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Submission + - IMSC Result (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IMSC Results — IMSC Result 2010 — 2011 — check now — www.imsc.res.in : The Institute of Mathematics Sciences (IMSC) has regularly updates its website (www.imsc.res.in) to declare the result for the exams held regularly. IMSC has made the script especially for the candidates which can produce the result only enter by roll number. So candidates need only the roll number to know the Result. We made this page especially for the IMSC Result 2010 — 2011. All the old & new results of IMSC are available
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft: No Pwn2Own bug in IE9 (winbeta.org)

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BogenDorpher
BogenDorpher writes: "If you recall, a few days ago at the Pwn2Own hacking event, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 was hacked. Microsoft, today, said its Internet Explorer 9 does not contain the same bug which was exploited on Internet Explorer 8."
Twitter

Submission + - Twitter discards client UI community (google.com)

Submitted by Antique Geekmeister
Antique Geekmeister writes: Twitter has just decided to discard the community of developers who've created interesting, innovative, and exciting to start-up company applications. The announcement at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/c82cd59c7a87216a?hl=en shows that they intend to switch from the "bazaar" model of development to the "cathedral", with much tighter control of user interfaces for "security" and "consistency".
Technology

Submission + - Spanish government to subsidize IPv6 (elpais.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Spanish government will initiate a plan to incorporate IPv6 starting in april, initially the Ministry of Industry with other ministries to follow. The biggest part of the plan is a program of subsidies for small and medium sized enterprises that will cover projects involving, among others, pilot testing, network reconfiguration, purchase of software and equipment replacement. The plan will revise registration procedures for the .es TLD to include IPv6 addressing.
Censorship

Submission + - Flickr Censors Egypt Police Photos (thomashawk.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday Flickr removed a photoset of Egyptian Secret Police photos which had been posted to an Egyptian journalist's Flickrstream. The photos were obtained when the journalist acquired them from what he called "one of Mubarak's largest torture facilities." Flickr cited the fact that the photos "were not the user's own work" as justification for the censorship, even though Flickr staffers themselves frequently upload work that is not "their own" to their personal photostreams.
Medicine

Submission + - Is Daylight Saving Time Bad for You?

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Time Magazine reports that according to experts on circadian rhythms, the hour shift in sleep schedule from Daylight Savings Time can have serious effects on some people's health, particularly in people with certain pre-existing health problems with one study finding that men were more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) than at any other time during the year and another study showing that the number of serious heart attacks jumps 6% to 10% on the first three workdays after DST begins. Dr. Xiaoyong Yang, an assistant professor of comparative medicine and cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University, theorizes that shifts in biologic rhythms could trigger harmful inflammatory or metabolic changes at the cellular level, which these individuals may be more susceptible to. "Most people don't have much of a problem — they can adjust their body clock quickly. Eventually, after a couple of days, they already can adapt to the new schedule," says Yang. "But for some groups of people — people who have depression or a heart problem — there's some research that suggests that [they] have a higher risk of suicide and heart attack.""
Security

Submission + - Mobile Spyware Conferences Into Your Calls (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: This week we've seen reports of several new variants of mobile malware emerging, mainly surfacing in China.

Yesterday, we saw reports of Multiple Variants of Android Virus 'Hong Tou Tou' showing up, which has mainly been working its way onto smartphones via alternative app marketplaces.

Today, we saw reports of a new variant of spyware "Spy.Felxispy" targeting Symbian devices, identified by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre of China. More than a dozen variants of the spyware have emerged since the first was spotted, and the latest has affected 150,000+ devices. Once installed, the spyware will turn on the Conference Call feature of the device without users' awareness. When users are making phone calls, the spyware automatically adds itself to the call to monitor the conversation.

Note that Spy.Felxispy is NOT new mobile malware, these are variants of it. The malware is also sometimes know as "Trojan-Spy:SymbOS/Flexispy.A" as identified by security firm F-Secure and others, and has been floating around since 2006.

Submission + - Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: People may joke about their dirty old sneakers turning into science projects or mini ecosystems, but once OAT Shoes' compostable sneakers become commercially available within the next several weeks ... let's just say, those same people may no longer be joking when they make those kind of statements. Made using hemp, cork, bio-cotton, certified biodegradable plastics, chlorine-free bleach and other nontoxic materials, the shoes are designed to completely break down when buried in the ground – the first batch will even come with seeds in their tongues, so that wildflowers will sprout up in commemoration of users' planted, expired kicks.

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