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Submission + - Windows 10 versions revealed all versions

Submitted by one2busygmail.com
one2busygmail.com writes: "...We are making strong progress with Windows 10, and we are on track to make it available this summer," says Microsoft’s Tony Prophet. "And because we have built Windows 10 to be delivered as a service, this milestone is just the beginning of the new generation of Windows..."

Does this quote from Microsoft's Tony Prophet tell reveal Windows 10 to be a service with a yearly fee? and not an Stand alone OS we could use as long as we wanted?

Link:http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8599841/windows-10-home-mobile-pro-editions?utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Submission + - Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked

Submitted by pdclarry
pdclarry writes: mSpy sells a software-as-a-service package that claims to allow you to spy on iPhones. It is used by ~2 million people to spy on their children, partners, Exes, etc. The information gleaned is stored on mSpy's servers. Brian Krebs reports that mSpy has been hacked and their entire database of several hundred GB of their customer's data has been posted on the Dark Web. The trove includes Apple IDs and passwords, as well as the complete contents of phones that have mSpy installed. So much for keeping your children safe.

Submission + - Scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: It’s one of the most basic biology facts we’re taught in school growing up: Birds and mammals are warm-blooded, while reptiles, amphibians and fish are cold-blooded. But new research is turning this well-known knowledge on its head with the discovery of the world’s first warm-blooded fish — the opah.

In a paper published today in Science, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describe the unique mechanism that enables the opah, a deepwater predatory fish, to keep its body warm. The secret lies in a specially designed set of blood vessels in the fish’s gills, which allows the fish to circle warm blood throughout its entire body.

Scientists already suspected the opah was special, says Heidi Dewar, a researcher at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and one of the paper’s authors. Most fish who live where the opah does — that is, hundreds of feet deep, in some of the ocean’s darkest and coldest places — are sluggish, thanks to the low temperatures. At these depths, even predatory fish tend to be slow-moving, waiting patiently for prey to come by rather than actively chasing it down. But the opah, which spends all its time in these deep places, has many features usually associated with a quick-moving, active predator, such as a large heart, lots of muscle and big eyes. These characteristics made the opah “a curiosity,” Dewar says.

Submission + - California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: The California state Senate has passed a bill aimed at increasing California’s school immunization rates.

The bill approved Thursday would prohibit parents from seeking vaccine exemptions for their children because of religious or personal beliefs.

SB277, sponsored by Democratic senators Ben Allen of Santa Monica and Richard Pan of Sacramento, would make medical waivers available only for children who have health problems, forcing unvaccinated children to be home-schooled.

California would join Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states with such strict requirements if the bill becomes law.

Submission + - The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit (quantamagazine.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The faintly glowing contrail of the Oh-My-God particle (as the computer programmer and Autodesk founder John Walker dubbed it in an early Web article) was spotted in the Fly’s Eye data the following summer and reported after the group spent an extra year convincing themselves the signal was real. The particle had broken a cosmic speed limit worked out decades earlier by Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin, who argued that any particle energized beyond approximately 60 EeV will interact with background radiation that pervades space, thereby quickly shedding energy and slowing down. This “GZK cutoff” suggested that the Oh-My-God particle must have originated recently and nearby — probably within the local supercluster of galaxies. But an astrophysical accelerator of unimagined size and power would be required to produce such a particle. When scientists looked in the direction from which the particle had come, they could see nothing of the kind.

“It’s like you’ve got a gorilla in your backyard throwing bowling balls at you, but he’s invisible,” Kieda said.

Submission + - China-Based Hackers Used Microsoft's TechNet for Attacks (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The China-based hacking group, which security vendor FireEye calls APT17, created accounts on TechNet and then left comments on certain pages. Those comments contained the name of an encoded domain, which computers infected by the group’s malware were instructed to contact. The encoded domain then referred the victim’s computer to a command-and-control server that was part of APT17’s infrastructure, said Bryce Boland, FireEye’s chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific.

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