Slashdot Newsletter 2012-05-29

Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip?   |  UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect     The Shortage of Women In IT   Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip?  'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers  UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect  Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines  Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off   Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East  Grilling For Geeks  Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone?  The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing  Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test  Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale  Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor     The Shortage of Women In IT   From the equal-opportunity department CIStud writes "The IT industry is hurting for women. Currently only 11% of IT companies are owned by women. The Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program requires 5% of all IT jobs to go to female-owned integration companies, but...   Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip?  From the protect-ya-neck department Hugh Pickens writes "Information Age reports that the Cambridge University researchers have discovered that a microprocessor used by the US military but made in China contains secret remote access capability, a secret 'backdoor' that means it can...   'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers  From the ignorance-is-freedom department scibri writes, quoting Nature: "A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has...   UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect  From the no-cookies-for-you department Fluffeh writes "The British Gov might have more cameras up on street corners than just about anywhere else in the world, but it seems that the Gov doesn't want anyone else stepping on the privacy of their folks. In what the media have dubbed the...   Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines  From the bravo-zulu department Hugh Pickens writes "As we move into Memorial Day and Americans remember the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, I wanted to share the story of my Uncle Donald Cress born in 1922 in Bath Township, Minnesota who...   Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off   From the should-have-slept-in department Barence writes "An error in Outlook's public holidays calendar has incorrectly given Britons the day off work. Today was originally meant to be a Bank Holiday in Britain, but the holiday was postponed for a week to coincide with the Queen's...   Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East  From the new-bad-guy department An anonymous reader writes "Wired is reporting on a massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage...   Grilling For Geeks  From the set-phasers-to-broil department A lot of us are going to be standing over a grill today cooking for friends and family. Here's an article that lists some of the best gadgets to help you grill like a geek. Whether you want some high-tech tongs, thermometers you can monitor from...   Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone?  From the phone-a-friend department An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times reports that Facebook has resumed its stealthy efforts to create a smartphone, apparently to assert its position in an Internet increasingly accessed via mobile devices, and to counter products and...   The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing  From the race-for-the-cheap department ericjones12398 writes "Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to provide technology that can sequence a complete human genome in...   Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test  From the follow-the-leader department theodp writes "Covered earlier on Slashdot, but lost in the buzz over the Google driverless car is Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), Europe's experiment with 'vehicle platooning,' which has successfully completed a 125 mile...   Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale  From the arts-and-crafts department ananyo writes "Chemists in the UK have made a five-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbon and dubbed it 'olympicene'. The molecule is just a couple of nanometers wide and can be regarded as a little fragment of graphene. Strictly speaking, of course, the...   Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor  From the send-in-the-bots department angry tapir writes "A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan. The robot, called 'Rosemary,' is about the size of a lawn...

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