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Security Flaws Disclosed in 4G LTE Mobile Telephony Standard

A team of academics has published research this week that describes three attacks against the mobile communication standard LTE (Long-Term Evolution), also known as 4G. From a report: Two of the three attacks are passive, meaning an attacker can watch LTE traffic and determine various details about the target, while the third is an active […]

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Making Medical Clothing That Kills Bugs

Many doctors now are likely to wear everyday clothes, or blue or green “scrubs”, which are said to reduce eye strain in brightly-lit operating theatres. White coats are reckoned to be capable of spreading diseases as easily as clothing of any other colour, especially when long sleeves brush against multiple surfaces. Many clinics and hospitals […]

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America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US remains well behind pace to meet its commitments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions under the landmark Paris climate agreement. Under current policies, the nation will reduce climate pollution between 12 and 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2025, according to a Rhodium Group analysis published today. That’s well […]

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Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage [Update: Company Confirms]

Thousands of people from across the country are reporting that they are facing connectivity issues with Comcast and its service Xfinity on Friday. Comcast is yet to acknowledge and address the outage, hence it is unclear how long the widespread outage may last. According to DownDetector, a service that tracks outages, the majority of the […]

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How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia

Wikimedia, which operates Wikipedia, chimes in on the EU copyright debacle: Our movement is working to promote freedom online for the benefit of all. Our efforts in this public policy realm are all the more important in an era of increasing restrictions on free speech and free access to knowledge across the globe, which directly […]

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Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new study led by the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Greg Rau highlights another tool for our CO2 removal toolbox: splitting seawater to produce hydrogen gas for fuel while capturing CO2 with ocean chemistry. In electrolysis, a device powered by electricity is used to split […]

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Microsoft Removes ‘Sets’ Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release

The much-anticipated Sets feature has been pulled from the newest Windows 10 Redstone 5 build and there’s no word when it will return. As groovyPost reports, “The Sets feature is a tabbed-windows experience that lets you group together different apps on your desktop.” It’s like having different tabs open in your browser, but for apps […]

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All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can’t Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected

CaptainDork shares a report from Bleeping Computer: Starting yesterday, there have been numerous reports of people being infected with something called ‘All-Radio 4.27 Portable’. After researching this heavily today, it has been determined that seeing this program is a symptom of a much bigger problem on your computer. If your computer is suddenly displaying the […]

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SpaceX Will Send an AI Robot To Join Astronauts On ISS

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Seattle Times: A robot with true artificial intelligence is about to invade space. The large, round, plastic robot head is part of SpaceX’s latest supply delivery to the International Space Station. Friday’s pre-dawn liftoff also includes two sets of genetically identical female mice, 20 mousestronauts that will […]

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GitHub Gentoo Organization Hacked

Longtime Slashdot reader Chutzpah shares a report from Gentoo Linux, a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system: June 28 at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown individuals have gained control of the Github Gentoo organization, and modified the content of repositories as well as pages there. We are still working to determine the exact […]

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