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NASA

Submission + - NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space (ibtimes.com)

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gabbo529
gabbo529 writes: "NASA has gotten pretty good at using satellites to track natural disasters; and a tornado that twisted through the south was no different. Like it has done previously with earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, a NASA satellite has captured a devastating natural disaster from a space satellite. An image acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from NASA's Aqua satellite on April 28, distinctly shows three tornado tracks in Tuscaloosa, Ala."
Intel

Submission + - Silicon odometer might soon boost your CPU (extremetech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Manufacturers like Intel and AMD criminally underclock their processors because they lack a way to accurately measure the aging of MOSFET transistors. A new silicon odometer, which uses a pair of ring oscillators to measure the "beat" of transistors, should enables on-die monitoring of transistor aging, and thus allows for much higher clock speeds.
Mozilla

Submission + - Mozilla patches Firefox 4, fixes coding bungle (computerworld.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "Mozilla patched Firefox 4 for the first time on Thursday, fixing eight flaws, including a major programming oversight that left the browser as vulnerable to attack on Windows 7 as on the 10-year-old Windows XP.The company also plugged 15 holes in the still-supported Firefox 3.6, and issued its last security update for Firefox 3, which debuted in mid-2008. The most important of the bugs: a programming lapse that left Firefox 4 open to less-sophisticated attacks. 'The WebGLES libraries in the Windows version of Firefox were compiled without ASLR protection,' stated the advisory labeled MSFA 2011-17. 'An attacker who found an exploitable memory corruption flaw could then use these libraries to bypass ASLR on Windows Vista and Windows 7, making the flaw as exploitable on those platforms as it would be on Windows XP or other platforms.'"
Open Source

Submission + - If you're going to kill it, open source it! (makezine.com) 2

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ptorrone
ptorrone writes: "MAKE Magzine is proposing big companies like Cisco and Sony consider "open sourcing" their failed or discontinued products. The list includes: Sony's AIBO & QRIO robots, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Ricochet Wireless, Potenco’s Pull-Cord Generator, Palm, Microsoft’s SPOT Watch, CISCO Flip Camera and more. MAKE is also encourage everyone to post about what products they'd like to see open sourced. What does the Slashdot community want opened up?"
Sony

Submission + - Sony PlayStation Network Breached, 77 Million User (cyberinsecure.com)

Submitted by Runaway1956
Runaway1956 writes: Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts. Sony’s stunning admission came six days after the PlayStation Network was taken down following what the company described as an “external intrusion”.

The stolen information may also include payment-card data, purchase history, billing addresses, and security answers used to change passwords, Sony said on Tuesday. The company plans to keep the hacked system offline for the time being, and to restore services gradually. The advisory also applies to users of Sony’s related Qriocity network.

In short, Sony has been pwned — AGAIN!
AMD

Submission + - ARM To Keynote at AMD Fusion Developer Conference (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "AMD is hosting its first AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) this summer, from June 13-16. The conference will focus on OpenCL and
upcoming AMD Llano performance capabilities under various related usage models. One interesting twist is that the keynote address will be given by Jem Davies, currently ARM's VP of technology. To date, AMD's efforts to push OpenCL as a programming environment have been limited, particularly compared to the work NV has sunk into CUDA. With its profit margins and sales figures improving, AMD is apparently turning back to address the situation—and ARM's a natural ally. The attraction of OpenCL is that it can potentially be used to improve handheld device performance. AMD's explicit mention of ARM hints that there might be more than meets the eye to this conference as well."

Submission + - Netflix Now Largest Media Provider in US (nytimes.com)

Submitted by artor3
artor3 writes: Netflix now has more subscribers than any other video provider in the United States, with 22.8 million. Comcast, now in second place, also has approximately 22.8 million subscribers, but is expected to fall further behind as Netflix continues to add around a million members each month.

Given the rapid rise of online video streaming, and the fact that traditional distributors still control access to the medium, it is increasingly likely that companies like Comcast will fight back by limiting consumers' access.

Comment Plausable theory for outage. (Score 0) 220

by JonChance (#35925716) Attached to: Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network Security After Attack
Source http://psgroove.com/showthread.php?3088-PSN-Suspended-Being-Completely-Overhauled&p=36277&viewfull=1#post36277

""Sony got hacked but what happened was the hacker left them a dirty little surprise that wasn't caught until well after he was force disconnected. Most companies assume that when they shut out the hacker the attack is over and they patch the hole he used to get in. In this case him leaving something behind wasn't caught and by the time its users started reporting being kicked out his dump had started executing and forcing psn networks to stall out. Not only did this hacker steal information but he left something behind that started erasing and duplicating internally on the servers (hence the reports from users claiming that games were acting out right before the service went down entirely). Chances are by the time sony got to it the damage was too great and therefore they had two options 1. Negate all achievements, purchases, etc and deal with the nightmare of it. 2. Export the db tables for each user and rebuild it's network all over again. Keep in mind Sony just hired almost a dozen i.p. specialist and almost just as many security experts after firing a few over the jailbreak psn masking happened. If they can get psn back up in as little as 7 days it'll be a miracle and chances are you will have lost all of your activity for up to 5 days prior to the initial attack".
"

This sounds a bit more plausible then any other theory about PSN's outage including AnonOP's attacking Sony.

Personally I am happy to see Sony get raped like it rapes it's customers.

BTW: all of you PSN junkies going through forced detox, you have a few options. Get online with a Wii or Xbox or ....

Try this old game called LIFE , it is a hell of a game, comes with a life subscription , completely interactive and has over 6 billion players. No respawn , no cheats unless it is with a partner that isn't your Sig Other. It has no down time unless you end the game. According to myth , the developer hacked it out in 6 days.
I would rate it 6 stars out of 5.
Sony

Submission + - Sony vs Hackers - Who wins? (eurasia.nu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A console hacker over at eurasia.nu with the alias modrobert has posted an interesting story about the recent legal debacle in the PS3 hacker scene and finishes off with a twist. He suggests Sony (aka the giant enemy crab) are hurting their own business by sending their lawyers after the hackers and that hardcore gamers, what used to be the most dedicated fans, who love their console hardware and games so much they can't get enough from just buying stuff, but also finds it exciting to hack around with their console and play more games than they can afford, are now the bitter enemies of Sony who totally lost sight of their business goals.
Transportation

Submission + - TSA Investigates ...People Who Complain about TSA

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports and report that arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator TSA officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists and when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny. "Expressing your contempt about airport procedures — that's a First Amendment-protected right," says Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "It's circular reasoning where, you know, I'm going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that's evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it's simply inappropriate." Interestingly enough some experts say terrorists are much more likely to avoid confrontations with authorities, saying an al Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in. "I think the idea that they would try to draw attention to themselves by being arrogant at airport security, it fails the common sense test," says CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen."

Submission + - TSA Frisks Complainers (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by Nemesisghost
Nemesisghost writes: TSA has revealed to CNN the list of criteria for additional screenings at airports. Among them are people who are "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures."
Space

Submission + - FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO (fbi.gov) 8

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as circular in shape with raised centers approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape, but only 3 feet tall dressed in metallic clothing of very fine texture.

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