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• Tech Today: Apple iOS 5 Beta 2 shows-off new features
• WarGames: 1983 hackers movie to get remake
• Lulzsec hacking group disbands after 50 days
• Facebook reaches 750 million users worldwide

Tech Today: Apple iOS 5 Beta 2 shows-off new features Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:17 AM PDT Posted by Chris Smith on Sun 26 Jun 2011 Apple's iOS 5 second Beta is now with developers, while Mark Zuckerberg's aspirations to be Steve Jobs have been revealed. In other news this weekend, LulzSec has doffed its hacking top hat for the final time and the era of cheap mobile games may be coming to an end. iOS 5 Beta 2 now with developers While us mere mortals have to wait until "this fall" to equip our iPads and iPhones with iOS 5, the second Beta edition is now with developers. Among the new features unveiled by this update are over-the-air software updates via 3G, lock-screen notifications and icons for iCloud. Link: Apple Insider Mark Zuckerberg wanted to be like Steve Jobs In his early days of running Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg studied the management style of Steve Jobs according to a former employee. The employee says MZ's obsession with the Apple head led to the infamous "I'm CEO, bitch" business cards and his agressive style during meetings. Link: Quoro -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- App of the Year | Vote in the T3 Gadget Awards 2011 Is GarageBand the best app of 2011? Or can Flipboad, Star Walk or the other nominees take the title Vote for App of the Year | GarageBand for iPad review| Flipboard for iPad rated --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     LulzSec members' identities revealed On the same day that the infamous hacking group LulzSec brings down the curtain on its 50 days of terror, a rival group has released the purported names, addresses and family details of its members. The so-called The A-Team group calls out LulzSec on 'lacking ability' and says the group 'weren't very good hackers.' Link: Gizmodo   Asteroid to 'narrowly miss' the Earth on Monday An asteroid the size of an office block will fly past our little planet on Monday, missing us by 'just 11,000 miles. Although that doesn't seem like a near miss, it's the 5th closest to Earth in recorded history and is 23 times closer than the moon. Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck thankfully won't be required on this ocassion. Link: Telegraph The era of cheap mobile games coming to an end? The boss of games developer Take Two says that video games for the iPad and other tablets will soon cost as much as their console counterparts.Strauss Zelnek reckons that although games like GTA: Chinatown Wars have been successful, they haven't brought in much in the way of profits. Link: Forbes     This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

WarGames: 1983 hackers movie to get remake Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:50 AM PDT Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 26 Jun 2011 Recent wave of digital attacks paves way for remake of the iconic hacker movie. The iconic hacking movie WarGames is getting a modern reinterpretation, according to a report from Deadline.com. Related links PSN outage: Sony implicates Anonymous PlayStation network down due to hack Xbox Kinect hack brings interactive pornography uses The original film starred Matthew Broderick as a high school hacker genius who breaks into a secret government computer to play a few rounds of what he believes to be a new game called Global Thermonuclear War - without realising the computer in question belongs to the US military and all across the country actual missiles are pointing themselves towards Russia. Scoff you might at the havoc Broderick manages to wreak on his black and white 80's computer, but if nothing else it puts Lulzsec and the PSN outage into a bit of perspective. The remake is reportedly being directed by Freakonomics movie director Seth Gordon, who it's said has been given creative control to take the reboot in a new direction and bring it up to speed for the current computing generation. There's no word on a release date as yet. WarGames 1983 trailer   Via: Deadline.com   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Lulzsec hacking group disbands after 50 days Posted: 26 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 26 Jun 2011 "It's time to say bon voyage" says Lulzsec. The hacking group Lulzsec has announced via a press release that it is disbanding. The ceasefire comes at the end of what Lulzsec members claim to have been a pre-planned, 50 day spate of attacks against companies including Sony, Nintendo, Fox and PBS. Related links Sony hacked again Sega hacked: Lulzsec offer to help track hackers PSN outage: Sony implicates Anonymous "Our planned 50 day cruise has expired." the group announced in a press release. "For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could." The group made headlines throughout the 50 day period with its high profile attacks, which it carried out either as benign demonstrations of holes in companies' digital security (as with Nintendo) or as revenge for perceived oppression (as with Sony and its lawsuit against George "Geohotz" Hotz, the man responsible for jailbreaking Sony's PlayStation 3). US news sites were also targeted, allegedly as a show of support for Wikileaks and imprisoned US soldier Bradley Manning. The press release also calls for others to pick up the online activism torch in the future: "Behind the insanity and the mayhem, we truly believe in the [Anti-security] movement" reads the statement. "We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revoution that can continue on without us... Please don't stop. Together we can stomp down our common oppressors." Read the Lulzsec press release in its entirety here.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Facebook reaches 750 million users worldwide Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:58 AM PDT Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 26 Jun 2011 The social networking giant hits another milestone. It doesn't feel like a year ago that every phone box, hoarding and bus-side were splashed with The Social Network tagline: "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies". And yet - ongoing legal disputes with the Winkelovoss twins not withstanding - Facebook marches on, reportedly having just clocked 750 million users worldwide. Related links Winkelvoss twins vs. Zuckerberg and Facebook Facebook confirm half of UK population now signed up Tech etiquette: Facebook The extra 250 million users have appeared in just under a year - a massive leap in Facebook's userbase. By comparison, after launching in Summer 2004 it took Facebook six years to reach the 500 million mark. There's still been no official announcement from Zuckerberg and Co. on user numbers since Facebook hit the half billion mark, with interweb speculation that the company may be waiting for the site to reach a billion members. Users included in the count are restricted to those who have logged into their Facebook accounts in the past 30 days - junk or abandoned accounts are not included. T3 is on Facebook - keep up to date with breaking gadget news and send us your thoughts at www.facebook.com/t3mag   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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