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Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality
Date : 2009 08 04
Slashdotmmmscience writes "A group of scientists has identified a structure in the brain of psychopaths that is abnormal when compared wit read more »
Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotangry tapir sends along coverage from Good Gear Guide of a recent Microsoft !0-K SEC filing: "Microsoft for the first time has nam read more »
Nikon Unveils a Camera With Built-In Projector
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotAll the gadget blogs are covering Nikon's new S1000pj digital camera with integrated projector. Reader Sabre Runner recommends Eng read more »
Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotAdam Wrzeski notes a piece up at Create Digital Music by musician Kim Cascone (artist's bio) on switching from Apple to Linux for read more »
Can We Abandon Confidentiality For Google Apps?
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "I provide IT services for medium-sized medical and law practices. Lately I have been getting a lot of read more »
Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotcircletimessquare writes "The spleen doesn't get much respect — as one researcher put it, 'the spleen lacks the gravitas of read more »
KDE 4.3 Released
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotJos Poortvliet writes "After another 6 months of hard work by over 700 people, after fixing over 10,000 bugs and granting 2,000 wi read more »
11.6" Netbooks Face Off
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotDr. Damage writes "Netbooks have grown from tiny curiosities with 7" screens into surprisingly well-rounded little computers. The read more »
Large Hadron Collider Struggling
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotWriting in the NY Times, Dennis Overbye covers the birthing pangs and the prospects for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (which we hav read more »
Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotAl writes "A handheld developed by Philips for law enforcement detects traces of cocaine, heroin, cannabis, and methamphetamine in read more »
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotWh15per writes "The Chicago FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested an individual for misusing Chicago Transit Authority radio sys read more »
Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotinject_hotmail.com writes "Bell Canada started hijacking non-existent domains (in the same manner as Rogers), redirecting NX-respo read more »
California Student Arrested For Console Hacking
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotjhoger writes "Matthew Crippen was arrested yesterday for hacking game consoles (for profit) in violation of the Digital Millenniu read more »
Null-Prefix SSL Attacks Enabled In New sslsniff
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, who recently published new attacks on SSL at Defcon 17, seems to have released the read more »
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotOrangHutan writes "Google's Android software source code has been offered up for those looking to create applications on MIPS32 ch read more »
Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals
Date : 2009 08 04 SlashdotHugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that inventor Stephen Kurtin has developed glasses with a mechanically adjustable focus read more »
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotdigitalhermit writes "A C student (not the programming language) has sued her former school because she has been unable to find a read more »
30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment
Date : 2009 08 04 Slashdotcoondoggie writes "Published reports today say the Pentagon is rattling swords in the direction of North Korea and Iran by speedin read more »
xkcd To Be Released In Book Form
Date : 2009 08 03 SlashdotHistory's Coming To writes "xkcd creator Randall Munroe has revealed on his blag that the acclaimed stick-figure comic will be pro read more »
Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others
Date : 2009 08 03 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "American users of Wipeout HD might have noticed that there's an advertisement showing up all of the su read more »
Entropy Problems For Linux In the Cloud
Date : 2009 08 03 SlashdotCalTrumpet writes "Our research group recently spoke at Black Hat USA on the topic of cloud computing security. One of the interes read more »