Segway Flinging Robot

NXTs get WiFi

Now Your Lego Creations Can Tweet For You

Have you made something awesome with Lego Mindstorms NXT? A sweet walking robot, perhaps? Wouldn't it be cool if you could control it from work? Or to have it Tweet when something happens? Well, the future is now!

You can now get a Wi-Fi sensor for Lego Mindstorms NXT which means you can control your creation without wires on any end. Dexter Industries, who created the Wi-Fi kit, has already released instructions for how you can get your robot to tweet the temperature, and how you can make it ping a website. Why would you need a robot to ping a website? You wouldn't! Ever! It's pretty much the most boring use for a robot I've ever heard, but that's not the pont.

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Archiving Yourself for the FBI

Security Risks in Public Hot Spots

"Whenever you open a laptop or tap a mobile device in an area with a lot of people also using such equipment, you’ll invariably see a network named “Free Public Wi-Fi” or some variant. Such
networks are often the result of a quirk in Windows XP,3 which can be innocent (but annoying), but the networks can also be spawned by identity thieves looking to grab personal information from the unwary.
The urge to connect to “free” Wi-Fi is strong, but these networks are really computer-to-computer connections masquerading as an available network.

Understand Seucity Threats

If you ever needed ammunition for your management about getting better network-based defenses for your enterprise, a new study by F5 Networks should help you. Earlier this fall, the company asked 1000 IT managers from around the world about their existing security measures and the cost of various exploits that they have observed over the past year. Strikingly, 100% of them have observed DNS attacks and nearly as many have observed denial of service attacks, both of which are worrisome.
Don't know about DNS attacks? Here is an amusing video from F5 that explains the situation (and also pushes their own DNS server solutions, too.)

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Kinect turns 1: Wow. When MS open sources, wow.