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Submission + - Aussie researcher cracks OS X Lion passwords (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42 on Sunday September 25, 2011 @10:42PM

daria42 writes: Thought your Mac was secure running Apple's latest operating system? Think again. Turns out that in some respects Lion is actually less secure than previous version of Mac OS X, due to some permission-tweaking by Apple that has opened up a way for an attacker to crack your password on your Lion box. The flaw was discovered by an Australian researcher who has previously published a guide to cracking Mac OS X passwords. Sounds like Apple had better get a patch out for this pronto.

Submission + - Space's Grasshopper to Fly in Skies Over Texas (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

MarkWhittington

on Sunday September 25, 2011 @06:37PM

MarkWhittington writes: "SpaceX, the commercial space company that is a participant in President Barack Obama's commercial crew program, has acquired an experimental permit to test fly a verticle take off and landing rocket called the Grasshopper at its McGregor, Texas, test site."

Submission + - Green Carbondioxide Sponge

Submitted by Babu V Bassa on Saturday September 24, 2011 @02:31PM

Babu V Bassa writes: Concerned about adding too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? Consider a roof top coating on your car with this new material. A multinational team of researchers have developed a renewable sponge like material to capture and store gaseous carbon dioxide. The organic material is made up of gamma-cyclodextrin. Conventional metal-organic frameworks, which also are effective at adsorbing carbon dioxide, are usually prepared from materials derived from crude oil and often incorporate toxic heavy metals and are also non-renewable. The research paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society claims that its synthesis is essentially carbon-neutral and have the demonstrated ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere makes them promising materials for carbon fixation.

Submission + - Low-Latency Network Connects London And Hong Kong (eweekeurope.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: Financial traders and law firms are set to benefit from a new low-latency network between London and Hong Kong, which can conduct data on a round trip from Europe to Asia in around 176 milliseconds.

The cable network, run by UK-based trading technology company BSO Network Solutions, has been in place for some time, but previously had to route around large parts of Russia, due to difficulties laying fibre in that country.

However, a new lower latency and higher availability ‘Transit Mongolia’ connection has helped to reduce the time of a round trip by more than 20 milliseconds during the last 12 months.

The news follows an announcement from Hibernia Atlantic last week that a new transatlantic submarine communications cable will be installed on the Atlantic seabed, to connect financial traders in New York and London. The cable will initially be lit with 40Gb technology, which could be upgraded to 100Gb technology in the future.

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