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Submission + - Neutrino's faster than light (profmattstrassler.com)

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on Friday November 18, 2011 @05:57AM

Frans Faase writes: "Beter measurements by the OPERA experiments confirm earlier findings of faster than light neutrino's and have been published in an update version of Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam. One uncertainty about the earlier OPERA measurements, which relied on the shape of the pulse of the neutrino's being shot, has been eliminated. But this does not exclude the possibility of other systematic errors in the method of measurement."

Submission + - Computer learns language by playing games (mit.edu) 1

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on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:41AM

Frans Faase writes: "By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision. The paper Learning toWin by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework explains how a computer program succeeds in playing Civilization II using the official game manual as a strategy guide. This manual uses a large vocabulary of 3638 words, and is composed of 2083 sentences, each on average 16.9 words long. By this the program improves it succes rate from 45% to 78% in playing the game. No prior knowledge of the language is used."

Submission + - Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics (technologyreview.com)

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on Thursday March 31, 2011 @05:45AM

Frans Faase writes: "A new computer model of the way heat is emitted by various parts of the Pioneer spacecraft, and reflected off others, finally solves one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. Previous calculations have only estimated the effect of reflections. A computer modeling technique called Phong shading was used to work out exactly how the the emitted heat is reflected and in which direction it ends up travelling. Taking into account the reflections on the antenna seem to make the anomaly disappear."

Submission + - Suspected owner of Bredolab botnet arrested

Submitted by Frans Faase on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:26AM

Frans Faase writes: Today, a 27 year old Armenian has been arrested on the airport of Jerevan, as suspected owner of the Bredolab botnet, which was taken down yesterday by Dutch officials. Fox-IT, the security firm that helped dismanteling the botnet, used the botnet itself to alert infected victims that there was a problem with their machines, directing them to a notice here

Submission + - Take down of Bredolab botnet (www.om.nl)

Submitted by Frans Faase on Monday October 25, 2010 @01:57PM

Frans Faase writes: Dutch National Crime Squad announces takedown of dangerous Bredolab botnet:
The High Tech Crime Team (THTC) of the National Crime Squad today announced the takedown of a dangerous botnet. The botnet had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide. The botnet was part of the Bredolab network, used by cybercriminals to distribute malware to unsuspecting users’ computers.

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