They're Shutting Down the Last Typewriter Factory (Update: Or Not!) [History]

Sitting in my living room is an aqua Remington Streamliner, a boxy 1950s typewriter. It's missing the right-hand Shift key, and has an exclamation point but no number one. As of this week, it's now part of an extinct breed. More »

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Leica i9 concept pairs $1,000 camera with $200 iPhone

When you think of manufacturers that create products to go hand-in-hand with the Apple iPhone, Leica probably wouldn't come to mind. The seemingly brilliant minds at Black Design Associates hope to change that, however. The Leica i9 concept pairs an iPhone 4 with a fixed-lens rangefinder camera, and the result is nothing short of extraordinary. Slipping your iPhone 4 -- black or white -- into the back of the i9 brings the camera to life, activating the compact optical zoom, dedicated aperture and shutter dials, flash and light meter. Images are instantly viewable on the iPhone, where it's safe to assume they're stored as well. The camera back doubles as a case, but you're probably going to want to use it with a headset, unless you like talking to a camera. There's no sign that the i9 will even reach the prototype phase, but nobody is going to stop the high-end camera's designer from dreaming -- especially when said dreams make us weak at the knees.

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Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus

Over the last few days, a mass SQL injection attack has been quickly gathering speed. Just three days ago only 28,000 URLs were affected, but at the time of writing, there could be up to 3.8 million infected URLs.

Websense has a complete write up the attack, dubbed 'LizaMoon,' but here's the basic gist: it looks like someone is exploiting a vulnerabilty (or vulnerabilities) in hundreds of thousands of websites running on Microsoft SQL Server 2003 and 2005. It's not yet known whether this is a vulnerability in SQL Server, or simply a case of outdated, unmaintained, and easily-exploitable CMSes.

The attack takes the form of an SQL injection, which then inserts a link to a JavaScript file hosted on the attacker's server. This is repeated over and over until every Web page in the SQL database has been infected -- and considering 3.8 million URLs have been infected, you can see that this is a very easy, and automated, attack.

Fortunately, the JavaScript isn't particularly malicious: it pops up a rogue AV program called Windows Stability Center, but that's it. Better yet, the rogue antivirus is already recognized by a bunch of real antivirus suites, including Avast, Panda and Microsoft Security Essentials.

The real problem with SQL injection attacks is that there's nothing we surfers can do about them. There will always be old and unmaintained websites, and thus SQL injections will remain one of the easiest and most lucrative tools of hackers and spammers alike. All you can do is keep your antivirus and anti-malware software up to date, and pray.

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Help Keep Mom Safe for Mother?s Day

I know pepper spray isn’t the first thing you consider for a Mother’s Day gift, but I think giving something to keep your mother safe is a great way to show her you love her.� The Sabre Pepper Spray Home & Away Protection Kit contains a small canister for her keychain, and a larger glow-in-the-dark [...]

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The Best Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Ah, childhood nostalgia. It's great, right? Especially when you have a love for that semi-obscure cartoon that only you have any memory of. For some of you, that cartoon is probably Defenders of the Earth, the '80s cartoon which saw Flash Gordon, the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician doing battle against the likes of Ming the Merciless and Queen Hadea. More »

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VCs and IT Security Firms: Not Much Love in the Air

Although security breaches make the headlines regularly and Washington has plans to upgrade the security of the United States' national infrastructure, up-and-coming IT security companies are having difficulty securing investment funds. The U.S. Defense Department, for instance, plans to spend $500 million on researching new cybersecurity technologies.

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Daily Crunch: Jump Man Edition

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Daily Crunch: Space Trip Edition

NASA Will Start Flying Coach With ?Commercial Crews? Limited Edition Camera From Japan: TOWER RECORDS�PENTAX RAINBOW K-r Review: Antec Rockus 2.1 Speakers Fujitsu Develops World?s Smallest And Thinnest Palm Vein Sensor Video: GameTrailers Reviews Portal 2

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Daily Crunch: Spar Edition

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OneRiot?s ?Social Interest Score? Defines Mobile Audience Segments For Advertisers

As we wrote earlier this year, OneRiot launched a social targeting service for mobile ads, that offers highly targeted ads within mobile apps. Similar to Klout's social influence score, OneRiot has developed a ?social interest score? to define mobile audience segments based on social interest categories. With the new social targeting service, OneRiot allows advertisers to reach targeted audience segments on mobile, from busy moms to tech influencers to sports guys to fashionistas. Segmentation and targeting are based on factors such as audience interest profiles, demographics, social influence and realtime conversations. OneRiot?s audience profiles are created by mining and analyzing public big data social streams from services (i.e.Twitter). The company says that this data is derived from users that heavily engage with content on their mobile device that is relevant to their current social activity, including status updates, tweets, photos, advertising and more.

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Gazelle Gets Into the Reselling Business [Recycling]

I've used e-waste recycling service Gazelle a few times now, so I'm comfortable recommended other recyclers use it as well, but today's news isn't about recycling—it's about reselling. More »

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Japanese Alien Pod Bus Provides 12 Laps of Luxury [Buses]

If the V's were real (no, not those, the good ones) they'd probably travel around in a bus like this one from Japan. More »

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Fujitsu Notebook Ditches Optical Drive, Packs Pico Projector

Making super thin laptops isn’t the only thing you can do when you ditch bulky optical drives. If you keep the computer the same size, there’s suddenly a whole lot of space for cool new accessories. Take the new Fujitsu Lifebooks, for example, which pack tiny pico projectors into the newly freed-up space.
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Daily Crunch: Vintage Equipment Edition

Weekend Giveaway: An Authentic Darth Vader Costume Review: Samson Meteor Mic Pico Projectors On The Rise Thanko?s Spy Pen Shoots HD Video, Detects Motion U-K525LT: Kenwood?s ?Wooden? iPod Dock/CD Player/FM Radio

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Gazelle Gets Into the Reselling Business [Recycling]

I've used e-waste recycling service Gazelle a few times now, so I'm comfortable recommended other recyclers use it as well, but today's news isn't about recycling—it's about reselling. More »

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