Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency'; 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa

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Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency'  Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You  180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa  Your Moral Compass Is Reversible  Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks  Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing  Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure  Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name  When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm  Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court  How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8  iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability  Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines  US House STEM Visa Bill Fails  Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending)    SlashBI Update Get business intelligence news and views from journalists, developers, analysts and business leaders delivered directly to your inbox every week. Sign up now for SlashBI Update to find out the latest from the rapidly growing field of BI--and what it means to you. Learn More!    Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency'  From the not-cool department Freshly Exhumed writes "Drawing on new data released Wednesday by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that the Arctic ice pack has melted to an all time low within the satellite record (video), NASA climate scientist James Hansen has declared...   Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You  From the isn't-that-handy? department An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft doesn't like long passwords. In fact, the software giant not only won't let you use a really long one in Hotmail, but the company recently started prompting users to only enter the first 16 characters of their...   180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa  From the i-don't-eat-greens-food-eats-greens department An anonymous reader writes "Early humans were able to move from Africa after a single genetic mutation allowed them to become vegetarians, scientists claim. The switch, which allowed humans to process vegetables, meant that humans were able to...   Your Moral Compass Is Reversible  From the i-must-have-had-a-good-reason department scibri writes "Your moral positions may be more flexible than you think. Researchers in Sweden have tricked people into reversing their opinions on moral issues, even to the point of constructing good arguments to support the opposite of their...   Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks  From the turnabout-is-fair-play department New submitter who_stole_my_kidneys writes "Evidence suggests the Iranian government is behind cyberattacks this week that have targeted the websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. The attacks are described by one source, a former U.S....   Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing  From the you-tried-the-rest-now-try-the-best department New submitter SquarePixel writes "Microsoft is urging Safari users to switch to Bing after Google was fined $22.5 million for violating Safari privacy settings. 'Microsoft is keen to make sure that no-one forgets this, let alone Safari users, and...   Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure  From the a-bit-of-a-problem department SchrodingerZ writes "The nuclear power station on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania shut down abruptly this afternoon. Its shutdown was caused when one of four coolant pumps for a reactor failed to work. 'The Unit 1 reactor shut off automatically...   Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name  From the anonymous-cowards-welcome-here department Qedward writes "Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade. Now Facebook wants to change this. James Firth shows Facebook is clamping down on pseudonyms, with an...   When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm  From the doesn't-care-why-manhole-covers-are-round department Hugh Pickens writes "Joseph Walker writes at the WSJ that although personality tests have a long history in hiring, sophisticated software has now made it possible to evaluate more candidates, amass more data and peer more deeply into applicants'...   Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court  From the science-will-rise-up-against-you department scibri writes "Think the imprisonment of Pussy Riot is a miscarriage of justice? Check out the story of their cellmate: Chemist Olga Nikolaevna Zelenina heads a laboratory at the Penza Agricultural Institute. She is an expert in the biology of...   How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8  From the don't-take-candy-from-strangers department SquarePixel writes "Bloomberg has an interesting story about Microsoft's efforts to simultaneously woo younger workers and to get more apps into its Windows Store. Quoting: 'Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, designed Windows 8 for...   iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability  From the if-it's-broke,-fix-it department iFixit has posted a detailed teardown of the new iPhone 5. While the casing still uses Apple's proprietary pentalobe fasteners, the good news is that Apple has made the screen much easier to remove. Once the fasteners have been removed, the screen...   Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines  From the but-my-weather-control-device-design-is-flawless department OakDragon writes "Kickstarter has introduced some more stringent guidelines and requirements specifically for the Hardware and Product Design categories. These new requirements are laid out in a blog post called 'Kickstarter Is Not a Store.'...   US House STEM Visa Bill Fails  From the go-back-home department dcblogs writes "A Republican-led effort to issue up to 55,000 STEM visas a year to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities was defeated in a House vote. It needed a two-thirds vote, or about 290 ayes, for approval. Its supporters...   Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending)  From the test-of-free-will-and-determinism department We'll be sending a passel of shirts to the crowd-sourced parties that we hope you'll get to, and to any artists whose Slashdot logo suggestions we end up selecting. (There are nearly 30 parties planned so far, in places as far-flung as Latvia and...

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