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Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil?

An anonymous reader writes "Today, Wired.co.uk is running a story, 'Cold fusion rears its head as "E-Cat" research promises to change the world.' It gives an overview of the technology that claims to fuse hydrogen and nickel into… Continue reading

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FPGA Bitstream Security Broken

NumberField writes “Researchers in Germany released a pair of papers documenting severe power analysis vulnerabilities in the bitstream encryption of multiple Xilinx FPGAs. The problem exposes products using FPGAs to cloning, hardware Trojan insertion,… Continue reading

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Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are

overThruster writes with a report from TechCentral that “Greg Mahlknecht has built a free map showing the world’s submarine telecommunications cable systems. The map, which took Mahlknecht several months to complete, is free of charge and will remain s… Continue reading

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Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls

mikejuk writes “You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful. Now computational linguistics [PDF of original paper] has been used to crack Skype encryption and reconstruct what is being said in a VoIP call. What is surprisi… Continue reading

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King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio

An anonymous reader writes “Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has introduced HR 607, the ‘Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011,’ which has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which ha… Continue reading

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How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA

Pickens writes “Michael Savitz writes at Salon how he makes a living armed with a laser bar-code scanner fitted to a Dell PDA. Savitz haunts thrift stores and library book sales to scan hundreds of used books a day and instantly identify those that wil… Continue reading

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IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM

An anonymous reader writes “A single-atom DRAM was demonstrated by IBM recently with a slow-mo movie of the atomic process of setting and erasing a bit on a single atom. Videos of atomic processes inside chips were not possible until now, leading to IB… Continue reading

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