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Submission + - Study Suggest Violent Video Games May Make Teens Less Violent

Submitted by barlevg
barlevg writes: A new paper is out in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence which shows no positive correlation between playing violent video games and acts of aggression. The study of 377 children with attention deficit and depressive symptoms in fact showed a slight negative correlation between video game-playing and aggressive behavior such as bullying, which the researchers posit is due to the games awarding some measure of catharsis. The full paper is available online (PDF).

Submission + - Linus Torvalds to find new ways to curse developers, their mothers (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.10-rc5 and he is certainly not happy with the changes merged last week. The rc5 is bigger than the rc4 and has code scattered across its entire code base because it addresses a lot many outstanding problems. In the release announcement Torvalds noted, "I wish I could say that things are calming down, but I'd be lying. rc5 is noticeably bigger than rc4, both in number of commits and in files changed (although rc4 actually had more lines changed, so there's that).” Torvalds has warned that he is going to start cursing again and said "I'm going to call you guys out on, and try to come up with new ways to insult you, your mother, and your deceased pet hamster."

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