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Submission + - "horrendous flaw" found in popular forum software (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by katarn
katarn writes: A simple hack to vBulletin software allows even unskilled people easy access the main administrator username and password. Internet Brands, owner of vBulletin software, has released a fix, but many sites remain vulnerable. Many notable firms use vBulletin software, and this bug could be used to compromise the email addresses and other personal information of thousands of people.
Power

Submission + - World’s First Molten Salt Solar Plant Opens (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sicily has just announced the opening of the world’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) facility that uses molten salt as a heat collection medium. Since molten salt is able to reach very high temperatures (over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit) and can hold more heat than the synthetic oil used in other CSP plants, the plant is able to continue to produce electricity long after the sun has gone down. The Archimede plant has a capacity of 5 megawatts with a field of 30,000 square meters of mirrors and more than 3 miles of heat collecting piping for the molten salt. The cost for this initial plant was around 60 million Euros.

Submission + - New IBM Mainframe: World's Fastest Microprocessor (fpsnewswire.com)

Submitted by BBCWatcher
BBCWatcher writes: So what's the world's fastest microprocessor? Intel's latest X86? No, maybe later. AMD? No. Itanium? Heck no, never. SPARC? Goodness no, are they still around? IBM's POWER7? Closest... but not at the moment. Today it's IBM's zEnterprise 196, i.e. the newest mainframe model. A mainframe holding the honor of world's fastest microprocessor? Yes, and it's time to get used to it. IBM's engineers have just rocked the server world by taking the world's fastest microprocessor, clocked at a constant and unsurpassed 5.2 GHz (!) with new out-of-order instruction execution (while keeping mainframe instruction result verification and on-the-fly fault recovery and core fail-over), putting 96 cores of them into a single machine, surrounding them with 4 (!) levels of cache memory (each far larger than anything else), providing 3 TB (usable) of the world's first and only RAIM-protected fast memory (that's RAID for RAM), giving them scores of dedicated assist processors, accelerating the already famous mainframe I/O... and, to top it all off, adding in mainframe-managed closely attached blade servers to mop up the data center floor. IBM says more than 100,000 virtual servers can run on a single zEnterprise System with zEnterprise BladeCenter Expansion feature. And of course it's built to keep your important applications running continuously, no excuses, with no interruptions for either hardware or software changes.
....I want one.
NASA

Submission + - Brooklyn-Moscow Inventors Best NASA with Spacesuit (motherboard.tv) 2

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Their accomplishment is impressive, as they have made significant progress in this field while working together across the world – Ted lives in Brooklyn, while Nikolay lives in Moscow. You may very well be wearing an FFD suit in the near future, as their aim is to provide affordable suits so that space travelers can own their own as they venture forth with increasing regularity, which is frankly not that far away. After all, the suit makes the moon man.
Security

Submission + - How to Avoid Being a DNS Hijack Victim (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: There are a lot of bad guys out there, and many of them know that the Domain Name System represents both a viable attack vector and, in terms of control over a domain name, an opportunity to grab a highly valuable prize. On many networks, DNS can be a bottleneck for denial of service attacks or a single point of failure ripe for social engineering. Attackers know that if they can control or impair their target's DNS, they achieve absolute leverage over their victim.

No organization is too big to avoid becoming the victim of an attack against their DNS or domain name, whether it be a cache poisoning attack along the lines of the Kaminsky bug, a socially engineered hijacking of name server records, or a straightforward brute-force DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). For example, Twitter, with its 100 million users, was taken offline by a gang calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army last December, after the attackers somehow managed to take over the microblogging site's DNS records and point twitter.com to an IP address they controlled.
News

Submission + - Less than a year of IP addresses left (i-programmer.info) 2

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: We have known for some time that the number of IP4 Internet addresses isn't sufficient but we have reached a tipping point. IPv4's countdown has fallen below 365 days which means that at the current rate of consumption there will be no more IP addresses to hand out in less than a year.
Many commentators are referring to the coming IPv4 address crunch as another Y2K. Given that Y2K was less of a disaster than predicted we might as well hope that this is correct.
Science

Submission + - Electricity From Sewage Using Nanotech Coatings (gizmag.com)

Submitted by ElectricSteve
ElectricSteve writes: While much of the focus on renewable electricity production focuses on green alternatives, a team of engineers at Oregon State University is looking at ways to improve electricity production from a “brown” source – namely sewage. The engineers found that using new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells they were able to increase the electricity production from sewage about 20 times. The researchers say that the findings are a promising new innovation in wastewater treatment and renewable energy as it brings them one step closer to technology that could clean biowaste at the same time it produces useful levels of electricity.

Comment Derivative! (Score 1) 829

by spidey3 (#29662043) Attached to: Stargate Universe

Let's see from how many other movies or shows they have stolen ideas:

1) The Last Starfighter [video game prowess leads to gig as savior of the universe].
2) Voyager [stuck in the middle of nowhere, limited supplies, trying to get home].
3) Wagon Train [stuck in the middle of nowhere, limited supplies, trying to get home].
4) Sliders [time limit on stay in any one location] [stuck in the middle of nowhere, limited supplies, trying to get home].
5) Battlestar Galactica [Rush ~= Baltar] [stuck in the middle of nowhere, limited supplies, trying to get home].
6) Lost In Space [scientist with sometimes questionable ethics at odds with military command].
7) Red Dwarf [stuck in the middle of nowhere, limited supplies, trying to get home].

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