Slashdot Newsletter 2012-05-06

Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down   |  Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'     Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat  Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down  In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million  Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'  Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective  Database and IP Records Tie Election Fraud To Canada's Ruling Conservatives  Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone  Raspberry Pi Reviewed, With an Initial Setup Guide  Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook  Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard  Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen?  Pirate Bay, IsoHunt Blocked In India  Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory  Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces  Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing     Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat  From the Department of he's-got-a-military-industrial-complex skipkent writes "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat [Wednesday] during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. 'The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national...   Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down  From the Department of punctuated-equilibrium AmiMoJo writes "Japan's last active reactor is shutting down today, leaving the country without nuclear energy for the first time since 1970. All 50 commercial reactors in the country are now offline. 19 have been completed stress tests but there...   In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million  From the Department of avoidance-vs-evasion daria42 writes "Looks like Apple isn't the only company with interesting offshore taxation practices. The financial statements for Google's Australian subsidiary show the company told the Australian Government it made just $200 million in revenue...   Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'  From the Department of what-a-huge-surprise An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers have analyzed a new piece of Mac malware that uses a multi-stage attack similar to typical Windows malware infection routines. In a post titled 'An interesting case of Mac OSX malware' the...   Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective  From the Department of considered-busted wiredmikey writes "On Wednesday, a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidentally exposed to the Web, prompting fears that it may be used to target vulnerable websites on a massive scale. The bug itself was traced back to 2004, and...   Database and IP Records Tie Election Fraud To Canada's Ruling Conservatives  From the Department of ties-to-known-terrorists choongiri writes "Canada's election fraud scandal continues to unfold. Elections Canada just matched the IP address used to set up thousands of voter suppression robocalls to one used by a Conservative Party operative, and a comparison of call...   Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone  From the Department of have-you-considered-a-new-blender? Hugh Pickens writes "Sascha Segan writes that although Verizon adamantly denies steering customers away from Apple's iPhones in favor of 4G LTE-enabled Android devices, he is convinced that Verizon has a strong reason to push buyers away from the...   Raspberry Pi Reviewed, With an Initial Setup Guide  From the Department of put-your-fruit-in-order jjslash writes "It has been six years in the making, with the original goal of the project intending to reignite computer programming in schools across the country. Despite those honorable intentions, the $35 ARM-based credit-card sized computer...   Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook  From the Department of such-poor-use-of-pronouns longacre writes "Suzy Harriston wanted to be friends on Facebook. The profile said she was from Clayton [Missouri] and had more than 300 friends, many of them from Clayton High School. No one seemed to question who Harriston was. That is, until...   Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard  From the Department of how-do-you-get-extra-lives? An anonymous reader writes "I guess is was inevitable, now that BMW is letting you view and make tweets from behind the wheel, but is it really a good idea to let people run smartphone apps from their dashboard monitor? I guess for navigation you...   Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen?  From the Department of wake-me-when-it's-got-a-robot New submitter brabq writes "Now that I have a couple of CableCard tuner devices in the house (including the network-based HDHomeRun Prime), I'm thinking of buying one of those all-in-one touchscreen PCs for our kitchen (yeah, something I've always...   Pirate Bay, IsoHunt Blocked In India  From the Department of say-it-is-not-so First time accepted submitter unmole writes "It seems that India's Department of Telecom has instructed ISP's to block popular torrent trackers like the Pirate Bay and IsoHunt. Visitors now see a page (Screenshot) informing that 'This site has...   Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory  From the Department of ok-start-counting-down-to-5-years Lucas123 writes "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have shown they can increase the density, performance and the durability of phase-change memory (PSM) by using diamonds to change the base alloy material. Instead of using the more typical...   Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces  From the Department of well-if-it's-good-enough-for-cadavers MatthewVD writes "A new, user interface-enabled generation of electronics that you wear under your skin could be used for convenience, or even pleasure, rather than medical reasons. Scientists at Autodesk Research in Toronto have implanted...   Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing  From the Department of perfect-for-the-basement yyzmcleod writes with this excerpt: "A research team at Queen's University has created a human-scale 3D hologram pod that allows people in different locations to videoconference as if they are standing in front of each other. Called TeleHuman, the...

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