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Submission + - Sea Level Rise Can't be Stopped 1

Submitted by riverat1
riverat1 writes: Sea level rise won't stop for several hundred years even if we reverse global warming according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. As warmer water is mixed down into the oceans it causes thermal expansion of the water. Under the best emissions scenario the expected rise is 14.2 cm, under the worst 32.2 cm in 2100 (6 & 13 inches) from thermal expansion alone. Any glacial/ice sheet melt and water pumped from aquifers is on top of that. An easier to read summary is available at Reuters.

Submission + - Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle (phys.org)

Submitted by techtech
techtech writes: After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero experiments have found their strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. The Tevatron results indicate that the Higgs particle, if it exists, has a mass between 115 and 135 GeV/c2, or about 130 times the mass of the proton.
Wine

Submission + - Wine Users banned from Diablo 3 (battle.net) 2

Submitted by caranha
caranha writes: Wine users have reported being banned from the Diablo 3 game, by being flagged as "using cheating programs". Replies from blizzard support so far have upheld these bans.
Apple

Submission + - Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by tukang
tukang writes: The US International Trade Commission has rejected an emergency request by Apple to detain some HTC phones (including the One X and EVO 4G) at the border while the agency investigates Apple's claims of patent infringement. In May, HTC's phone shipment was held up at the border and was only allowed to pass after US Customs and Border Protection received assurances that HTC worked around Apple patents, a claim which Apple disputes.
Networking

Submission + - TV White Space 802.22 Wireless Broadband Trial in UK are a Success (ispreview.co.uk)

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Mark.JUK
Mark.JUK writes: "A major multinational and ten month long trial of new 'White Space' technology (IEEE 802.22) in the United Kingdom, which uses the spare radio spectrum that exists between Digital Terrestrial TV (DTV) channels to deliver wireless internet access services over a wide area, has officially completed today and been deemed "successful". The technology, if approved, could one day help to bring faster broadband services to both isolated rural and urban areas.

The TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises 17 international and UK technology and media companies (BT, Microsoft, BBC, Alcatel-Lucent etc.), has now recommended that the UK regulator, Ofcom, complete its development of the “enabling regulatory framework” (i.e. Draft Statutory Instrument) in a “manner that protects licensees” from “harmful” interference and encourages innovation and deployment."
DRM

Submission + - Ubisoft Blames Piracy for Non-Release of PC Game (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by Azmodan
Azmodan writes: Ubisoft is known for laying the blame for many problems on the unauthorized downloading of its games. Stanislas Mettra, creative director of the upcoming game ‘I Am Alive,’ confirms this once again by saying that the decision not to release a PC version is a direct result of widespread game piracy. However, those who look beyond the propaganda will see that there appears to be more to the story than that.
Twitter

Submission + - KS Governor Sends Tweeting Teen to Principal's Off (kansas.com)

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kstatefan40
kstatefan40 writes: "According to the Wichita Eagle, A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students. During the session, in which Brownback addressed the group, Sullivan posted on her personal Twitter page: “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot” On Tuesday, Sullivan was called to her principal’s office and told that the tweet had been flagged by someone on Brownback’s staff and reported to organizers of the Youth in Government program. The principal “laid into me about how this was unacceptable and an embarrassment,” Sullivan said. “He said I had created this huge controversy and everyone was up in arms about it and now he had to do damage control.

This has a nice big brother feel to it."

Submission + - New Mac Malware Poses As PDF Doc (computerworld.com)

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JohnBert
JohnBert writes: "Security firms today warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a PDF document. The malware, which was spotted by U.K.-based Sophos and Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure, uses a technique long practiced by Windows attackers.

"This malware may be attempting to copy the technique implemented by Windows malware, which opens a PDF file containing a '.pdf.exe' extension and an accompanying PDF icon," said F-Secure today. That practice relies on what is called the "double extension" trick: adding the characters ".pdf" to the filename to disguise an executable file.

The Mac malware uses a two-step process, composed of a Trojan "dropper" utility that downloads a second element, a Trojan "backdoor" that then connects to a remote server controlled by the attacker, using that communications channel to send information gleaned from the infected Mac and receiving additional instructions from the hacker."
Android

Submission + - Phone operator sues brothers for releasing app (gazette-ariegeoise.fr)

Submitted by KingofSpades
KingofSpades writes: French brothers Michael and Sébastien M., unable to watch television on their new cell phone — despite paying the corresponding "unlimited TV" phone plan — wrote an app to automate changes of user parameters, including user agent, in order of accessing the TV feed of their cell operator, SFR. They released a free app and a donate version (1.99 euros) of the app (likely named "G.Player TV"). They have been sued by operator SFR in the court of the sunny region of Ariège (France). Their lawyer stated that "that there is no evidence that non-subscribers have been able to use the app. Therefore there it did not provide a free access to a paying service".

Both have been convicted and must pay a 800 euros fine (suspended) and 192 euros to operator SFR.
Technology

Submission + - Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed (lbl.gov)

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: The anode is a critical component for storing energy in lithium-ion batteries. The Berkeley Lab (D.O.E) has designed a new kind of anode that can absorb eight times the lithium of current designs, and has maintained its greatly increased energy capacity after over a year of testing and many hundreds of charge-discharge cycles. According to the research published in Advanced Materials they used a tailored polymer that conducts electricity and binds closely to lithium-storing silicon particles, even as they expand to more than three times their volume during charging and then shrink again during discharge.

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