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Submission + - Longest connection 100Gbps infrastructure (google.nl)

Submitted by Device666
Device666 writes: The educational ICT provider SURFnet and the Geneva-based CERN research organization started in July with a test phase, after the line in recent weeks by gaining access to the AMS-IX was put into use. Meanwhile, the 100 GbE line, which spans a distance of 1650 kilometers, with a success rate of 100Gbps has been achieved.

It's the longest 100Gbps connection in the world, says AMS-IX Internet Exchange. Although the organization is not indicating what the connection might be used for, it can be used in the analysis of data from the LHC particle accelerator, which lies north of Geneva. The particle accelerator that generates a total of 15 petabytes of data, and some is analyzed in the Netherlands as Nikhef investigates proton-proton collisions.
Apple

Submission + - Entire Apple Stores being faked in China (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Nominei
Nominei writes: China, long known for producing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone — fake Apple stores.
Security

Submission + - Aaron Swartz Charged With Hacking MIT Network (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents.

Aaron Swartz, who is best known as an early collaborator on the news site Reddit.com, turned himself in and was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday morning. He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud,unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer, according to a statement released by Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

According to the U.S. Attorney, Swartz, who was let go from Reddit in 2007, allegedly broke into a wiring closet in a basement at MIT and used a switch within that closet to get unauthorized access to MIT's network. He then allegedly used that access to copy four million articles from JSTOR, an online document archiving service for academic journals.
Google

Apple Finally Approves Google+ App For iPhone 162

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the mark-zuckerberg-makes-angry-face dept.
CWmike writes "Apple approved the Google+ app for the iPhone on Tuesday, and posted it to the App Store. It's unclear whether Google has created an iPad-specific app. Two weeks ago, a Google employee said that the company had submitted Google+ to the App Store ... on July 4. According to that timeline, Google's app took twice as long as the majority of submitted apps to win Apple's approval."
Android

Submission + - Apple lawsuits slammed by Google (cnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google chairman Eric Schmidt has slammed Apple's lawsuit against HTC. Apple (and others) "are not responding with innovation, they're responding with lawsuits" he said at the Google Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo.

Comment Chrome Haters (Score 1) 308

by Nominei (#36640586) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

Why are only the firefox-faithful getting their comments modded up? I use Chrome over FireFox because it has, since day 1, been faster and more stable than any build of FireFox I can recall (anecdotally, of course).

And everyone seems up in arms because a company is promoting their software. *ooo big shock* That doesn't make them evil. Google still has one of the most privacy-friendly, user-friendly mentalities, because they recognize that it's hard to sell advertising to their customers if they drive away their users with "evil" practices ala Microsoft or Facebook.

Submission + - Data-Mining Ban Struck Down by US Supreme Court (medpagetoday.com) 1

Submitted by smitty777
smitty777 writes: The Supreme Court struck down Sorrell vs IMS Health, a law banning data mining which has been in place since 2007. The court ruled that the data on medications prescribed by doctors is protected by the First Amendment and can be used for marketing by the pharmaceutical companies. This follows similar declarations in Maine and New Hamshire.
Games

Submission + - Leaked file shows EVE Online microtransaction plan (joystiq.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In the wake of controversy surrounding EVE Online's new microtransaction store and its not-so-micro prices, a document has surfaced that has raised more than a few eyebrows in the EVE community. The PDF is reported to be a copy of CCP's internal company newsletter Fearless. Ex-CCP employee and current CSM member Seleene was able to verify that the company does circulate an internal newsletter by that name and that the style is very similar to the leaked document.
Google

Submission + - FTC To Open Antitrust Investigation Against Google (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to serve subpoenas to Google as a first step in a broad antitrust investigation focusing on whether Google search is unfairly driving traffic to its other sites. Representatives of Google and the FTC declined to comment on the report, although an FTC spokesperson did deny that the report came from them."
Microsoft

Submission + - the Longhorn dream reborn (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by gbjbaanb
gbjbaanb writes: Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET. Cue howls of outrage from .NET developers everywhere, but here Ars Technica descibes what's more likely to have been going on and why Microsoft is finally getting its act together for developers.
Bitcoin

Submission + - Aussie IT Guy Mines Bitcoins On Govt Severs (theage.com.au)

Submitted by
jampola
jampola writes: "Just when you thought there was enough Bitcoin related news floating in the vast cloud *cough cough*, an IT worker at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) thought it would be a good idea to install Bitcoin mining software on government owned PC's. Needless to say, they're not happy and a "serious misconduct case" is underway.

Never fear, I doubt we've barely touched the bottom in Bitcoin related news!"
Technology

Submission + - Of Codebreakers and Mechanical Giants (theepochtimes.com)

Submitted by
jjp9999
jjp9999 writes: "A war of spies and electromechanical machines that took place beneath the wires during World War II not only played a crucial role in the Allies victory, but also helped spark the beginning of the computer age. Among the devices was the Enigma, a cipher capable of producing 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible code combinations, and a hulking machine, the Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, capable of decoding the Enigma."

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