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Amazon Plans To Release 12 Movies a Year In Theaters and On Prime

An anonymous reader writes “Amazon has announced that it will begin to produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video. From the article: “This is a big move from Amazon, as it seeks to narrow the theatrical release window to between four and eight weeks. It can often take up to a year for films to land on subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video, however they do typically land on DVD/Blu-ray within around four months. Production for the aptly titled ‘Amazon Original Movies’ program will kick off in 2015, and plans are afoot to create around a dozen original titles for release in cinemas each year.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Lizard Squad Kept Its Hacker-for-Hire Customers’ Info in Plain Text

Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad’s super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers’ data in plain text and $11, 000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more…

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There’s Millions of Dollars Worth of Gold and Silver in Sewage  

There’s gold in them thar sewers —and silver and platinum and copper, too. A study by Arizona State University (ASU) researchers estimates there is $13 million worth of precious elements in the sewage produced by a million-person city every year. Never think of sewage as stinky worthless waste again. Read more…

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19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks

An anonymous reader writes Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19, 000 websites of French-based companies have been targeted by cyber attackers. This unprecedented avalanche of cyber attacks targeted both government sites and that of big and small businesses. Most were low-level DDoS attacks, and some were web defacements. Several websites in a number of towns in the outskirts of Paris have been hacked and covered with an image of an ISIS flag. The front pages of the official municipality websites have been covered with the Jihadist militant group’s black flag. In a report, Radware researchers noted that Islamic hacker group AnonGhost has also launched a “digital jihad” against France. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Impressive photo of the F-35 Lightning II with all its weaponry lined up

Lockheed Martin sent us this impressive shot by Matt Short of the F-35 Lightning II showing all the weaponry it can carry. Of course, it can’t carry everything you see at the same time. This is the stuff that has been certified so far. Read more…

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Impressive photo of the F-35 Lightning II with all its weaponry lined up

Engineer Combines Xbox One, PS4 Into Epic ‘PlayBox’ Laptop

MojoKid writes We can finally stop arguing over which is the superior game console, the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. Quite frankly, it’s a pointless debate, and it took a self-taught engineer to put the argument to rest, which he did by combining both game systems into a 22-inch laptop. Meet the “PlayBox, ” a gaming laptop that’s equal parts Xbox One and PS4 rolled into one. The PlayBox wins the argument because it allows you to play games on either system, and when it comes down to it, the ability to play games is all that matters. Built for a “specific customer, ” the owner of this prototype system needn’t worry about exclusives since he now has a system that can play them all, and do it while taking up no more space than a single console. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Google now displays links which will take you directly to tickets on AXS, Ticketfly and Ticketmaster

Google now displays links which will take you directly to tickets on AXS, Ticketfly and Ticketmaster when you search for a band playing a specific venue. Which could save you seconds. Read more…

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Google now displays links which will take you directly to tickets on AXS, Ticketfly and Ticketmaster

Decay and Demolition Inside a Dying Cement Factory

The first cement factory in Hungary has reached its sorry end. The monstrous industrial complex of Lábatlan was established by Balázs Konkoly-Thege on the right bank of river Danube in 1868, and in the very beginning, Roman cement was made here in a wood-fueled 16 chamber furnace. Today, the factory is a lovely ruin—which I visited to document before it’s demolished. Read more…

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700-Year-Old Cold Case Clue Found in Mummy Poop

In 1329, an Italian nobleman and dear friend of Dante suffered a particularly horrid bout of diarrhea that—it being the 14th century and all—promptly killed him at the tender age of 38. But now, thanks to Cagrande della Scala’s exhumed, mummified corpse and the 700-year-old poop found therein, we know this wasn’t your normal, everyday bout of fatal feces. This was murder. Read more…

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