Latest news entries


Liverpool face an uphill task to progress from the last 16 of the Europa League after Eden Hazard's goal gave a lively Lille side a first-leg lead.
BBC World News
A female pornographic film director is selected as the Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate for Gravesham, Kent.
BBC UK News
Sir Brian Pitman, the City grandee widely held to be the shrewdest banker of his generation, died on Thursday at the age of 78.
Daily Telegraph UK News
Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Slashdot

A great game console in the sky

The conceptual render cloud that Advanced Micro Devices was showing off a little more than a year ago at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is going commercial this year.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

The Register
The latest word on the iPhone is that the 4.0 OS will finally have honest-to-goodness multitasking. This could hopefully lead to things like a real chat client, and dangerous battery consumption. I still hope it's true.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Slashdot
Britain should apologise to ex-Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, says chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
BBC World News

Jobsian prophets predict multitasking for iPhone 4.0

Apple will add multitasking to the Jesus Phone this summer with the release of the divine handset's version 4.0 software update, according to a report citing anonymous people who have accurately predicted Jobsian behavior in the past .…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

The Register
Bonus payments to Scottish civil servants have doubled since 2006 after new figures showed they are on course to be handed £2.6 million this year.
Daily Telegraph UK News
Kolargol00 writes "Heise online reports the availability of an exploit (Google translation) for the yet-unpatched MSA-981374 affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7. It has already been spotted in the wild by McAfee and integrated into the Metasploit Framework."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Slashdot

Results: 1 to 10 of 21094
  <<<  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>