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  IT: Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web" on Friday July 03, @07:11PM

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 03, @07:11PM
from the stiff-competition dept.
spam
cin62 writes "The number of Internet scammers offering fake versions of the anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, reports CNN. Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month, there has been an increase in the number of Web sites and junk emails offering Tamiflu for sale. 'Every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu. We are pretty sure that the same people are making the Tamiflu as are making the Viagra,' said Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society." This news fits in nicely with a report Wired ran a couple weeks ago about the hysteria behind H1N1.
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  Technology: Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released on Friday July 03, @06:22PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 03, @06:22PM
from the good-way-to-start-an-education dept.
programming
jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. "Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari's 7800 series was still around. Since the era of those consoles is over, and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then). During those times, nobody would have imagined in their wildest dreams the games that Atari's developers floated into the gaming thirsty market and instantly swept across continental boundaries. But things changed soon after that and a company once regarded as one of the most successful gaming console manufacturers and developers faded away in the pages of our technology's hall-of-fame."
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  Technology: Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser on Friday July 03, @09:50AM

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, @09:50AM
from the right-where-you-need-a-pc-is-on-your-computer dept.
software
Ianopolous writes "Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator, is now available with online demos and downloads. JPC is open source and is the most secure way of running x86 software ever — 2 layers (applet sandbox, JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it the world's most secure means of isolating x86 software. Visit the website to try out some classic games and play around with Linux all within your web browser. Refresh = reboot!"
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  Technology: London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows on Friday July 03, @09:24AM

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, @09:24AM
from the don't-weld-shut-the-doors-then dept.
windows
BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"
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  IT: iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS on Friday July 03, @09:01AM

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, @09:01AM
from the tweet-hack dept.
security
snydeq writes "Pwn2Own winner Charlie Miller has revealed an SMS vulnerability that could provide hackers with root access to the iPhone. Malicious code sent by SMS to run on the phone could include commands to monitor location using GPS, turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a DDoS attack or botnet, Miller said. Miller did not provide detailed description of the SMS vulnerability, citing an agreement with Apple, which is working to fix the vulnerability in advance of Black Hat, where Miller plans to discuss the attack in greater detail. 'SMS is a great vector to attack the iPhone,' Miller said, as SMS can send binary code that the iPhone processes without user interaction. Sequences can be sent to the phone as multiple messages that are automatically reassembled, thereby surpassing individual SMS message limits of 140 bytes."
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  Technology: RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy on Friday July 03, @04:57AM

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, @04:57AM
from the let's-not-see-the-camera-view-please dept.
networking
Francesco Fondi writes "An Italian Company is using RC scale model submarines to lay fiber through Milan's sewage system. The RC submarine used is the Neptune SB-1, produced by Taiwanese company Thunder Tiger. It costs ca $600 in US hobby shops." In Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
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  Technology: IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler on Friday July 03, @01:42AM

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, @01:42AM
from the what-you-meant-to-say-is dept.
programming
sheepweevil writes "IBM just released Milepost GCC, 'the world's first open source machine learning compiler.' The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will be most effective during compilation using machine learning techniques. Experiments carried out with the compiler achieved an average 18% performance improvement. The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler. A new code tuning website has been launched to coincide with the compiler release. The website features collaborative performance tuning and sharing of interesting optimization cases."
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  Technology: Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine on Thursday July 02, @07:34PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 02, @07:34PM
from the now-what-did-we-say-about-playground-behavior? dept.
windows
BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its own products."
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  Technology: Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed on Thursday July 02, @05:56PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 02, @05:56PM
from the sql-like-a-pig dept.
database
ericatcw writes "The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of burdensome, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data, reports Computerworld."
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  Hardware: First Fully Programmable Gesture-Recognition Glove, Cheap on Thursday July 02, @05:07PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 02, @05:07PM
from the classroom-clickers-don't-capture-gestures-correctly dept.
inputdev
Al writes "The AcceleGlove from AnthroTronix, is the first fully programmable glove that records hand and finger movements. Other gloves — like 5DT's Data Glove, which is used primarily in virtual reality — normally cost $1,000 to $5,000, but the AcceleGlove costs just $499. The AcceleGlove comes with software that lets developers use Java to program it for any application they wish. AnthroTronix initially developed the glove with the US Department of Defense for robotic control but it could also be used in video games, sports training, or physical rehabilitation."
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