MI5 and Police search for hacker in North Finchley.

Security Forces Patrol the North Circular Road.

Last Tuesday evening, North Finchley became host to an incident straight out of a spy novel when MI5 and armed police, supported by a top of the range, hi-tech, surveillance helicopter, were in pursuit of a teenager who, reports state, hacked into and disabled military grade security software in a computer, surveillance control vehicle and an unmanned military surveillance drone.
MI5 somehow managed to track down the hacker and confirm his presence in a North Finchley house occupied by students from Middlesex University. The suspect, Alister Cloud, 16, managed to detect the interception and escape.
Police later confirmed they received several calls from Finchley residents complaining about trespassers in their gardens.
Claire Bowlby, granddaughter of General Bowbly (retired) stated Alister Cloud must have found and disabled the military security app on her laptop when he offered to find out why it was working so slowly. Her parents, both army officers have since made a formal complaint about this intrusion of privacy.
Suzie Emerson and Claire Bowlby, students at the Finchley house, stated Alister has come to London from Glasgow in search of his missing mother, nano-scientist Professor Julia Cloud. Whether this is a cover, or if Alister really is searching for his mother is not known.
A spokesperson from ISOC, the Government Information Security Operations Centre, was unable to explain how a 16 year old somehow managed to evade roadblocks, a multi-million pound surveillance helicopter fully equipped with the latest  cameras and imaging technology and an undisclosed number of police and MI5 officers.
The spokesperson confirmed the hacks were high level and very sophisticated and suspect that intercept or jamming devices were used to 'disappear' the suspect from any visual or electronic detection.
They suspect Alister Cloud may have had help from the Situationists, a cyber-activist group. 
ISOC is asking companies and government departments  to monitor their networks and security arrangements.
Because of the possible link to the Situationists, a Joint Task Force has been set up made up of MI5, American NSA agents and is supported by ISOC.


Reported by Max Lipsey
Freelance Journalist.

Nanotechnology 103 - First stage of Soft-Machine Manufacture

Professor Cloud developed the prototype designs for the Soft-Machine and introduced fixed-fluid computing into the model built with a synthesis of noble elements in a semi-stable state.
It is often forgotten that the Soft-Machine outfit is primarily liquid. A steady flow of data determines the state of the Soft-Machine in any given moment. the liquid has an inbuilt default state of 'fabric' so it can be worn when not in use.
For more information check relevant pages on http://www.softmachine.net

Nanotechnology 102. Nanoscale manufacturing

These early films demonstrate some of the technologies used by Centauri Science Foundation in manufacturing the base frames of nanoparticles.

Anti-matter 101

Nanotubes 101

Nanotechnology 101

Latest Sony Tablet Video.

Watch "Sony S1 & S2 Tablet - Two will - Episode 2 - Official Commercial" on YouTube

Will nanotechnology revolutionize medicine?

There's an excellent article in Techtoggle. Here's an brief extract. Check out the site (link below)
Scientists are working now to create nanostructures that serve as new kinds of drugs for treating cancer, to engineer nanomaterials for use as artificial tissues that would replace diseased kidneys and livers, and even repair nerve damage, and to integrate nanodevices with the nervous system to create implants that restore vision and hearing, and build new prosthetic limbs

Link to full article here; 

The emergence of the nanoparticle.

Here's an article in New Scientist describing the workings of an "Automated DNA sequencing machine"

The production of the nanoparticles absorbed by Alister involved several stages of 'manufacture' one of them being 'multiplex automated genome engineering', or MAGE.

Another stage of the production of the nanoparticles was 'mechanosynthesis; the engineering molecular scale components.

The third stage was the synthesis of a wholly new synthetic organism with the following properties:

The nanoparticles survival was dependent upon information or rather 'data' from a 'host' in the form of electromagnetic energy to survive.the nanoparticles could evolve - adapt to the host environment as long as that environment was one of data flow - for nutrition and for information about its environment. The nanoparticles communicated with other members and interacted with its environment.

Inside computers, the particles congregated in and around memory and the processor. In Alister, the particles moved through his brain and central nervous system, where the bulk of the data processing activity took place.

There is some debate about how 'aware' the particles are. The particles were built to communicate and naturally exhibit collective behaviour. This collective behaviour includes gathering and sharing of data about the condition of their environment and subsequently how best to protect and survive in it. This means that individually the particles can identify threats and use the host system to send alerts to both other particles and the host body, to generate defence mechanism. These defence mechanisms may be production of anti-bodies, faster neural connections and physical reactions or the blocking of abnormal 'infectious' signals in the system.

Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward      

The environmental cost of technology.

Malaysian rare earths refinery under a cloud

It's not easy extracting the rare elements used to make our phones, readers and computers

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

If you ever wondered what people meant by 'mind blowing' just watch this video about babies and how they learn language. There are no other words to describe it.


For more information read the full article here  The Decade Of The Mind & Your New Cyborg Brain 1a

First Paragraphs: City Living Changes Brain's Stress Response

This is a very interesting Scientific American article by Katherine Harmon 
Cities can be stressful places, and are a far cry from the sparsely populated landscapes in which our prehistoric ancestors evolved. All of that noise, traffic, pollution and crowding has a well-documented impact on our mental health.

People who live in cities are more likely to have mood or anxiety disorder (21 percent and 39 percent, respectively) and are twice as likely to have schizophrenia. With more than half of the world's population currently living in urban areas—and about 70 percent projected to be city dwellers by 2050—figuring out how to curb the mental toll of city life could become a major public policy issue. And Jens Pruessner, of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute at McGill University, calls it "a cause for concern."

New Breed of Computers That Can Process Data Using Less Power

ScienceDaily (June 23, 2011) — Physicists at the University of Arizona have achieved a breakthrough toward the development of a new breed of computing devices that can process data using less power.
In a recent publication in Physical Review Letters, the physicists propose a way to translate the elusive magnetic spin of electrons into easily measurable electric signals. The finding is a key step in the development of computing based on spintronics, which doesn't rely on electron charge to digitize information.