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US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered 27 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that 'U.S. forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday....
X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status 27 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
An anonymous reader writes "The X.Org Foundation that is the organization behind driving the X.Org Server projects, Mesa, and Wayland open-source programs had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS....
Report: Snowden Stayed At Russian Consulate While In Hong Kong 27 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
cold fjord writes "The Washington Post reports, 'Before American fugitive Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow in June — an arrival that Russian officials have said caught them by surprise — he spent seve...
Break Microsoft Up 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Tom Worstall writes in Forbes that the that the only way to get around the entrenched culture that has made Microsoft a graveyard for the kind of big ideas that have inspi...
Google Claims ChromeCast Local Streaming Only Broken Because of SDK Changes 27 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
sfcrazy writes "As you all know about the story that ChromeCast update disabled the playback of local content, but Google has confirmed that it will allow every kind of content. Google Statement: 'We'...
100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
slew writes "Apparently none of the 24K+ students who sat for the 2013 Liberia University entrance exam got a passing mark, and fewer than a hundred managed to pass the either the english (pass level ...
Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets 27 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the Guardian: "Tougher laws are needed to prevent members of the public from revealing official secrets, former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Bl...
The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) 27 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
Esther Schindler writes "If you ever needed evidence that Isaac Asimov was a genius at extrapolating future technology from limited data, you'll enjoy this 1964 article in which he predicts what we'll...
Bionic Skin: the Killer App For Flexible Electronics 27 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
the_newsbeagle writes "Most of the researchers who work on flexible electronics imagine putting their materials to use in flexible displays, like a rollable, foldable iPad that you could cram in your ...
Feature Phone Hack Can Block Calls, Texts On Some Networks 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
Trailrunner7 writes, quoting Threat Post "By tweaking the firmware on certain kinds of phones, a hacker could make it so other phones in the area are unable to receive incoming calls or SMS messages, ...
