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+ - Newspaper Sites Attacked by Hackers->

Submitted by puddingebola
puddingebola writes "From the article, "The Web site and several Twitter accounts belonging to The Financial Times were hacked on Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army in a continuing campaign that has aimed at an array of media outlets ranging from The Associated Press to the parody site The Onion, according to a claim by the so-called army.The Syrian Electronic Army said it seized control of several F.T. Twitter accounts and amended a number of the site’s blog posts with the headline “Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.” Hackers used their access to the F.T.'s Twitter feed to post messages, including one that said, “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here,” and another that linked to a YouTube video of an execution. Both messages were quickly removed.""
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+ - Federal Appeals Court Says Police Can't Search Cell Phone Without Warrant->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In a decision that's almost certainly going to result in this issue heading up to the Supreme Court, the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that police can't search your phone when they arrest you without a warrant. That's contrary to most courts' previous findings in these kinds of cases where judges have allowed warantless searches through cell phones."
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+ - NHTSA Calls For Better Vehicle Cyber Security->

Submitted by chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes "The U.S. Government’s lead agency for vehicle safety has told Congress that more research into “vehicle cyber security” to address the threats to drivers from cyber attacks that could "remotely compromise vehicle security through software and the increased onboard communications services."

In testimony before Congress on Thursday, David Strickland, the chief Administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told a Senate Committee that the electronics systems are “critical to the functioning” of modern autos and are becoming increasingly interconnected, leading to “different safety and cyber security risks.” The agency is requesting $2 million in the 2014 budget to research “vehicle electronics and emerging technologies” with an eye to developing requirements for the safety and reliability of vehicle controls."
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+ - Close Approach of Asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Asteroid 1998 QE2 has an estimated size of 1.3 km — 2.9 km (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=16.6). It was observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope by Trilling et al. (2010), who estimated that it has a diameter of 2.7 km and a dark optical albedo of 0.06. This asteroid will have a close approach with Earth at about 15.2 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0392 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 2059 UT on 2013 May 31 and it will reach the peak magnitude ~10.8 on May 31 around 2300 UT."
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+ - Swedish data center saves $1M a year using seawater for cooling->

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes "A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard. Interxion, a collocation company in the Netherlands that rents data center space in 11 countries, uses water pumped from the Baltic Sea to cool the IT equipment at its facilities in Stockholm. The energy used to cool IT equipment is one of the costliest areas of running a data center. Companies have traditionally used big, mechanical chillers, but some are turning to outside air and evaporative techniques as lower-cost alternatives."
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+ - NEC Medias X, First Smartphone with Liquid Cooling->

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes "Japan’s NEC has created a smartphone that actually employs liquid cooling, which is a development that is either awesome or stupid, and we’re not decided as to which it is yet. In any case, the NEC Medias X N-06E smartphone indeed has a water-filled heatpipe that pulls heat away from the device’s processor, apparently dispelling the heat through the phone’s polycarbonate exterior; there’s also a graphene sheet on the motherboard, providing a nice additional heat buffer."
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+ - Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Math Skills->

Submitted by ewolfson
ewolfson writes "Dinner is over, and the waiter is handing over the bills to everyone when the collective tension sets in... how much do we tip? Math can trigger anxiety in adults and kids, but now scientists at Oxford University have developed a way to flip a switch and turn a normal person's brain into a math machine. They found painless, electrical brain stimulation in combination with easy number exercises can significantly improve math ability."
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+ - French Government May Tax Technology to Support, Protect Culture->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "The French government is pondering over introduction of new tax on technology in tune of 1 to 4% specifically on products like smartphone, tablets and laptops generating as much as 86m euros per year which would be used to support and protect French music, film, and the arts. The recommendations have been given through a report which is a result of a nine months of research into ways to strengthen “cultural exception”."
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+ - Only 10% of Americans are Interested in Google Glass->

Submitted by CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes "A survey conducted by Bite Interactive, which collected responses from 1,000 people, revealed that only one out of 10 people in the U.S. would wear Google Glass regularly. The reason behind Americans' fear of Google Glass? They're "too socially awkward." "Overall, what Glass offers is combination of high social rejection with features the average person simply doesn't value over their current smartphone.""
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+ - Executive order makes government data open by default

Submitted by jfengel
jfengel writes "Last week, President Obama issued an executive order titled "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information".

Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable.

It relies heavily on a paper from the CIO, "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People.", issued in February."

+ - Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint->

Submitted by cluedweasel
cluedweasel writes "A Federal judge in Medford, OR has dismissed a piracy case lodged against 34 Oregonians. Judge Ann Aiken ruled that Voltage Pictures LLC unfairly lumped the defendants into what she called a "reverse class action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate them into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that could be bought or rented for less than $10."
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+ - Antergos Erases Cinnarch with Inaugural Release->

Submitted by Thinkcloud
Thinkcloud writes "It was just little over a month ago that the Linux community learned that Cinnarch developers were giving up on using Cinnamon as their default desktop because Mint was "1 year behind with upstream code." And now comes, Antergos, a galician distro that aims to link the past with the present."
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+ - Georgia Tech to offer online Master's degree in CS for under $7,000 NET->

Submitted by symbolset
symbolset writes "Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) education has been gaining steam for many years no. MIT's Open Courseware allows anyone online to experience many of MIT's exteemed courses remotely. But Georgia Tech is the first to offer a fully accredited Masters degree program without ever setting foot on campus. And the price is right.

They anticipate from three to six years to complete the program. You must have a Bachelor's degree from a related discipline to apply, but can complete the curriculum for free without the degree."
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+ - Major advance towards a proof of the twin prime conjecture->

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes "Researchers hoping to get ‘2’ as the answer for a long-sought proof involving pairs of prime numbers are celebrating the fact that a mathematician has wrestled the value down from infinity to 70 million.
That goal is the proof to a conjecture concerning prime numbers. Primes abound among smaller numbers, but they become less and less frequent as one goes towards larger numbers. But exceptions exist: the ‘twin primes’, which are pairs of prime numbers that differ in value by 2. The twin prime conjecture says that there is an infinite number of such twin pairs. Some attribute the conjecture to the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria, which would make it one of the oldest open problems in mathematics.
The new result, from Yitang Zhang of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, finds that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that are less than 70 million units apart. He presented his research on 13 May to an audience of a few dozen at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although 70 million seems like a very large number, the existence of any finite bound, no matter how large, means that that the gaps between consecutive numbers don’t keep growing forever."
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+ - Detecting Regurgitated Political Articles

Submitted by rattus32
rattus32 writes "Recently our local rag has been hit by a spate of "Letters to the Editor" of highly political nature that appear to be largely regurgitations of well-known political think tank positions.

I'd like to be able to detect restatements of previously published content in order to cite the submitters for the crime of unoriginal thought.

Would any of the current plagiarism detection applications in use in the academic world be applicable in this situation? Any suggestions?"

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