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Submission + - Spikes Detected in Autorun Malware (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267
msm1267 writes: Researchers recently have seen a major increase in the volume of autorun malware in some countries, thanks to a couple of new worms infecting those older machines. The two new worms, Worm.JS.AutoRun and Worm.Java.AutoRun, both take advantage of the autorun functionality to spread, and the JavaScript worm has other methods of propagation, as well. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say that the volume of autorun worms has remained relatively constant over the last few months, but there was a major spike in those numbers in April and May, thanks to the distribution of the two new pieces of malware.

Submission + - A350XWB, the plane Airbus did not want to build, makes maiden flight (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The BBC reports that the Airbus A350XWB (extra wide body) has made its first flight.

Like the Boeing 787, the A350 offesr airlines the chance to combine long-range services with improved fuel efficiency. The A350's fuselage is made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic, while many other parts of the aircraft use titanium and advanced alloys to save weight. It also has state-of-the-art aerodynamics, and engine manufacturer Rolls Royce has produced a new custom-designed power unit.

Airbus claims that all of this means the A350 will use 25% less fuel than the current generation of equivalent aircraft. It also points out that noise and emissions will be well below current limits.

Submission + - Could your next HDTV roll up like a blind? (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1
Velcroman1 writes: Japan's Shinoda Plasma Co. demonstrated a giant, flexible, plasma display at the Display Week 2013 conference last month in Vancouver, British Columbia, winning an award for “Best Prototype at Display Week.” It’s the latest effort to create the flexible gizmos of the future. The company calls its invention a “Luminous Array Film,” or LAFi; instead of being made from one large, flat sheet of glass, the display uses a thousand tiny glass tubes, each 1 mm in diameter and a bit more than 3 feet long. In spite of their tiny size, the tubes are hollow, and can hold the inert gas and phosphors required to make the light to create an image. Shinoda’s secret is that the display can only bend in one dimension. Consider a typical bamboo screen that you might use to cover a window, where a flexible fabric connects the relatively rigid bamboo sticks. You can roll up the screen so that all the bamboo pieces remain parallel to each other — forming a cylinder less than 4 inches across.

Submission + - Is Xbox One the 'future of PRISM'? (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: The Xbox One has been a public relations nightmare so far for Microsoft. The console’s debut was marred by unclear policies and misinformation, and gamers haven’t been shy in letting Microsoft know how they feel. But it’s not just the used game policy, game-sharing limitations and connectivity requirements that have people up in arms — some gamers are absolutely outraged at one of the Xbox One’s most innovative new features. Is Xbox One the future of PRISM?...

Submission + - Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points to Battery-Free EV Future (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: While quick charging technology installed at strategic points along a planned route might be a good fit for inner city buses, it's not going to be of much use to electric vehicles that stop infrequently. Volvo sees our future long-haul trucks and buses drawing the juice they need from the road itself, making large onboard batteries a thing of the past.

Submission + - Thousands companies share with NSA (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by da5idnetlimit.com
da5idnetlimit.com writes: Bloomberg is reporting that the recent NSA Prism scandal is just a tiny scratch on the privacy surface. Citing "four people familiar with the process", the agency claims that in fact thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies work with US national security.
Interestingly it explains, for instance, how Microsoft gives government agencies a heads-up when it comes to bug fixesâ"and two sources describe how the news is used to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments.

On a side note maybe we can thank the NSA for giving more steam to Linux on the desktop. And on servers. And routers 8)

Submission + - MS Office Finally Gets iOS App (independent.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After years of rumors and months of bickering with Apple over revenue splits, Microsoft has finally released an official iOS app for Office 365 subscribers, allowing people to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the iPhones. According to a hands-on report with the software, the offering has basic functionality, but is missing some key productivity features. "These include: font options, text alignment, bulleted lists and, again, more color choices, all of which you can find in, say, the Google Drive app." They say it's a fairly useful addition for current subscribers, but certainly not enough to make it worth the Office 365 subscription fee on its own. "We can't tell if Microsoft deliberately handicapped Office Mobile for iPhone, or if it's simply saving some features for a later update. (A company rep declined to comment on what we can expect from future versions.) We're willing to believe Microsoft still has some unfinished items on its to-do list, but even so, it's a shame that iPhone users waited this long for an Office app, only to get something with such a minimal feature set. All told, Office Mobile represents a good enough start for Microsoft, and in some ways it's better than Google Drive, particularly where spreadsheets are concerned. Still, it's miles behind other office apps for iOS, including Apple iWork."

Submission + - Cloud Computing Platform Using Lego And Rasberry Pis (gla.ac.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Glasgow University have developed a cloud computing platform using 56 Rasberry Pis and Lego bricks for £4000. The Rasberry Pis (the number of which can be scaled up/down) “sit in racks made from Lego, which mimic the modular design, as well as the function, of a cloud computing infrastructure.” and give “a very clear correspondence between the hardware and the software, and a physical setup which is very similar to how racks of servers work in real data centres”.

Submission + - EA Pisses of Players. Again. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by DeathToBill
DeathToBill writes: EA has done it again, the BBC reports. After EA took over operation of the online Scrabble brand, it introduced a "new and improved" version. Improvements include requiring manual refreshes to see other players' turns, irretrievably wiping players' game history and a switch to the Collins dictionary that has proved deeply unpopular with Scrabble fanatics. "EA was unavailable for comment."

Submission + - Berlin will not migrate to open source but looks to open standards (cio.co.uk)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Berlin will not migrate to open source software, but instead the parliament of the German city-state decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards.

Berlin's Green party had proposed to have 25% of its standardised IT workplaces running open source software by 2018, according to the proposal that was voted down by the state parliament earlier this week.

It is the second time the opposition Greens had proposed switching Berlin's 68,000 workstations to open source software, and the second time they failed, said Thomas Birk, the party's spokesman for government modernization, on Wednesday. The earlier effort was in 2007.

Switching to open source can work, said Birk. By switching over 80% of its 15,500 desktops from Windows to its own Linux distribution, LiMux, and OpenOffice.org software, the city of Munich said it had saved over €11 million by November last year.

"Munich's example proves it is not witchcraft," to switch to open source, said Birk.

Submission + - Sharp develops the worlds most efficient solar cell

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sharp has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the cells to generate electricity. Sharp’s concentrator triple-junction compound solar cells use a proprietary technology that enables the efficient conversion of sunlight into electricity by means of a stack of three photo-absorption layers, the bottommost of which is made from InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide).

Submission + - Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB (itwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released.

Submission + - Security Researchers Find Flaws, Get Threatened With Lawsuit (webhostingtalk.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Two security researchers who have been uncovering tons of flaws lately in hosting software have encountered a developer from New Jersey who not only hasn't issued a patch for a root level exploit after two weeks, he is threatening to sue the researchers for all kinds of damages. The software in question is Zamfoo which is a popular package for reseller hosting providers.

Submission + - NSA leaker Snowden is lying, say leaders of House Intelligence Committee (thehill.com) 2

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: New developments in the ongoing controversy engulfing the NSA as a result of the Snowden leaks. From The Hill: ""Emerging from a hearing with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.), the senior Democrat on the panel, said Edward Snowden simply wasn't in the position to access the content of the communications gathered under National Security Agency programs, as he's claimed. "He was lying," Rogers said. "He clearly has over-inflated his position, he has over-inflated his access and he's even over-inflated what the actually technology of the programs would allow one to do. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do." "He's done tremendous damage to the country where he was born and raised and educated," Ruppersberger said." ... "It was clear that he attempted to go places that he was not authorized to go, which should raise questions for everyone," Rogers added."

Submission + - Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back as The Terminator

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to movies after his role as Governator of California and the legendary actor is all set to play the role of The Terminator once again — the character which turned him into an icon. Schwarzenegger told the fan site TheArnoldFans.com, "I'm very happy that the studios want me to be in Terminator 5 and to star as the Terminator."

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