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Submission + - UK gov destroyed Snowden drives .. (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 'The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back."`

'one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.`
Robotics

Submission + - Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language

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An anonymous reader writes: One group of Australian researchers have managed to teach robots to do something that, until now, was the reserve of humans and a few other animals: they've taught them how to invent and use spoken language. The robots, called LingoDroids, are introduced to each other. In order to share information, they need to communicate. Since they don't share a common language, they do the next best thing: they make one up. The LingoDroids invent words to describe areas on their maps, speak the word aloud to the other robot, and then find a way to connect the word and the place, the same way a human would point to themselves and speak their name to someone who doesn't speak their language.
Businesses

Submission + - Fable Developer: Used Game Sales Worse Than Piracy (eurogamer.net)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Lionhead, the developer of Fable III, told Eurogamer that used games are worse than piracy. Mike West, the lead combat designer for the latest Fable said, 'For us it's probably a no-lose even with piracy as it is. But, as I say, second-hand sales cost us more in the long-run than piracy these days.' So downloading a game is bad but apparently stopping by a second hand store to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game ends up hurting them even more.
Music

RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists 233

Posted by kdawson from the play-nicely-now dept.
Klatoo55 writes "Various artists are considering lawsuits in order to press for their share of the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars the RIAA has obtained from settlements with services such as Bolt, KaZaA, and Napster. According to TorrentFreak's report on the potential action, there may not even be much left to pay out after monstrous legal fees are taken care of. The comments from the labels all claim that the money is on its way, and is simply taking longer due to difficulties dividing it all up."

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