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Submission + - Micro UAVs Takeoff and Land on Moving Boats (suasnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Datron Scout, a lightweight VTOL Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), (which according to their website is a rebranding of the Aeryon Scout) was used during the 2011 US DoD Empire Challenge. As a part of this event, the Scout was responsible for silent surveillance of points of interest and clearing routes from 1.5 miles away with it's 10x Optical Zoom. The most amazing part, according to the article, is that this was all done from a moving boat with strong winds, heavy cloud cover, 36C (98F) temperatures and 40 percent humidity. Not bad for a helicopter only weighing 2.6 pounds!
Chrome

Submission + - Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: Last month, Google released an open-source project called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken the first step towards having WebRTC built into Chrome.
With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can challenge services like Skype.
Security

Submission + - LulzSec knocks CIA website offline with DDoS attac (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Notorious hacktivist group LulzSec appears to have launched a successful distributed denial-of-service attack against the CIA's website at www.cia.gov.

LulzSec confirmed in a message on Twitter its part in the attack, saying "Tango down- for the lulz."

LulzSec has previously claimed responsibility for internet attacks on Sony, PBS, the US Senate, FBI affiiate Infragard, amongst others.
Science

Submission + - Terror of the Inelastic Jobs Market (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: http://blogs.reuters.com/lawrencesummers/2011/06/13/the-jobs-crisis/

The Larry Summers piece on the Jobs Crisis (http://blogs.reuters.com/lawrencesummers/2011/06/13/the-jobs-crisis/) is scary. He is pretty much right AND we ARE in a heap of trouble. The ideas of reducing regulatory burdens and maintaining/upgrading infrastructure will help. However, he fails to "think big". After I read the article, I asked myself what could really make a difference in this situation and eliminating dependence on foreign oil came to mind. Hey, that's easier than going to Mars, right? I carried this further and asked "How could we lower the price of oil to $20 @ barrel?" So I googled and found this — http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_on_winning_the_oil_endgame.html Here are some really good ideas — they were offered in 2005!! Thinking "big", what are your ideas?
Oh, and write your Congressman.
Firefox

Submission + - Idle Connection Tuning Makes Firefox 5 Faster (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: JavaScript is pretty much a done deal at this time as far as browser performance is concerned. However, there is still plenty of room and especially Google and Mozilla are getting more creative in making their browsers faster. Firefox 5 has received a new algorithm that enables the browser to sort idle connections and allocate more bandwidth to certain content types as some idle connections are likely to be faster than others. It appears that load times of certain elements can be cut in half. Google will add a similar features and squeeze even more speed out of SPDY.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Nintendo Admits It Used PS3 and Xbox Footage in Wii U Presentation - PC Magazine (google.com)

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Nintendo Admits It Used PS3 and Xbox Footage in Wii U Presentation
PC Magazine
If you thought the game footage seen at yesterday's Nintendo press conference at E3 looked better than anything you ever saw from Nintendo, you were right. In fact, you're still right: Some of the clips were actually from Xbox 360 and ...
Nintendo admits E3 Wii U reel used PS3 and Xbox 360 clipsVentureBeat
E3 2011: Wii U Highlight Reel Sexed Up with PS3 and 360 FootageGamePro.com
Wii U network to rival Xbox LIVE and PSNVideogamer.com
Examiner.com-Guyism-T3
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Submission + - Kino.to Raided In Massive Police Operation, Admins (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by freedumb2000
freedumb2000 writes: Europe just witnessed one of the largest piracy-related busts in history with the raid of the popular movie streaming portal Kino.to. More than a dozen people connected to the site were arrested after police officers in Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands raided several residential addresses and data centers. Kino.to hosted no illicit content itself, but indexed material stored on file-hosters and other streaming services.
Security

Submission + - Many Stuxnet Bugs Still Unpatched by Siemens (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers open to a wide range of potentially damaging cyber attacks, according to industrial control system expert Ralph Langner.
Langner said that the media paid too much attention to the four, zero day Windows vulnerabilities that enabled the Stuxnet worm, but overlooked the other security holes used by the worm. Unlike the Windows vulnerabilities, which Microsoft quickly fixed, many of the holes in Siemens' products remain unpatched, he contends.

Langner enumerates three types of exploits used by Stuxnet — only one category of which (Windows operating system exploits) have been closed. The other two are Windows applications exploits aimed at Siemens Siemens Simatic Manager and the Siemens WinCC SCADA application, and controller exploits aimed at Siemens S70-300 and 400 series controllers.
Microsoft

Submission + - Nikolay Pryanishnikov give Skype control to KGB (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The company Microsoft, which is now the owner of Skype, is considering the possibility of transferring the encryption key used in a messaging protocol, the Russian security services. , , ¾ . In this case, the company noted that this issue was not discussed because it is necessary to complete the first few stages of the merger.
Security

Submission + - Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys (microsoft.com)

Submitted by isoloisti
isoloisti writes: In surveys men claim to have had more female sex partners than women claim male partners, which is impossible. The reason? A few self-described Don Juans who tell whoppers pull the average way up, and errors don't cancel. Cyber-crime estimates are hopelessly exaggerated for exactly the same reason according to a new study to appear at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. The authors write: “‘You should never trust user input’ says one standard text on writing secure code. It is ironic then that our cyber-crime survey estimates rely almost exclusively on unverified user input. A practice that is regarded as unacceptable in writing code is ubiquitous in forming the estimates that drive policy." In many cases 75% of the estimate comes from the unverified self-reported answers of one or two people.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Infinity Blade for iOS nets $10 million in profits (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Infinity Blade from Epic was one of the most successful app launches in iTunes history when it debuted late last year. With extremely positive reviews and a reasonable price point, the game grossed over $1.6 million in revenue in just its first few days out on the market. Since then, sales have remained steady enough to net over $10 million in revenue.
Cloud

Submission + - Cloud-based, ray traced games on Intel tablets (intel.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After Intel showed a ray traced version of Wolfenstein last year running cloud-based streamed to a laptop the company that has just recently announced its shift to the mobile market shows now their research project also running on various x86-tablets with 5 to 10 inch screens. The heavy calculations are performed by a cloud consisting of a machine with a Knights Ferry card (32 cores) inside. The achieved frame rates are around 20-30 fps.

Submission + - Data Mining Shakespeare Texts for New Insights (boston.com)

Submitted by Orbity
Orbity writes: In a fascinating cross between computer science and reading literature is the practice of Quantitative Literary Study, which uses data mining techniques to reveal new insights into texts old and new. For example, in Hamlet, we can learn that "of all the characters who speak to both Hamlet and Claudius, only two manage to survive." What else can be learned from this technique?
Security

Submission + - LulzSec Hits US Security Firm Black & Berg (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Cheeky hacking outfit LulzSec has struck again, forcing down the website of US security consultants Black & Berg Security — the company run by US National Security Advisor, Joe Black.

The merry pranksters hit the site's home page after the ill-favoured company issued a Security Challenge, offering a $10,000 bounty to anyone who could change the home page picture.

Some challenges, it seems, are too good to turn down. The hacker group declined their rightful reward saying the hit was "just for the lulz"

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