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Submission + - Anonymous hacks CATCH Team Cybercime Investigator (nyud.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Friday, a group of hackers operating under the banner of Anonymous' Operation AntiSec published the private e-mails of a California Department of Justice investigator. The hackers posted the entirety of the 38,000 e-mails in a Gmail account that appears to belong to Alfredo "Fred" Baclagan, a California Department of Justice special agent supervisor in charge of computer crime investigations, to a hidden site on Tor, as well as to a torrent listed on The Pirate Bay.
Android

Submission + - Android is Sole Target of Malware Writers (ibtimes.com)

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Android was the most popular platform for new malware in the second quarter, but in the third quarter, a McAfee study revealed "Android became the exclusive platform for all new mobile malware."McAfee also discovered that cybercriminals have devised a new way to steal information exclusively from Android devices, by recording user phone calls. The stealthy malware clings to the devices for extended periods, remaining undetected as it repeatedly records user conversations and forwards them to the attacker. This malware can remain on the phone until the attacker decides they have all of the information they want. With 550,000 Android devices activated each day, Google's mobile operating system "is clearly today's target" for cybercriminals."
Security

Submission + - Third of UK Councils Lose Data in 3 Years (itpro.co.uk)

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twoheadedboy
twoheadedboy writes: "In just three years, a third of UK councils have lost citizens' data. The shocking findings came from the Big Brother Watch, which found 132 local authorities had lost data between 3 August 2008 and 3 August 2011. Plenty of data on children was lost too, with info relating to at least 3,100 youngsters compromised in 118 cases. At least 244 laptops, 98 memory sticks and 93 mobile devices were lost over that time too."
Apple

Submission + - Apple set to overtake HP to become biggest PC sell (silicon.com)

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ShelleyPortet
ShelleyPortet writes: "Having languished near the bottom of the PC league table for years, Apple is set to become the top PC seller in 2012.

Apple will overtake HP, the world's largest PC vendor, in the first half of 2012, according to research by analyst house Canalys.

HP currently has a 16 per cent market share of PC shipments, compared to Apple's 15 per cent."

Submission + - Bulldozer's Just As Bad With Servers (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by RobinEggs
RobinEggs writes: Some reviews of Bulldozer's performance in servers have arrived, and Arstechnica has a breakdown. The results are pretty ugly. Apparently Bulldozer fares just as poorly with servers as with desktops.

From the article: 'One reason for the underwhelming performance on the desktop is that the Bulldozer architecture emphasizes multithreaded performance over single-threaded performance. For desktop applications, where single-threaded performance is still king, this is a problem. Server workloads, in contrast, typically have to handle multiple users, network connections, and virtual machines concurrently. This makes them a much better fit for processors that support lots of concurrent threads. Some commentators have even suggested that Bulldozer was, first and foremost, a server processor; relatively weak desktop performance was to be expected, but it would all come good in the server room.

Unfortunately for AMD, it looks as though the decisions that hurt Bulldozer on the desktop continue to hurt it in the server room. Although the server benchmarks don't show the same regressions as were found on the desktop, they do little to justify the design of the new architecture.'

It's probably much too early to start editorializing about the end of AMD, or even to say with certainty that Bulldozer has failed, but my untrained eye can't yet see any possible silver lining in these new processors.

Comment Re:What was the point of this exercise? (Score -1) 943

by said213 (#37920490) Attached to: Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate

"I have an aversion to being associated with people who actively believe there is no god."

You have no such aversion. Were such the case, you would not be participating in this conversation.
What you are up to is called Narcissism. Though, you will likely argue that you are not and then claim to have an aversion to such... Good day to you.

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