The next time you get caught hijacking your friend’s Facebook, remember it could be worse. On Friday, British Student Glenn Mangham was sentenced to eight months in not-so-social jail, for hacking deep into Facebook’s servers. Apparently no user details were taken, with Mangham heading straight for “invaluable” intellectual property instead. Facebook alerted the authorities after it discovered the breach last May, the FBI then followed the digital thread back to the Briton’s UK address. It’s believed Mangham gained access to the inner sanctum after hacking into a Facebook employee’s account, though it’s not known if the comedy status update and embarrassing profile picture were also part of the attack.
via Student hacks into Facebook, gets eight months in prison, twelve likes — Engadget.
This is cool! A robot helps teach dental students in Japan practice before they work on your gums! First shown to the public in 2007, the “Simroid Dental Training Humanoid” looks pretty real to us. Check out the eyes and movement of this robot in action. Oh, and it talks. Just recently, the Simroid learned how to speak english in addition to Japanese. That’s one smart robot!!