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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!    Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs?  From the have-someone-do-it department OceanMan7 writes "According to a story by Charlie Demerjian, a long-time hardware journalist, Intel's next generation of x86 CPUs, Broadwell, will not come in a package having pins. Hence manufacturers will have to solder it onto motherboards....   Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve  From the wage-reduction department First time accepted submitter ASDFnz writes "The reward for successfully completing a block (also called mining) is about to halve from 50 bitcoins to 25. From the article: 'Bitcoin is built so that this reward is halved every 210,000 blocks...   US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom  From the end-of-the-line department The tough economic times have had a huge effect on scientific research and development funding. The looming "fiscal cliff" may be the last straw for many programs. "The American science programs that landed the first man on the moon, found cures...   A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers  From the listen-up department Nerval's Lobster writes "This is the story of the comparison that just wasn't meant to be. It's a story of everything that can go wrong in the customer end of the software world, and some thoughts on what needs to be done, especially in an area...   Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything  From the ask-away department In addition to founding Canonical Ltd., the Ubuntu Foundation, and funding the Freedom Toaster, Mark Shuttleworth is a space enthusiast. In April 2002 Mark became the second self-funded space tourist and the first African in space. He spent eight...   Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI  From the I'll-be-in-the-back-of-the-clas department If the thought of a robot apocalypse is keeping you up at night, you can relax. Scientists at Cambridge University are studying the potential problem. From the article: "A center for 'terminator studies,' where leading academics will study the...   Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets  From the circle-of-litigation department An anonymous reader writes "Ordered to tell Samsung all of the company's HTC secrets, Apple throws a tantrum and adds a bunch of new products to the never-ending list of products Samsung has infringed on. Apple's tantrum stems from a ruling on...   Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police  From the start-your-cameras department An anonymous reader writes "The Illinois anti-eavesdropping law was cut down slightly. While protecting the average citizen from eavesdropping, it also put in place prohibitions against recording the police as they were doing their jobs. An...   Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer  From the fighting-the-good-fight department Hugh Pickens writes "Salvatore Iaconesi, a software engineer at La Sapienza University of Rome, writes that when he was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, his first idea was to seek other opinions. He immediately asked for his clinical records...   Confidential Police Documents Found In Confetti At Macy's Parade  From the putting-it-all-together department cstacy writes "The Nassau County (New York) Police Department is 'very concerned' about reports that shreds of police documents (with social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, license plate numbers, incident reports, and more) rained down...   Cyber Monday and Amazon's Online Dominance  From the king-of-the-cyber-hill department sturgeon writes "A report out this morning pegs Amazon with a whopping 14% share of all daily Internet users — almost twice the nearest competitor (Ebay). And this number does not include all shopping sites absorbed by the growing Amazon...   Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown  From the law-won department coondoggie writes "A team of world-wide law enforcement agencies took out 132 domain names today that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise online. The group, made up of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security...   Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu  From the one-shot-to-rule-them-all department An anonymous reader writes "A new experimental flu vaccine made out of messenger RNA that may work for life is now being developed. German researchers said on Sunday that the vaccine, made of the genetic material that controls the production of...   O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50%  From the good-deal department destinyland writes "O'Reilly and Associates just announced that they're offering a 50% discount on every ebook they publish for Cyber Monday. Use the code CYBERDAY when checking out to claim the discount (which expires at midnight). Amazon has...   Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition  From the read-all-about-it department kfogel writes "Two thumbs up, and maybe a tentacle too, on Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough. If you are a working programmer who wants to learn more about Git, particularly a programmer familiar with a...

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