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Submission + - Xbox Live Hacked (pastebin.com)

Submitted by CanoeCrasher
CanoeCrasher writes: Well, crap. This is my first submission ever. A link is floating around purporting to contain a list of all 45 million XBL usernames and passwords. I don't know what to say about that, besides that you should probably change your password.

Submission + - Teen(ager)s, Social Media, and Privacy (pewinternet.org)

Submitted by antdude
antdude writes: Pew Internet has a few reports showing that "Teens are sharing more info(rmation) about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data ..."

Seen on Boing Boing.

Submission + - Mageia 3 Released

Submitted by Freshly Exhumed
Freshly Exhumed writes: Forked from Mandriva Linux back in 2010, Mageia Linux has hit a new release milestone. Trish at the Mageia blog announces: 'All grown up and ready to go dancing: Mageia 3 's out! We still can’t believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we’ve been doing it for two and a half years. For people who can’t wait, get it here; release notes are here. To upgrade from Mageia 2, see here. Before we get to the rest of the information: we dedicate this release to the memory of Eugeni Dodonov, our friend, our colleague and a great inspiration to those he left behind. We miss his brilliance, his courtesy and his dedication.' Major features: Kernel 3.8, systemd 195, GRUB is the default bootloader; GRUB2 is available to test, KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6., Xfce 4.10, Libreoffice 4.0.3 as well as improvements to Mageia's own rpm-based urpmi package management system.

Submission + - Been Scroogled Lately?

Submitted by aklinux
aklinux writes: Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at Heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice.

Comment Thanks to Kim Dotcom? (Score 1) 656

by fekmist (#43675201) Attached to: Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom
Thanks to Kim Dotcom? I'd say it's more appropriate to say it's thanks to the internet as a whole. It doesn't matter where it was uploaded, the people that downloaded it in the first 2 days knew about it long before its release. If anything this is yet another misleading headline to make him look like he's doing something illegal, which he isn't.

Submission + - Spotify closes download loophole (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by jonfr
jonfr writes: According to BBC News, Spotify has closed down a loophole in there system that allowed users to download the mp3 file of the music they where listening too. While this is just copying and nothing else, the spoke person for Briffa, Sheena Sheikh claims any such action to be nothing but stealing.

"Sheena Sheikh, a solicitor from intellectual property specialists Briffa, told the BBC that the law is straightforward on such downloading activity.
"It is effectively stealing," she said.
"You are committing an infringement. You're not authorised to download the songs. You don't have permission.""

Submission + - Glitch Nets Diablo III Players Trillions in Digital Gold (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: It can be hard to tell the difference between the real world and the the world of huge online games like Diablo at times. However in this case, let's hope those who managed to amass up to 371 trillion of in-game currency didn't go out and spend it on something real....

Submission + - Dream of Mars exploration achievable, experts say (the-briefing.com)

Submitted by mctip_it
mctip_it writes: NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges.
The biggest names in space exploration, among them top officials from the US space agency and Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, will discuss the latest projects at a three-day conference starting Monday in the US capital.

Submission + - Apple Applies for Patent on Battery with Rounded Corners (businessweek.com)

Submitted by cervesaebraciator
cervesaebraciator writes: From TFA: "Apple said in the application that a curved battery pack can use the area outside of the rectangular space ordinarily reserved for such an energy source. A curved battery could occupy space that is “curved, rounded, or irregularly shaped,” the Cupertino, California-based company said. That could allow designs for devices to diverge from the standard rectangular configuration." The application describes the process thus: "The [layers of cathodes, separators, and anodes] may be wound to create a jelly roll prior to sealing the layers in the flexible pouch. A curve may also be formed in the battery cell by applying a pressure of at least 0.13 kilogram-force (kgf) per square millimeter to the layers using a set of curved plates applying a temperature of about 85.degree. C. to the layers."

Submission + - Are some of north korea's long-range missiles fakes? (npr.org)

Submitted by gbrumfiel
gbrumfiel writes: North Korea has not been shy in announcing plans to destroy the United States, but questions remain over whether it has the nukes or the missiles to do so. Now NPR reports on open-source intelligence showing that one of the North's most "advanced" weapons might actually be a decoy. Six KN-08 missiles were paraded last year, but each showed differences in the way they were assembled. Is it all a bluff? Or are the missiles part of a real program?

Submission + - Wii U GamePad Plus: Could It Be Coming? (goozernation.com)

Submitted by RyanDJ
RyanDJ writes: Ryan Johnson | GoozerNation

Nintendo made an interesting design choice only allowing a single GamePad to be used with the machine at a time. While not everyone has the funds to go out and buy four more pads, it certainly makes one wonder if there was anything else behind the reasoning. Nintendo has a habit of upgrading their equipment, most notably with the recent WiiMotionPlus. Could we see a GamePad Plus in the Wii U's future?

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