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In this issue:
* Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit
* US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age
* China Censors Web To Curb Inner Mongolia Protests
* NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520MX Mobile GPUs
* Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate
* Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022
* Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment
* What's Your College Major Worth?
* The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You
* What's Killing Your Wi-Fi?
* Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board
* PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked
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| Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit
| from the and-thanks-for-asking dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 29, @21:40 (China)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/015253/Chinese-Military-Admits-Existence-of-Cyberwarfare-Unit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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InfiniteZero writes "China has admitted for the first time that it had
poured massive investment into the formation of a [0]30-strong commando
unit of cyberwarriors — a team supposedly trained to protect the People's
Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/015253/Chinese-Military-Admits-Existence-of-Cyberwarfare-Unit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age
| from the up-down-up-down-a-b-b-b-a dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday May 30, @00:46 (Technology)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0433251/US-Nuclear-Power-Enters-the-Digital-Age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "South Carolina's Oconee Nuclear Station
[0]will replace its analog monitoring and operating controls with digital
systems, as part of a $2 billion plant upgrade by its owner, Duke Energy.
It will become the first nuke plant in the US to use digital controls,
and its upgrade may be quickly followed by others. The main driver for
the move is cost savings; worries about reliability and hackers have been
the reason digital systems haven't been adopted sooner."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0433251/US-Nuclear-Power-Enters-the-Digital-Age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| China Censors Web To Curb Inner Mongolia Protests
| from the call-it-inmo-for-short dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday May 30, @03:38 (Censorship)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0538209/China-Censors-Web-To-Curb-Inner-Mongolia-Protests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on
Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to
[1]clamp down on protests that broke out last week in the region. Two of
the most popular microblog services operating in China no longer allow
users to search for the term 'Inner Mongolia.' Sina's and Tencent's
microblogs have 140 million and 160 million users, respectively."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0538209/China-Censors-Web-To-Curb-Inner-Mongolia-Protests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/388314/china_censors_web_curb_inner_mongolia_protests/
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| NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520MX Mobile GPUs
| from the spittin'-pixels dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday May 30, @06:32 (Graphics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0645213/NVIDIA-Announces-GeForce-GTX-560M-and-GT-520MX-Mobile-GPUs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "NVIDIA just took the wraps off of a couple of new
mobile GPUs at Computex and announced a slew of notebooks designs that
will feature the new chips. The new [1]GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520M will
be arriving very soon, in notebooks from Asus, Alienware, Clevo, Toshiba,
MSI, Samsung and others. The GeForce GT 520MX is an entry level DirectX
11 GPU designed for thin, light, highly mobile platforms. It sports 48
CUDA cores with a 900MHz graphics clock, 1800MHz shader clock, and 900MHz
memory clock. Decidedly more powerful, the GeForce GTX 560M is outfitted
with 192 CUDA cores and clocks in at 775MHz, with 1559MHz shaders, and
1250MHz for GDDR5 memory."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0645213/NVIDIA-Announces-GeForce-GTX-560M-and-GT-520MX-Mobile-GPUs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Announced-New-GeForce-GTX-560M-and-GT-520MX-Mobile-GPUs/
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| Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate
| from the thanks-linus dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday May 30, @08:08 (Linux)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0237259/Linus-Renames-2640-Kernel-To-Linux-30-Announces-Release-Candidate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Linus just released the first -rc of the next
kernel series, but rather than continuing development as the Linux 2.6.40
kernel, he has [0]renamed it to be the Linux 3.0 kernel." And he's tacked
on a [1]second dot and another zero (3.0.0), at least for now, because
many scripts expect and rely on a three-part kernel version.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0237259/Linus-Renames-2640-Kernel-To-Linux-30-Announces-Release-Candidate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg
1. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=55922c9d1b84b89cb946c777fddccb3247e7df2c
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| Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022
| from the nicht-mehr-kernkraft dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @09:48 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1143239/Germany-To-End-Nuclear-Power-By-2022?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]dcollins writes "Germany on Monday announced plans to become the
[1]first major industrialized power to shut down all its nuclear plants
in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped
up by 2022... Germany has 17 nuclear reactors on its territory, eight of
which are currently off the electricity grid... Already Friday, the
environment ministers from all 16 German regional states had called for
the temporary order on the seven plants to be made permanent... Monday's
decision is effectively a return to the timetable set by the previous
Social Democrat-Green coalition government a decade ago. And it is a
humbling U-turn for Merkel, who at the end of 2010 decided to extend the
lifetime of Germany's 17 reactors by an average of 12 years, which would
have kept them open until the mid-2030s."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1143239/Germany-To-End-Nuclear-Power-By-2022?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110530/ts_afp/germanypoliticsnuclear
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| Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment
| from the not-in-my-garden dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @11:30 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1352225/Activists-Destroy-Scientific-GMO-Experiment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Freggy writes "In Belgium, a group of activists calling themselves the
Field Liberation Movement has [1]destroyed a field which was being used
for a scientific experiment with genetically modified potatoes. In spite
of the presence of 60 police officers protecting the field, activists
succeeded pulling out the plants and sprayed insecticides over them,
ruining the experiment. The goal of the experiment was to test potato
plants which are genetically modified to be resistant to potato blight.
It's a sad day for the freedom of scientific research."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1352225/Activists-Destroy-Scientific-GMO-Experiment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/
1. http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/belgian-protesters-destroy-gm-field-trial/
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| What's Your College Major Worth?
| from the getting-your-money's-worth dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @13:07 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1554235/Whats-Your-College-Major-Worth?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that
with tuition rising and a weak job market everyone seems to be debating
the value of a college degree. Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, says talking
about the bachelor's degree in general doesn't make a whole lot of sense,
because its [1]financial payoff is heavily affected by what that degree
is in and which college it is from. For the first time, researchers
analyzed earnings based on 171 college majors and the differences are
striking: For workers whose highest degree is a bachelor's, median
incomes ranged from [2]$29,000 for counseling-psychology majors to
$120,000 for petroleum-engineering majors but the data also revealed
earnings differences within groups of similar majors. Within the category
of business majors, for instance, business-economics majors had the
highest median pay, $75,000 while business-hospitality management earned
$50,000. The study concludes that while there is a lot of variation in
earnings over a lifetime, all undergraduate majors are worth it, even
taking into account the cost of college and lost earnings with the
lifetime advantage ranging from $1,090,000 for Engineering majors to
$241,000 for Education majors. 'The bottom line is that [3]getting a
degree matters, but what you take matters more,' (PDF) concludes
Carnevale." Last week we learned that dropping out of college could earn
you [4]$100,000 in start-up money for your business.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1554235/Whats-Your-College-Major-Worth?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-a-Degree-Worth-Report/127612/
2. http://chronicle.com/article/Median-Earnings-by-Major-and/127604/
3. http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf
4. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/1322248/PayPal-Co-Founder-Gives-Out-100000-To-Not-Go-To-College
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| The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You
| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @14:47 (Television)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1559216/The-Next-Phase-of-Intelligent-TVs-Will-Observe-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Japan based NHK Science & Technology Research
Laboratories (STRL) is [0]testing an interface which observes TV viewers,
determines their interest and provides information related to the TV
program in accordance with the way they are watching it. UTAN (user
technology assisted navigation) TV viewing interface, as it is called,
has a camera mounted on the TV which photographs the viewer and estimates
the viewer's degrees of interest, concentration, etc. The information is
processed by a tablet PC and recommended information is shown to the
viewer. It is possible to show individual interests as well, in case
there are multiple viewers."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1559216/The-Next-Phase-of-Intelligent-TVs-Will-Observe-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/the_next_best_thing_since_the_tv_programming_guide.php
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| What's Killing Your Wi-Fi?
| from the jamming-the-signal dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @16:22 (Wireless Networking)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1733231/Whats-Killing-Your-Wi-Fi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "PC Pro has taken an [1]in-depth look at Wi-Fi and the
factors that can cause connections to crumble. It dispels some common
myths about Wi-Fi problems — such as that neighboring Wi-Fi hotspots are
the most common cause of problems, instead of other RF interference from
devices such as [2]analogue video senders, microwave ovens and even fish
tanks. The feature also highlights free and paid-for tools that can
diagnose Wi-Fi issues, such as [3]inSSIDer and [4]Heatmapper, the latter
of which maps provides a heatmap of Wi-Fi hotspots in your home or
office."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1733231/Whats-Killing-Your-Wi-Fi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/367672/whats-killing-your-wi-fi
2. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/367681/what-can-get-in-wi-fis-way
3. http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
4. http://www.ekahau.com/products/heatmapper/overview.html
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| Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board
| from the shiny-new-toys dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @18:04 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/2015246/Samsung-Launches-Exynos-Based-Origen-Dev-Board?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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siliconbits writes "You may recall a little group of Linux-loving chums
called Linaro, which was formed almost a year ago in the hopes of
speeding up Linux development. Today at Computex, the company's taking it
one step further with the announcement of the [0]Origen development board.
Based on Samsung's beefy Exynos 4210 dual core chipset, the kit packs all
the essential ports — including HDMI, USB 2.0 host, SD slot, etc. — for
keen developers to get their hands dirty on, and its base board is also
removable to accommodate future chipsets. Potential buyers are told to
keep an eye on Insignal, which will soon be offering the basic Origen
package for $199, along with optional parts at an extra cost."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/2015246/Samsung-Launches-Exynos-Based-Origen-Dev-Board?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/linaro-and-samsung-roll-out-exynos-4210-based-origen-development/
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| PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked
| from the hacker-supported-news dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, @19:43 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/2039202/PBS-Web-Sites-and-Databases-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several
areas of PBS Web servers and were able [0]publish a fake news story on a
PBS news blog. The group also published PBS internal user login
information that they were able to siphon out of PBS databases. The fake
story was about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996 after being shot in
Las Vegas, being been found alive and well in a small resort in New
Zealand. A group going by the name of 'LulzSec' claimed responsibility
for the hack, saying the attack was a protest against a PBS Frontline
broadcast last week about WikiLeaks."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/2039202/PBS-Web-Sites-and-Databases-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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