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Wired
Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Creates Ring of Fire
Join Wired Science for some live feeds of the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible today over eastern Asia and western North America.
by Adam Mann
20 May 2012 at 2:30pm
A former pony-tailed student communist leading a rag-tag band of ex-Trotskyis...
*Given the state of things, it's a wonder that European "extremists" aren't a whole lot extremer than the likes of this guy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras
"I don't believe in heroes or saviours," says Alexis Tsipras, "but I do believe in fighting for rights ? no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of ...
by Bruce Sterling
20 May 2012 at 7:06am
The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator.
*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there's some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts.
*That's really a beautiful example of "cheap complexity" in 3d manufacturing.
The DIWire Bender
by PENSA! 2 weeks 3 days ago
"The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal ...
by Bruce Sterling
20 May 2012 at 2:36am
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 20
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
by Ken Denmead
19 May 2012 at 9:01pm
Stop the Tarbosaurus Auction!
A Tyrannosaur fossil suspected to have been smuggled from Mongolia is set to be auctioned May 20. Scientists want the fossil to be donated to science and say the sale would further fuel illegal looting of fossils.
by Brian Switek
19 May 2012 at 10:01am
Which of These Insane Stunt Crews Will Be the Jackass of the Future?
The trio of films from the Jackass crew has grossed more than $334 million globally (emphasis on grossed). But they haven't cornered the global market on smart-stupid stunts. There are plenty of insane clown posses eager for fame. Who's got the goods?
by Mark Yarm
19 May 2012 at 5:30am
SpaceX Launch Aborted As Engine Ignition Begins
This morning?s scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed with less than a second remaining on the countdown clock due to higher-than-expected pressure in one of the rocket?s engines.
by Jason Paur
19 May 2012 at 4:49am
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 19
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
by Ken Denmead
18 May 2012 at 9:01pm
Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again
The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.
by Cade Metz
18 May 2012 at 5:08pm
Kickstarter of the Week: A Portable Scanner for Smartphones
Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isn't. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then there's the flash: on, it's too bright and washed out; off, it's dark and blurry.
by Nathan Hurst
18 May 2012 at 5:05pm
MacWorld News
Weekly Wrap: Hotkeygate, iOS 6, and a slew of reviews
Once a week, we catch you up on Macworld's biggest stories from the past week, in case you missed them. This week, we ruminated on the futures of iOS and OS X, covered Hotkeysgate, and offered a slew of reviews.
by Lex Friedman
19 May 2012 at 9:45am
The Macalope Weekly: Cause and effect
Some people, it would seem, are unable to accurately determine cause and effect.
by The Macalope
19 May 2012 at 7:00am
Remains of the Day: Jobs report
One report says Steve Jobs was intimately involved with the four-inch iPhone, while another says he was working on creating the best car ever. Only one person can set the record straight for a major motion picture event.
by Dan Moren
18 May 2012 at 4:30pm
Facebook IPO: Why your data is worth $104 billion
Investors will pressure Facebook, the public company, to find new ways of making money from users' personal data. If times get hard, can Facebook do that without endangering user privacy?
by Mark Sullivan
18 May 2012 at 2:00pm
Android in enterprises 'severely limited' by weak management support from Google
Market research firm Gartner says adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in large businesses has been "severely limited" because of the complexities of managing the various Android models and versions.
by Matt Hamblen
18 May 2012 at 1:00pm
App Guide: iPhone and iPad restaurant finders
If you're looking for a tasty bite this weekend, these iOS apps can point you in the right direction.
by Macworld Staff
18 May 2012 at 11:05am
Opinion: Why Apple is making OS X more like iOS
This summer's Mountain Lion update to Mac OS X will continue the trend of bringing iOS features to Apple's Mac operating system. Kirk McElhearn sees the move as Apple's attempt to bring iOS users into the Mac fold.
by Kirk McElhearn
18 May 2012 at 10:15am
The Week in iOS Apps: Hear, hear!
This week?s roundup of iOS apps offers all kinds of listening options, whether you?re staying at home, partying at the club, or going to see your favorite band in concert. Flipboard, StubHub, and Thefuture.fm all have updated offerings for your listening pleasure.
by Joel Mathis
18 May 2012 at 9:45am
AT&T, Verizon LTE hotspots fight to a draw
The AT&T Elevate 4G and the Verizon MiFi 4620 Jetpack are easy to set up and use, and both offer fast speeds--but both suffer from limited battery life, too.
by Mark Sullivan and Edward N. Albro
18 May 2012 at 8:30am
Review: Jot Flip stylus/pen combo gets the pen right
The latest addition to Adonit's family of disc styluses for iOS devices, the Jot Flip seeks to fill the stylus/pen niche treasured by those still chained to paper and pen. And while it shares a few stylus flaws with its Adonit siblings, it gets the pen right.
by Serenity Caldwell
18 May 2012 at 8:00am
US CERT Technical Cyber Alert System Documents
SB12-135: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of May 7, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
15 May 2012 at 11:00am
TA12-129A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Original release date: May 08, 2012 | Last revised: --
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Silverlight
Overview
Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates to address these vulnerabilities.
Description
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2012 describes multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Microsoft has released updates to address the vulnerabilities.
Impact
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8 May 2012 at 2:01pm
SB12-128: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 30, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
8 May 2012 at 11:43am
SB12-121: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 23, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
30 Apr 2012 at 11:25am
SB12-114: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 16, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
23 Apr 2012 at 10:49am
SB12-107: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 9, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
16 Apr 2012 at 1:01pm
TA12-101B: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates and Architectural Improv...
Original release date: April 10, 2012 | Last revised: --
Systems Affected
Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
Adobe Reader 9.5 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX
Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.2) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
Adobe Acrobat 9.5 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
Overview
Adobe has released Security Bulletin APSB12-08, which describes multiple vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Reader a...
10 Apr 2012 at 3:02pm
TA12-101A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Original release date: April 10, 2012 | Last revised: --
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Server Software
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Developer Tools
Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway
Overview
There are multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Server Software, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Developer Tools, and Microso...
10 Apr 2012 at 11:37am
SB12-093: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 26, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
2 Apr 2012 at 10:32am
SB12-086: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 19, 2012
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For updated or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The ...
26 Mar 2012 at 8:43am
Slashdot
Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots
Fluffeh writes "On Friday, a company called SceneTap flipped the on switch enabling cameras installed in around 20 bars to monitor how full the venues are, the mix of men and women, their ages — and to make all this information available live via an iPhone or Android app. Privacy advocates are unimpressed, though, as the only hint that people are being monitored is via tiny stickers on the windows. Beyond academics and policy experts, some San Francisco bar owners that originally partnered w...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 4:46pm
Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?
TheGift73 writes "In a few hours a new episode of Game of Thrones will appear on BitTorrent, and a few days later between 3 and 4 million people will download this unofficial release. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that more people are downloading the show compared to last year, when it came in as the second most downloaded TV-show of 2011. The number of weekly downloads worldwide is about equal to the estimated viewers on HBO in the U.S., but why? One of the prime reasons for th...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 3:50pm
Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight
First time accepted submitter Trubacca writes "The Northern-Pacific "Ring of Fire" has an opportunity tonight to observe an entirely different "ring of fire": an annular solar eclipse where the moon, owing to it's distance from the Earth, seems smaller than the apparent diameter of the sun. This results in the fiery ring for which the phenomenon takes it's name. Space.com has a decent write-up on the path of the eclipse, times, and tips for safe-viewing."
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by timothy
20 May 2012 at 2:32pm
Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen
An anonymous reader writes "3 graduate students from University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tsukuba have developed a colloidal display — a clear projector screen that can control its transparency. Normally soap film will allow light to pass through, but the colloidal display does not. It mixes colloid into the solution and uses ultra sonic speakers to vibrate the surface of the soap film to achieve this. They have created several prototypes, such as 3D planar ...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 1:10pm
Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School
the agent man writes "The idea of getting kids interested in programming in spite of their common perception of programming to be 'hard and boring' is an ongoing Slashdot discussion. With support of the National Science Foundation, the Scalable Game Design project has explored how to bring computer science education into the curriculum of middle and high schools for some time. The results are overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that game design is highly motivational across gender and ethnic...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 11:52am
Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia
Okian Warrior writes "Various new sources are reporting the results of a recent Labor Party poll, indicating that Julian Assange would be elected to the Australian senate, should he choose to run. From the Sun Daily article: 'Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands a real chance of winning an upper house seat in his native Australia if he presses ahead with plans to stand for election, a poll showed Saturday. A survey conducted by the ruling Labor party's internal pollsters UMR...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 10:44am
Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"
Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digi...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 9:33am
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images
Diggester writes with this news from the Times of India: "Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site." The block was prompted by Twitter's refusal to take down messages promoting a cartoon contest to which the Pakistani government objects for its depictions of Mu...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 8:23am
ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up
An anonymous reader writes "Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are facing off as they both push into the other's market space. 'It's going to be quite hard for Intel to be much more than just one of several players...
by timothy
20 May 2012 at 7:27am
Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright
An anonymous reader writes "The United States has pursued Bradley Manning with full force for his role in supplying classified documents to WikiLeaks, in part because of the substantial difficulty in going after the organization directly. Criminal statutes generally deployed against those who leak classified government documents--such as the Espionage Act of 1917--are ill-equipped to prosecute third-party international distribution organizations like WikiLeaks. One potential tool that could ...
by samzenpus
20 May 2012 at 6:30am
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