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Thursday March 25, 2010
Fake antivirus software is most costly security scam of 2010
Carrie-Ann Skinner
PC
AdvisorMcAfee reports 400% increase in reported incidents
Fake antivirus programs that encourage web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.
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Thursday March 25, 2010
Is your Gmail being hacked from China? It's worth checking
The Guardian
Gmail offers an alert service - which can turn out useful if someone in China has been reading and perhaps copying your email, as one reader discovered
You might recall that part of the fury with China that Google expressed in January was over the hacking of Gmail accounts belonging to activists - that, and the discovery of hacking into its source code repositories (though Google hasn't confirmed the latter, it's widely understood that was the reason for its reaction).
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Thursday March 25, 2010
Israel told: no passport promise means no new Mossad diplomat
Kim Sengupta
Independent
Miliband demands assurances that identity cloning will never happen again
The Israeli government will not be allowed to replace the senior Mossad station chief expelled from London over the cloning of British passports used in the assassination of a Hamas commander unless it offers a public assurance that UK citizens' documents will never be used again for clandestine operations.
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Thursday March 25, 2010
Accidental origins- Where species come from
Bob Holmes
New Scientist
Antarctic fish deploy antifreeze proteins to survive in cold water. Tasty viceroy butterflies escape predators by looking like toxic monarchs. Disease-causing bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Everywhere you look in nature, you can see evidence of natural selection at work in the adaptation of species to their environment.
Surprisingly though, natural selection may have little role to play in one of the key steps of evolution - the origin of new species. Instead it would appear that speciation is merely an accident of fate.
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Thursday March 25, 2010
Dog owners facing tough new insurance regulations
Jack Doyle
PA
Dog owners could be required to insure themselves against the risk of their pet attacking someone, it was announced recently.
Government proposals suggest forcing every dog owner to take out third party insurance and to have their dog microchipped.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong
Oliver Burkeman
The Guardian
What if Darwin's theory of natural selection is inaccurate? What if the way you live now affects the life expectancy of your descendants? Evolutionary thinking is having a revolution . . .
The story, still sometimes repeated in creationist circles, goes like this: it is the 1960s, at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, and a team of astronomers is using cutting-edge computers to recreate the orbits of the planets, thousands of years in the past. Suddenly, an error message flashes up. There's a problem: way back in history, one whole day appears to be missing.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Shocking Graphic Reveals Why a Big Mac Costs Less Than a Salad
Tara Lohan
AlterNet
We’ve got a lot of problems when it comes to our food system, but one of them was clearly articulated with a simple graphic. How do food subsidies affect what we’re eating? Check this out:.
This graphic was recently published by the Consumerist, with the few words, “This is why you’re fat.”
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Friday March 19, 2010
The Pope, the Prophet, and the religious support for evil
Johann Hari
Independent
This enforced 'respect' is a creeping vine: it soon extends from ideas to institutions
What can make tens of millions of people – who are in their daily lives peaceful and compassionate and caring – suddenly want to physically dismember a man for drawing a cartoon, or make excuses for an international criminal conspiracy to protect child-rapists?
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Friday March 19, 2010
Facebook, Google and eBay slam Digital Economy Bill
Carrie-Ann Skinner
PC Advisor
Online giants say Internet piracy bill 'threatens freedom of speech'
Google, Facebook and eBay are among the tech giants that have slammed the government's plans to tackle internet piracy, claiming it will "threaten freedom of speech".
In a letter to the Financial Times, the group, which also includes UK ISPs such as BT and TalkTalk, said the amendment to the Digital Economy Bill has "obvious shortcomings" and will lead to an "increase in internet service providers blocking websites accused of illegally hosting copyrighted material without cases even reaching a judge".
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Friday March 19, 2010
Air pollution 'may cause 35,000 premature deaths a year in Britain'
John Vidal
The Guardian
Air pollution may be leading to the premature deaths of 35,000 people in Britain a year, nearly 50% more than has been previously admitted by government, a committee of MPs has heard.
The figure was used for the first time by environment minister Jim Fitzpatrick when giving evidence to the Commons environment audit committee.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Perception of effort, not muscle fatigue, limits endurance performance
PhysOrg.com
The physiological theory that underpins all endurance training and coaching for the last 100 years has just been disproved.
As recently as 2008, scientific research papers were citing the theory that endurance performance is limited by the capacity of the skeletal muscles, heart and lungs and that exhaustion occurs when the active muscles are unable to produce the force or power required by prolonged exercise.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Final victory for banks as OFT fails to impose limit on charges
David Prosser
Independent
Green light to carry on levying exorbitant fees for unauthorised overdrafts
Britain's biggest banks were yesterday given the green light to continue charging hugely controversial penalty fees after agreeing a deal with regulators that was branded "flaccid" and "weak" by consumer groups.
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Friday March 19, 2010
NASA space shuttle prepares to complete space station
Michael Cooney
Network World US
ISS components to be lifted into orbit
While politicians banter about NASA’s budget and the future of manned space flight, the space agency is prepping the critical technology its remaining four space shuttle missions will deliver to complete the International Space Station.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa
John Vidal
Mail & Guardian
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 50 acres* -- the size of 20 soccer fields.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Viacom courted YouTube before launching $1bn piracy lawsuit
Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian
Faced with claims that it encourages piracy, YouTube accuses its rival of sour grapes - as well as claiming it ran covert operations to upload thousands of videos to the site.
American media conglomerate Viacom considered buying YouTube just months before it launched a $1bn (£655m) piracy lawsuit against the video sharing site, according to court documents.
Files released today by a US court suggest that the television giant - which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central - had considered purchasing YouTube in 2006 in what executives said could prove a "transformative acquisition".
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Friday March 19, 2010
How to move the brain with a Japanese line drawing
Wendy Zukerman
New Scientist
In the YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images. Now brain scans show why one method of creating "implicit motion", used by an 18th-century Japanese artist, works so well.
While admiring line drawings by Hokusai Katsushika, psychophysicist Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University, Japan, was struck by the vivid motion they convey. Instead of using blur to suggest movement, as much modern art has done since the advent of photography, Katsushika created motion by drawing bodies in highly unstable positions (see picture).
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Friday March 19, 2010
Our Dirty Little Secret: Who's Really Poor in America?
Leo Hindery Jr
Huffington Post
The problem today for most isn't this recession, it's that except for the top 10 percent, average household income hasn't changed a bit for 10 to 20 years.
Two old friends, civil rights activist David Mixner and former U.S. Senator (and my oft co-author) Don Riegle (D-MI), believe that in the economic recovery, not enough attention is being given to 'who's really poor' now. David and Don have for years advised me -- and others -- on the issue of poverty in America, and they are worried that too many people, and especially too many people in the administration and Congress, are missing this imperative.
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Friday March 19, 2010
New planet Corot-9b has Earth-like temperatures
Steve Connor
Independent
The first planet with a "temperate" climate to orbit a distant star has been discovered by astronomers, who claim that the techniques used to study it will be critical in the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our own solar system.
Corot-9b, as the planet is called, is one of more than 400 "exoplanets" found to be orbiting other stars, but it is the first one with a near-normal temperature range that can be studied as it moves across (or "transits") the sun it orbits.
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Friday March 19, 2010
FDIC: Hackers stole $120m in three months of online bank fraud
Robert McMillan
Techworld
Malware on online banking customers PCs is most common attack
Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost US companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Friday March 19, 2010
One in four UK schoolkids admits hacking
John Leyden
The Register
Pre-teenage kicks
One in four UK youngsters have tried hacking into Facebook or webmail accounts, according to a new survey.
An online poll of 1,000 school-age children in London and 150 in Cumbria discovered that the vast majority (78 per cent) knew that hacking was wrong.
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Friday March 19, 2010
Urine Containers, 'Space Boots' and Artifacts Aren't Just Junk, Argue Archaeologists
Philip Bethge
Spiegel International
California has named the remains of the Apollo 11 mission a state historical resource -- to the delight of the young profession of space archaeologists. They fear that the trash and equipment left behind by the United States' journeys to the moon could someday wind up for sale on eBay if they aren't protected.
There is an unwritten law in America's national parks: Carry out what you bring in.
When they visited the moon, though, the Americans weren't nearly as considerate or in touch with nature.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
The bluefin tuna gets a bigtime backer: the U.S. government
Tom Laskawy
Grist
The Atlantic bluefin may be down, but it's not out. After delaying a decision, the Obama administration came out recently in support of a proposal to declare the bluefin an endangered species and to ban international trade in the threatened fish
(via The Washington Post):
"The U.S. government announced that it supports prohibiting international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a move that could lead to the most sweeping trade restrictions ever imposed on the highly prized fish...."
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
What your brain does in an emergency
Lucy Tobin
The Guardian
Research into people's reactions to emergencies aims to make sure there are more survivors in future
Imagine you're stuck in a burning building, trying desperately to escape. After stumbling to the end of a smoke-filled corridor, you have to choose whether to turn left or right. The decision could determine whether you live or die – but the way you make it is not as random as you might think, according to Ed Galea, professor of mathematical modelling at the University of Greenwich.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
Police could face legal action over 'unfair' searches
Tom Morgan
PA
Police forces were threatened with legal action today as the Government's equality watchdog said black and Asian Britons were still being unfairly targeted for stop and searches.
Most constabularies in England and Wales are continuing to use the powers "disproportionately" against ethnic minorities, a review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission concluded.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
Facebook users warned over stalk-my-profile scam
John Leyden
The Register
Crap snoop app escapes whack-a-mole policy
A bogus application that lures Facebook users by falsely offering to show who has been viewing their profile has been exposed as a scam.
Rik Ferguson, a senior security consultant at Trend Micro, warns he has already identified 25 different copies of the same rogue app but using different monikers such as peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online and stalk-my-profile.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
Obama Unites Israelis and Arabs in Disappointment
Gregor Peter Schmitz, Christoph Schult and Bernhard Zand
Spiegel International
Hopes were high in the Middle East when US President Barack Obama took office last year. But instead of progress toward peace, he has shown indecision and hesitancy. With many in the region united against Iran, he is in danger of letting a golden opportunity slip through his fingers.
US President Barack Obama glided off the stage to thunderous applause. He had just given a speech that commentators around the world, particularly those in the Muslim world, would characterize within minutes as "historic."
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
15 Reasons Why We Need a Revolt in USA
Bill Quigley
AlterNet
Government works quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people.
It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
The Brave New World of Sexual Addiction
Raymond J. Lawrence
Counterpunch
American befuddlement over matters of sex is on the increase, in spite of the fact that one can hardly imagine the subject becoming more befuddling to the people of this country than it already is.
Sex addiction is the latest star in America’s sexual burlesque. Sex addiction has of course been a malaprop from its first usage. Addiction was originally and properly defined as a physiological dependence on a substance to which the body had grown accustomed, such as alcohol, nicotine, heroin and various other drugs.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
The N of an era: America’s nitrogen dilemma—and what we can do about it 38
Tom Philpott
Grist
There are three things on which the mighty engine of U.S. agriculture depends: water, fuel, and synthetic nitrogen. Like water, nitrogen is elemental to life.
It's the essential building block of the plants we eat. Farmers remove it from the soil when they harvest the year's crop, and they must replenish it for the following year's.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
Average person in UK owns £3,000 of gadgets
Carrie-Ann Skinner
PC Advisor
Sky says British people are big tech fans
The average Brit owns £3,000 worth of gadgets, says Sky HD.
Research by the TV broadcaster revealed that on average UK tech fans only know how to use around half of the functions available on their gadgets.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
Blind soldier 'sees' with tongue device
Liam Creedon
Press Association
A soldier blinded by a grenade in Iraq today described how his life has been transformed by ground-breaking technology that enables him to "see" with his tongue.
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, 24, from Walton, Liverpool, can read words, identify shapes and walk unaided thanks to the BrainPort device, despite being totally blind.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Richard Waters and Kathrin Hille
Financial Times
Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.
In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese government also on Friday threw down a direct public challenge to the US search company, with a warning that it was not prepared to compromise on internet censorship to stop Google leaving.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Do Kinder People Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
Yasmin Anwar
UC Berkeley
"Positive psychology" research indicates that the kinder you are, the more likely you are to survive and evolve.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive.
In contrast to "every man for himself" interpretations of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Dacher Keltner, a UC Berkeley psychologist and author of "Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life," and his fellow social scientists are building the case that humans are successful as a species precisely because of our nurturing, altruistic and compassionate traits.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll
Anneli Rufus
AlterNet
We're living in a time when you can eat fake meat that tastes so real you'd swear an animal had to die for it.
It's not meat, but it looks like meat.
It's not meat, but it tastes like meat.
It's not meat, but it feels like meat.
It's not meat, but the more it looks and tastes and feels like meat, the more eating it is like having sex with rubber blow-up dolls: Both are the simulacra of primal adventures for which we are born and built. For very different reasons, in each case we choose the version without flesh and blood.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Russian mafia suspects held across Europe
Giles Tremlett
The Guardian
Spanish police confirm operation involving Germans, Swiss and Austrians
Police across Europe are carrying out dozens of arrests of suspected members of a Russian mafia network dedicated to extortion and violent crime in numerous countries, Spanish police confirmed today.
At least 69 people have been arrested in raids that started over the weekend, with police claiming that the gang had exported the worst Russian mafia methods to numerous countries, including Britain.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Fury as EU approves GM potato
Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts
Independent
Critics claim plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans
The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night.
German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a gene that could resist antibiotics – useful in the fight against illnesses such as tuberculosis.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Water and the War on Terror
Steven Solomon
Gtist
While leaders in Washington have been war-gaming the national security risks of climate change, they've only started to connect the dots to the closely related threats emanating from the growing crisis of global freshwater scarcity.
At first blush, water and national security may not seem to be interlinked. But the reality, as narrated in my new book WATER: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, is that the unfolding global water crisis increasingly influences the outcome of America's two wars, homeland defense against international terrorism, and other key U.S. national-security interests, including the transforming planetary environment and world geopolitical order.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Jihad Jamie: Racial profiling under scrutiny after second white Islamist arrested
Daniel Nasaw and Henry MacDonald
The Guardian
US citizen Jamie Paulin-Ramirez detained in connection with alleged conspiracy to kill Danish cartoonist
The use of racial profiling as a counterterrorism tool has been fatally undermined after a second white American woman was arrested over an alleged Islamist murder plot, critics of the policy said today.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Experiment allows scientists to 'read' volunteers' thoughts
Jeremy Laurance
Independent
Neuroimaging technique gives a new insight into the location and nature of human memory.
Scientists have read the minds of healthy volunteers using a brain scanner to detect what they were thinking. By placing the volunteers in the scanner after they had been shown three film clips, the researchers were able to tell which clip they were recalling.
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Monday March 15, 2010
A measure for the multiverse
Amanda Gefter
New Scientist
When cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on general relativity. But there the similarity to most parties ends.
For a start, Ellis's celebration at the University of Oxford lasted for three days and the guest list was made up entirely of physicists, astronomers and philosophers of science.
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Monday March 15, 2010
'Manufacturing Depression': Are Doctors Overprescribing Antidepressants to the Tune of $10 Billion a Year for Drug Companies?
Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
A psychotherapist says depression can be debilitating -- but that it’s also been largely created by doctors and drug companies as a medical condition.
Is depression manufactured? Two decades after the introduction of antidepressants, it’s become commonplace to assume that our sadness can be explained in terms of a disease called depression.
The National Institute of Mental Health estimates more than 14 million Americans suffer from major depression every year and more than three million suffer from minor depression. Some 30 million Americans take antidepressants at a cost of over $10 billion a year.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Pi day: Five tasty facts about the famous ratio
Jacob Aron
New Scientist
Mathematics enthusiasts will this weekend be celebrating Pi day, which falls on 14 March in honour of the famous ratio's first few digits, 3.14.
You probably know that pi is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter, but here are some less familiar facts about the mathematical constant. We did consider giving you 3.14 facts but alas we had five…
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Monday March 15, 2010
The school that turned to Montessori to beat gangs
Richard Garner
Independent
Richard Garner meets the head who went back 100 years to solve a modern problem
The words look so simple in a paper setting out the task ahead: "Change public face of Gorton Mount". But for a primary school in the midst of an inner city gangland area, the reality takes a bit longer.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Scientists identify opium poppy codeine and morphine genes
Ian Sample
The Guardian
Discovery raises possibility of manufacturing painkillers more cheaply using vats of microbes rather than fields of flowers
Scientists have identified the two genes in opium poppies which are used to make codeine and morphine, two of the most important painkillers in a doctor's armoury.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Airport body scans breach rights: UN expert
Agence France-Presse
A UN expert on Tuesday said the growing use of full-body scanners in airport security was a breach of individual rights.
Martin Scheinin, the UN special rapporteur on the protection of human rights, said that in the fight against terrorism, scanners were both an ineffective means of prevention and an excessive intrusion into individual privacy.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Crystal chips could lead to super encryption
Tim Greene
Network World US
New materials offer security, vast capacity
Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as well as contribute to the discovery of materials that expand the capacity of electronic storage devices by 1,000 to 1 million times.
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Monday March 15, 2010
Court bans BNP from recruiting new members
Mark Bulstrode and Joe Sinclair
Press Association
The British National Party was today banned from recruiting new members after a court ruled its constitution was illegal.
In a landmark ruling, Judge Paul Collins issued an injunction against the far-right group ordering it to comply with equality laws.
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Friday March 12, 2010
Ban salt to save lives, restaurants in New York told
Rupert Cornwell
Independent
Blood pressure rising as furious chefs oppose campaigner's proposals for healthy eating
Four years ago New York City's health commissioners banned artery-blocking transfats in restaurants. Now, if a legislator has his way, the chefs at every eatery in the Big Apple and across the state will have to make do without salt.
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Monday March 08, 2010
DNA database matches help solve 'one crime in 1,300'
Jack Doyle
Press Association
DNA matches from the national database help solve as few as one crime in every 1,300, it was claimed today.
Figures published in a Home Affairs Select Committee report suggest just 3,666 crimes are detected every year with links to an existing DNA profile.
That is one in every 1,300 of the 4.9 million crimes carried out, and just one in 350 of the 1.3 million crimes solved by police.
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