Employing the same physical forces that power Shrinky Dinks, researchers at North Carolina State University may have just created the future of product packaging—2D polymer sheets that bend into 3D forms when exposed to UV light. More » University Boffins Print Self-Generating Origami [Video] Employing the same physical forces that power Shrinky Dinks, researchers at North Carolina State University may have just created the future of product packaging—2D polymer sheets that bend into 3D forms when exposed to UV light. More »

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The Danse Macabre Collection The dance of death (usually represented by a skeleton) has been a recurring theme in art and literature for centuries -at least! BibliOddysey has a sampling of such illustrations from the Heinrich Hein University of Düsseldorf collection, ranging from 1736 to the 20th century. Link

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Windows 8 gets automatic updates, enforced restarts after 72 hours of polite harassment Windows 8 is renaming the second week of every month. After “Patch Tuesday” comes “Gentle reminder Wednesday,” “Polite yet firm suggestion Thursday” and “Automatic restart Friday”. In order to keep everyone’s system secure, Windows Update will download patches in the background before adding a notification on your lock screen that you’re due a restart. If you haven’t managed it within 72 hours, you’ll be given a 15 minute warning to save your work and close up before it forces the shutdown –…

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“Anonymous Finland” claims it has compromised the email logins and passwords of 500,000 Finns — about ten percent of the country’s population. Among the hacked emails are allegedly accounts belonging to journalists at Finland’s mainstream daily Helsingin Sanomat, members of the Finnish parliament, police officials, Helsinki city councillors and students and faculties at several of the country’s universities. The hackers said they had taken advantage of security loopholes in company compute…

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Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 An anonymous reader writes “While there has been a port of Tor for jailbroken iOS devices for a long time, there was no way to use it if you did not want to lose your warranty. Now it looks like Apple has approved a Web browser for the iPad called Covert Browser, which includes a Tor client. If you look at the first screenshot on the author’s page it looks like you can even select the Exit node. According to App Shopper it already hit place 64 in the iPad/Utilites category.” And from another …

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I was trying to figure out why my email on my iPhone stopped working randomly, but Outlook was fine. Turns out, Office 365 automatically expires passwords, and there’s no control over this in the web GUI. No fear, Powershell is here!

Thanks to MSO support for this nugget:

To set your password to never expire please follow the steps below:

Step 1: Download the Microsoft Online Services Module for PowerShell, available at :

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/ff652560.aspx

Step 2: Connect to the server with: connect-msolservice

Run the following command by using the user principal name (UPN) or the Microsoft Online Services ID of the user to configure the password for that user to never change:

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <Microsoft Online Services ID> -PasswordNeverExpires $true

Note If you want to change the setting for all the users in an organization, run the following command:

Get-MSOLUser | Set-MsolUser -PasswordNeverExpires $true

To disable the “Password never expires” setting

Connect to the Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell (MOSMWP) by using your company administrator credentials.

Run the following command by using the user principal name (UPN) or the Microsoft Online Services ID of the user to disable the Password never expire setting for that user:

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <Microsoft Online Services ID> -PasswordNeverExpires $false

Note If you want to change the setting for all the users in an organization, use the following cmdlet:

Get-MSOLUser | Set-MsolUser -PasswordNeverExpires $false

Everything You Need to Know About Using iTunes Match [ITunes Match]

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Sandy Bridge-E hits the market with more cores, more threads

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AMD’s 16-core Bulldozer pushes into the server room

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