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Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware


Slashdot May 20, 2013 | 6:03 am UTC
mask.of.sanity writes "Lights, sounds and magnetic fields can be used to activate malware on phones, new research has found. The lab-style attacks defined in a paper (PDF) used pre-defined signals hid...

Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture?


Slashdot May 20, 2013 | 3:08 am UTC
b1tbkt writes "So it seems that furniture manufacturers have not yet acknowledged the realities of modern life. Kitchen tables could benefit greatly from built-in concealable receptacles. Even more ob...

Medical Firm Sues IRS For 4th Amendment Violation In Records Seizure


Slashdot May 20, 2013 | 12:05 am UTC
cold fjord writes "A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans ... [The unnam...

Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 11:07 pm UTC
First time accepted submitter The0retical writes "A couple of mine-sweeping dolphins dredged up what is known as a 'Howell torpedo' dating from 1870 to 1889. Only 50 were ever produced, this being the...

Apple Mobile Devices Cleared For Use On US Military Networks


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 10:05 pm UTC
puddingebola writes with this excerpt from a Bloomberg report: "The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete...

Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 8:38 pm UTC
The Associated Press (as carried by the Washington Post) reports that a living payload of newts and mice has been retrieved after a month orbiting earth in a Russian space capsule at an altitude of 34...

IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 7:40 pm UTC
hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services...

Google's Nexus Q Successor Hits the FCC


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 6:48 pm UTC
With the kind of cagey phrasing found in many such electronics approval applications, Google describes a device that some are taking to be the successor to its discontinued Nexus Q thus: "The device f...

Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 5:29 pm UTC
TechCrunch reports that Yahoo's string of acquisitions may soon include Tumblr: "The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blo...

Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 4:32 pm UTC
First time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages f...

Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 3:26 pm UTC
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be tried starting tomorrow in Sweden, after his indictment last month for computer hacking and fraud. Wikileaks has released several documents related...

John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 2:30 pm UTC
Velcroman1 writes "The former island home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee burned down Thursday afternoon under circumstance he told FoxNews.com were 'suspicious.' It's an odd choice of word...

Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 1:27 pm UTC
girlmad writes "Despite moves by government to get Google, Amazon and Apple to admit they make sales in the UK and US, and therefore should pay tax on these earnings, this article argues these are emp...

NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 12:28 pm UTC
Madwand writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or...

Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually)


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 9:24 am UTC
New submitter GoJays writes "An 18-year-old from Saratoga, California has won an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds. The fast...

Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 6:18 am UTC
hypnosec writes with report of the possible theft of up to 22 million user IDs revealed by Yahoo! Japan. That scale is massive, but, he writes, "According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen did...

Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text?


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 3:21 am UTC
An anonymous reader writes "Having entered my personal details (full real name, home address) to websites with an 'https://' prefix in order to purchase goods, I am still being sent emails from compan...

Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs


Slashdot May 19, 2013 | 12:21 am UTC
Nerval's Lobster writes that a survey from the Uptime Institute "suggests something it calls 'green fatigue' is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener. 'Green fatigue' is exactly as i...

Canadian Cellphone Users May Get Justice Over Phantom Charges


Slashdot May 18, 2013 | 11:18 pm UTC
An anonymous reader writes "For years, Bell Mobility customers in northern Canada were charged 75 cents a month for 911 emergency service. The problem is that cellphone users outside Whitehorse, Yukon...

Wired Writer Imagines Google Island


Slashdot May 18, 2013 | 10:19 pm UTC
theodp writes "The last thing Wired's Mat Honan remembered before awaking on the self-driving boat that dropped him on the island was sitting through a four-hour Google I/O keynote in Moscone Center a...

 

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