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Submission + - One time pad encryption for smartphones (indiegogo.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One time pads are the only encryption technique that "cannot be cracked if used correctly". A guy from Germany claims he has written a smartphone app that uses one times pads for the whole communication. He even wrapped the phones into tin foil in his video on Youtube. The project is currently crowdfunded on Indiegogo. So dust your fancy hats and use them to hide your phones while exchanging keys.

Submission + - Does lab equipment take on a mind of its own to trick scientists? (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a newly published paper, MIT researchers propose an experiment that may close the last major loophole of Bell’s inequality. The test is to see whether, as far-fetched as it sounds, a particle detector’s settings conspire with events in the shared past to determine which properties of a particle to measure — a scenario that implies that a physicist running the experiment does not have complete free will in choosing each detector’s setting. The test involves quasars, telescopes and lots of deep, deep space, and was published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Submission + - Microsoft Lync server gathers employee data just like NSA (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Microsoft's Lync communications platform gathers enough readily analyzable data to let corporations spy on their employees like the NSA can on U.S. citizens, and it's based on the same type of information — call details. At Microsoft’s Lync 2014 conference, software developer Event Zero detailed just how easy it would be, for instance, to figure out who is dating whom within the company and pinpoint people looking for another job.

Submission + - Helium Discovered Under Yellowstone National Park (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by minty3
minty3 writes: Vast stores of helium that have accumulated in the Earth’s crust for up to 2 billion years are escaping through volcanic rocks beneath the national park, a new study published in the journal Nature suggests. The helium, which is being released at about 60 tons per year, is due to the advent of volcanic activity in the region over the past 2 million years.

Submission + - These six organizations secretly run the Internet (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: Who runs the Internet? Is it Google, the global search leader that trades fantastic free services for borderline frightening insights into user behavior? Is it Apple, whose iPhones and iPads are reportedly used to connect people to the Internet more than any other mobile devices on the planet by a massive margin? Is it the Illuminati? According to a new feature from the team that taught us how to disappear online, there are actually six organizations that secretly run the Internet and you might not have considered any of them...

Submission + - Converting cars to ammonia-based fuel (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A high school student makes a great case for moving fossil-fuel based cars to an ammonia-based fuel--a mix anywhere from 10% ammonia to 80% ammonia. This is a pretty compelling article that examines not only ammonia as a fuel, but how it can be produced in such a way that the carbon dioxide emissions coming out of your car would be close to zero. The technology already exists!

Submission + - Intel Opens Doors on New Xeon E7 v2 Line (enterprisetech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Breaking news on the newest line from Intel — Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of RISC and proprietary systems to X86 machines of similar heft, Intel is finally bringing an “Ivy Bridge” update to its high-end Xeon E7 processors to market. It has been a long time since these top-end platforms were refreshed.

Submission + - Darker Arctic boosting global warming (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by The Grim Reefer
The Grim Reefer writes: The Arctic isn't nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem, a new study says.

With more dark, open water in the summer, less of the sun's heat is reflected back into space. So the entire Earth is absorbing more heat than expected, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That extra absorbed energy is so big that it measures about one-quarter of the entire heat-trapping effect of carbon dioxide, said the study's lead author, Ian Eisenman, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

The Arctic grew 8 per cent darker between 1979 and 2011, Eisenman found, measuring how much sunlight is reflected back into space.

"Basically, it means more warming," Eisenman said in an interview.

Submission + - Mysterious code in Viking runes is cracked (sciencenordic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A runic code called jötunvillur has finally been decrypted. It just might help solve the mystery of the Vikings’ secret codes. Why did Vikings sometimes use codes when they wrote in runes? Were the messages secret, or did they have other reasons for encrypting their runic texts? Researchers still don’t know for sure.

The rune codes were not just used for learning. Nordby thinks the use also indicates a whimsical use of runes in the Viking Era and the Middle Ages. “We have little reason to believe the runic codes were used to conceal sensitive information. People often wrote short, routine messages,” says Nordby.Coded declarations such as “Kiss me” demonstrate that the use of code was not limited to issues of political significance.

Many of the messages in runic codes included a challenge to the reader to crack the code. The inscription “Interpret these runes” was common.

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