The Chumby Classic isn’t our favourite gadget of 2010. To begin with, its chunky shape and squishy leather casing make it feel like a Fisher Price toy: My First Web 2.0 Widget Device, perhaps. Its sheer purposelessness makes it seem like it was bought from a joke shop.
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Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks has said it’s received enough in donations to continue work. The site had been forced to suspend operations due to a lack of funding. In a Twitter update late yesterday, Wikileaks announced that it now had enough money to keep going for another year. The update read: “Achieved min
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Whistleblower site Wikileaks last made headlines about 6 months ago when the website got hold of a U.S. report detailing the locations and assets of U.S. neclear power plants and posted it for all the world to see. And now
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WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down, citing funding problems as the reason the site is no longer in operation. The site, a hotbed for anonymous tip-offs and submissions regarding sensitive information, has been around since 2006 and has been staying afloat thanks to numerous donations from undisclosed sources. It seems that these donations have dried up, forcing the site to take a temporary hiatus. Change the world Somewhat pertinently, WikiLeaks says on its homepage : “We have received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others that we do not currently have the resources to release. “You can change that and by doing so, change the world.
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It’s the Cold War all over again, only this one’s taking place in cyberspace. According to a report by security firm McAfee, there are a growing number of governments all around the globe preparing for potential cyber conflicts with other countries, DailyTech reports. “There are at least five countries known to be arming themselves for this kind of conflict,” McAfee Europe analyst Greg Day told the BBC.
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