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by memojuez (#36320064) Attached to: 'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life

More from the article: "The research is likely to trigger scientific challenges and cause some controversy because it places far more complex life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist."

I thought they stopped saying that after finding life in the Challenger Deep section of The Mariana Trench.
Government

Submission + - Section 230 Repeal Would Destroy the Internet (internetevolution.com)

Submitted by hapworth
hapworth writes: Les Machado, an Internet specialist at the firm of LeClair Ryan in Washington, D.C., says the future of the Internet is in jeopardy thanks to measures being taken to repeal Section 230, the law that grants immunity from legal activity to Websites hosting user-generated content. If the law gets repealed, this would likely mean the end of Facebook, blogs, review sites like Yelp, and any other forum where users are allowed to contribute.
Technology

Submission + - Sony Xperia To Receive Special Facebook Integratio (mobilefonereviews.co.uk)

Submitted by LisaPaul
LisaPaul writes: Sony Ericsson have decided to improve the Facebook integration on it's Xperia mobile phones, this news comes just after the release of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. The new Facebook integration will allow users to access Facebook with just one touch. There will be little Facebook like icons in the phones music player allowing the user to share their favourite music with all of their Facebook friends. Sony Ericsson feel that this new addition to the Xperia mobile phones is taking Facebook integration to a new level.
Iphone

Submission + - Smartphone Patent Fight: 'World War III' (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Smartphone-related patent infringement lawsuits Apple and Samsung recently filed against each other are but the latest in an escalating series of Android and open-source-related complaints filed by major corporations over the past 18 months. After more than 40 lawsuits, there's no sign of a letup in smartphone litigiousness, leaving patent experts divided over whether the epic phone fights are a sign of a healthy free market or a serious deterrent to future innovators. 'The players are competing in every way imaginable: on price, patents and in advertising,' said Tim Delaney, an intellectual property litigator at Brinks Hofer in Chicago. 'I'm sure they all have their big stables of expert patent witnesses and lawyers ready to go. It will be World War III.' And tbere will likely by winners and losers. Delaney, like seven other patent not involved in the lawsuits, said it is 'possible, but unlikely, that some company could get knocked out of selling handsets' as a result of the current suits."
Blackberry

Submission + - RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 OS

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: RIM announced two powerful new BlackBerry phones with high-res touchscreens, fast 1.2GHz processors and a new OS that offers better graphics than BlackBerries had before. The new BlackBerry 7 OS brings the "liquid graphics" ability and offers "60 frames per second performance with instant UI action/response. What's unfortunate about the new OS is that rather than being an entirely new OS, BlackBerry 7 is an upgrade to the existing BlackBerry 6 OS.
Microsoft

Submission + - 25% Of Users Now On Windows 7 (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: By the end of 2010, Windows 7 had grabbed 20 percent of the market. At the end of April 2011, Microsoft can already say that Windows 7 has passed the 25 percent mark, according to Net Applications. In other words, the latest and greatest operating system from Redmond is now installed on one in four computers.
Android

Submission + - Google Sued For Tracking Users' :Locations (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: Two Android phone users are suing Google for $50 million in the wake of revelations that their phones might be tracking their locations.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on April 27, is seeking class-action status.

The plaintiffs, Julie Brown and Kayla Molaski, are residents of Oakland County. The two say in the suit that Google's privacy policy did not say that the phones broadcast their location information. Further, they say Google knew that most users would not understand that the privacy policy wouldn't allow for Google to track users' locations.
Security

Submission + - China's Cyber Offense Hides Porous Defenses (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Contrary to the image of China as a nearly invincible cyber powerhouse, security researcher Dillon Beresford says in an interview with Threatpost, that the fast-growing nation suffers from woeful cyber security practices at home that leave, literally, thousands of networks and databases vulnerable to even trivial, remote attacks. Beresford, who publicized holes in domestic Chinese SCADA systems in September, 2010, said the country's aggressive cyber offense abroad, he said, is in stark contrast to an almost total lack of basic cyber defense at home that has left both classified and unclassified government networks vulnerable to attack and compromise. That should give the Chinese government pause as it ponders the consequences of a global campaign of cyber espionage, and create an opportunity for the U.S. and China to de-escalate what he sees as a growing cyber arms race. Beresford has publicized holes in recent weeks highlighting insecure mail servers and databases he has uncovered.

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