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Submission + - Pentagon admits breach but won't say who did it (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The rattling of cyber swords could be heard today as the Pentagon confirmed computer hackers had gained access to an unclassified e-mail system in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but then declined to say that the Chinese army was responsible for it. The Financial Times this week quoted current and former U.S. officials as saying that Chinese People's Liberation Army hackers broke into a Defense Department network in June and removed data. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that an attack did occur in June but declined to identify the origin of the threat. It is often difficult to pinpoint the true origin of an intrusion into computer systems and even more difficult to tie the intrusion to a specific nation or government, he said. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19041"
Announcements

Submission + - Google gPhone on Sale September 14,2007 and costs (php0h.com)

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ebuystore
ebuystore writes: "Google gPhone goes on Sale September 14,2007 and costs $100.It has the same Features as the Apple iPhone,and more.You can use this phone with many different Carriers,and it will work in any Country in the World.Read more,about it,and see Pictures of it,by clicking on the link to the website,featuring the Article."
Spam

Submission + - Monster sends paper mail "we're sorry." (zairgit.com)

Submitted by zairgit
zairgit writes: Monster apparently sent out paper mail, informing their customers of the recent breech. The meat: "Recently, a malicious software, known as Infostealer.Monstres, was used to gain unauthorized access to the Monster resume database. Regrettably, some of the contact information that was captured included your name, address, telephone number and email address." Um... thanks?
Software

Submission + - the end of wikipedia as we know it? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by sdedeo
sdedeo writes: I used to be far more involved in wikipedia than I am these days, so it was a surprise for me to learn about flagged revisions. There's a lot of jargon and coining in the roll out: "surveyors", "sightings", "flagging", as well as a great deal of secrecy — "ordinary" users were notified only by accident and the notice was quickly taken down. In true wiki fashion, the proposal itself is highly obfuscated, but the executive summary is that "edit this page" will now become "suggest an edit to this page."
Biotech

Submission + - NoPoPo battery - just add urine (hexus.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sighted at IFA in Berlin is the NoPoPo battery by Aqua Power System. These batteries, with a shelf life of 10 years, use a small amount of liquid (though the author seems taken by the idea of urine) combined with a mix of carbon and magnesium to generate power. They're regargeable too: 'extra power can be added by refilling the battery; just open the trouser zip and let fly'. Thee batteries are already on sale in Japan, of course.
Space

Submission + - Car exhaust and exploded star may explain life (itwire.com)

Submitted by
WaltonNews
WaltonNews writes: "Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic pollutants found in car exhaust and cigarette smoke. They are also found in supernova remnant N132D, the material left over after an old star explodes. Scientists theorize that PAHs play an essential role in the development of life."
Businesses

54% of CEOs Dissatisfied With Innovation 210

Posted by CowboyNeal from the bang-for-the-buck dept.
athloi writes "Invention is new and clever; innovation is a process that takes knowledge and uses it to get a payback. Invention without a financial return is just an expense. Ideas are really the sexy part of innovation and there's rarely a shortage of them. If you look at the biggest problems around innovation, rarely does a lack of ideas come up as one of the top obstacles; instead, it's things like a risk-averse culture, overly lengthy development times and lack of coordination within the company. Not enough ideas, on the other hand, is an obstacle for only 17 percent. At the end of the day all that creativity and all those ideas have to show on the bottom line. The goal of innovation is to make or save money, and IT should never lose sight of that central fact."
Google

Submission + - New Google Linux Apps Coming Soon !! (techrythm.com) 2

Submitted by
techoon
techoon writes: "The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as what we have seen from Google Earth and Google Picasa with official Linux versions. Google had also made an interesting splash at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus) during a presentation by the Google Linux Client Team. What was it? Well, there are some "significant accomplishments" and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform."
Privacy

Submission + - Germany plans to email trojans (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by speardane
speardane writes: The BBC is reporting that the German authorities are planning to send emails containing trojan horses to suspected terrorists. This is apparently supported by the German chancellor despite protests.

Apparently "the spyware would be used only in a few cases and for a limited time".

It seems to me that this is even more stupid than Sony.

Perhaps the Greman authorities have never heard of emails being forwarded...

Perhaps criminals and terrorists (no I didn't say hackers) won't re-use the weapons the German government have given them...
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Servicing the Population Surge

Submitted by ardle
ardle writes: "About 150 scientists and government experts will meet in Iceland from August 31-September 4 to try to work out how to safeguard soils from over-use and desertification when more food is needed and some farmers are shifting land to biofuels."
Also FTA:"an area the size of Iceland loses it vegetation every year".

So — power or food? If there is a sustainable solution, who can provide it?
Television

Submission + - Digital TV switchover in Finland (www.hs.fi) 1

Submitted by vuo
vuo writes: At 04:00, 1 September 2007, all analog television networks were shut down, and the switchover to digital television has been completed. Watching television requires a digital decoder, such as a set-top box, a television with an integrated decoder, or a computer with a digital TV card. Currently, the national broadcasting corporation Yleisradio (YLE), which operates five digital channels, is funded by a television licence fee (208.15 per year per household). However, a consequence of digitalization is that nearly every device with a screen is potentially a television set. Minister of Communications Suvi Lindén has questioned the current policy, and promotes funding of YLE from the national budget and reducing the production of domestic programmes. YLE's director, also a former Microsoft PR director Mikael Jungner (sd.) opposes the plans.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - "Free" wireless broadband sparks "free (pressesc.com)

Submitted by
Enormous Coward
Enormous Coward writes: "A company that wants to offer "free" filtered Internet over unused TV spectrum band has hit back at criticism that its service is "free as in beer" but not "free as in speech". M2Z Networks (M2Z) today announced that in just the past 15 working days over 1,000 individuals from forty-nine states have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting M2Z's pending application. Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) opposes the application on the grounds that, although M2Z's application could provide significant benefits to the American people, "the proposed license conditions do not adequately ensure that M2Z would operate under open device rules or network neutrality rules of sufficient stringency to confer the full benefits of innovation and free expression to the public.""

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