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Submission + - Swiss banks making concessions on bank secrecy 1

Submitted by Aryabhata on Saturday March 14, 2009 @09:47PM

Aryabhata writes: Economic Times & Reuters report: "Under pressure from the US and other troubled economies, the Swiss government announced on Friday that it would cooperate in international tax investigations, breaking with its long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars. Austria and Luxembourg also said they would help. "

Submission + - Jon Stewart Exposes Apple Stock Manipulation (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by WebManWalking on Friday March 13, 2009 @10:09PM

WebManWalking writes: AppleInsider is running a report by Prince McLean about how deliberate misinformation is being used to manipulate Apple stock prices. As usual, traditional journalists, whose job ought to be to inform us, have dropped the ball, and it fell to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show to tear Wall Street yet another new one. I'm getting pretty sick of traditional journalists' reluctance to go for the throat when they see corruption, and ostensibly hide behind the skirts of fairness. Looks more like cowardice to me. I don't own Apple stock, but if I did, I'd be thanking The Daily Show.

Submission + - MacBook modded with second monitor inside Logo (macmod.com) 1

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday March 13, 2009 @02:20AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "This is one of the coolest mods I've seen all year. Mac Moder EdsJunk submitted this mod to our forums late Thursday night. By cracking open a MacBook he was able to put a second monitor inside of the screen. The end result is sweet. The second monitor can make the Apple logo have any kind of background, like the clown fish, or the flurry screen saver."

Submission + - The "militarisation" of the Internet (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Thursday March 12, 2009 @10:58PM

angry tapir writes: "One of the discussions at the Source Boston Security Showcase has been the "militarisation" of the Internet. Governments looking to silence critics and stymie opposition have added DDOS attacks to their censoring methods, according to Jose Nazario, senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, with international political situations spawning DDOS attacks."

Submission + - How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds?

Submitted by on Thursday March 12, 2009 @10:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: Cyber Warfare is a hot topic these days, a major reorganization may be looming, but a critical component is a culture where technologists can thrive. Two recent articles address this subject. Lieutenant Colonel Greg Conti and Colonel Buck Surdu recently published an article in the latest DoD IA Newsletter stating that "The Army, Navy, and Air Force all maintain cyberwarfare components, but these organizations exist as ill-fitting appendages that attempt to operate in inhospitable cultures where technical expertise is not recognized, cultivated, or completely understood." In his TaoSecurity Blog Richard Bejtlich added "When I left the Air Force in early 2001, I was the 31st of the last 32 eligible company grade officers in the Air Force Information Warfare Center to separate from the Air Force rather than take a new nontechnical assignment." So, Slashdot, how has the military treated you and your technical friends? What changes are needed?

Submission + - Google's 2007 April Fool's Hoax

Submitted by

Anirban Paul

on Sunday April 01, 2007 @04:27AM

Anirban Paul writes: "Google has embarked upon a huge internet April Fool's hoax campaign as we speak (now it is 4:15am April 1st EST -NY). google has launched an april fool hoax as a link in the main search page that it is offering broadband internet service through household toilets. they have named the service as TiSP (beta); it is well written elaborate hoax with customer support, tech support, FAQs etc. it can also be accessed at http://www.google.com/tisp/. it says the following: "Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.""

Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card 134

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @03:43AM from the cardtastrophie dept.

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Bill Stubbs writes "NVIDIA has admitted to a killer bug in all GeForce 8800GTX/GTS cards, and will recall all affected cards and replace them. 'An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourself for the truth: Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.' The article also links to a secret website which will allow gamers to purchase Nvidia cards at cost."

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