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Cooking With Your USB Ports 188

Posted by samzenpus from the sorry-your-dinner-crashed dept.
tekgoblin writes "Wow, I would never have thought to try and cook food with the power that a standard USB port provides, but someone did. A standard port provides 5V of power, give or take a little. I am not even sure what it takes to heat a small hotplate, but I am sure it is more than 5V. It looks like the guy tied together around 30 USB cables powered by his PC to power this small hotplate. But believe it or not, it seems to have cooked the meat perfectly."

Submission + - Bell System Technical Journal online (bell-labs.com)

Submitted by pademelon
pademelon writes: Bell System Technical Journal is now online. This is the journal that published the invention of the transistor in 1947, Shannon's seminal paper inventing information theory, the invention of the CCD, of cellular communications networks, of MIMO communications, and much else in technology is now freely and easily available.

 
Handhelds

When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook 104

Posted by timothy from the faint-of-heart-attack dept.
Benz145 writes "The famous Sony VAIO UX UMPC may have been cancelled a few years back by Sony, but the community at Micro PC Talk won't let it die. Modder Anh has carefully removed the relatively slow 1.33Ghz Core Solo CPU and installed a much faster Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 (a process which involves reballing the entire CPU). On top of this, he managed to install an incredibly small 4-port USB hub into the unit which allowed for the further instillation of a Huawei E172 modem for 3G data/voice/SMS, a GPS receiver, and a Pinnacle HD TV receiver. All of this was done without modifying the device's tiny external case. Great high-res pictures of the motherboard with the modded hardware can be seen through the link."
NASA

Submission + - Giant star disappears with poof, rather than POW! (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Researchers expecting to see a spectacular supernova explosion from a fading galaxy 3 billion light years from Earth instead were treated to a dust-encased whimper instead of the more typical bang. Using NASA's Spitzer space telescope researchers from Ohio State University classified the event as odd, but the treat was that it was the first one of its kind ever viewed by astronomers.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft releases biggest-ever security update (idg.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Microsoft released its largest-ever set of security patches on Tuesday, fixing a total of 49 bugs in products such as Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. There are 16 groups of patches (called updates) in total. Microsoft says that two of them — the Internet Explorer fix numbered MS10-071 and a Windows patch numbered MS10-076 — should get top priority."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook introduces one-time passwords (goodgearguide.com.au) 4

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Worried about logging into Facebook from a strange computer? There's now a way to get into the popular social network without entering your regular Facebook password. It's called a temporary password. To use it, users must list their mobile phone numbers with their Facebook accounts. They can then text a number from their phones and Facebook sends back a temporary password that is good for 20 minutes. The service will be available worldwide in the next few weeks."
Microsoft

Submission + - MS Plugs Stuxnet Bug in Largest Patch Release (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Microsoft has released its largest-ever bundle of patches, pushing out 16 updates that fix a total of 49 individual vulnerabilities. The patches include updates for six critical vulnerabilities, most notably a huge fix for some remote code-execution bugs in various versions of Internet Explorer, as well as a patch for one of the flaws used by Stuxnet in the attacks on Windows desktops.

One of the other bugs that Microsoft patched is MS010-073, one of the vulnerabilities used in the Stuxnet attack.

"It’s great to see Microsoft release MS010-073, patching multiple vulnerabilities in win32k.sys on multiple operating systems. It’s interesting that it’s rated only 'Important', because CVE-2010-2743 is being exploited in the wild. Our research team found and reported the Win32k Keyboard Layout Vulnerability to Microsoft when we discovered it exploited by Stuxnet early on in our research. It was one of the 0days used by Stuxnet to execute shellcode at system level privileges by abusing the NtUserSendInput function," said Kurt Baumgartner, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.

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