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Submission + - The Reactable! - Musical Instruments Of The Future (freeturbine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

Submission + - 25,000 Danish hospital staff move to LibreOffice (www.osor.eu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons', which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner (about 5.3 million euro) worth of proprietary licences.

Submission + - BART Police Site Hacked by a Noob (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by thebchuckster
thebchuckster writes: The daring move wasn't the result of methodical planning from longtime experts. Log files from Internet Relay Chat, a means of online communication that Anonymous favors, shows the attack was carried out by someone with no previous experience.

[08/17/11 11:19] Lamaline_5mg I am not a hacker. This is my first attack.

[08/17/11 11:19] Lamaline_5mg I just got pissed about what bart did and learned a lot about Microsoft SQLi.
Linux

Submission + - Linus Torvalds: ARM has a lot to learn from the PC (networkworld.com)

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jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "Linux and ARM developers have clashed over what's been described as a "United Nations-level complexity of the forks in the ARM section of the Linux kernel." Linus Torvalds addressed the issue at LinuxCon this week on the 20th anniversary of Linux, saying the ARM platform has a lot to learn from the PC. While Torvalds noted that "a lot of people love to hate the PC," the fact that Intel, AMD and hardware makers worked on building a common infrastructure "made it very efficient and easy to support." ARM, on the other hand, "is missing it completely," Torvalds said. "ARM is this hodgepodge of five or six major companies and tens of minor companies making random pieces of hardware, and it looks like they're taking hardware and throwing it at a wall and seeing where it sticks, and making a chip out of what's stuck on the wall.""
Space

Submission + - DARPA to Sponsor R&D for Interstellar Travel (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Apocryphos
Apocryphos writes: The government agency that helped invent the Internet now wants to do the same for travel to the stars.

In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years.
Hardware

Submission + - Organic semiconductor 30x faster than silicon (stanford.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Creating a flexible display requires finding an organic material that's both durable and capable of carrying an electric signal fast enough. To create such a material requires choosing the right compound and combining it with an organic base material. It's a hit and miss affair that can take years of synthesis to get right, but even then the final material may not be good enough.

Standford and Harvard researchers have come up with a much faster solution: use computer prediction to decide on the best compound before synthesizing begins. They also proved it works by developing a new organic semiconductor material 30x faster than the amorphous silicon used in LCDs.

Submission + - How volunteers rebuilt WW2 computers (pcpro.co.uk)

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nk497
nk497 writes: "A single photograph, scraps of circuit diagrams drawn from memory and a pile of disused components – it isn’t much to go on, but from such meagre beginnings, engineers rebuilt one of the precursors to the modern computer. The Tunny decryption machine – on display at The Museum of National Computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire in the UK – was a feat of engineering both during World War II when it was created, and over the past five years when it was rebuilt by retired BT engineers."
Google

Submission + - Google: 0-Days Only Useful for a Few Days (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Google has a hugely privileged view of the Internet and it uses that position for all kinds of things, one of which is to collect data and intelligence on malicious Web site behavior and malware trends. In a new report based on four years' worth of data on site and malware activity, the company found that attackers are now deploying highly specialized evasion and obfuscation techniques that play off what researchers and users do and then adjust and adapt.

Google's researchers also found that zero-day vulnerabilities aren't useful for very long. Their shelf life is just a few days before patches are deployed and then the attackers move on to a new bug.

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