Researchers at the University of Toronto said they were able to observe the hacking and trace it to core servers located in China and to people based in the southwestern city of Chengdu. The researchers said they monitored the hacking for the past eight months.
The report said it has no evidence of involvement by the [...]

At the very least, the vulnerabilities open the door for attackers to jack up strangers power bills. These flaws also could get hackers a key step closer to exploiting one of the most dangerous capabilities of the new technology, which is the ability to remotely turn someone elses power on and off.
The attacks could be [...]

But the victory was short-lived. Less than a day after a service known as “AS Troyak” was unplugged from the Internet, security researchers said Wednesday it apparently had found a way to get back online, and criminals were reconnecting with their unmoored machines.
The drama initially raised hopes of a sharp drop-off in fraud, because criminals [...]

Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when its recycled that it cant be used again for the same purpose. Some small amount of the plastic might make it into another bottle, but more often than not, it instead becomes synthetic [...]

The experimental devices are designed to keep track of how many minutes they work out, how much food they consume and even whether they are at a fast-food joint when they should be in the park. The goal is to cut down on self-reported answers that often cover up whats really happening.
In a lab in [...]

Research In Motion Ltd.s “BlackBerry Loves U2″ advertising campaign is part of a trend where brands are stepping into the breach as plummeting sales shrink music labels marketing budgets. Once reluctant to be seen as selling out to corporate sponsors, artists are keen to sign up.
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Intel and the university filed a notice of settlement in federal court in Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, two days before todays scheduled start of the trial. The accords terms werent disclosed and were still being prepared, according to the filing.
The universitys [...]

It hardly looks like it, but the two swimming robots were set loose in the little pool to study evolution, acting out predator-prey encounters from roughly 540 million years ago.
The prey robot, dubbed Preyro, can simulate evolution.
This is not like robot evolution in the “Terminator” movie sense of machines turning on their human masters. Instead, [...]

In a report to be released Tuesday, the researchers saw a nearly fivefold jump in arrests for soliciting undercover investigators who posed as juveniles – to 3,100 in 2006, from 644 in 2000, the last time the study was conducted.
By contrast, arrests for solicitations of actual children increased 21 percent to about 615 in 2006, [...]

The students downed an average of one and a half more drinks during an hour-long excerpt from the U.S. beach movie — with two commercial breaks featuring alcohol — than during the Josh Hartnett romantic comedy “40 Days and 40 Nights,” the researchers said in a study published online today in the journal Alcohol and [...]