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Submission + - Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, and Universal webs (rt.com)

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EW87
EW87 writes: "Shortly after a federal raid today brought down the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group and the RIAA.
"It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org," Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon."
Data Storage

Submission + - PC Makers Run Out Of Popular Drives (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: The impact from the monsoonal flooding in Thailand over the past three months is now being felt by users as computer system manufacturer's are unable to meet supply needs. Lenovo told its corporate customers this week that is has run out of a number of drives including several types of 7200rpm and 5400rpm HDDs. 'Akin to the hysteria when banks defaulted in the 1930[s], PC orders across the industry are being placed for which HD supply does not exist,' a Lenovo rep wrote to his clients. IDC this week said the HDD shortages that have resulted from the flooding of four major Thailand industrial parks will likely be felt into 2013. Western Digital and Toshiba have been hit the hardest. PC shipments are also expected to fall short by 3.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 due to component supply shortages. Meanwhile, there has been some indication of retail HDD price stabilization, but for some of the most popular hard drives prices continue to soar.
Communications

Submission + - Bill To Let Telemarketers Call Mobile Phones (nydailynews.com)

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: Current law bars telemarketing calls to cell phones unless the customer has given approval. The proposed change would allow prerecorded “informational” calls to be made to cell phones without consent, called the “Mobile Information Call Act” and would allow all sorts of nuisance calls to cell phones.
The sole Democratic sponsor stated

"Do we really want to stop FedEx or UPS using modern technology to deliver your holiday gifts on time? Of course not, but that is what we heard at the hearing is one consequence of this 20-year old law."

His statement is still at odds with the ability to give consent to receive such calls.
Chrome

Submission + - Chrome Deemed "Most Secured" Web Browser (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Security research firm Accuvant, today released the results a study comparing the security of the three most widely used web browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

So which browser turned out to be the most secure?

"Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer implement state-of-the-art anti- exploitation technologies, but Mozilla Firefox lags behind without JIT hardening," the report notes. "While both Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer implement the same set of anti-exploitation technologies, Google Chrome’s plug-in security and sandboxing architectures are implemented in a more thorough and comprehensive manner. Therefore, we believe Google Chrome is the browser that is most secured against attack," the report concluded.
China

Submission + - US Fears Chinese Malware Hidden in Imports (internetevolution.com)

Submitted by hapworth
hapworth writes: Sources close to the Obama administration say the White House believes China has been delivering malware-contaminated computer and network hardware to targeted companies. According to author Robert McGarvey, the situation is so serious that experts are recommending companies unplug key computers from their networks, to make sure data stays in-house; and at least one government agency in Washington, DC, isn't allowing Chinese-made computers on the premises. A retired security official quoted in the story notes that the truly worrisome thing is that these hidden bugs are hard to detect: "What you might find is hardware that just is a little off spec, and in that variation is the vulnerability. But you probably won’t even know it is there."
Science

Submission + - Rats Feel Each Other's Pain (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Empathy lets us feel another person's pain and drives us to help ease it. But is empathy a uniquely human trait? For decades researchers have debated whether nonhuman animals possess this attribute. Now a new study shows that rats will free a trapped cagemate in distress. The results mean that these rodents can be used to help determine the genetic and physiological underpinnings of empathy in people.

Submission + - Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The physics buzz reached a frenzy in the past few days over the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is planning to release what is widely expected to be tantalizing although not conclusive evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter.

Many physicists have already swung into action, swapping rumors about the contents of the announcement and proposing grand ideas about what those rumors would mean, if true. "It's impossible to be excited enough," says Gordon Kane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Android

Submission + - Why Android Upgrades Take So Long

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Google released the Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" code base to the general public and the manufacturers. Though it maybe a while before it's actually rolled out to the phones. In an attempt to explain why it takes so long, Motorola and Sony Ericsson shed some light on the process involved. Motorola described the long testing process involved where as Sony explained the issue with the time consuming certification process.
Cloud

Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? sponsored by: SourceForge 332

Posted by samzenpus from the silverish-lining dept.
With so much personal data being kept on the cloud, including government and health records or your source code, do you have any concerns about it falling into the wrong hands? Do you think the cloud's benefits are outweighed by continuing security issues?

Comment Never "completely sure" (Score 1) 150

by jpwilliams (#37794670) Attached to: Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again)
Let's not forget that there are two types of conjectures: those that have been proven false, and those that have not yet been proven false, according to Karl Popper. So the conjecture "Cell phone's don't cause cancer" can be disproven by just one case where cancer is caused by a cell phone. Add that to the EXTREME difficulty in attributing the cause of cancer, and we'll never be completely sure.
Data Storage

Submission + - 2.5 1TB SSD announced (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by jpwilliams
jpwilliams writes: OCZ announces the Octane series of Steady State Drives, including a 1TB 2.5-inch drive. For only $1,100, it can be yours!

Comment Re:read the book (Score 1) 126

by jpwilliams (#37463258) Attached to: Augmented Reality's Disruptive Potential
Also see Counting Heads by Marusek. Not the main point of the story, but everyone has a visor with different filters that allow them to view different info. Even more interesting is that certain inside environments need no visor ... images simply appear in the space, allowing for people to be there "holographically" in the room. The line's between actually being somewhere and being there virtually become blurred, with the latter becoming way more popular.

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