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Feed The Register: Trojans besiege online gamers (theregister.com)

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It's warcraft out there

Online games have become a major target for fraud in recent years. A study from Kaspersky Labs, published today, dissects the techniques and targets used by hackers to make "easy money" by selling stolen login credentials of users or in-game items on the black market.
NASA

Submission + - NASA building massively heat-resistant chips (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat of a blast furnace and keep on performing. Silicon Carbide (SiC) chips can operate in 600 degrees Celsius or 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit where conventional silicon-based electronics — limited to about 350 C — would fail. The new silicon carbide differential amplifier integrated circuit chip may provide benefits to anything requiring long-lasting electronic circuits in very hot environments such as jets, spacecraft and industrial machinery.In particular, NASA said SiC applications will include energy storage, renewable energy, nuclear power, electrical drives. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19316"

Feed Engadget: The hundred gadget giveaway: round 31 (engadget.com)

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Alright everybody, round thirty-one of Engadget's hundred gadget giveaway! Up for grabs for the next six hours:

Gold - Singstar bundle - Singstar Pop (plus two mics, adapter), Singstar Amped, Singstar 80s (PS2)
Silver - Eton Red Cross emergency radio
Bronze - Swag bag #7

The rules (yeah, there are always rules):
  • Leave a comment below. You can just say something nice about us, or you can tell us what you'd prefer to win -- but if you're picked you may not necessarily get it.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
  • Winner will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted for the next six hours. After that we'll move on to the next round of giveaways. Good luck!

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Music

Submission + - Music Industry Brain Damage - The 1

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mrneutron2003 writes: Just when you thought stupid ideas had become an endangered species, the RIAA presses forward and shows us how naive we were. The RIAA has officially backed a move by the recording industry to reintroduce the CD single. Populated with two songs and a "ringtone", this brilliantly clueless idea is to be marketed as a "ringle", complete with an even more clueless retail price of $6-7 per CD. Apart from the fact the industry hasn't agreed on how the ringtone is to be redeemed (Sony BMG, the initial proponent of the idea...is this any suprise....is the exception here), the pricing puts it way out of the league of legitimate digital music downloads. http://www.fastsilicon.com/off-the-wall/music-industry-brain-damage-the-ringle.html?Itemid=60

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