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Submission + - RoboEarth - a web for robots (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: A world wide web for robots? It sounds like a crazy idea but it could mean that once a task is learned any robot can find out how to do it just by asking RoboEarth. You use the web to find out stuff, including where you are and how to do something so why not robots.
Shades of SkyNet? Surely not.....
Cellphones

Submission + - Yahoo's Buggy IMAP Server Affects iPhone Too (withinwindows.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Maybe Yahoo should have done their homework a little bit more before accusing Microsoft for the data leakage problems on Windows Phone 7. Upon reading the accusations, Rafael Rivera took it upon himself to prove that it did occur on other platforms, the iPhone in this case.

He ran a similar test with the help of a friend’s iPhone and got a similar result whereby the Yahoo servers returned more data than requested. So much for it being a WP7 problem only.

WMPoweruser: http://wmpoweruser.com/yahoo-mails-data-leak-also-affects-the-iphone/

WithinWindows: http://www.withinwindows.com/2011/02/02/yahoo-your-buggy-imap-server-affects-iphone-too-thanks-for-playing-though/
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Live action spy RPG (5-wits.com)

Submitted by tallpaul
tallpaul writes: Espionage is 5-wits third generation live action role playing game for geeks and non-geeks alike. Players are immersed in cracking safes, defusing bombs and dodging laser security. Each game has many possible outcomes and scalable difficulty levels. 5-wits is responsible for creating the "Operation Spy" game for the Washignton DC Spy museum and has honed their live action special effects to a fine art. An second game at the same location based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be opening very soon.
NASA

Submission + - PBS Nova: AstroSpies (Full Documentary) Must See! (ufobulletin.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions.
Censorship

Submission + - Amazon-banned author goes to B&N, sells 18K eb (bnet.com)

Submitted by bizwriter
bizwriter writes: Amazon has been tossing some erotica books and ebooks off its virtual shelves for violating its content guidelines — but leaving up books even more explicit and extreme. A number of writers are looking to Barnes & Noble to help take up the slack. One suddenly found her ebook sales at B&N skyrocket to nearly 19,000 in December — all after the Amazon ban went into place.
Security

Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? 189

Posted by timothy from the down-for-routine-maintenance dept.
AffidavitDonda writes "In late 2009 or early 2010, Iran decommissioned and replaced about 1,000 IR-1 centrifuges in the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz, implying that these centrifuges broke. Iran's IR-1 centrifuges often break, yet this level of breakage exceeded expectations and occurred during an extended period of relatively poor centrifuge performance. Although Iran has not admitted that Stuxnet attacked the Natanz centrifuge plant, it has acknowledged that its nuclear sites were subject to cyber attacks."
Firefox

Submission + - KataSpace, a WebGL MMO, Goes BSD Open Source (blogs.com)

Submitted by wjamesau
wjamesau writes: Developed at Stanford by a team led by a veteran of Linden Lab, KataSpace is a new web-based MMO architecture with a BSD open source license that runs on WebGL, the 3D graphics protocol that'll come pre-installed with the latest builds of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Basically, it'll let anyone develop an MMO or virtual world space that runs on the web without a plug-in. Demo space with avatars at the link!
Google

Submission + - Microsoft sets record: patching 34 vulnerabilities (thetechherald.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: Microsoft releases a record number of patches Tuesday — a whopping 14 security bulletins to fix 34 different vulnerabilities, including eight critical vulnerabilities that allow the remote execution of code. ("Another month, another record," wrote one technology blog.) And Microsoft will also belatedly acknowledge Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy in four bulletins for his discovery of a vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center. It was Ormandy who announced the pending acknowledgments on Twitter, adding Friday that "I don't think there's been more than a few days this year that Microsoft haven't been vulnerable to public kernel flaws." But another security analyst also notes there's no patches for Windows XP SP2, "even though the five critical vulnerabilities for XP SP3 most likely apply to their discontinued version of the OS as well."
Hardware

Submission + - iSuppli warns of looming DRAM shortage (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "A shortage of the main memory chips used in personal computers could send prices of the chips higher in the second half of this year, market researcher iSuppli has warned. The main DRAM manufacturing tool chip makers lack right now is immersion lithography equipment, which iSuppli believes will be in short supply this year. Companies that make the vital equipment will not be able to produce enough machines to meet industry needs, the market researcher said, and only a few DRAM makers already have the gear they need."

Submission + - Rumblings in OpenSolaris land. (fork?) (illumos.org)

Submitted by kallisti5
kallisti5 writes: It looks as though an *official* fork of OpenSolaris may be under way, no details have been announced yet except for the following email...

"
Subject: [osol-announce] The Illumos Project
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:54:58 -0700
From: "Garrett D'Amore"
To: opensolaris-announce
Reply-To: mailer@opensolaris.org

A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have
been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we're
just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general
participation of, the general public.

We believe that everyone who is interested in OpenSolaris should be
interested in what we have to say, and so we invite the entire
OpenSolaris community to join us for a presentation on at 1PM EDT on
August 3, 2010.

You can find out the full details of how to listen in to our conference,
or attend in person (we will be announcing from New York City) by
visiting http://www.illumos.org/announce (The final details shall be
posted there not later than 1PM EDT Aug 1, 2010.)

We look forward to seeing you there!

— Garrett D'Amore & the rest of the Illumos Cast
"
First Person Shooters (Games)

Alien Swarm Can Be Played As a Terrifying FPS 157

Posted by timothy from the sounds-icky dept.
AndrewGOO9 writes "With a few simple commands from the developer console, Alien Swarm can go from being played as an isometric top-down shooter to a first-person perspective. Surprisingly easy, it does make the game, which was released for free via Steam earlier this week, a lot more terrifying. But, anyone who is at home playing games like Modern Warfare or Halo should have no problem slaughtering their way through wave after wave of creatures. In fact, it poses the potential to make the game easier for people who would've otherwise struggled with the overhead view."
Security

Submission + - iPad hacker gets arrested (washington.ar.us) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the members of the security team responsible for the recent iPad security breach was arrested today in the state of Washington. Charged for possession of controlled substance Escher Auernheimer AKA Weev will be heard in court on the 18th of this month.

Submission + - Construction bricks made from recycled plastic (greenopolis.com)

Submitted by sv_libertarian
sv_libertarian writes: They’re transparent and translucent. They interlock together to form a honeycomb structure that’s extremely durable. They can be used to build anything from buildings and fences to roofs and walls of light. So what are “they” referring to? They’re called POLLI-Bricks, and they’re a genius example of recycled bottle architecture.

Submission + - New iConji language for the symbol-minded (ncbr.com)

Submitted by
billdar
billdar writes: "As texting evolves into it's own language, a NCBR article covers an ambitious project to develop a new symbol-based language called iConji for mobile texting and online chatting. "iConji is a set of user-created 32x32-pixel symbols that represent words or ideas, not dissimilar from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics or American Sign Language." There is an instructional video for the iPhone app and it is also integrated into Facebook."

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