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June 29, 2010 | Categories: Aggregated

Pentagon hacked 6 million times daily
“Our nation’s interests are in jeopardy,” he said citing “tremendous vulnerabilities” and threats from a “growing array of foreign actors, terrorists, criminal groups and individual hackers.”
US appoints first cyber warfare general | World news | The Observer
Pentagon creates specialist online unit to counter cyber attack amid growing fears of militarisation of the internet
North Korea ‘launches massive cyber attack on Seoul’ – Times Online 2009

June 18, 2010 | Categories: Aggregated

Ross McDonnell "Joyrider"
Photo documentation of the lives of youths who grew up in shadows of Ballymun’s towers, just outside Dublin.
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday – NYTimes.com
Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee – Telegraph
The Subway Etiquette Campaign:
Jay Shells surveyed 100 people on their top pet-peeves (not service related) while riding the Subway then narrowed the results down to the top ten most occurring issues and rewrote them as a sort of list of rules and posted them up on trains throughout the city.
Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’
The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life, by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell.