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Submission + - US cinemas to screen "The Interview" on Christmas Day (bbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sony Pictures has announced that The Interview will be given a limited theatrical release in the US on Christmas Day. The move comes just a week after the company cancelled its release after suffering a devastating cyber attack. Two cinemas in Atlanta and Austin have already revealed screenings.

Submission + - TSA has record-breaking haul in 2014: Guns, cannons, and swords

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The TSA has gathered an impressive pile of confiscated weapons this year. In early November the agency had already discovered 1,855 firearms at checkpoints. In addition to guns, they've also collected machetes, hatchets, swords, giant scissors, brass knuckles, cannonballs, bear repellant and, this past October, an unloaded cannon. “Maybe someone has a lucky inert grenade they brought back from some war, or a nice cane was given to them and they forgot that the thing is actually a sword,” said Jeff Price, author of Practical Aviation Security, “It’s the people that are carrying stuff like chainsaws that make me wonder.”

Submission + - Cyberattack on German steel factory causes 'Massive Damage' (itworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a rare case of an online security breach causing real-world destruction, a German steel factory has been severely damaged after its networks were compromised. "The attack used spear phishing and sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to the factory’s office networks, from which access to production networks was gained. ... The attack used spear phishing and sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to the factory’s office networks, from which access to production networks was gained. Due to these failures, one of the plant’s blast furnaces could not be shut down in a controlled manner, which resulted in 'massive damage to plant,' the BSI said, describing the technical skills of the attacker as 'very advanced.'" The full report (PDF) is available in German.

Submission + - The Sony Incident Reveals Mass Media Groupthink (cryptome.org)

Submitted by Nicola Hahn
Nicola Hahn writes: In the past several days stalwarts of the corporate media like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post have all cited unnamed officials claiming that North Korea is responsible for the recent attack on Sony. They have done so with very little visible skepticism. There is one exception: Kim Zetter at Wired has decried the evidence as flimsy and vocally warns about the danger of jumping to conclusions. Surely we all remember high-ranking, ostensibly credible, officials warning about the smoking gun that comes in the form of a mushroom cloud? This underscores the ability of the agenda-setting elements of the press to frame issues and control the acceptable limits of debate. Some would even say that what’s happening reveals tools of modern social control.

Submission + - North Korea Responds to Sony Data Breach Claims

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: A North Korean official said that the secretive regime wants to mount a joint investigation with the United States to identify who was behind the cyber attack against Sony Pictures. An unnamed spokesman of the North Korean foreign ministry was quoted by the country's state news agency, KCNA, describing US claims they were behind the hack as "slander." "As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident," the official said, according to Agence France-Presse. Both the FBI and President Barack Obama have said evidence was uncovered linking the hack to to North Korea, but some experts have questioned the evidence tying the attack to Pyongyang.

Comment Re:Makes no sense (Score 1) 114

by PolygamousRanchKid (#48638207) Attached to: Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles

We get a bunch of poor people, right? Then you give them water skis and hook them up to the back of the ships. They then water ski behind the ship creating the needed bubbles.

You've got it the wrong way around. We hook the poor up people in front of the ships. They will then swim and tug the ships through the oceans. Thus, ships won't need to use fossil fuels any more.

Lots of climate changing emissions avoided.

Submission + - Genetic study reveals surprising ancestry of many Americans (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: In the United States, almost no one can trace their ancestry back to just one place. And for many, the past may hold some surprises, according to a new study. Researchers have found that a significant percentage of African-Americans, European Americans, and Latinos carry ancestry from outside their self-identified ethnicity. The average African-American genome, for example, is nearly a quarter European, and almost 4% of European Americans carry African ancestry.

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