(DAILY MAIL ONLINE) — Looming ominously like a space ship from Star Wars, this is the future of unmanned flight. Defence firm BAE Systems today officially unveiled its first ever high-tech unmanned stealth jet. The Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is about the same size as a Hawk jet and is equipped [...]

(ZDNET) — A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet. The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” [...]

BRUSSELS (EUOBSERVER) – Nokia-Siemens Networks on Wednesday (2 June) admitted its share of the blame for Iran’s brutal crack-down on anti-government demonstrators last year after selling mobile phone surveillance to the authoritarian regime. “We absolutely do find ourselves in a tricky situation and need the help of people in this room to help us navigate [...]

(BBC NEWS) — Apple boss Steve Jobs has defended conditions at a Taiwanese electronics firm that produces the firm's popular iPhone, following a spate of suicides. Speaking at the All Things Digital conference in California, Mr Jobs said that Apple representatives were working with Foxconn to find out why 10 workers had killed themselves at [...]

(BBC NEWS) — Researchers have found that implanted identity chips can pick up computer viruses. Reading University's Mark Gasson conducted an experiment to show how radio frequency identity RFID chips could become electronically infected. via BBC News – RFID chip implanted into man gets computer virus.

(Xinhua) — In the modern battlefield, as thermal imaging and radar detection systems grow more sophisticated by the day, war machines are increasingly vulnerable to enemy fire. Would an armored battalion commander want to be able to make his tanks simply vanish from enemy eyes? You can bet on it. via New Israeli technology, making [...]

(FOX NEWS) — /snip/ “Our world is becoming instrumented,” IBM’s chairman and CEO, Samuel J. Palmisano said at an industry conference last week. “Today, there are nearly a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten-millionth of a cent. There are 30 billion radio RFID tags produced globally.” Having one in every person could [...]

(ARS TECHNICA) — When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device’s ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content–but several research projects suffered collateral damage. via ars techinica

Sure, the media claims it was a solar storm, but we know it was really the Daleks. — PID LONDON (AP) – A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite’s orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellite’s [...]

(Armed With Science) – By modifying an ink jet printer and growing skin cells from a patient’s body, an Army research lab has developed an amazing treatment for severe burns: printing new skin. via Armed With Science

(THE REGISTER) — A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” – for instance “an extra dimension”. “Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it,” said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director [...]

(THE REGISTER) — Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’s unique Mac Media Access Control addresses, as the car trundles along. Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar says he’s [...]

(GIZMODO) — Confirmed: a bad McAfee update for Windows XP has shut down thousands, possibly millions, of computers around the world. That's big trouble. UPDATED: Twitter has been buzzing with the news this afternoon that McAfee updates were shutting down XP PCs, and we've heard that California sent out an email to state workers a [...]

PID COMMENT: Huh? How is Israel’s ‘wi-fi standard’ any different from that used by the rest of the world? Ok, color us confused. (FINANCIAL TIMES) — Israel has officially banned any iPads being imported from the US from entering the country, threatening to confiscate the newly launched tablet from passengers at airports. A spokesman for [...]