The iPhone 5 Will Be Really Thick and Fat

NO, no it won’t be. I’ll give every reader of this blog $100  if the iPhone 5 is thicker than the iPhone 4. The iPhone, rather like Steve Jobs, always gets thinner at each new launch.

Anna Leach

Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (3)

ePetition Site proves Government by Wikipedia Would Definitely Work: Let’s Get Rid of The Houses of Parliament

SO FAR the government’s ePetition website has proved one thing: Government by online polls would definitely work.

Anna Leach

Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3)

Buying Twitter Followers is the new Getting Twitter Followers by Being Witty and Insightful: Newt Gingrinch leads the way

PEOPLE claim that social networks aren’t popularity contests. But some of us know that they are: and that you can win them by paying lots of money. Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is showing the way.

Anna Leach

Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Twitter And Facebook Toddlers Are Future Daily Mail Writers And BBC Experts

BYLINE writers, nodding heads, football show experts, Question Time panelists, MPs and anyone who insists on using a title listen up:

Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’

Anorak

Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Flamboyant Hacker Topiary aka Jake Davis was Agoraphobic, Clever, Quiet & Withdrew After A Family Death

Flamboyant hacker Jake Davis, who now facing 10 years in prison, was a “clever, quiet” boy who developed a fear of open spaces and withdrew from school and friends after a family member died while he was in his early teens  according to a woman who claimed to know him.

Anna Leach

Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment

Shetland Hacker Named: Jake Davis Liked Playing Online Chess, God.

The Shetland teen arrested for the LulzSec hacking has been named as Jake Davis an online chess fanatic and a resident of Yell, one of the northernmost islands in the Shetlands with a population of 957 at the last census.

Anna Leach

Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (4)

Footballer Tweets about Smashing Wife’s Back Doors in, Mum-in-law Laughs, American Accuses Everyone of Sodomy

LEICESTER City footballer Paul Gallagher has reminded everyone just how refreshingly open Twitter can be by signing up and posting this little gem as his second tweet ever:

Anna Leach

Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)

NHS Wants You To Skype Gran in Hospital, is Google + Next for the Infirm?

AN NHS hospital in Maidenhead has suggested that visitors Skype their relatives in the wards instead of coming in to visit them everyday. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 22nd, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Dutch Railway Station’s Transfer Accelerator Is A Slide Into The Future

THERE’S a slide at the Overvecht Station in Holland. Only the slide is called a “transfer accelerator“. It allows commuters to reach the train faster.

Anorak

Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (4)

Do it the News Corp way: The Anorak’s Guide to Hacking like a hack

WITH the News of The World dead, we may never again learn the content of Liz Hurley’s voicemails. You’re probably missing them already, so in the interests of public information, here’s how to go about getting access to the voicemails and phone conversations of people who interest you. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 19th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)

Sun Online Hack by LulzSec Would Be Funnier if it Were Better-Written

CYBER-NERDS LulzSec who hacked The Sun website and put up a fake front page splash earlier this evening would do well to get some editorial talent in their team. The fake article detailing Rupert Murdoch’s suicide would definitely be funnier if it were better-written.

Anna Leach

Posted: 19th, July 2011 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comments (6)

Anonymous Hack The Sun Front Page With Fake Murdoch Death Story

THE hackers have been hacked. Hacking group LulzSec – blamed for hacking the CIA and Sony earlier this year – have turned on News Corp and hacked the front page of the Sun Online with a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death. LulzSec and related hacker group Anonymous also claim to be sitting on a gold-mine of emails they’ve stolen from News Corp detailing illegal dealings inside The Sun and The News of The World. They threaten to release them tomorrow. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 18th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (6)

Times Exec Blames MumsNet For Bringing Down News of the World – You Couldn’t Make It Up

The Executive Editor of the Times blamed blogging middle-class mothers for the death of The News of The World in an angry interview on Channel4 News this evening. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (6)

Last Space Shuttle To Take Off Unmanned To Discourage Alien Invasion: Photos

THE space shuttle Atlantis is on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is scheduled to take off for the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. On board will be pilot Doug Hurley, mission specialist Sandy Magnus, commander Chris Ferguson and mission specialist Rex Walheim.

What next for the Space Shuttle. Well, it could be a holiday destination for anyone keen to spend millions for the privilege of spending hours and hours in their cabin.

Anorak

Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Hackers Hit PayPal On Twitter: Now To Break Into The News Of The World’s Phones

HACKERS have brought down PayPal’s Twitter site. PayPal is, of course, “the safer, easier way to pay.”

The hackers altered the strap line to say:

‘The official twitter account for the fail team at PayPal UK.”

The hackers then tweeted directions to a site called paypalsucks.com and the message:

“All your paypal accounts are now frozen while we clean up this mess.”

Anorak

Posted: 6th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Sweet Angelic Ronan Peake Led an Innocent Childhood in Norwich, Far Away From Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell has called in the police to get heavy with the anonymous blogger who suggested Simon Cowell had been grooming British Bieber-alike Ronan Parke for Britain’s Got Talent stardom. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 5th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Obama Not Assassinated After All, but the Hackers Are Going For Rupert Murdoch

MORE -err- jokes from the hacking community, as the Fox News Twitter account was hacked and posted four tweets informing the nation that Barack Obama had been assassinated.  

Anna Leach

Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Supreme court takes time out to consider how sick and twisted fairytales really are: Violent game ban overturned

The US Supreme Court decided last night that under-18s should be allowed to buy violent video games by overturning the state-wide ban in California.

Anna Leach

Posted: 28th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)

Chinese teenager offers up virginity for an iPhone 4

A CHINESE woman has offered to sell her virginity in return for an iPhone 4.

The teenager from Guandong she’d have sex with whoever bought her the smartphone, after her dad refused to buy her one.  She made the announcement on the Chinese version of Twitter – Weibo, also taking out an ad with pictures of herself. People on the net have suggested she waits till September when the iPhone 5 comes out.

Anna Leach

Posted: 28th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)

Clean Cut ‘Hacking’ Genius Ryan Cleary Is The Pride Of British Youth: We Should Cherish Him (Photos)

RYAN Cleary has left Southwark Crown Court after being released on conditional bail. The 19-year-old Essex lad is accused of taking part in a conspiracy to attack websites including those of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the British Phonographic Industry. It’s all terrible, of course. Tsk! Naughty boy.

All that talk of cyber crime from China and shadowy regimes and Ryan Cleary allegedly hacks into the big UK databases and showboats online. He’s 19. Thats old enough to fight for your country in Iraq, Afghanistan and GCHQ. Just saying…

Anorak

Posted: 27th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)

Glastonbury: ColdPlay, Beyonce And Donald’s Hot Dogs Have Own Wireless Networks At Glastonbury

AT Glastonbury, ColdPlay, Beyonce, the artists, the press and Donald’s Hot Dogs have their own wireless networks.

News International staffers at the big music festival are advised to always carry their devices that receive 3G signals lest some sneaky type of cove use detection equipment to find the gadgets and nick them. Hey, these villains might even acceess the data on your Blackberry or iPhone and get a story.

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Ryan Cleary’s Alleged Target: The Music Industry

TEEN hacker and LulzSec member Ryan Cleary targeted the music industry said police today. Maybe because they stopped him downloading some of that heavy metal music he loved…

Anna Leach

Posted: 22nd, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment

Ryan Cleary’s bedroom: Why You Shouldn’t Put Tinfoil Over Your Windows

IF YOU don’t want the Daily Mail to call you a nerd-terrorist with mental health problems – don’t put tinfoil over your windows. It looks bad when the fuzz storm in to arrest you for hacking multinational corporations.

Anna Leach

Posted: 22nd, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (7)

Hacking Teen Ryan Cleary ‘Liked Heavy Metal’ Had “Dimly-Lit Bedroom” – Obviously A Cybercriminal

NEWSPAPERS rushed to trash the 19 year old Ryan Cleary as a geek, nerd and heavy metal fan. Arrested for the biggest hacks in internet history including the CIA and Sony, papers pulled out every teen nerd stereotype going to explain the incredible story of the guy who took on the CIA from Essex. 

Anna Leach

Posted: 22nd, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (8)

Ryan Cleary – The Hackers Hacker: Everything You Need To Know About Alleged LulzSec Hacker (Photos)

RYAN CLEARY has been arrested at a property on South Beech Avenue, Wickford, Essex. The 19-year-old has been pinched as as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into LulzSec, a group claiming responsibility for hacking attempts on the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, the US Senate and the CIA.

In May 2011, Cleary was named by The ‘Anonymous’ as the person responsible for breaching two of its own sites. He was, allegedly the hacker who hacked the hackers.

A post on the AnonOps site went:

“We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named ‘Ryan’. He decided that he didn’t like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps network admins use. So he organised a coup d’etat.”

Anorak

Posted: 21st, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (2)