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An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen 166

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @03:25PM
from the besides-me dept.

Julie188 writes "Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."

Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE 142

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 21, 2010 @05:40PM
from the you-saw-this-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch to address a remote code execution hole in Internet Explorer that was used in the recent Chinese attacks disclosed by Google. Ars Technica has all the download links you need."

Comment: Re:1 Lego brick, 2 Lego bricks (Score 1) 210

by boinger on Thursday May 07, 2009 @02:35PM (#27864253) Attached to: What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos

it's "iPod", you insensitive clod!