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Electric Bubblegum Skateboard With 3D-Printed Parts

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Written by: ‘M’

 

 

Sure, electric skateboards may be getting faster and lighter, but does that mean they’re getting cheaper? No. To fix that, Electric Bubblegum raises the bar with a new sleek design!

Introducing the Bubble Gum Board! electric_bubblegum_board-4

For all of you skateboarders out there, amateur and professional alike:

  • The Bubblegum board is an electric skateboard with 3D-printable components, meaning not only is it initially cheaper to produce, but users can keep their ride in working order by printing out new parts as required.

 

  • The Bubblegum board can travel a cruise speed of 20 miles an hour!

 

  • Weighs 12.1 lb (5.5 kg), the new 27-inch (69 cm) Bubblegum board is on par with the more lighter boards such as the Boosted Board and the Marbel Board!

 

  • Can travel up to 10 (16 km) on a single charge!

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Easy Production

These performance specifications will be enough to pique the interest of those looking for a last-mile transport solution. But the real strength of the Bubblegum board lies in its method of production. The printable ABS parts include casing and pulleys, with all files needed to 3D-print replacements or new color combinations shipped out to users on a USB stick.

Durability

This does bring into question the skateboard’s durability, though the team claims to have undertaken rigorous testing over around 120 miles (193 km) of riding. The team says the board, printed parts and electronics are “really holding up well,” and that the electronic components are well protected from puddles and splashes of water. Throttle, braking and cruise control are driven by a trusty old Wii Nunchuck remote, which wirelessly communicates with the Arduino board built into the underside of the deck. This plastic casing also houses a LiFePO4 battery pack, with charge time taking around 2 hours and 15 minutes.

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Next Step: Donate!

The next step for the team is to raise funds for production on Kickstarter. With pledges set at $550 USD for a complete board, the campaign is looking to attract 100 backers to meet its lofty goal of $55,000, just under $10,000 of which has been raised at the time of writing. Boards are set to ship in March 2015 if everything goes to plan. Beefed up models with dual electric motor, higher top speed and range of 15 miles (25 km) are also available, with pledges set at $1,300. There is still a ways to go before the Bubblegum board hits the streets, but this proposed price tag makes it one of the cheaper electric skateboards we have come across, without compromising on key specs such as speed and range (the Marbel Board can be pre-ordered for $1,299, while the Boosted Board is available for $1,995). At the very least, the Bubblegum board concept serves as a glimpse into the potential of 3D printing, as widespread access to cheap manufacturing promises to reduce costs in all kinds of new places.

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Source:

http://www.gizmag.com/electric-bubblegum-skateboard-3d-printed-parts/34035/

 

 

You Can’t Break My Soul – Anonymous Song

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A goosebumps-giving songvideo filmed in an underground location by Anonymous artists with the epic soundtrack of “You Can’t Break My Soul’ – Watch The Video Below:

 

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AnonSec Hacked Drone

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Written by: Tiobe

 

 

After a recent hiatus, hacker group Anonsec says it has successfully hacked an unidentified drone, and still has the drone under its control as of today.

“We have been still going through drone data and video logs, and soon
we will release a teaser of video log on the Internet,” said the group in a statement.

While Anonsec is keeping its card close to the vest for now, they have said they targeted one particular drone deliberately.

“One reason we decided to target these drones is some of them are collecting chemical samples from upper atmosphere, and (we) wanted to get hands on that data to possibly prove the existence of chemicals,” says Anonsec.

Among the data the group claims to have collected are flight paths, longitude and latitude, altitude, air pressure and video logs. 10656340_263372497206214_1825787387_n

The feat comes after many, including the Washington Post, warned of drones’ vulnerability to hacking.

“The security of drones themselves is an important safety issue,” said Michael Berry and Nabiha Syed in the Washington Post article. “Drones are vulnerable to hijacking through tactics like GPS spoofing.”

Drones remain one of President Obama’s preferred technologies in America’s war on terror, as well as a rapidly growing tool for the film industry, local police and companies like DHL and Google.

Anonsec will release video footage from the drone it claims it hacked.

Links: Protect your PC and mobile devices from hackers & governments and surf anonymously 

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Sources:

http://www.meethackers.com/2014/09/anonsec-hackers-claims-to-hacked-drone.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/22/the-possible-perils-of-private-drones/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/25/german-dhl-launches-first-commercial-drone-delivery-service

 

5 Million Gmail Accounts Hacked & Leaked Publicly!

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Written by: ‘M’

 

 

Beware Gmail users, your usernames and passwords were probably leaked online! That’s right, approximately 5-million Gmail account credentials, both e-mail address and password, have been embezzled, then, made available for the public through an online forum, which caused a large number of users worldwide to change their Gmail password again. The website which published the links to the stolen e-mail credentials seemed to have been a Russian forum website. The credentials were also aforementioned to be old and likely sourced from consecutive data breaches beforehand. It is believed that the leaked passwords are not necessarily those used to access Gmail accounts, but seem to have been accumulated from other websites where users used their Gmail addresses to register.

 

Yes, It’s Russian!

 

The news was received with great shock the time when a user posted a link to the stolen e-mail credentials on Reddit. This particular section of Reddit was frequented by hackers, both amateur and professional. The archive file containing nearly 5-million Gmail credentials, both e-mail addresses and plain text passwords was posted on a Russian Bitcoin security forum known as btcsec.com on Tuesday night by a user with an alias known as “tvskit”, which is a Russian news outlet (C News). The user who exposed Gmail user’s credentials said that almost 4.93 million accounts allegedly affected belonged to English, Russian and Spanish users and claimed that over 60 percent of accounts are active. This means, there is a silver lining in this leak, i.e., 40 percent of the passwords are invalid or out of date, which could be a good news for those Gmail users who have recently changed their passwords and are concerned about their account’s security – there’s a chance that they’re not at risk at all.

 

“We can’t confirm that it is indeed as much as 60 percent, but a great amount of the leaked data is legitimate.”, said Peter Kruse, the chief technology officer of CSIS Security Group.

Google Denies Security Breach

Google, in its defense, believes that the usernames and passwords didn’t come from a security breach of its system. That means, the credentials had been stolen by phishing campaigns, keyloggers, and unauthorized access to user accounts.

 

“It’s important to note that in this case and in others, the leaked usernames and passwords were not the result of a breach of Google systems,” Google, which operates Gmail e-mail service, explained in a post on its online security blog. “Often, these credentials are obtained through a combination of other sources.”

 

“We found that less than 2% of the username and password combinations might have worked, and our automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of those login attempts. We’ve protected the affected accounts and have required those users to reset their passwords.”, said Google.

 

The leaked passwords not only give access to users’ Gmail accounts, but other Google services as well, including Google Drive, and the mobile payment system Google Wallet.

 

 

Defend Yourself!

 

There are numerous things you can do to defend yourself from this information leak, if you are a Gmail user, that is.

 

  • A website called com allows users to check if their email address is among those leaked. People who are concerned about the security of their account are advised to go ahead and change their password.

 

 

  • Have Google two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled and recommend you same to do this for Google and other accounts. Many web services, including Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Github and AWS, offer 2FA option, a security measure where users are required to provide a passcode sent to their mobile devices before any changes can be made to their account. This would prevent an attacker from logging in without access to a user’s smartphone.

Links: Protect your PC and mobile devices from hackers & governments and surf anonymously 

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Sources:

http://thehackernews.com/2014/09/5-million-gmail-username-password.html

CIA Admits That They Destroyed Gary Webb’s Career With Help of Nation’s Largest Newspaper

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Written by: NiRA

 

 

Operation Mockingbird media channels worked to protect CIA

 

Latest documents announced by CIA show how the agency worked along with some of the nation’s largest newspapers to demolish San Jose Mercury News’ Gary Webb, who is a journalist and famously exposed the CIA’s link to the cocaine commerce in the Dark Alliance investigation.

Gary was found dead in his apartment in the year of 2004 with a pair of .38-caliber bullets in his head. Strategies taken under effect to destroy Gary included a massive slur operation by journalists with the newspapers like the L.A. Times. A statement by The Intercept’s Ryan Devereaux unfolds the hidden side of the story that is, the paper used 17 journalists to dishonour Gary and his exposé.

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The Investigative Journalist Was Considered As A Threat For The US Government And It’s Intelligence Agencies

Devereaux wrote:

“The Los Angeles Times was especially aggressive. Scooped in its own backyard, the California paper assigned no fewer than 17 reporters to pick apart Webb’s reporting. While employees denied an outright effort to attack the Mercury News, one of the 17 referred to it as the ‘get Gary Webb team’”

 

“Another said at the time, ‘We’re going to take away that guy’s Pulitzer,’ according to Kornbluh’s CJR piece. Within two months of the publication of ‘Dark Alliance,’ the L.A. Times devoted more words to dismantling its competitor’s breakout hit than comprised the series itself.”

 

“The CIA watched these developments closely, collaborating where it could with outlets who wanted to challenge Webb’s reporting. Media inquiries had started almost immediately following the publication of ‘Dark Alliance,’ and Dujmovic in ‘Managing a Nightmare’ cites the CIA’s success in discouraging ‘one major news affiliate’ from covering the story. He also boasts that the agency effectively departed from its own longstanding policies in order to discredit the series. ‘For example, in order to help a journalist working on a story that would undermine the Mercury News allegations, Public Affairs was able to deny any affiliation of a particular individual — which is a rare exception to the general policy that CIA does not comment on any individual’s alleged CIA ties.”

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Devereaux also noted a 2013 radio interview with L.A. Times reporter Jesse Katz, who entitles to feel sorrow for leading the charge to disgrace Gary.

 

Katz said:-

“As an L.A. Times reporter, we saw this series in the San Jose Mercury News and kind of wonder[ed] how legit it was and kind of put it under a microscope. And we did it in a way that most of us who were involved in it, I think, would look back on that and say it was overkill”

“We had this huge team of people at the L.A. Times and kind of piled on to one lone muckraker up in Northern California.”

 

Alex Jones, who habitually interviewed Gary, was set to discharge a set of documents found by the journalist for a new book before he passed away. According to Alex, Gary’s death was not a suicide as stated.

Ricky Donnell Ross who is famously known as Freeway Ricky Ross, an imprisoned drug dealer presented in a Gary Webb’s expose, appeared on the Alex Jones Show in 2010 to break his connection with Gary as well as his unaware role in the CIA’s drug operations.

A movie was made based on these events showing Gary Webb’s fight and how he exposes the CIA’s arms and drugs business starring Jeremy Renner, Ray Liotta etc.

Watch The Trailer: kill the messenger

 

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