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Submission + - Genome Sequencing Time can be Reduced to Minutes (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: DNA unravelled while you wait

Scientists from Imperial College London have patented technology which could unravel the human genome in minutes.

Current tools which sequence DNA are incredibly complex, time-consuming and expensive but new research suggests that, within ten years, the entire human genome could be sequenced in minutes and at a fraction of the cost.
Security

Submission + - Anonymous Attacks Put Credit Card Users At Risk (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Digital vigilante group Anonymous may be putting credit card users at risk with its attacks on MasterCard and Visa, preventing access to security systems the companies introduced to prevent on-line card fraud.

Both companies use a password-based authentication system, known as 'MasterCard SecureCode' and 'Verified by Visa' respectively, which loads a page on their own servers in an encrypted frame on third-party sites that have signed up to the programme. It's the on-line equivalent of Chip and Pin, and holds the promise of making it harder for a ne'er-do-well to go on a web-based shopping spree if he or she captures your credit card details.
Politics

Submission + - Pre-computer Laws Blamed for UFO Hacker's Plight (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: The extradition laws under which hacker Gary McKinnon has been ordered before a US court were made before politicians had thought how they would apply to computer crime, said David Blunkett, the home secretary who put the US/UK Extradition Treaty through Parliament.
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook's 'Like This' button is tracking you (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: A researcher from a Dutch university is warning that Facebook's 'Like This' button is watching your every move.

Arnold Roosendaal, who is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg University for Law, Technology and Society, warns that Facebook is tracking and tracing everyone, whether they use the social networking site or not.

Roosendaal says that Facebook's tentacles reach way beyond the confines of its own web sites and subscriber base because more and more third party sites are using the 'Like This' button and Facebook Connect.
United Kingdom

Submission + - WikiLeaks: US Rebuffed UK PM Over McKinnon Case (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: The US government turned down a personal appeal by former UK prime minister Gordon Brown to allow British hacker Gary McKinnon to serve any sentence he received in the UK, according to US diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks.

Brown made the plea in a personal meeting with US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, prompting what UK newspaper The Guardian calls a “humiliating diplomatic rebuff”.

Submission + - Virgin's iPad-Only Mag Shows Future of Publishing (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: The launch of 'Project', the first iPad magazine without a paper and ink equivalent, could sound the death knell for traditional periodical publishing.
Will Richard Branson's latest foray into digital publishing alongside Apple's game-changing iPad bring the magazine as we know it to its knees?
Iphone

Submission + - Multiple iPhones Bricked by Jailbreak Legacy (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Multiple users are reporting that attempts to upgrade iPhone 4 and iPhone 3Gs are resulting in bricked handsets stuck in infinite Recovery Mode loops and reporting unknown error 1013.

Although the vast majority of forum posters are reporting that their current handsets have never been jailbroken (it is an official Apple Forum after all) digging deeper into the threads it turns out that a large proportion of the users experiencing difficulties have, at some time in the past, either jailbroken another device or allowed their computers to be used for such nefarious purposes by a third party.
Intel

Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA 188

Posted by Soulskill from the made-to-order dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Intel is quite clearly serious about offering competition to ARM in the embedded market, and has just announced a new Atom processor series that offers a unique selling point: an integral FPGA processor. Billed as 'the first configurable Intel Atom-based processor,' the Atom E600C series combines an Intel Atom 'Tunnel Creek' chip with an Altera Field Programmable Gate Array — offering, the company claims, significantly more flexibility for ODMs and OEMs."
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel is quite clearly serious about offering competition to ARM in the embedded market, and has just announced a new Atom processor series that offers a unique selling point: an integral FPGA processor.
Billed as 'the first configurable Intel Atom-based processor,' the Atom E600C series combines an Intel Atom 'Tunnel Creek' chip with an Altera Field Programmable Gate Array — offering, the company claims, significantly more flexibility for ODMs and OEMs.
Hardware

Submission + - PCIe 3.0 standard goes live (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: The PCI Special Interest group, the body responsible for managing the PCI family of industry standards, has announced the release of the PCI Express 3.0 standard — and it promises to make future hardware fly.

The PCIe 3.0 standard increases the bandwidth available on each PCI Express lane compared to the current PCIe 2.0 standard to an impressive eight gigatransfers per second from five gigatransfers per second.

That equates to around 1GB/s of bandwidth per lane or 16GB/s for a PCIe-x16 slot, as typically used for high-performance graphics cards. In theory, a bidirectional connection will allow for aggregate bandwidth of up to 32GB/s — a seriously impressive figure.

Submission + - Bid launched to buy Alan Turing papers for the UK (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: A bid has been launched to raise the money to buy Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing's papers for the UK.

The documents are expected to fetch between £300,000 and £500,000 when they go under the hammer next week at Christie's auctioneers.
Hardware

Submission + - Video Shows RIM PlayBook Boost Against iPad (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Blacklaw
Blacklaw writes: Research In Motion believes that the multi-core processor and real-time QNX operating system at the heart of its upcoming PlayBook tablet will leave the iPad standing — and has put its money where its mouth is in a head-to-head video.
The video, introduced by Matthew from RIM's web browser group and unveiled at the Web 2.0 Summit by RIM boss Jim Balsillie, demonstrates the rendering speed of various websites on both the iPad and the BlackBerry PlayBook — and there's no denying that the PlayBook has the edge, loading the page significantly quicker than Apple's tablet.
Further benchmarks and tests show the incredible performance — perhaps the iPad will have competition in 2011.
Education

Submission + - Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For UK Museum (justgiving.com)

Submitted by Blacklaw
Blacklaw writes: Auction house Christie's is planning to sell offprints of Alan Turing's early work for an estimated £500,000 — and the fight has begun to raise the money so UK codebreaking museum and charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of a modern 'universal computer.'
If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again.
The Internet

Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites 113

Posted by CmdrTaco from the find-the-buried-treasure dept.
Stoobalou writes "The world's first ever 'archaeological dig' of the internet is set to begin this week in London's über-trendy Shoreditch. The exhibition, entitled Digital Archaeology, kicks off today to mark the 20th anniversary of the first stirrings of the world wide web. According to its organisers, valuable evidence from the interweb's early days is at risk of being lost forever. Digital Archaeology is an attempt to kick-start a wider attempt to archive the web in Britain's first 'digital archive'."

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