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Robotics

Robot Drawn Caricatures Screenshot-sm 29

ptresset writes "From Singularity Hub: 'Artists and programmers in the UK have decided to improve upon the male and female symbols outside many toilet facilities. They’ve developed a set of robotic arms that take pictures of people entering into a bathroom and then use that image to create a unique drawing to place outside the door. It then wipes away this art to make room for the next person’s caricature.'"
Security

Submission + - New Vuln In Twitter, Spreads Like Hayfire (alien9.net)

alien9 writes: Some bizarre attack is compromising twitter accounts this morning... By some tricky CSS injections users are pointed to retweet automatically a message. The injection of CSS makes the invasion very difficult to dodge: a simple mouseover triggers the attack.
This happens a few days after the click-triggered attack.
At this moment twitter have took no known action over the issue.
Apparently, change your password and removing browser cookies are a good measure to regain account control.

Science

Tracking Pedophiles By Their Typing Habits 292

An anonymous reader writes "Pedophiles using the internet to target youngsters could be tracked down — by the way they use a keyboard. Researchers are investigating ways to use technology which can determine a typist's age, sex and culture within ten keystrokes by monitoring their speed and rhythm." Since Phrenology hasn't exactly panned out, they gotta try something new.

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