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Submission + - 55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked (hothardware.com) 1

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Tens of thousands of Twitter accounts have been compromised in a recent hack attack in which more than 55,000 passwords were leaked and posted to Pastebin by anonymous hackers. Most of the accounts supposedly belonged to spammers, and there were many duplicate entries, Twitter officials pointed out. However, to play it safe, you should probably change your Twitter password ASAP."
Power

Submission + - Sony Demonstrates Paper-fueled Battery (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: We've heard of gadgets being powered by some pretty crazy stuff, but how about paper? Sony recently showed off a new bio-cell battery that breaks down paper in order to create power. A paper battery sounds a little bit far-fetched, but the technology works, and could potentially change how we power devices in the future.

Submission + - New Particle fouund by LHC (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Dupple
Dupple writes: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009.

It is called Chi-b (3P) and will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together. Says the BBC
Android

Submission + - EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ config (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation — the preeminent protector of your digital rights — has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program’s code to work out what’s actually going on. There are three parts to a Carrier IQ installation on your phone: The program itself, which captures your keystrokes and other “metrics”; a configuration file, which varies from handset to handset and carrier to carrier; and a database that stores your actions until it can be transmitted to the carrier. It turns out that that the config profiles are completely unencrypted, and thus very easy to crack."
Games

Submission + - Square Enix Possibly Compromised (square-enix-europe.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Just received this alarming email from Square Enix. It appears that they recently were compromised. Preliminary reports state that there was no compromised user data. They are now allowed to join the list that includes the PSN and Steam. Lets hope they don't shut down servers.
Google

Submission + - YouTube Says Universal Had No 'Right' to Take Down (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Contrary to a previous story, Google played no part in the Megaupload takedown. From Wired: "YouTube said Friday that Universal Music abused the video-sharing site’s piracy filters when it employed them to take down a controversial video of celebrities and pop superstars singing and praising the notorious file-sharing service Megaupload."
Android

Submission + - Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text (darkreading.com)

Submitted by nut
nut writes: The much-hyped payment application from Google on Android has been examined by viaForensics and appears to store some cardholder data in plaintext. Google wallet is the first real payment system to use NFC on Android. Version 2 of the PCI DSS (the current standard) mandates the encryption of transmitted cardholder data encourages strong encryption for its storage. viaForensics suggest that the data stored in plain text might be sufficient to allow social engineering to obtain a credit card number.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft to IE6: Dead browser walking! (cnet.com)

Submitted by
DrMcNasty
DrMcNasty writes: "Come January, the company will start forcing people to update from older versions of Internet Explorer. If you have Automatic Updates enabled in Windows Update, Microsoft says that the update will occur in a seamless, Chrome-like experience.

The company already provides security updates to Internet Explorer through Windows Update, but this means that legacy browser users will see a full-point jump. Windows XP users on Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 will be upgraded to version 8, and Windows Vista users will be pushed up the stairs to Internet Explorer 9. IE9 doesn't work on Windows XP.
 "
China

Submission + - Global use map of Windows XP versus Windows 7 (nwlinux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For the first time ever, Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP in global use. China is still the dominant user of XP with 74.02% with the highest use of Windows 7 found in Luxembourg.
China

Submission + - Chinese Government Tries to Control Rainfall With (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by formaggio
formaggio writes: China's government is intervening with nature by rolling out four regional programs to artificially increase precipitation across the country by 10 percent before 2015. The program is anticipated to bring in an additional 230 billion cubic meters of precipitation per year by 2015. This is on top of the 50 billion China already artificially creates annually in the northeastern province of Jilin.
DRM

Submission + - DRM Free Comedy (gigaom.com)

Submitted by wkurzius
wkurzius writes: Comedian Louis C.K. released his new stand-up special in a unique way: online without DRM and for only $5. On the page where you can buy it, he writes "I don't really get the whole 'torrent' thing. I don't know enough about it to judge either way. But I'd just like you to consider this: I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to be easy for people to watch and enjoy this video in any way they want without 'corporate' restrictions."

GigaOM has a nice write-up about what Louis C.K. is doing, along with the typical rational for distributing content without DRM.
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK Police Test "Temporarily Blinding" LASER (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: Called the SMU 100 it costs £25,000 and sends out a three-metre "wall of light" that leaves anyone caught in it briefly unable to see. Designed by a former Royal Marine Commando, it was originally developed for use against pirates in Somalia. While tasers and CS gas work well over short distances the laser is said to be effective at up to 500 metres (1,640ft). Being targeted by the beam has been compared to staring into the sun before being forced to turn away.Paul Kerr, managing director of Clyde-based Photonic Security Systems, which came up with the design, said "If you can't look at something you can't attack it."
Hardware

Submission + - Building A $1000 Gaming PC

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: You get what you pay for applies to building a gaming PC just as much as anywhere else. In recent attempts, a hardcore PC enthusiast built a $200 PC and a $500 gaming PC where sacrifice was the name of the game. However, with a slightly higher budget this time around, he tries to see what he can put together with a $1000 budget. Using Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 (second-fastest single-GPU card in Nvidia's lineup) and the Core i5-2500K processor with the Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 motherboard, he was able to squeeze in a 4GB of Kingston HyperX Blu memory, Lite-On DVD burner and 1.5TB Western Digital hard drive along with other necessary components.

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