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Urban Terror Code Stolen

New submitter herbalt writes “The code of the free FPS game Urban Terror (a standalone game based on a Quake 3 mod), has been stolen. The development team, Frozen Sand, at first stated their Git Repository had been hacked, but later issued an announcement stating the perpetrator of the leak was a member of the development team. Frozen Sand also states they have found chat logs indicating there had been ‘a plot to get B1naryTh1ef to steal the code so they could sell Urban Terror under a different name on Steam.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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After its acquisition of Waze this past June, Google announced this morning that it is deploying rea

After its acquisition of Waze this past June, Google announced this morning that it is deploying real time incident reports from Waze users to Google Maps mobile and apps users. Waze users can now search with Google, too. And if you’re into mapmaking, the Waze Map Editor now includes Google Street View. [ Google and Waze ] Read more…        

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Microsoft launched Skype for Outlook.com today, bringing voice calls, video calls, and messaging to

Microsoft launched Skype for Outlook.com today, bringing voice calls, video calls, and messaging to its email service. Users just need to link their Outlook.com account with Skype and install a plug-in for Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer to enable the integration. Read more here . Read more…        

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These Satellite Images of Earth "Breathing" Are Freaking Me Out

It freaks me out that tiny atoms and huge solar systems consist of things rotating around each other in a similar way. It’s also weird to see time-lapse footage of human beings building things (like that super-fast hotel build in China) and realize how insectoid our activities look when sped up. And above you see the latest strange big/small connection: The planet Earth resembling a beating heart or a breathing being. A guy named John Nelson runs the UX Blog , which covers user experience, mapping and data visualization for parent software company IDV Solutions. Nelson pulled twelve rare, unobscured-by-clouds images of our planet off of NASA’s Visible Earth catalog taken at different times of the year. Stitching them together into an animation, he made the visually stunning discovery you see here: As the seasons change, the ebb and flow of snow and greenery makes our little rock look like it’s breathing. (more…)        

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Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%

cold fjord writes “Is 40% anything to worry about? Sky News reports, ‘Worldwide internet traffic plunged by around 40% as Google services suffered a complete black-out, according to web analytics experts. The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down for between one and five minutes last night. The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online. According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google’s massive grip on the web. “That’s huge, ” said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. “As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge.”‘ Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour

dstates writes “A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has released Zmap, a tool that allows an ordinary server to scan every address on the Internet in just 45 minutes. This is a task that used to take months, but now is accessible to anyone with a fast internet connection. In their announcement Friday , at the Usenix security conference in Washington they provide interesting examples tracking HTTPS deployment over time, the effects of Hurricane Sandy on Internet infrastructure, but also rapid identification of vulnerable hosts for security exploits. A Washington Post Blog discussing the work shows examples of the rate with which of computers on the Internet have been patched to fix Universal Plug and Play, ‘Debian weak key’ and ‘factorable RSA keys’ vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, in each case it takes years to deploy patches and in the case of UPnP devices, they found 2.56 million (16.7 percent) devices on the Internet had not yet upgraded years after the vulnerability had been described.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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A Guy Hacked Zuck’s Wall After Facebook Ignored His Bug Report

Khalil, a Palestinian white hat hacker, submitted bug reports to Facebook about a vulnerability that allowed him to post on anyone’s wall. But Facebook’s security team didn’t do anything. So Khalil wrote on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall about it and was generally a badass. Read more…        

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How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard

mikejuk writes “Is it possible that we have been wasting our time typing programs. Could voice recognition, with a little help from an invented spoken language, be the solution we didn’t know we needed? About two years ago Tavis Rudd, developed a bad case of RSI caused by typing lots of code using Emacs. It was so severe that he couldn’t code. As he puts it: ‘Desperate, I tried voice recognition’. The Dragon Naturally Speaking system used by Rudd supported standard language quite well, but it wasn’t adapted to program editing commands. The solution was to use a Python speech extension, DragonFly, to program custom commands. OK, so far so good, but … the commands weren’t quite what you might have expected. Instead of English words for commands he used short vocalizations — you have to hear it to believe it. Now programming sounds like a conversation with R2D2. The advantage is that it is faster and the recognition is easier — it also sounds very cool and very techie. it is claimed that the system is faster than typing. So much so that it is still in use after the RSI cleared up.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The World’s First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids

An anonymous reader writes “CPU water cooling may be more expensive than air cooling, but it is quieter and moves the bulk away from your CPU. It’s also improving, as Zalman has just demonstrated with the announcement of the Reserator 3. Zalman is claiming that the Reserator 3 is the world’s first liquid cooler to use nanofluids. What’s that then? It involves adding refrigerant nanoparticles to the fluid that gets pumped around inside the cooler transporting the heat produced by a CPU to the radiator and fan where it is expelled. By using the so-called nanofluid, Zalman believes it can offer better cooling, and rates the Reserator 3 as offering up to 400W of cooling while remaining very quiet. The fluid and pump is supplemented by a dual copper radiator design and “quadro cooling path, ” which consists of two copper pipes sitting behind the fan and surrounded by the radiators. The heatsink sitting on top of the CPU is a micro-fin copper base allowing very quick transfer of heat to the nanofluid above.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The Death of the American Drive-in

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Claire Suddath writes in Businessweek that the number of drive-ins in America has dwindled from over 4, 000 in the 1960s to about 360 today. Since Hollywood distributors are expected to stop producing movies in traditional 35 millimeter film by the end of this year and switch entirely to digital, America’s last remaining drive-ins — the majority of which are still family-owned and seasonally operated — could soon be gone. ‘We have challenges that other movie theaters don’t, ‘ says John Vincent, president of United Drive-In Theater Owners Association and the owner of Wellfleet Drive-In in Cape Cod, Mass. ‘We have fewer screens and can only show one or two movies a night. Now we have to spend tens of thousands of dollars just to stay in business.’ According to Vincent, only 150 drive-ins have converted to digital so far — the other 210 have until the end of the year either to get with the program or go out of business. It may seem silly to fret over the fate of 210 movie theaters whose business model is outdated, even compared with regular movie theaters, but Honda Motor Co. is offering help with a program called ‘Project Drive-In.’ The car company is planning to give away five digital projectors by the end of the year. Winners will be determined by voting from the public, which can be done online through Sept. 9 at ProjectDriveIn.com. ‘Cars and drive-in theaters go hand in hand, ‘ says Alicia Jones, manager of Honda & Acura social marketing, ‘and it’s our mission to save this slice of Americana that holds such nostalgia for many of us.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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