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Submission + - HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by chiguy
chiguy writes: From NBC News:
"The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled...[a database]...containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults...[Equifax] says [it] is adding 12 million records annually."

This salary information is for sale: "Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as ... health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim."
Science

Submission + - Hello Kitty in Space (youtube.com)

Submitted by djl4570
djl4570 writes: The four minute video documents a seventh grade science project that uses a helium balloon to lift several Go Pro cameras, a high altitude data recorder and a GPS tracker to an altitude of over 90,000 feet. This science project is an excellent example of integrating technology to measure, document and recover the experiment.

Submission + - Confirmed: MHD is source of sun's corona superheating (northumbria.ac.uk)

Submitted by storkus
storkus writes: Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) has been suspected for a while as reason why the sun's corona is millions of degrees while the surface is only thousands. Northumbria University has now apparently confirmed this using a custom telescope.
GNOME

Submission + - GNOME 3 to switch to Java Script as primary language for GNOME Apps (golem.de)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Golem.de has released a story that the GNOME core developers have agreed at Fosdem 2013 to switch to Java Script as the primary language for upcoming GNOME Applications. The article clearly states that the old languages should still be supported.
Java

Submission + - Oracle Responds to Java Security Critics with Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Oracle has been slammed a lot in recent months about it's lackluster handling of Java security. Now Oracle is responding as strongly as it can with one of the largest Java security updates in history. 50 flaws in total with the vast majority carrying the highest-possible CVSS score of 10.
Will this finally be the patch that makes Java secure?
Programming

Submission + - Making the Mobile Web Faster (acm.org)

Submitted by
CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes: "Kate Matsudaira, writing for the ACM, explains why accessing the Web on mobile devices is often so slow, and what can be done on the back-end to speed it up.
The mobile Web is about as slow as the desktop Web was ten years ago. Part of the reason why is that many sites are bloated with dozens or even hundreds of HTTP requests per page. We may not notice the consequences of that on a desktop, which is what has allowed designers to get away with it for so long. Another of the several problems is that many mobile sites require one or more redirects since the content is at 'mobile.domain.com' instead of 'www.domain,com'. The suggested solutions include: Use CSS instead of images where possible to minimize HTTP requests; avoid redirects and minimize DNS lookups; use HTTP pipelining and SPDY; and avoid or minimize cookies."

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