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Comments: 92 + -   Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says on Thursday July 29, @12:46PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @12:46PM
from the they-can't-fool-pudge dept.
earth
BergZ writes "Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming. 'A comprehensive review of key climate indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the warmest on record,' the annual State of the Climate report declares. Compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, including Canada, the report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its analysis of 10 indicators that are 'clearly and directly related to surface temperatures, all tell the same story: Global warming is undeniable.'"
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Comments: 126 + -   Android Data Stealing App Downloaded By Millions on Thursday July 29, @12:04PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @12:04PM
from the nobody-is-safe dept.
cellphones
wisebabo writes "A wallpaper utility (that presents purloined copyrighted material) 'quietly collects personal information such as SIM card numbers, text messages, subscriber identification, and voicemail passwords. The data is then sent to www.imnet.us, a site that hails from Shenzen, China.'"
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Comments: 171 + - Screenshot-sm   Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies on Thursday July 29, @11:36AM

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @11:36AM
from the cart-before-the-horse dept.
medicine
Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead anyway."
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Comments: 58 + -   Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested on Thursday July 29, @11:26AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @11:26AM
from the still-think-its-a-silly-name dept.
botnet
mehemiah writes "The writer of the Mariposa Botnet has been arrested through international effort. The FBI said this arrest and the arrests of three alleged operators in February were the result of a two-year joint investigation into the Mariposa Botnet, which may have infected as many as eight million to 12 million computers around the world."
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Comments: 65 + -   NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions on Thursday July 29, @10:45AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @10:45AM
from the play-debris-for-me dept.
nasa
Ant writes "NASA has identified the top ten space junk missions and said over 19,000 pieces of space junk are known to exist..." That's nothing: You should see my living room.
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Comments: 179 + -   FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity on Thursday July 29, @10:00AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @10:00AM
from the because-they-can dept.
government
olsmeister writes "It appears the White House would like to make it easier for the FBI to obtain records of a person's internet activities without a court order to do so, via the use of an NSL. While they have been able to this this for a long time, this may expand the type of information able to be gathered without a court order to include things like web browsing histories."
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Comments: 203 + -   Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? on Thursday July 29, @09:18AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @09:18AM
from the can't-happen-fast-enough dept.
joabj writes "Now that Facebook has amassed more than 500 million users, a growing number of open source social networking developers are wondering if Facebook's photo sharing, status updates and other features wouldn't work better as Internet-wide standardized services. At the OSCON conference last week, the head of Identi.ca, an open source Twitter-like microblogging service, likened today's social networking services to the enormously proprietary online services of the early 1990s, like AOL or Prodigy. He suggested that just like SMTP and Sendmail standardized what were previously propriety e-mail services, so too could open source social networking stacks, like OStatus, render walled garden services like Facebook obsolete."
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Comments: 126 + -   The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band on Thursday July 29, @08:47AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @08:47AM
from the thank-god-that-is-solved dept.
science
sciencehabit writes "Modern physics can get complicated. Sure, researchers know exactly what forces act on a ball rolling down an incline — an experiment that helped Galileo develop universal laws for movement and acceleration. But what happens when a deformable shape like a a rubber band rolls around? A new study reveals that the faster it goes, the more squashed it gets (video included)."
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Comments: 138 + -   ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand on Thursday July 29, @07:57AM

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @07:57AM
from the one-card-bandit dept.
security
angry tapir writes "Windows CE-based ATMs can easily be made to dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines at Black Hat, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. Jack believes a large number of ATMs have remote management tools that can be accessed over a telephone. After experimenting with two machines he purchased, Jack developed a way of bypassing the remote authentication system and installing a homemade rootkit, named Scrooge,"
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Comments: 449 + -   Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar on Thursday July 29, @05:25AM

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @05:25AM
from the sunlight-is-free dept.
earth
js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."
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