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Submission + - T Pyxidis Outburst - Animation (blogspot.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The recurrent nova T Pyxidis has been discovered in outburst. his is the first outburst of T Pyx since December 7, 1966 (discovered then by Albert Jones), nearly 45 years, when it reached visual magnitude 6.5 from fainter than 15th magnitude; it was brighter than magnitude 8 for two months. Previous outbursts occurred in 1890, 1902, 1920, and 1944. There are only ten known galactic recurrent novae.
Power

Submission + - Turning windows into powerplants (mit.edu)

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An anonymous reader writes: New technology from MIT could enable a building’s windows to generate power, without blocking the view.
Power

Submission + - Optical Battery Harnesses Power of the Sun (gizmag.com)

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Zothecula writes: It has long been thought that, even though light has electric and magnetic components, the effects of the magnetic field are so weak that they could effectively be ignored. Now researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have discovered that under the right conditions, a light field can generate magnetic effects that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected. The researchers say the discovery paves the way for the creation of an "optical battery" that could harness power from the sun without the use of solar cells.
Businesses

Submission + - Google's Aggressive Hiring Spooks Investors 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Michael Liedtke reports in BusinessWeek that since Larry Page has taken over as Google CEO his aggressive hiring and higher costs have spooked investors who are already nervous about a new CEO who disdains Wall Street's focus on short-term results. Google has committed to hiring at least 6,200 workers this year, the most in its 13-year history and got the ball rolling quickly in the first quarter by adding more than 1,900 people, a pace that would translate to more than 7,600 for the year. Page has indicated he plans to keep investing in opportunities that may take years to pay off, even if that holds back results in the near term. "I'm very excited about Google and our momentum, and I'm very, very optimistic about our future," says Page. More than half of the new staff is working on products and services to supplement the search advertising network that makes most of Google's money. The new growth opportunities include video ads on Google's YouTube site, ads on smartphones, and more banner advertising. Meanwhile Google's chief financial officer Patrick Pichette assured analysts he is monitoring the spending to ensure there will be an eventual payoff. "I can guarantee you that everyone who has a cost center has to demonstrate productivity.""
Java

Submission + - Guardian goes experimental with Scala and NoSQL (i-programmer.info) 1

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The developer team at online news site guardian.co.uk is making another interesting decision to use emerging technology for its site — and its choice is Scala and a noSQL database. These are risky in the sense that they are untried on such a scale. Are these guys just trying to make themselves unsackable or are they doing the right-thing?

Submission + - Dell Tests Packaging Material Made of Mushrooms (pcmag.com)

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jones_supa
jones_supa writes: "Dell said this week that it will begin shipping one server configuration with a packaging material with a more ecological approach, one that's grown using mushroom spores. First to appear along the PowerEdge R710 server, the mushroom mycelium can be grown into the shape needed for the packaging. Upon receipt, the packaging can then be composted. Dell already ships many of its notebooks and smartphones using a cushion of bamboo, another plant that grows easily in the wild."

Submission + - Italian cold fusion device examined (nyteknik.se) 2

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An anonymous reader writes: In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian âenergy catalyzerâ(TM). The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy.
Privacy

Submission + - Smartphone Users Feel More Secure Than PC Users (net-security.org)

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Orome1 writes: Many users feel more secure using smartphones to surf the Internet than PCs, and a majority consider the risk of losing personal data higher on computers than on smartphones, according to Kaspersky Lab. 1,600 smartphone users were surveyed in Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. There has been a recent increase in the number of attacks on mobile operating systems like Android and iOS, and experts expect to see considerably more of these in the future. Despite this, users in Europe, according to the Kaspersky Lab survey, feel more secure accessing the Internet via a mobile device.
Crime

Submission + - Servers Breached at Fortune 100 Company (net-security.org)

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Orome1 writes: The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group — a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US — has suffered a breach that resulted in password-stealing Trojans being installed on a number of the company's servers. A number of servers were compromised, including the Citrix servers which the employees use to access the company systems from a remote location.
Data Storage

Submission + - Panasonic's 100GB Blu-Ray arrives (pcauthority.com.au)

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An anonymous reader writes: It's not unusual to hear of advances made in some research laboratory that could one day lead to unheard of advances in disc storage, like 1000GB optical media. But it's not so often that we see one of these mutant discs — costing a reported 10,000 yen, or approximately $112 — go on sale. Panasonic's BDXL Blu-Ray discs are re-writable and capable of storing 100GB, thanks to three storage layers. According to this story, it can take more than one and a half hours to fill a disc with a compatible drive.

Submission + - Advice on software for running a small library

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yahyamf
yahyamf writes: "I've been asked to help setup software for managing a small library at a non-profit school in the middle-east for under-privileged children. The library has about 5000 books and will be run mostly by student workers. The requirements are low cost, ease of use and maintenance, and support for Arabic and English. Barcode printing and scanning capabilities would be great as well. I've looked briefly at koha, but is there anything else out there (both hardware and software) slashdotters can recommend?"

Comment Re:And then people wonder (Score 1) 153

by andrea.sartori (#35692904) Attached to: RSA Says SecurID Hack Based On Phishing With Flash 0-Day
Just for the hell of it: if You can't be infected by something you can't run, the logical consequence would be to never run anything.
But don't take that as something personal. Of course the real thing to do is to avoid significant security risks. (Such as, just to try and stay on topic, fishing a message out of junk and open whatever attachment it comes with.)

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