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Submission + - WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal (forbes.com)

Submitted by Atmanman
Atmanman writes: When wikileaks anounced it was releasing 251,287 US diplomatic cables we all thought we knew what was meant by its earlier ominous words that, "The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined." It now appears the organisation is sitting on a huge treasure trove of information so big that it has stopped taking submissions.

Among data to be released are tens of thousands of documents from a major U.S. banking firm, material from pharmaceutical companies, finance firms and energy companies.
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Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe 266

Posted by samzenpus from the pay-up-or-be-unfriended dept.
Not even the tranquility of FarmVille can save you from the long arm of debt collectors. Melanie Beacham says that a collector from MarkOne Financial contacted her relatives about her past due car note via Facebook. She is filing suit alleging that the company is harassing her family. Tampa based consumer attorney Billy Howard of Morgan & Morgan says, "Now Facebook does a debt collectors work for them. Now it's not only family members, it's all of your associates. It's a very powerful tool for debt collectors to use."

Submission + - Problem-solving bacteria crack Sudoku (newscientist.com)

Submitted by techbeat
techbeat writes: A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles – with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan, reports New Scientist. The team begin with 16 types of E. coli, each colony assigned a distinct genetic identity depending on which square it occupied within a four-by-four sudoku grid.The bacteria can also express one of four colours to represent the numerical value of their square. As with any sudoku puzzle, a small number of the grid squares are given a value from the beginning by encouraging the bacteria in these squares to differentiate and take on one of the four colours.The Tokyo team's sudoku-solving bacteria competed in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week.

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