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Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings   |  Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System     Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama  Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings  Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage  Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System  UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move  First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A  Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering  South Carolina Shows How Not To Do Security  UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected  California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy  Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules  Spinal Fluid Chemical Levels Linked To Suicidal Behavior  Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips  Video Tour of the International Space Station  University of Chicago Receives Mystery Indiana Jones Package     Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama  From the law-is-an-ass department Hugh Pickens writes "VOA reports that President Obama says it does not make sense for federal authorities to seek prosecution of recreational marijuana users in states where such use is legal. 'As it is, you know, the federal government has a lot...   Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings  From the this-cloud-is-certainly-substantial department An anonymous reader writes "Google on Friday announced it is shutting down a slew of features and services as part of its winter cleaning. Google Calendar will be losing a few features, Google Sync will be axed (on the consumer side), as will...   Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage  From the sorta-clever-but-only-sorta department An anonymous reader writes "Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscriber's traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup."   Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System  From the at-that-range-a-hammer-works-too department An anonymous reader writes "It's been found that the Btrfs file-system is vulnerable to a Hash-DOS attack, a denial-of-service attack caused by hash collisions within the file-system. Two DOS attack vectors were uncovered by Pascal Junod that he...   UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move  From the why-not-just-use-the-cctvs-already-in-place department Presto Vivace writes that the UK's Newcastle University is instituting a finger-print based attendance system. From the linked article: "University students may have to scan their fingerprints in future — to prove they are not bunking off...   First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A  From the 25-bucks-(cheap!) department coop0030 writes "The first photos and videos of the Model A production samples are now available. The Raspberry Pi Model A is the newest low-cost computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Compared to the popular Model B, the Model A forgoes the...   Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering  From the what-are-you-searching-for department dgharmon points out with news at CNET and on Ray Kurzweil's own site that Kurzweil will join Google as Director of Engineering. Specifically, "he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,"...   South Carolina Shows How Not To Do Security  From the at-least-the-failure-was-spectacular department CowboyRobot writes "Earlier this year, the state's Department of Revenue was storing 3.3 million bank account numbers, as well as 3.8 million tax returns containing Social Security numbers for 1.9 million children and other dependents, in an...   UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected  From the y'kin-never-take-our-freedom department Gordonjcp writes "The BBC are reporting that the proposed automatic blocking of porn websites by UK ISPs has been rejected by the government. Only 35% of the parents who responded to a survey on filtering wanted an automatic block. The report...   California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy  From the best-practices department New submitter mrheckman writes "California is suing Delta Air Lines for violation of California's on-line privacy law. Delta failed to 'conspicuously post a privacy policy within their mobile app that informs users of what personally identifiable...   Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules  From the don't-tell-everyone-at-once department itwbennett writes "In an official document that is both 'confidential' and publicly available on Oracle's website, the company lays out its cloud policies. Most of the policies follow industry standards, but then there are a few that should give...   Spinal Fluid Chemical Levels Linked To Suicidal Behavior  From the worth-looking-into department An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, researchers have found that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior. While previous research and drugs have targeted serotonin to fight severe depression, this study...   Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips  From the just-tickle-the-electrons department coondoggie writes "Nvidia said this week it got a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop chips for sensor systems that could boost power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt."   Video Tour of the International Space Station  From the look-for-the-new-kitchen-tiles department SternisheFan writes with an excerpt from Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, writing at Slate: "Before she came back to Earth in a ball of fire surrounding her Russian re-entry capsule, astronaut Sunita Williams took time out of her packing for the trip...   University of Chicago Receives Mystery Indiana Jones Package  From the cool-prank department First time accepted submitter VanGarrett writes "Someone at the University of Chicago went through a lot of trouble to baffle a few people, with an old timey package addressed to Indiana Jones. From the article: 'The package contained an...

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