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Submission + - NVIDIA dropping support for Tegra 2 Harmony device (androidcentral.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @02:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: NVIDIA is eliminating driver support for the less than 1 year old tegra 2 harmony platform. Check here for more details and some shady responses from a Tegra developer. http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/honeycomb-harmony

Submission + - PS3 hack case: Sony levels new TRO & seizure o (myce.com)

Submitted by Wesociety on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @02:32PM

Wesociety writes: Sony's legal dispute with George Hotz ran its course, but the company's crackdown on hackers isn't relegated to one New Jersey man. Alexander Egorenkov, AKA graf_chokolo, has bore the brunt of Sony's litigation in Europe. In many ways, he's Hotz's twin. In others, he couldn't be more different. Hotz settled with SCEA, avoiding a protracted, costly legal battle. Egorenkov on the other hand finds himself yet embroiled with the corporation over his work on the PlayStation 3. New developments in the story might have any other defendant screaming "settlement," but not Egorenkov. Egorenkov stated today that he was just paid a second visit by Sony Europe and served another Temporary Restraining order, this time sans police.

Submission + - WordPress.Com Hacked, Attackers Get Root Access (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @02:22PM

wiredmikey writes: Automattic, the parent company that operates WordPress, was hacked, resulting what the company said was a low-level (root) break-in to several of their servers. The company warned that potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed to the attackers, including client source code.

Comment Awesome. When do I get it on my current kindle? (Score 1) 210

by Frozen-Solid on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:46AM (#35793550) Attached to: Amazon To Offer Ad-Supported Kindle

I, for one, welcome this. As long as the ads being displayed are even remotely as interesting as the artwork the screensavers show currently I'm all for it. Only having the dozen or so screensavers we have right now on the kindle is boring. I'd be willing to voluntarily turn this on if it means I get some more variety.

Submission + - Japan warns of massive earthquake and volcanic exp (ibtimes.com) 2

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Sunday April 10, 2011 @09:21PM

Hkibtimes writes: Japan's Meteorological Agency on Friday warned the country's 20 volcanoes has become alive due to the massive March 11 earthquake, and a study said earthquake over 9.0-magnitude might hit Japan.

Submission + - U.S. authorized TJX hacker

Submitted by doperative on Sunday April 10, 2011 @11:27AM

doperative writes: "Albert Gonzalez .. is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree" link

Submission + - Dragon Age DRM Servers Down 1

Submitted by Bender0x7D1 on Sunday April 10, 2011 @11:22AM

Bender0x7D1 writes: It seems BioWare is having server issues, leaving them unable to authorize downloadable content to their Dragon Age players. According to their forum players have been unable to access their content since Friday, and it may not be resolved for another day. Players are understandably upset about the issue, but are even more upset that there is no official comment by BioWare forcing them to rely on other players for information.

Submission + - EU about to vote on copyright extension (wordpress.com)

Submitted by

ConfusedVorlon

on Sunday April 10, 2011 @10:43AM

ConfusedVorlon writes: "Christian Engström (Pirate MEP) writes : Monday or Tuesday this upcoming week there will be another round in the fight against prolonging the copyright protection term for recorded music in the EU. Now is an opportunity to contact MEPs, Members of the European Parliament, and persuade them to vote against the term extension."

Submission + - Engineers Gain R-E-S-P-E-C-T at Google

Submitted by theodp on Saturday April 09, 2011 @07:47PM

theodp writes: Google co-founder Larry Page, who stepped up this week to replace Eric Schmidt as CEO, didn't waste any time making his presence felt as he seeks to return the company to its start-up roots. In a major management shake-up, Page promoted seven execs who will report directly to him and have oversight over specific product groups. Five are software engineers like Page, putting the focus on product innovation rather than profits and signaling that Google seeks to become a destination again for top tech talent. Who knows? Maybe the next time you compare the reception Googlers give Lady Gaga and Donald Knuth, it'll be Knuth who gets the standing ovation!

Submission + - What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? (discovery.com) 2

Submitted by

astroengine

on Saturday April 09, 2011 @04:33PM

astroengine writes: "We've all wondered about it. When flying at 30,000ft, you look around the cramped economy class cabin thinking 'I wonder if I'd survive being sucked out of this plane if a hole, say, just opened above my head?' That's probably around the time that you should fasten your seat belt. According to medical experts interviewed by Discovery News in the wake of the Southwest Airlines gaping hole incident, the rapid depressurization, low oxygen levels and freezing cold would render you unconscious very quickly. Assuming you don't get chopped in half as you exit through the hole and hit the tail, you'd be long dead before you hit the ground. Nice."

Submission + - Can The U.S. Government Keep Up With Google? (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @11:57AM

jfruhlinger writes: "It's safe to say that Google has achieved a place of dominance in the tech industry that Microsoft held in the late 1990s — and, like Microsoft, may soon face investigation on anti-trust charges from the U.S. government. The rumors have been swirling for a while, but investors seem to be giving them new credence, with shares plummeting yesterday — although the Obama administration may be holding off because it fears being tarred as anti-business. Meanwhile, newly anointed CEO Larry Page wants to move faster and make big things happen."

Submission + - Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific First (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @11:55AM

sciencehabit writes: A U.S. vector biologist appears to have accidentally written virological history simply by having sex with his wife after returning from a field trip to Senegal. A study just released in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the researcher, Brian Foy of Colorado State University, passed to his wife the Zika virus, an obscure pathogen that causes joint pains and extreme fatigue. If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease. The curious case also solves a viral mystery that's been going on for years.

Submission + - House votes to overturn FCC on Net neutrality (cnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @05:36PM

suraj.sun writes: House Republicans voted unanimously today to block controversial Net neutrality regulations from taking effect, a move that is likely to invite a confrontation with President Obama.

By a vote of 241 to 178, the House of Representatives adopted a one-page resolution that says, simply, the regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission on December 21 "shall have no force or effect."

"Congress did not authorize the FCC to regulate in this area," Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), said during this morning's floor debate. "We must reject any rules that it promulgates in this area... It is Congress' responsibility to delegate that authority."

Submission + - Microsoft researchers: NoSQL needs standardization (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @05:28PM

alphadogg writes: The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing Machinery's flagship publication, Communications. "The nascent NoSQL market is extremely fragmented, with many competing vendors and technologies. Programming, deploying, and managing NoSQL solutions requires specialized and low-level knowledge that does not easily carry over from one vendor's product to another," the two researchers, Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman, write in a paper published in the April issue of Communications. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-model-of-data-for-large-shared-data-banks/fulltext

Submission + - Meteorite Reveals New Mineral (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @04:51PM

RedEaredSlider writes: Scientists have found a new type of mineral inside a meteorite, that itself was originally recovered in 1969.

The new mineral, dubbed "Wassonite," was discovered inside the Yamato 691 enstatite chondrite meteorite by American researchers from NASA as well as scientists from Japan and South Korea. That meteorite was recovered from Antarctica 42 years ago.

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