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Source Code Similarities: Experts Unmask 'Regin' Trojan as NSA Tool - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News -...

Just weeks ago, SPIEGEL published the source code of an NSA malware program known internally as QWERTY. Now, experts have found that it is none other than the notorious trojan Regin, used in dozens of cyber attacks around the world.

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Police urge Google to turn off feature warning drivers of officers' location

Authorities claim popular mobile app Waze could put lives in danger from would-be cop-killers who can find where targets are parked

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Rooftop solar is now cheaper than the grid in 42 American cities

Homeowners in some of the largest U.S. cities can get a better return from rooftop solar than from a pension fund or the S&P 500, a new study found.

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Hasnain says:

" Legacy media isn’t mocking us because we aren’t a legitimate source of information; they’re mocking us because they’re terrified. Their legitimacy came from the fact that they have access to distribution channels and that they get to be in the White House press pool because of some long-ago established procedures that assumed they would use that power in the public interest. In reality, those things are becoming less and less important and less and less true. Distribution is free to anyone with a cell phone and the legitimacy of cable news sounds to me like an oxymoron. The median-aged CNN viewer is 60. For Fox, it’s 68."

Posted on 2015-01-26T17:48:47+0000

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Hasnain says:

" The last few birthdays and Christmases have yielded vacation getaways, iPhones of every generation, even a smart home thermostat. What hasn’t shown up under the Christmas tree in the last five years? Diamond anything."

Posted on 2015-01-26T17:40:50+0000

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Chemists find a way to unboil eggs

UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioCh…

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Chris Granger - Coding is not the new literacy

Despite the good intentions behind the movement to get people to code, both the basic premise and approach are flawed. The movement sits on the idea that "coding is the new literacy," but that takes a narrow view of what literacy really is.

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Hasnain says:

" To put it simply, the next great advance in human ability comes from being able to externalize the mental models we spend our entire lives creating."

Posted on 2015-01-26T16:59:27+0000