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Submission + - WikiLeaks Spawns Spinoffs (internetevolution.com)

Submitted by rsmiller510
rsmiller510 writes: WikiLeaks technology is not exactly advanced, so it's not surprising that many news organizations are setting up similar anonymous electronic drop boxes (as they should), but will leakers trust big media companies in the same way?
Microsoft

Submission + - The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues (infoworld.com)

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Bing principal Scott Prevost is the latest of several high-profile exits from Microsoft in the wake of Bob Muglia's departure, causing some to question the long-term outlook for Redmond, InfoWorld reports. While the departures have spanned the company's business divisions, the concern centers square on the Microsoft core: 'Microsoft's numbers are looking good in the short term, but the future of core products remains unclear, and so far, Redmond's cloud and mobile strategies don't seem to be paying off.'
Crime

Submission + - FBI set to turn up advanced security search engine (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: The FBI says it is set to roll out is N-DEx search engine and information sharing program to a wider swath of the federal, state and local law enforcement community. The FBI has been developing N-DEx since 2008 and says that once this latest round of development is complete, law enforcement agencies will be able to search, link, analyze, and share information such as case reports on a national basis to a degree never before possible, the agency stated.
AMD

Submission + - Intel : Don't Buy Or Ship Our PCs w/ Bad Chipsets (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits
siliconbits writes: Intel has sent an official email, urging its own channel customers to steer clear from systems build using the Intel 6 series chipsets; more specifically, the semiconductor giant wants them to stop building and shipping systems based on the chipsets. AMD must be VERY happy
The Internet

Submission + - What’s the Internet? – NBC’s The (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: In a hilarious video segment from January 24th 1994, The Today Show morning anchors Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric stumble over the identity and jargon of the internet technology that has come to define the past decade. Gumbel is unclear how you pronounce “@”, Katie Couric suggests “about”, and no one wants to say “dot” when they read “.com”. Confusion with lingo aside, The Today Show cast has to ask a crew member to clarify how the internet works. Do you write to it like mail? Is it just in Universities? Does it require a phone line? This was less than two decades ago, and it’s a wonderful reminder of how unprepared the mainstream media was for the innovation that was about to sweep the globe. As the crew member says of the internet, “it’s getting bigger and bigger all the time.” What a delightful understatement.
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK National Museum of Computing Launches Away Days (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: The National Museum of Computing, housed at historical Bletchley Park, has announced a new drive to get people through the door: corporate away days.

Designed to provide businesses in the technology industry — and, let's face it, what business isn't in the technology industry these days? — with a staff outing that provides historical background, the days build on previous one-off events the Museum has held in the past.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Identifies Chipset Design Error (intel.com)

Submitted by azop
azop writes: Intel has identified issues with the Intel® 6 Series chips which cause degraded SATA performance over time. Intel has stopped shipment of all boards until a fix can be put into place. This affects Intel's latest Second Generation Intel Core processors (AKA — Sandy Bridge)
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook Introduces 'Instant Personalization' (facebook.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has recently introduced a new feature called 'Instant Personalization'. This will enable certain sites to give you a personalized experience.
From the article "Partners adhere to Facebook's guidelines and may only use your public information to serve you a personalized experience." Partners listed include Bing, TripAdvisor, Rotten Tomatoes, and at least 5 other sites.
I have read it is enabled by default, but I cannot verify as it has not yet been rolled out to me.
There is also an option to disable this if your profile has been affected by this. "Privacy Settings -> Apps and Websites -> Instant Personalization" to find the option on your profile.
Science

34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive 150

Posted by Soulskill from the ceti-alpha-five-not-involved dept.
cold fjord writes "A scientist has made a weird and wonderful find. 'It's a tale that has all the trappings of a cult 1960s sci-fi movie: Scientists bring back ancient salt crystals, dug up from deep below Death Valley for climate research. The sparkling crystals are carefully packed away until, years later, a young, unknown researcher takes a second look at the 34,000-year-old crystals and discovers, trapped inside, something strange. Something... alive.' The Geological Society of America's current issue of GSA Today has the academic paper."
Government

JFK Library Launches Largest Presidential Online Archive 69

Posted by Soulskill from the like-wikileaks-but-a-few-decades-after-people-care dept.
Lucas123 writes "The JFK Library launched what it is calling the largest presidential online archive, offering the public 117TB of data related to John F. Kennedy's presidency. The four-year project digitized a plethora of analog material including 200,000 pages of documents; 300 reels of audio tape containing more than 1,245 individual recordings of telephone calls, speeches and meetings; 300 museum artifacts; 72 reels of film; and 1,500 photos. 'As young people increasingly rely on the Internet as their primary source for information, it is our hope that the library's online archive will allow a new generation to learn about this important chapter in American history,' said Carolyn Kennedy, the wife of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., who was on hand at the opening of the archive."
Cellphones

HiJacking the iPhone's Headset Port 96

Posted by Soulskill from the universal-mod-slot dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Michigan describe how to hijack the iPhone's headset port to power peripherals, establish bi-directional communications with them, and interface various sensors, all without jailbreaking your iPhone or having to pay thousands to access to the Apple Dock Connector. This makes it possible for students, hackers, and DIYers to extend the phone's functionality to the physical world. The team is giving away 20 HiJack modules/programmers to enable new apps."
Google

VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy 94

Posted by Soulskill from the dark-sorcery dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla's Chris Double has an interesting post on his blog about a port of the VP8 decoder to Flash. He writes, 'Ralph Hauwert has been posting on twitter about work he's done on getting WebM decoding to work by compiling the libvpx source code using Adobe's Alchemy technology. Alchemy is a research project that allows compilation of C and C++ libraries into code that runs on the ActionScript virtual machine used by Flash.' Of course, it's very slow and Adobe says that they'll bring native VP8 support to Flash in due course, but implementing a VP8 decoder in ActionScript is an interesting project nonetheless."
Intel

Intel Plans Windows 8 Phones 101

Posted by Soulskill from the windows-ate-phones dept.
Barence writes "Intel boss Paul Otellini says his company plans to offer Windows 8 on smartphones — putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft. Speaking during Intel's earnings call, Otellini said Microsoft's decision to port Windows to system-on-a-chip platforms had advantages for his company. 'We have the ability to put our lowest-power Intel processors running Windows 8 – or "next-generation Windows" – into phones, because it's the same OS stack.' That would appear to run contrary to Microsoft's plans for its OSes. Speaking at CES last week, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky said Windows Phone 7 was 'uniquely focused on small form factor' while Windows was designed for tablets and above."
Communications

Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes 502

Posted by Soulskill from the grizzly-justice dept.
Em Adespoton writes "It was a computer security story that made headlines around the world, involving the private emails of a woman who could have become Vice President of the United States. And now, it's ended with a young man sent to a federal prison, hundreds of miles from his family home. David C Kernell, the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email account, is reported to have been sent to jail despite a judge's recommendation that he should not be put behind bars."

Submission + - Postal Trucks to Become Sensor Platforms? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Postal Service may face insolvency by 2011 (it lost $8.5 billion last year). An op-ed piece in today's New York Times proposes an interesting business idea for the Postal Service: use postal trucks as a giant fleet of mobile sensor platforms. (Think Google Streetview on steroids.) The trucks could be outfitted with a variety of sensors (security, environmental, RF ...) and paid for by businesses. The article's author addresses some of the obvious privacy concerns that arise.

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