Rambo Tribble writes “Reuters is reporting that the FBI has issued a warning to several U.S. Government agencies that the Anonymous collective has hacked their systems. Included in the list of compromised agencies are the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and potentially many more agencies. The avenue of attack: Adobe Cold Fusion.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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dcblogs writes “One year ago this month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $120 million plan to develop a technology capable of radically extending battery life. ‘We want to change the game, basically, ‘ said George Crabtree, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a physics professor who is leading the effort. The goal is to develop a battery that can deliver five times the performance, measured in energy density, that’s also five times cheaper, and do it in five years. They are looking at three research areas. Researchers are considering replacing the lithium with magnesium that has two charges, or aluminum, which has three charges. Another approach investigates replacing the intercalation step with a true chemical reaction. A third approach is the use of liquids to replace crystalline anodes and cathodes, which opens up more space for working ions.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium
Jah-Wren Ryel writes “Every smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not one, but two operating systems. Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS), it also runs a small operating system that manages everything related to radio. So, we have a complete operating system, running on an ARM processor, without any exploit mitigation (or only very little of it), which automatically trusts every instruction, piece of code, or data it receives from the base station you’re connected to. What could possibly go wrong?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone
rtoz writes “Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners. This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden. The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries. … Though the Swedish Government is taking steps to close the prisons, the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing crime rather than focusing on jailing people involved in criminal activities.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners
mdsolar writes with this bit of news from Green Tech Media “The German government has responded to the next big challenge in its energy transition – storing the output from the solar boom it has created — by doing exactly what it has successfully done to date: greasing the wheels of finance to bring down the cost of new technology. … Now it is looking at bringing down the cost of the next piece in the puzzle of its energy transition — battery storage. … KfW’s aim, according to Axel Nawrath, a member of the KfW Bankengruppe executive board, is to ensure that the output of wind and solar must be ‘more decoupled’ from the grid. … This is seen as critical as the level of renewable penetration rises to around 40 per cent — a level expected in Germany within the next 10 years. … According to Papenfuss, households participating in the scheme will spend between €20, 000 and €28, 000 on solar and storage, depending on the size of the system (the average size is expected to be around 7kW for the solar array and around 4kWh for the battery).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar
sciencehabit writes “Marlene Thielecke came to Madagascar to study the sand flea, an insect that spends part of its life cycle burrowed into the human foot — but she wound up getting more intimate with the critter than she cared for. Months into her project, Thieleckewas bitten by a flea herself. She decided to make the best of it, by taking regular photographs and videos and keeping track of her observations. ‘I thought it might be interesting’ to watch what happened, she says. As it turns out, her experience may help resolve an question entomologists have debated foor decades: Where, exactly, does the sand flea have sex?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It
dcblogs writes “U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has released 175 pages of “War Room” notes — a collection of notes by federal officials dealing with the problems at Healthcare.gov. They start Oct. 1, the launch day. The War Room notes catalog IT problems — dashboards weren’t showing data, servers didn’t have the right production data, third party systems weren’t connecting to verify data, a key contractor had trouble logging on, and there wasn’t enough server capacity to handle the traffic, or enough people on the help desks to answer calls. To top it off, some personnel needed for the effort were furloughed because of the shutdown. Volunteers were needed to work weekends, but there were bureaucratic complications.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov
Regardless of whether you saw them as a menace , the first 3D-printed guns were an objectively far, boxy cry from the weapons we’re used to seeing. But just from looking at Solid Concept’s newest firearm offering, you’d have no idea that it, too, started out as a mere 3D CAD file before being printed to life. Read more…
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The World Just Got Its First Entirely 3D-Printed Metal Gun—and It Works
Check it out, guys. It’s a creepy revelation about the government spying on your phone calls that didn’t come from Edward Snowden’s NSA leak. Nope, just your standard sketchy CIA arrangements with a telecommunications company—AT&T to be exact. Read more…
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Report: The CIA Pays AT&T Over $10 Million a Year to Spy on Phone Calls
New submitter codeusirae writes “An initial round of criticism focused on how many files the browser was being forced to download just to access the site, per an article at Reuters. A thread at Reddit appeared and was filled with analyses of the code. But closer looks by others have teased out deeper, more systematic issues.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong?