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Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop Ars Technica
Stealthy Mac OS X spyware that was digitally signed with a valid Apple Developer ID has been detected on the laptop of an Angolan activist attending a human rights conference, researchers said.
The backdoor, which is programmed to take screenshots and send them to remote servers under the control of the attackers, was spread using a spear phishing email, according to privacy activist Jac [...]
House explosion search suspended
20 May 2013
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An eyewitness describes how the building exploded as he was walking past with his family
The search for a person missing after an explosion at a Nottinghamshire house in which a man was found dead and four others injured is to resume later.
A man, a woman and two children were taken to hospital after the suspected gas explosion at the house in Wright [...]
‘A day for shocking stats and staying in your seat’
And so a Test that began in dreadful slow motion ended on crazy fast forward.
England stepped out on Sunday as marginal favourites in a game close enough that every run seemed to matter. An hour in, their remaining four wickets having gone for just 32 runs, they appeared to have ceded the advantage to New Zealand.
A target of 239, on a mid-May Lord’s track, should theoretically have felt within range of a side featuring the fast-scoring talents of Hamish Rutherford, Ross Taylor and Brendon McCullum.
That by mid-af [...]
Pornography risks should be taught to children as young as five, say parents
Many parents believe schools should teach children about the dangers of pornography as soon as they are old enough to use the internet, a survey suggests.
It reveals that the majority of parents do not want it to be left to them alone to educate their youngsters about the issue, and a large proportion think pupils as young as five or six should be given lessons on the subject.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), which conducted the poll, said many young people were exposed to explicit mate [...]
Deadly tornadoes strike Oklahoma
Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing parts of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open.
The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the US’s mid-west. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
“You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” [...]
The Republican wolves are out for Obama but they are yet to draw blood | Gary Younge
The thing people often forget about the story of the boy who cried wolf was that, at the end of the day, there was a wolf. For the past six years – since Barack Obama announced his presidential intentions – Republicans have been crying themselves hoarse. Obama, if they were to be believed, was a Kenyan-born communist Muslim with a forged birth certificate who stole the election by registering millions of ineligible voters.
“A lot of information about Obama’s background is missing,” said Abigail Billings, at a meeting of [...]
Greening’s goal in double OT lifts Senators over Penguins
Ottawa, ON – Colin Greening scored the game-winner 7:39 into double-overtime, as the Ottawa Senators outlasted the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2-1, in Game 3 of this Eastern Conference semifinal series from Scotiabank Place.
Daniel Alfredsson’s shorthanded goal with 28.6 seconds left in regulation
forced overtime before Greening buried a rebound in the second extra session
to send the Senators to victory.
On the deciding goal, Andre Benoit fired a shot from the right faceoff dot
that Tomas Vokoun fough [...]
Intel Fuels a Rebellion Around Your Data
Intel is a $53-billion-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Facebook and Google, it says it wants to “return power to the people.”
Intel Labs, the company’s RD arm, is launching an initiative around what it calls the “data economy”—how consumers might capture more of the value of their personal information, like digital records of their their location or work history. To make this possible, Intel is funding hackathons to urge develop [...]
North Koreans seize Chinese fishing boat
China has urged North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat and crew, state media has reported, after its owner announced online that it had been seized more than two weeks ago.
Yu Xuejun wrote on his microblog on Saturday that gun-wielding North Koreans took the boat on 5 May in what he says were Chinese waters and that they demanded a ransom of 600,000 yuan (£64,000).
Xinhua subsequently reported that Chinese diplomats in Pyongyang received Yu’s request for help on 10 May. Official Jiang Yaxian told the Chinese state news agency that [...]
Murphy, Rangers outslug Tigers
Arlington, TX – David Murphy stroked a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth and the Texas Rangers won a slugfest, 11-8, over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in the finale of a four-game set.
Texas recorded 18 of the 31 total hits for the game, which featured five lead
changes and saw Detroit third baseman Miguel Cabrera hit three home runs for
just the second time in his career.
Murphy’s blast off Jose Ortega (0-1) represented three of the 10 runs scored
for Texas between the fifth and seventh innings, [...]
David Cameron writes to Britain’s tax havens, calling for transparency
David Cameron has written to the leaders of Britain’s offshore tax havens stressing the need to “get our own houses in order” as he pushes for international action to tackle avoidance schemes.
In a message to 10 crown dependencies and British overseas territories Cameron said he backed their right to be low tax jurisdictions but insisted that rules needed to be set and enforced fairly.
The move comes ahead of next month’s G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Cameron will push for an agreement aimed at clamping down [...]
Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
By Nichola Groom
LOS ANGELES |
Mon May 20, 2013 1:05am EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp.
The “California Hydrogen Highway,” Schwarzenegger’s vision to ensure that every Californian would have access to a hydrogen fueling station by the end of 2010, called for the state to [...]