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Submission + - Scientists claim to have broken the speed of light (breitbart.com)

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Thursday August 16, 2007 @03:40PM

GnarlyDoug writes: German scientists claim that they have broken the speed of light barrier while researching quantum tunneling. In effect they claimed that some photons traveled a greater distance than other photons in the same amount of time, and thus moved faster than the speed of light. Personally I'll wait to see what happens when their tests are peer reviewed and duplicated, but it's interesting.

Submission + - Skype goes dark, may be offline until Friday (computerworld.com)

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday August 16, 2007 @03:35PM

jcatcw writes: Skype is blaming software issues for a lengthy outage that may last for more than 24 hours. Some users claims there's a log-in authentication failure. "Those that are in stay in and those trying to sign in can't get in," according to Tom Keating. In what maybe an implicit acknowledgment, the company is recommending that users leave their client software active.

Submission + - Google Distributing Sun Office Software (physorg.com)

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @11:51AM

Billosaur writes: "According to an article on PhysOrg.com, over the weekend Google and Sun began their assault on Microsoft Office's stranglehold on the market by including StarOffice as part of the Google Pack download. The two companies had announced a partnership in this regard a couple of years ago, but this is the first sign that the collaboration is bearing fruit. StarOffice normally costs $70 when purchased from Sun, but Google is giving it away free, though Sun will apparently not provide technical support for the package. In turn, Sun announced Wednesday that "Sun has also added Internet search capabilities to all of its StarOffice products," using Google."

Submission + - Exploits for all - Metasploit 3.0 released

Submitted by

juct

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @08:00AM

juct writes: "Ready-made exploits with an easy-to-use interface; "hacking light" with only three commands to access the remote shell. An administrator's nightmare or a useful contribution to security? The Metasploit Framework has become a standard tool for security experts, but it also helps newbies understand the world of exploits and shellcodes. Version 3 is a complete rewrite based on Ruby. It features fuzzing engines to search for new bugs, including the WLAN fuzzer Lorcon."

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