MafiaLeaks promises whistleblowers safety from the Family | Media | theguardian.com - 0 views
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"MafiaLeaks uses the encrypted anonymising browser Tor to enable informants to securely share their secrets with the site. Currently, the recipients are limited by MafiaLeaks to the Fatto Quotidiano newspaper, the Sicilian TV station Telejato and Antonella Beccaria, an independent investigative journalist. All are known for their anti-mafia activities."
The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every mo... - 0 views
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"The uniforms allow school officials, teachers, and parents to keep track of the exact times that students leave or enter the school, Lin Zongwu, principal of the No. 11 School of Renhuai in Guizhou Province, told the state-run newspaper Global Times on Dec. 20. If students skip school without permission, an alarm will be triggered. If students try to game the system by swapping uniforms, an alarm also will sound, as facial-recognition equipment stationed at the school entrance can match a student's face with the chip embedded in the uniform."
Robotic parcel sorting facility in China / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation. Orange robots at the company's sorting stations are able to identify the destination of a package through a code-scan, virtually eliminating sorting mistakes. Shentong's army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages a day, and are self-charging, meaning they are operational 24/7."
British Library says final cost of cyber attack is 'not confirmed' | Barrhead News - 0 views
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"The library outside St Pancras International station, which has one of the largest book collections in the world, said it has its own financial reserves and has not applied for extra funding. A spokesperson said: "The final costs of recovering from the recent cyber attack are still not confirmed. "The British Library and its Government sponsor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), remain in close and regular contact."
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