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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns
* Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting
* CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit"
* Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity
* SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby
* Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release
* MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses
* AFL-CIO and Big Content Advocate For SOPA
* TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
* Qualcomm's Butterfly Wing Display Gets Nearer
* Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA
* Universal Music Demands Insurer Pay For Infringement Damages
* Facebook Holding Back Personal Data
* OpenSUSE 12.1 Released
* Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries?
* Apple Names New Chairman
* Intel Announces Xeon E5 and Knights Corner HPC Chip
* Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain
* W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard
* Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case
* First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database
* Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects
* Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time
* Life-Bearing Lake Possible On Icy Jupiter Moon
* Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors
* Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital
* Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps
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| Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns
| from the occupy-a-job-long-hair dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @15:12 (Government)
| with 618 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1832217/feds-helped-coordinate-occupy-x-crackdowns?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lawrence_Bird writes "The Feds [0]helped break up the Occupy protests by
providing advice and assistance from the FBI and DHS. From the article:
'Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said on Monday that her city and others across
the country coordinated their crackdowns of Occupy Wall Street camps.
Rick Ellis, a Minneapolis-based journalist for Examiner.com, reports that
these cities also had the help of the Department of Homeland Security and
the Federal Bureau of Investigation." In related conspiracy news,
apcullen wrote in with a story by Time Magazine guest columnist Naomi
Wolf who claims: "Instead of imminent safety issues, the timing of the
crackdown was far more likely to do with the fact that the Occupy
movement was [1]planning something media-savvy at last: a 'carnival' on
Wall Street on Thursday in which protesters would telegenically tell
their individual stories of hardship, job loss and disenfranchisement. It
is that event that posed a 'safety risk' ��� to the efforts of Wall Street
and the Bloomberg administration to manage the narrative."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1832217/feds-helped-coordinate-occupy-x-crackdowns?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/16/obama-administration-allegedly-helped-co
1. http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/16/the-straw-man-comes-to-zuccotti-park/?xid=newsletter-daily
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| Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting
| from the 15-minutes-should-be-enough-for-anyone dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 15, @20:05 (Businesses)
| with 495 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0035226/microsoft-shareholders-unhappy-after-annual-meeting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Microsoft shareholders left today's annual
meeting grumbling about the 15 minute Q&A period with Bill Gates and
Steve Balmer and the lack of any real specifics about corporate
direction. Many [0]shareholders are concerned about Microsoft's static
share price over the last decade."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0035226/microsoft-shareholders-unhappy-after-annual-meeting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45309968/ns/business/#.TsLTy1b6NoU
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| CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit"
| from the your-keystrokes-may-be-monitored-for-qa-purposes dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @10:55 (Android)
| with 376 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1517248/carrieriq-most-phones-ship-with-rootkit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Kompressor writes "According to a developer
on the XDA forums, TrevE, many Android, Nokia, and BlackBerry smartphones
have software called [0]Carrier IQ that [1]allows your carrier full
access into your handset, including keylogging, which apps have been run,
URLs that have been loaded in the browser, etc." Since this was
submitted, a few more [2]details have come to light. The software was
designed to give carriers useful feedback on aggregate usage patterns,
but the software runs as root and the privacy implications are pretty
severe.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1517248/carrieriq-most-phones-ship-with-rootkit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.carrieriq.com/
1. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/
2. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/more-on-carrier-iq/
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| Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity
| from the phones-that-last-more-than-five-minutes dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @11:37 (Power)
| with 346 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1616217/research-promises-drastically-increased-lion-capacity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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daem0n1x writes "Could this be the [0]breakthrough we've all been
expecting that will finally make the electric car a reality? Researchers
of Northwestern University USA [1]discovered a new way to build
lithium-ion batteries that changes dramatically both the [2]charge time
and capacity [original paper, paywalled]. Guess what it involves? That's
right, graphene."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1616217/research-promises-drastically-increased-lion-capacity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.themobileindian.com/news/3845_New-battery-promises-ten-times-more-and-faster-charging
1. http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/11/batteries-energy-kung.html
2. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201100464/abstract
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| SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby
| from the piracy-is-a-sin dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @08:07 (Censorship)
| with 274 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/023221/sopa-hearings-stacked-in-favor-of-pro-sopa-lobby?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Adrian Lopez writes "Techdirt reports that 'apparently, the [1]folks
behind SOPA are really scared to hear from the opposition. We all
expected that the Judiciary Committee hearings wouldn't be a fair fight.
In Congress, they rarely are fair fights. But most people expected the
typical "three in favor, one against" weighted hearings. That's already
childish, but it seems that the Judiciary Committee has [2]decided to
take the ridiculousness to new heights. We'd already mentioned last week
that the Committee had rejected the request of NetCoalition to take part
in the hearings. At the time, we'd heard that the hearings were going to
be stacked four-to-one in favor of SOPA. However, the latest report
coming out of the Committee is that they're so afraid to actually hear
about the real opposition that they've lined up five pro-SOPA speakers
and only one "against."' Demand Progress is running an [3]online petition
against such lopsided representation."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/023221/sopa-hearings-stacked-in-favor-of-pro-sopa-lobby?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:adrian2@caribe.net
1. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111114/23145216770/house-judiciary-committee-sopa-hearings-stacked-5-to-1-favor-censoring-internet.shtml
2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/whos-missing-todays-sopa-hearing-short-list
3. http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_testimony/
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| Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release
| from the patents-hate-fun dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @09:31 (Open Source)
| with 264 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1354222/patent-issue-delays-doom-3-source-code-release?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "id Software is still planning to [0]release
the Doom 3 source this year, but it's been [1]delayed by a patent issue
that's causing John Carmack to personally rewrite some of the code. The
patent issue in Doom 3 concerns the [2]Carmack's Reverse algorithm and
has led Carmack to [3]rewrite it in the open-source Doom 3."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1354222/patent-issue-delays-doom-3-source-code-release?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/2129223/doom-3-source-code-to-be-released-this-year
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxNjE
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume#Depth_fail
3. https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/136614459887202305
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| MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses
| from the man-is-obsolete dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @05:22 (Hardware)
| with 195 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0424246/mit-creates-chip-to-model-synapses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an Extreme Tech article: "With 400
transistors and standard CMOS manufacturing techniques, a group of MIT
researchers have created the first computer chip that [1]mimics the
analog, ion-based communication in a synapse between two neurons.
Scientists and engineers have tried to fashion brain-like neural networks
before, but transistor-transistor logic is fundamentally digital ��� and
the brain is completely analog. Neurons do not suddenly flip from '0' to
'1' ��� they can occupy an almost-infinite scale of analog, in-between
values. You can approximate the analog function of synapses by using
fuzzy logic (and by ladling on more processors), but that approach only
goes so far. MIT's chip is [2]dedicated to modeling every biological
caveat in a single synapse. 'We now have a way to capture each and every
ionic process that's going on in a neuron,' says Chi-Sang Poon, an MIT
researcher who worked on the project. The next step? Scaling up the
number of synapses and building specific parts of the brain, such as our
visual processing or motor control systems. The long-term goal would be
to provide bionic components that augment or replace parts of the human
physiology, perhaps in blind or crippled people ��� and, of course,
artificial intelligence. With current state-of-the-art technology it
takes hours or days to simulate a simple brain circuit. With MIT's brain
chip, the simulation is faster than the biological system itself."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0424246/mit-creates-chip-to-model-synapses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/105067-mit-creates-brain-chip
2. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/brain-chip-1115.html
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| AFL-CIO and Big Content Advocate For SOPA
| from the no-piracy-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @17:57 (Censorship)
| with 190 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/225233/afl-cio-and-big-content-advocate-for-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Weezul writes "[0]Today's House Judiciary Committee meeting on the
[1]Stop Online Piracy Act excluded any witnesses who advocate for civil
rights. [2]Google's Katherine Oyama was the only witness to object to the
bill in a meaningful way. In particular, the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida
advocated for the internet blacklist, saying 'the First Amendment does
not protect stealing goods off trucks.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/225233/afl-cio-and-big-content-advocate-for-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/explosion-opposition-internet-blacklist-bill
1. http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_testimony/?akid=1018.606560.JTkqV4&rd=1&t=2
2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/at-web-censorship-hearing-congress-guns-for-pro-pirate-google.ars
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| TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
| from the we'll-get-to-it-later dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @16:52 (Security)
| with 166 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2051233/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-body-scanners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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zokuga writes "ProPublica reports that the TSA is backing off a
[0]previous promise to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body
scanners used at airport security lanes around the country. Earlier this
month, an investigation found that TSA had glossed over research about
the risks from the X-rays."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2051233/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-body-scanners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-body-scanners
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| Qualcomm's Butterfly Wing Display Gets Nearer
| from the stare-at-the-sun dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 15, @19:21 (Displays)
| with 155 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/15/2348244/qualcomms-butterfly-wing-display-gets-nearer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "Technology Review has an update on a [1]screen
technology from Qualcomm called Mirasol that [2]delivers LCD-like colors
and video but sips power like e-ink. Demonstration Android tablets with
5.7 inch Mirasol displays apparently held up well in bright light and
were responsive enough for gaming. Qualcomm are in the process of
building a $1 billion new factory to make the screens, which should
appear in devices from phone and tablet makers next year."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/15/2348244/qualcomms-butterfly-wing-display-gets-nearer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometric_modulator_display
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39135/?p1=A1
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| Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA
| from the zero-cool-strikes-again dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @10:13 (Security)
| with 152 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/151224/romanian-accused-of-breaking-into-nasa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Romanian authorities have [0]arrested a 26-year old
hacker who is accused of breaking into multiple NASA servers and causing
$500,000 in damages to the U.S. space agency's systems. Robert Butyka,
26, was arrested on Tuesday in Western Romania following an investigation
by the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and
Terrorism. According to local reports, the hacker used the online moniker
of 'Iceman.' He does not have a higher education or an occupation, a
DIICOT spokeswoman said."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/151224/romanian-accused-of-breaking-into-nasa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111611-unemployed-romanian-hacker-accused-of-253176.html
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| Universal Music Demands Insurer Pay For Infringement Damages
| from the universal-infringement-care dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @03:34 (Canada)
| with 151 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0455222/universal-music-demands-insurer-pay-for-infringement-damages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with a new twist in the recently resolved
[0]Canadian music label infringement lawsuit. From the article: "Earlier
this year, the four primary members of the Canadian Recording Industry
Association (now Music Canada) ��� Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music
Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada ��� [1]settled the
largest copyright class action lawsuit in Canadian history by agreeing to
pay over $50 million to compensate for hundreds of thousands of
infringing uses of sound recordings. While the record labels did not
admit liability, the massive settlement spoke for itself. While the
Canadian case has now settled, [2]Universal Music has filed its own
lawsuit, this time against its insurer, who it [3]expects to pay the
costs of the settlement."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0455222/universal-music-demands-insurer-pay-for-infringement-damages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/11/0615258/record-labels-to-pay-for-copyright-infringement
1. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/05/31/177259/canadian-music-industry-copyright-class-action-settled
2. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6131/125/
3. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/universal-music-chet-baker-lawsuit-260608
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| Facebook Holding Back Personal Data
| from the too-detailed-for-your-own-good dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @00:20 (Facebook)
| with 125 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0239232/facebook-holding-back-personal-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Facebook has reduced the amount of [1]personal data
it releases to users as required by European Union law. Due to the
[2]volume of requests since Europe v. Facebook began its campaign,
Facebook is no longer sending CDs to people. Facebook said in a statement
that the CD mailout 'contains a level of detail that is less useful for
the average user ��� it is a much rawer collection of data.' Instead, users
are now directed to a page where they can download their personal
'archive,' which according to Facebook is a copy of 'all of the personal
information you've shared on Facebook.' But rather than the [3]57
categories of data early data requesters received, the new tool downloads
just 22 categories."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0239232/facebook-holding-back-personal-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/224345/despite-audit-facebook-holds-back-personal-data
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/1344218/european-users-overwhelm-facebook-with-data-requests
3. http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html
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| OpenSUSE 12.1 Released
| from the lizard-people-for-parliment dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @13:24 (SuSE)
| with 117 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1746214/opensuse-121-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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MasterPatricko writes "The openSUSE project is proud to present the
[0]release of openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight
months of work by our international community and brings you the best
Free Software has to offer. Improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2
desktop as well as the newest from KDE, XFCE and LXDE; your ownCloud made
easy with mirall; Snapper-shots of your file system on btrfs; and
[1]much, much more. Other notable changes include moving from sysvinit to
systemd, improving the boot process, and being built on GCC 4.6.2
including link-time optimization. More packages than ever are available
from the openSUSE instance of the [2]Open Build Service, and soon you'll
be able to create customized respins on [3]SUSE Studio."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1746214/opensuse-121-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.opensuse.org/2011/11/16/opensuse-12-1-all-green/
1. http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights
2. https://build.opensuse.org/
3. http://susestudio.com/
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| Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries?
| from the we-know-what-you-read-last-summer dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @14:31 (Education)
| with 116 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1813256/ask-slashdot-statistical-analysis-packages-for-libraries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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HolyLime writes "I'm a librarian in a small academic library.
Increasingly the administration is asking our department to collect data
on various aspects of our activities, class taught, students helped,
circulation, collection development, and so on. This is generating a
large stream of data that is making it difficult, and time consuming, to
qualitatively analyze. For anything complicated, I currently use excel,
or an analogous spreadsheet program. I am aware of statistical analysis
programs, like SPSS or SAS. Can anyone give me recommendations for
statistical analysis programs? I also place emphasis on anything that is
open source and easy to implement since it will allow me to bypass the
convoluted purchase approval process."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1813256/ask-slashdot-statistical-analysis-packages-for-libraries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Apple Names New Chairman
| from the disney-movies-exclusively-distributed-via-iphone dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @08:50 (Businesses)
| with 105 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1326232/apple-names-new-chairman?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech company
Genentech, [1]is taking on the chairmanship of Apple's board, filling the
role that Apple founder Steve Jobs vacated when he died last month." El
Reg notes that [2]Disney CEO/President Robert Iger was also appointed to
the board, and that this marks the first time since the return of Steve
Jobs to Apple that the CEO and board chairman were different people.
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/407568/apple_names_former_genentech_chief_new_chairman
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/apple_new_chairman/
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| Intel Announces Xeon E5 and Knights Corner HPC Chip
| from the one-treeleeon-flops dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @13:06 (Intel)
| with 102 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1735231/intel-announces-xeon-e5-and-knights-corner-hpc-chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "At the supercomputing conference SC2011 yesterday,
Intel announced its new Xeon E5 processors and demoed their new Knights
Corner many integrated core (MIC) solution. The new Xeons won't be
broadly available until the first half of 2012, but Intel has been
shipping the new chips to a small number of cloud and HPC customers since
September. The new E5 family is based on the same core as the [1]Core
i7-3960X Intel launched Monday. The E5, while important to Intel's
overall server lineup, isn't as interesting as the public debut of
[2]Knights Corner. Recall that Intel's [3]canceled GPU (codenamed
Larrabee) found new life as the [4]prototype device for future HPC
accelerators and complementary products. According to Intel, [5]Knights
Corner packs 50 x86 processor cores into a single die built on 22nm
technology. The chip is capable of delivering up to 1TFlop of sustained
performance in double-precision floating point code and operates at 1 ���
1.2GHz. NVIDIA's current high-end M2090 Tesla GPU, in contrast, is
capable of just 665 DP GFlops."
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/14/1210238/intel-launches-sandy-bridge-e-series-processors
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/05/005234/intel-kills-consumer-larrabee-plans
4. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/intel-takes-wraps-off-of-50-core-supercomputing-coprocessor-plans.ars
5. http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Xeon-E5-Series-Talks-Up-Knights-Corner-MIC-Products/
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| Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain
| from the there's-something-wrong-with-my-brain dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @18:58 (Games)
| with 96 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2249205/study-finds-frequent-gaming-changes-your-brain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Coolhand2120 writes "Gamers always felt they had more grey matter. The LA
Times reports there is now proof: 'Fourteen-year-olds who were frequent
video gamers had [0]more gray matter in the rewards center of the brain
than peers who didn't play video games as much ��� suggesting that gaming
may be correlated to changes in the brain much as addictions are.
European scientists reported the discovery Tuesday in the journal
Translational Psychiatry. Psychologist Simone Kuhn of Ghent University in
Belgium and colleagues recruited 154 healthy 14-year-olds in Berlin and
divided them into two groups. Twenty-four girls and 52 boys were frequent
gamers who played at least nine hours of video games each week.
Fifty-eight girls and 20 boys were infrequent gamers, who played less
than nine hours a week. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
showed differences in the test subjects' brains. Frequent gamers had more
gray matter in a portion of the brain known as the left ventral striatum,
which affects the interplay of emotions and behavior. Previous research
identified striatal function as a 'core candidate promoting addictive
behavior.'"
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| W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard
| from the federal-legislation-due-in-2013 dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 15, @22:15 (Privacy)
| with 91 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0059226/w3c-proposes-unified-do-not-track-privacy-standard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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In his first submission, [0]kierny writes "A W3C working group is
crafting two standards, due out by summer 2012, to [1]enable consumers to
opt out of online tracking. [2]Numerous big players are involved,
including Google, Facebook, IBM, [3]Mozilla, Microsoft, plus the Center
for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Federal
Trade Commission. The first standard is [4]Tracking Preference Expression,
'to define a standard for a how a browser can tell a website that a user
wants more privacy,' says W3C working group co-chairman Dr. Matthias
Schunter of IBM Research. 'So you send a signal, and you get a response
from the website which tells you that the request has been honored.' The
second standard, meanwhile, is the [5]Tracking Compliance and Scope
Specification, which details how websites should comply with Do Not Track
preferences. But, don't expect Do Not Track to be active by default."
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Links:
0. http://www.penandcamera.com/
1. http://informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/231902974
2. http://www.w3.org/2011/11/dnt-pr.html.en
3. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1657252/mozilla-proposes-do-not-track-http-header
4. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-tracking-dnt-20111114/
5. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-tracking-compliance-20111114/
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| Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case
| from the take-it-on-the-chin dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @18:37 (The Courts)
| with 87 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2242239/rambus-loses-4b-antitrust-case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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UnknowingFool writes "In a vote of 9-3, a jury found that [0]Micron and
Hynix did not collude to manipulate DRAM prices in a violation of
California anti-trust law against Rambus. The jury also ruled that the
Idaho based Micron and the South Korea based Hynix did not interfere with
Rambus' relationship with Intel. On the first point, Rambus argued the
two chip makers conspired to keep Rambus RDRAM prices high while
artificially keeping their SDRAM prices low. Micron and Hynix countered
that high RDRAM prices were due to technical problems of the design. On
the second point, an Intel manager testified that Rambus contract
stipulations soured the relationship. The clause that Rambus insisted and
would not waive was that to use Rambus RDRAM, Intel had to agree to give
Rambus the ability to block Intel processors if Rambus felt Intel was not
promoting RDRAM sufficiently. Rambus initiated the suit and the $4B was
how much Rambus calculated it lost in profits."
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Links:
0. http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-agDL2O.3pniE-1BJHC0GO64V3P10UJO4FQJCIK9
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| First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database
| from the sneak-peek dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @15:52 (Oracle)
| with 86 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1948253/first-look-oracle-nosql-database?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a [1]first look at
Oracle NoSQL Database, the company's take on the distributed key-value
data store for the enterprise. 'There are dozens of small ways in which
the tool is more thorough and sophisticated than the simpler NoSQL
projects. You get a number of different options for increasing the
durability in the face of a node crash or trading that durability for
speed,' Wayner writes. 'Oracle NoSQL might not offer the heady fun and
"just build it" experimentation of many of the pure open source NoSQL
projects, but that's not really its role. Oracle borrowed the best ideas
from these groups and built something that will deliver good performance
to the sweet spot of the enterprise market.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/first-look-oracle-nosql-database-179107
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| Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects
| from the i-for-one-welcome-our-robotic-collaborators dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 16, @12:22 (Robotics)
| with 75 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/170253/robot-controls-persons-arm-to-manipulate-objects?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "French researchers have demonstrated a robot
that controls its own arm as well as [0]a person's arm to manipulate
objects in a collaborative manner, IEEE reports. Electrodes attached to
the person's arm allow the robot to make the elbow and hand move to
perform tasks. The tasks are currently simple ([1]dropping a ball through
a hoop, as shown in one of their videos), but the researchers say more
complex ones are possible. They also say the approach has therapeutic
benefits and their goal is to 'develop robotic technologies that can help
people suffering from paralysis and other disabilities to regain some of
their motor skills.'"
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Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/robot-controls-human-arm
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HedXMbvabbk
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| Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time
| from the not-your-grandma's-cartoons dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @16:32 (Graphics)
| with 75 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2035250/intel-and-dreamworks-working-on-rendering-animation-in-real-time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "This week while speaking at the Techonomy
conference, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told audience
members that they'd [0]formulated the solution for real-time rendering of
animation for video. Katzenberg told the audience that they'd been
working hand-in-hand with Intel in order to rewrite their software to
take advantage of scalable multi-core processors, this allowing them to
achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, [1]revolutionize
the animation process."
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Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/14/techonomy-can-intel-and-dreamworks-cross-the-uncanny-valley/
1. http://www.slashgear.com/dreamworks-announce-theyve-found-the-holy-grail-of-digital-animation-14195215/
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| Life-Bearing Lake Possible On Icy Jupiter Moon
| from the how's-the-fishing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @16:12 (Space)
| with 73 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2029250/life-bearing-lake-possible-on-icy-jupiter-moon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "New research shows the jumbled ice blocks crowning
the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa are signs of large liquid lakes
below, [1]a key finding in the search for places where life might exist
beyond Earth. Drawing from studies of underground volcanoes in Iceland
and Antarctica, scientists ran computer models to see if the chaotic
formations on Europa's surface could be explained by the same geologic
processes seen on Earth. It turns out that not only could this be further
evidence for a sub-surface ocean, but also a mechanism that mixes ice and
water, circulating nutrients and energy to get from the frozen surface to
the ocean below."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/europa-ocean-ice-life-111116.html
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| Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors
| from the two-for-one dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @13:48 (Security)
| with 72 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1810231/experts-convinced-duqu-work-of-stuxnet-authors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers are fairly confident now that [0]whoever
wrote the Duqu malware was also involved in developing the Stuxnet worm.
They're also confident that they have not yet identified all of the
individual components of Duqu, meaning that there are potentially some
other capabilities that haven't been documented yet. There was a lot of
speculation when Duqu first emerged about whether the attack was the work
of the same group--still unknown--that had created Stuxnet and unleashed
it on Iran's nuclear facilities last year. Some of that was centered on
supposed similarities in the code between the two pieces of malware, but
that was before many of the individual components of Duqu had been
identified and analyzed. Now that the analysis and research into the Duqu
malware have advanced a bit, researchers say they've found more evidence
that points to the malware being the work of the Stuxnet authors or their
close associates. 'I'm convinced it's the same group,' Costin Raiu,
director of global research and analysis at Kaspersky Lab, who has done
much of the analysis of Duqu, said."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-convinced-duqu-written-same-group-stuxnet-111611
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| Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital
| from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-ice-cube-tray dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @15:31 (Earth)
| with 58 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1937203/mongolia-wants-to-use-artificial-glaciers-to-cool-capital?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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phaedrus5001 wrote in with a story about an unusual plan to regulate the
temperature of Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. The article
reads: "The city of Ulan Bator will attempt to capture some of the cool
winter temperatures in huge ice blocks that will slowly melt over the
summer and cool down the city. The aim is to [0]build artificial ice
shields ��� or 'naleds' ��� that occur naturally in far northern climates and
can grow to be more than seven meters thick. They grow when river water
pushes through cracks in the surface of the ice during the day and then
freezes to add an extra layer of ice when night falls. Engineering
consortium EMI-ECOS will try to replicate this process by creating holes
in the ice that is forming over the Tuul river. This will be repeated
over and over again until the ice is much thicker than it would be if
left alone."
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/mongolia-artificial-glacier-cooling/
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| Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps
| from the the-people's-app dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, @17:14 (Communications)
| with 54 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/2111255/syrian-protesters-roll-out-new-iphone-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Protesters in Syria, dealing with a strict
media blackout, have [0]rolled out new iPhone and iPad apps to share
news, stories, and even jokes. Amid a brutal crackdown, rebels are
fighting back on their iPhones. The Arab Spring's newest weapon keeps the
opposition informed���and the regime in check."
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