Quirky World ... Five-year-old boy hacks Xbox live
Kristoffer Von Hassel managed to log in to his father’s Xbox Live account. When the password log-in screen appeared, Kristoffer simply hit the space button a few times and hit enter.
Robert Davies told KGTV-TV that just after Christmas he noticed his son playing games he supposedly could not access. Davies, who works in computer security, said he reported the issue to Microsoft, which fixed the bug and listed Kristoffer on its website as a “security researcher”.
It is not Kristoffer’s first triumph. As a one-year-old, he bypassed a mobile phone toddler lock by holding down the “home” button.
Tetris fans had a little fun with a skyscraper-sized version of the video game.
The Philadelphia event created a spectacle against the night sky that organisers hoped would inspire onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of technology.
The 29-storey Cira Centre, which has hundreds of LED lights embedded in its glass facade, normally displays colourful geometric patterns at night. Over the weekend, images of supersized shapes “fell” on two sides of the mirrored tower as competitors used joysticks to manoeuvre them into place.
Tetris, created by Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, challenges players to rotate and arrange falling shapes into complete rows. The event kicked off a citywide series of events called Philly Tech Week. It also celebrated the upcoming 30th anniversary of Tetris.
A malfunctioning ATM dispensed $37,000 (€27,000) in cash to a man who requested just $140.
Police in South Portland, Maine, responded to the TD Bank branch after getting a call from a woman who said a man was spending an unusual amount of time at the ATM she was waiting to use.
Officers found him stuffing cash into a shopping bag.
The money was returned to the bank. Bank officials say they do not want to press charges, but police continue to investigate. A bank official described the problem as a “code error”.
Amanda Holden may be busy with judging duties on Britain’s Got Talent — but she has not ruled out running for prime minister.
The talent show panellist said she loves “changing people’s opinions of me” and loves to “surprise people”.
“It’s the ultimate ‘putting two fingers up’ to those who underestimate me,” she told the Sunday Mirror magazine Notebook. Holden, 43, said she would like to get back into drama and said there “could be more current affairs stuff”.
Asked if a career in politics could beckon, the TV star said: “Yay, Mandy for prime minister... or at least mayoress of London. Why not?”
A 17th century book owned by Harvard Law School, thought to have been bound in human skin because of an inscription that referred to a man “flayed alive,” has been shown through testing to have been bound in sheepskin.
The binding material of the Spanish law book published in 1605 to 1606 was determined after an analysis of nine samples of its front and back covers, binding and glue, Karen Beck, a rare books curator at Harvard Law School Library, said.
The Harvard conservation scientist who conducted the testing used a technique for identifying proteins called peptide mass fingerprinting to differentiate the samples from other parchment sources such as cattle, deer, goat and human skin, Beck wrote in the Harvard Law School Library blog. The glue consisted of cattle and pig collagen.
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