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Submission + - The end of Wicked Lasers as we know them (wickedlasers.com)

Submitted by storkus
storkus writes: "Wicked Lasers is under new ownership and management. [We] will no longer be shipping lasers >5mW to US-based customers starting on Jan 1st, 2015. These shipping restrictions will be extended to other countries shortly thereafter." It speaks for itself.

Submission + - New Android App Attack Requires No Permissions (arxiv.org)

Submitted by cybrpnk2
cybrpnk2 writes: In this Arxiv paper, three German students present a novel,
highly critical attack that allows unprompted installation of arbitrary
applications from the Android Market. Their attack is based on a single
malicious application, which, in contrast to previously known attacks,
does not require the user to grant it any permissions.
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Submission + - Satellite Sees Atmospheric Warming Before Quake (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by cybrpnk2
cybrpnk2 writes: From Tech Review's arXiv Blog: "Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening. They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck. At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up."

Submission + - Phantom 15 Million-The Future That Never Happened (nationaljournal.com)

Submitted by cybrpnk2
cybrpnk2 writes: The job machine called American Business has not only destroyed millions of existing jobs to create the highest sustained unemployment rate in decades, it has also mysteriously failed to produce 15 million jobs once projected for the first decade of the 21st Century. Now US businesses are sitting on close to $2 trillion in cash with no apparent intent to invest it in American jobs. Why should they — Apple, for example, doubled their profits on iPhone by assembling it with Asian workers and letting it be a $2 billion burden on the US trade deficit.

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