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Submission + - NPR's "Car Talk" Closing (yahoo.com)

Submitted by stevegee58
stevegee58 writes: After 25 years on the air, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers) are calling it quits in September.
With their nerdy humor, explosive laughter and geek cred (both MIT alums) Tom and Ray will be sorely missed by the average NPR-listening Slashdotter.
Hardware

Submission + - MIT creates self-assembling 3D nanostructures, could be the future of chips (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "MIT has devised a way of creating complex, self-assembling 3D nanostructures of wires and junctions. While self-assembling structures have been made from polymers before, this is the first time that multi-layer, configurable layouts have been created, opening up the path to self-assembled computer chips. Basically, MIT uses diblock copolymers, which are large molecules formed from two distinct polymers (each with different chemical and physical properties). These copolymers naturally form long cylinders — wires. The key to MIT’s discovery is that the scientists have worked out how to exactly control the arrangement of these block copolymers. By growing tiny, 10nm-wide silica “posts” on a silicon substrate, the researchers can control the angles, bends, spacing, and junctions of the copolymer wires. Once the grid of posts has been built, the wafer is simply covered in the polymer material, and chip’s wires and junctions self-assemble. The reason everyone is so excited, though, is that the silica posts can be built using equipment that is compatible with existing semiconductor fabs. Theoretically, chips built using this technique could have a much smaller feature size than the 28nm and 22nm chips produced by TSMC and Intel. According to Caroline Ross of MIT, it should be possible to build posts that are much smaller than 10nm."
Security

Submission + - LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: A user in a Russian forum (which?) is claiming to have hacked LinkedIn to the tune of almost 6.5 million account details. The user uploaded 6,458,020 SHA-1 hashed passwords, but no usernames. Several people have said on Twitter that they found their real LinkedIn passwords as hashes on the list. The Verge spoke with Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, who thinks this is a real collection. He told us he is 'guessing it's some sort of exploit on their web interface, but there's no way to know.' We will have to wait for LinkedIn to report back to be sure what exactly has happened.

Comment Re:proof? (Score 1) 239

by PlastikMissle (#40209927) Attached to: No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581
That's another one of those pessimistic tropes people like to bandy about. The inevitability of us eradicating ourselves. We've never ever been on the brink of extinction by our own volition. Even if we did detonate every single piece of ordinance we have, enough pockets of humanity will survive to insure survival of the race. It'll be rough for a while, but the human race is very resilient. The only time we were near extinction is the theorized event some 70,000 years ago, when according to genetic research we may have been down to as little as 2000 individuals. This was probably due to a severe drought of some kind, and not of our own engineering.
The Internet

Submission + - Reddit Founder Leads Charge for a "Bat Signal for the Internet" (internetdefenseleague.org)

Submitted by
TheGift73
TheGift73 writes: "Beyond the Blackout

The Internet Defense League takes the tactic that killed SOPA & PIPA and turns it into a permanent force for defending the internet, and making it better. Think of it like the internet's Emergency Broadcast System, or its bat signal!

The Plan

When the internet's in danger and we need millions of people to act, the League will ask its members to broadcast an action. (Say, a prominent message asking everyone to call their elected leaders.) With the combined reach of our websites and social networks, we can be massively more effective than any one organization."
Google

Submission + - Google Now Searches JavaScript (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Google has been improving the way that its Googlebot searches dynamic web pages for some time — but it seems to be causing some added interest just at the moment. In the past Google has encouraged developers to avoid using JavaScript to deliver content or links to content because of the difficulty of indexing dynamic content. Over time, however, the Googlebot has incorporated ways of searching content that is provided via JavaScript.
Now it seems that it has got so good at the task Google is asking us to allow the Googlebot to scan the JavaScript used by our sites.
Working with JavaScript means that the Googlebot has to actually download and run the scripts and this is more complicated than you might think. This has led to speculation of whether or not it might be possible to include JavaScript on a site that could use the Google cloud to compute something. For example, imagine that you set up a JavaScript program to compute the n-digits of Pi, or a BitCoin miner, and had the result formed into a custom URL — which the Googlebot would then try to access as part of its crawl. By looking at, say, the query part of the URL in the log you might be able to get back a useful result.
United States

Submission + - ZTE Confirms Security Hole in U.S. Phone (scienceworldreport.com)

Submitted by fishmike
fishmike writes: ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.
Earth

Submission + - Supervolcano Drilling Plan Gets Go-Ahead (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: A project to drill deep into the heart of a “supervolcano” in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small earthquakes or an explosion. Yesterday, Italian news agency ANSA quoted project coordinator Giuseppe De Natale of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology as saying that the office of Naples mayor Luigi de Magistris has approved the drilling of a pilot hole 500 meters deep.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Investigating Possible SSL Compromise (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: A NASA spokesperson has told SecurityWeek that they’re investigating claims made by a group of Iranian hackers earlier this week. The claim is that a SSL certificate issued to NASA’s Research and Education Support Services (NRESS) group has been compromised, and used in a Man-in-the-Middle attack.

On Wednesday, an Iranian student group comprised of programmers and hackers, known as the Cyber Warriors Team, claimed to have compromised the SSL cert used on the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) website.

If the claims are true, this wouldn’t be the first time the space agency has had security issues. In March, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin told the House’s Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, that the agency faces serious challenges when it comes to protecting its information and systems from cyber attacks, and that at one point, attackers had full functional control over NASA networks.

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