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Wild ways of Microsoft bosses-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31, @06:48PM

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, 'A culture of “excessive drunkeness” and lewd behaviour among senior staff at Microsoft in Britain has apparently been laid bare in a £10 million High Court battle between its UK chief and his former second in command.'"
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kernel.org compromized-> 2

Submitted by JoeF on Wednesday August 31, @04:33PM

JoeF writes "There is a note posted on the main kernel.org page, that kernel.org has been compromised earlier this month:
"Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure."

The note goes on to say that it is unlikely to have affected the source code repositories, due to the nature of git."
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Researchers Create Rain By Firing Lasers at Sky-> 0

Submitted by formaggio on Wednesday August 31, @04:32PM

formaggio writes "Last year a team of researchers at Switzerland’s University of Geneva had come up with an interesting way of making it rain– by shooting lasers high up into the sky. At the time it seemed like science fiction, but now it is science fact after the team successfully finished tests around Lake Geneva."
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1/2 billion taxpayer $ gone as solar startup folds-> 1

Submitted by elrous0 on Wednesday August 31, @03:30PM

elrous0 writes "Solar panel maker Solyndra today said that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after failing to successfully compete against lower-cost Chinese manufacturers. It is one of largest failures ever suffered by venture capitalists, and a major black eye for a U.S. Department of Energy that loaned the company more than $500 million."
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George Lucas messing with Star Wars again-> 5

Submitted by FrankNFurter on Wednesday August 31, @03:11PM

FrankNFurter writes "Once more George Lucas has been caught messing with the original Star Wars trilogy — this time for the Blu-Ray release later this year. What changed? He added Darth Vader saying 'NOOOOOO' to the scene where the Emperor is electrocuting Luke.

Leave Star Wars alone, George!"
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NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law in Effect-> 0

Submitted by

sfranklin

on Wednesday August 31, @03:05PM

sfranklin writes "As of Sept 1 at midnight, "anyone caught downloading copyrighted content illegally could face fines of up to $15,000 and have their internet cut off" in New Zealand. You don't even have to do the deed yourself. The "account holder needs to know what's going on even if they themselves don't do anything online..." Scary stuff, although I wonder how much actual enforcement is likely to happen."
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"Apache Killer" Web Server Hole Plugged-> 0

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday August 31, @02:03PM

CWmike writes "The Apache open-source project has patched its Web server software to quash a bug that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool has been exploiting. Apache 2.2.20, released Tuesday, plugs the hole used by an "Apache Killer" attack tool. On Aug. 24, project developers had promised a fix within 48 hours, then revised the timetable two days later to 24 hours. The security advisory did not explain the delay."
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In Windows 8 the desktop is "just another app"-> 4

Submitted by

MrSeb

on Wednesday August 31, @12:45PM

MrSeb writes "Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live, has detailed how the tiled Metro interface and the standard Windows Desktop (with a capital D) will peacefully coincide. You will have complete control over which interface you use — and you can use both at once, if you like. Tablets (and devices missing a keyboard and mouse) will probably boot up in the Metro UI, but it isn’t clear what the default for desktop and laptop PCs will be. Implementation-wise, Sinofsky points out that the Windows Desktop will now be "just an app", in that you launch it by jabbing a tile in the tile-based Metro interface; in other words, it won't steal RAM or CPU cycles unless you actively want to use it."
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Possible Habitable Planet 36 Lightyears Away-> 0

Submitted by rubycodez on Wednesday August 31, @12:08PM

rubycodez writes "HD85512b, a planet found by the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in Chile, is at the right distance and of the right mass (3.6 times Earth) to possibly harbor life. It is only the second planet found with the right distance and mass parameters to be a viable candidate for further study for life signs."
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Bulletproofing Laptop Security-> 0

Submitted by

snydeq

on Wednesday August 31, @11:58AM

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp offers tips, tools, and techniques to protect Windows notebooks against theft, intrusion, and data loss. 'Some involve hardware (fingerprint readers), some involve software (Prey, TrueCrypt), and some involve nothing more than using your head (strong passwords). Not all of them might be implemented on a given machine, but the more layers of each kind of security you can add, the better.'"
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