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Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors   |  Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft     Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?  Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors  Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs?  Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft  European Scientists Make a Case For a Return To the Moon  No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving   Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy?  Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy  Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career  Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker  The Billions In Mobile Ad Money Nobody Can Grab  Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords  Committee Lowers Nobel Prize Award  Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore  Emacs 24.1 Released     Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?  From the what's-your-flavor? department First time accepted submitter mike_toscano writes "At least some of us have recently seen Linus' most recent comments on his experience with Gnome 3 — he didn't have many nice things to say about it and as you know, he's not the only one. On...   Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors  From the latest-and-greatest department First time accepted submitter zer0point writes "Apple has just announced the next-generation Macbook Pro with a retina display. Starting today you can also order a MacBook Pro upgraded with Ivy Bridge CPUs, and Nvidia graphics. Mountain Lion got...   Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs?  From the all-depends-on-what-your-ethics-say department First time accepted submitter hwaccaly writes "I'm a mid-career developer with a fair amount of experience working on data-intensive, mathematically ambitious software projects for fun — things like physics and systems simulations, written...   Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft  From the was-that-wrong? department theodp writes "GeekWire reports on the techno-dance routine that preceded Microsoft's Windows Azure presentation at the Norwegian Developers Conference this week, which featured a group of women jumping around on stage to a song that included...   European Scientists Make a Case For a Return To the Moon  From the earth's-attic department MarkWhittington writes "While the official target of NASA's space exploration program remains exploring Earth approaching asteroids, the case for a return to the moon has been made from a variety of quarters. The most recent attempt to make a case...   No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving   From the stupid-and-expensive-cya department The Washington Post features an article on the continuing problem of drivers distracted by technology, specifically by texting or even talking on the phone while at the wheel. The piece mentions a few apps designed to disable phones, or at least...   Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy?  From the cross-platform-within-a-platform department ozmanjusri writes with this story from PC World: "A company that makes keyboard docks has announced a laptop-like peripheral that uses smartphones for processing and storage. Since many Android and Apple phones have multi-core processors powerful...   Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy  From the for-great-justice department ChromeAeonium writes "Shortly after the events in Rothamsted Research in the UK, where a publicly funded trial of wheat genetically engineered to repel aphids was threatened by activists with destruction and required police protection, another...   Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career  From the not-my-problem department snydeq writes "IT professionals jumping into the cloud with both feet beware: It's irresponsible to think that just because you push a problem outside your office, it ceases to be your problem. It's not just the possibility of empty promises and...   Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker  From the fox-in-the-hen-house department First time accepted submitter anaphora writes "In this TED Talk, Rory Sutherland discusses the need for every company to have a staff member with the power to do big things but no budget to spend: these are the kinds of individuals who are not...   The Billions In Mobile Ad Money Nobody Can Grab  From the cleaning-up department jfruh writes "Here's a pressing mystery: despite users spending an increasing amount on their mobile phones, mobiile advertising only produces 20% of the revenues per page that web advertising does. This seems like a big opportunity for somebody,...   Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords  From the listen-to-the-learnings department An anonymous reader writes "Qualys researcher Francois Pesce used open source password cracker John the Ripper to try to crack SHA-1 hashes of leaked LinkedIn passwords. He ran the John the Ripper default command on a small default password...   Committee Lowers Nobel Prize Award  From the economics-of-the-prize department Snirt writes "The Nobel Committee has chosen to lower this year's Nobel prize winnings by two million kronor ($283,030) due to turbulence in the current economic climate. The prize now stands at 8 million kronor, down from the 10 million of...   Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore  From the are-going-my-way? department An anonymous reader writes "When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year's tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast. But...   Emacs 24.1 Released  From the latest-version department First time accepted submitter JOrgePeixoto writes "Emacs 24.1 has been released. New features include a new packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages), support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, support for lexical scoping in...

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