apparently from the FBI, showing the email addresses of call participants.

Verisign has admitted in an SEC filing that it suffered numerous data breaches in 2010, but that management wasn’t informed by staff for nearly a year after they occurred.In the 10-Q filing, the company said that it suffered multiple data breaches during 2010, and that data was stolen. Exactly what is missing the company isn’t saying, although it believes it was unrelated to the company’s DNS servers. Senior management weren’t told of the attacks until September 2011, the filing claims, but security reporting procedures have since been revamped.

While the UK government's plans for wider adoption of open source have been uneven in their application, the new beta version of the gov.uk web site should give proprietary software vendors and contractors pause for thought, as it is almost entirely built on or with open source.

Yahoo announced mass layoffs back in December of 2010. But today we got news of some significant layoffs at the photosharing service Flickr, via a former employee, engineer Nolan Caudill. “I don’t really know the real purpose of me writing this. I’m always hesitant to write anything good, bad, or otherwise about my past employers, but this one deserves to get called out,” he wrote in a blog post. “Yahoo made a major mistake today and there’s no other way to interpret it. I’m mad and this is my soapbox.”

The NanodeUIP web server provides a mobile-optimized web page to control and monitor your Ethernet-connected Arduino. All you need is an Arduino and an ENC28J60-based Ethernet shield, or get a Nanode which combines the two together.The home page shows the three functions the webserver can handle:Monitor Buttons Control Lights Monitor Sensors

The following tutorial will show how you can create a web dashboard to graphically display data using the standard vectorial format SVG. I was looking for a way to show in a graphic form data coming from a feed on Pachube: I needed to create a dashboard available via web and without proprietary technologies (Flash…). I found this blogpost by Andrew Hazelden where he describes how you can dinamically change an SVG file. The same trick is used by another opensource data collector software, Nimbits.

Sillysparrowness, a self-described "German teacher with a leaning towards silliness," described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis.

While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science.Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad used a weather balloon to carry a camera and a toy lego man high above the clouds.

The 6502 processor from the 1970s is alive once again – and as a proper 40-pin chip in a dual in-line package (DIP) housing, not just as an embedded core. Mouser Electronics has added the 8-bit classic, since modernised by WDC (Western Design Center), to its product range, making it available in the UK for £4.90.

O2 has apologised for a technical problem which caused users' phone numbers to be disclosed when using its mobile data.The company said it normally only passed numbers to "trusted partners".A problem during routine maintenance meant that from 10 January numbers could have been seen by other websites."We investigated, identified and fixed it this afternoon. We would like to apologise for the concern we have caused," the company said.The Information Commissioner's Office had said that it would speak to O2 "to better understand what has happened".