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A critical iOS vulnerability that Apple patched on Friday gives attackers an easy way to surreptitiously circumvent the most widely used technology for preventing eavesdropping on the Internet. That made the security bug about as dire as one can be. Now, there's strong evidence that the same flaw also exposes sensitive e-mail and Web communications on fully patched versions of OS X, with no indication that there is a patch currently available for the millions of people who use the Mac operating system.

At this early stage, the vulnerability has been confirmed in iOS versions 6.1.5, 7.0.4, and 7.0.5, and OS X 10.9.0 and 10.9.1, meaning it has silently exposed the sensitive communications of millions of people for weeks or months. Security researchers haven't ruled out the possibility that earlier versions are also affected. Readers should immediately update their iPhones and iPads to versions 7.0.6 or 6.1.6, preferably using a non-public network.

For the time being, people using Macs should avoid using public networks, a step that can thwart many criminal eavesdroppers but will do little to prevent surveillance by the National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Because the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers appear to be unaffected by the flaw, people should also consider using those browsers when possible, although they shouldn't be considered a panacea.

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The heavy sleepers among you may have missed things, but, as prophesied, when dawn broke on this lovely 22^nd of February 2014, and the golden cock Gullinkambi crowed as usual from the roof of Valhalla, this time it was answered by the normally-silent sooty-red cock that sits deep in the depths on the snake-and-bone rafters of Hel’s hall. This means it’s time to celebrate! Nidhogg, the hard-working and industrious dragon of Chaos and Destruction, has finally chewed through the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasil, killing the tree and bringing the nine worlds crashing down. The unjust tyranny of Odin and the Aesir is no more. All bonds in the world are broken, and the beings unjustly imprisoned by the cruel gods have been set free: the hound Garm that’s been chained up outside the Gnippa cave for ages, my sons Jormungangir and fuzzy adorable Fenris, my sweet daughter Hel, my fellow giants, and, of course, myself.

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Feb 28, 2013 - By wearing different colored hats, over 2,600 employees at Genentech (in San Francisco) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA

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Portland, OR (February 21, 2014) – It is with a heavy heart that Oni Press announces the medical retirement of longtime editor Jill Beaton. Since starting with the company in 2007, Beaton has been an integral part of the Oni Press team. Beaton oversaw a body of work that includes acclaimed…

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From NBC’s Revolution. 

The source code shown is from a project called Open Biometrics and is directly relevant. Hooray! The actual code shown is here.

This pup’s moderately excited vocalizations get translated into the rare language of Chain Saw…

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Benedict wanted to explore with his body and his voice with a complete commitment to bring the whole of his creativity to that character [Smaug].

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Jeremy Scott, the new head designer of Italian fashion house Moschino, debuted his Fall 2014 runway collection Thursday night at Milan Fashion week. Critics praised the line as "absorbent, yellow and porous."*

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A rule change could impose a 15-yard penalty for players who use the racial slur on the field.

The NFL competition committee is expected to approve a rule at the league meetings in March that would penalize players who use the N-word on the field, according to a Saturday report from the Associated Press.

The Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors diversity in the NFL, told the media that it expects the rule change to levy a 15-yard penalty for players overheard using the word on the field.

Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome also mentioned the rule change at his Saturday press conference in Indianapolis at the Combine.

Newsome said a 15-yard penalty has been discussed for players using the n-word.

— Dan Kadar (@MockingTheDraft) February 22, 2014

John Wooten, head of the Alliance, explained the thinking behind the rule change to CBS Sports:

"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do. We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room.

"Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere."

The league has undertaken greater efforts to promote a more tolerate workplace in the wake of several incidents, including teams asking players at last year's Combine about their sexual orientation.

Newsome elaborated on the process:

"If there's a need to, we'll present something to our owners in Orlando."

"With any rule we put into play, we have to look at it A-Z and what are the unintended consequences as well as the consequences. But as it was stated in our meeting, there are mics everywhere. If something's being said, it's captured somewhere. It would be an opportunity to get it verified if we had to."

Penalizing players for using a racial slur in the workplace is one step toward progress, but like most of the NFL's efforts at promoting tolerance, it's haphazard. What about other racist or homophobic slurs that might slide out of a player's mouth during a game? There's also the matter of implementation and interpretation, which left in the hands of officials could lead to the penalty being called differently from week to week and crew to crew.

And what about off the field, in places like a locker room, where the league is still reeling from the revelations about what happened in Miami with Richie Incognito and others, including a coach and a trainer, harassing Jonathan Martin and other players?

The NFL desperately needs to establish a clear and comprehensive code of workplace conduct, for both on and off the field, instead of reacting to incidents as they happen with a bevy of memos and piecemeal measures.

"The reason everyone thought MySpace was going to die was because these (GIFs) are really ugly," says meme-master general Kenyatta Cheese, speaking at the Story Festival in London. Cheese helps to run the Doctor Who Tumblr for BBC America, the second biggest Tumblr in the world and was also a cofounder of Know Your Meme.

Cheese describes himself as being "of the Internet," but says he is mainly interested in the way people do things online. "Our myths that we have don't necessarily reflect the things that we do, so I want to create new myths," he says.

The GIF, he continues, is a 30-year-old file format which is woefully inefficient and yet, despite all the innovation in technology, is used to tell stories all over the Internet today. When he looked it up on a Wikipedia, all that was there was a description of what it was and where it came from, but a disappointing lack of insight into its cultural significance. "I don't think it's the facts that are important," he continues. The GIF has a story of its own—a fairytale, in fact—but it is a story based on emotion, not fact.

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With no plans to kiss Erin Andrews, 50 Cent has returned to the Daytona 500 and is enjoying the NASCAR experience.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A year after an uncomfortable attempt to kiss Fox reporter Erin Andrews, 50 Cent was back at Daytona International Speedway Saturday.

Born Curtis Jackson, the rapper has signed a two-year contact to sponsor Swan Racing through SMS Audio, a consumer electronics and headphones manufacturer company he founded. Appearing with Swan Racing drivers Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman, Jackson was wildly entertaining.

Among the highlights:

His effort to lock lips with Andrews on national television prior to the Daytona 500 (Andrews soundly rebuffed Jackson):

"I wanted to kiss her, man. She handled it amazingly. ... It was an awkward moment."

What about attending NASCAR races most stands out to Jackson?

"The women here are extremely hot. Outside of going to church, you can find good women in NASCAR."

What was it like taking laps around Daytona in a street-legal Toyota Camry?

"We were going around there 135 mph. I didn't even know a Camry could do that!" Jackson later said the experience shook him a little.

On how Eminem revolutionized rap music:

"He took color out of the hip hop culture. It's about the music. Passion is what separates us. It is black music but he does it better than black artists."

The 600-year-old, strangely-illustrated Voynich Manuscript (which resides at Yale University) has been called the most mysterious manuscript in the world. Not a single word of the secret language has been decoded, at least not until now. Stephen Bax of the University of Bedfordshire says he has decoded ten words from the Voynich Manuscript. This seems to indicate that the document is not a hoax filled with nonsense words, as some scholars have concluded.

Stephen Bax, who teaches at the University of Bedfordshire, has produced a paper and a video where he details his theories on the text and provides translations of ten words from the manuscript, which are proper names of various plants that are depicted in the manuscript. Professor Bax explains, “I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text, following historic approaches which successfully deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs and other mystery scripts, and I then used those names to work out part of the script.

I have not yet watch Bax's 47-minute video, above.

Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds (Thanks, Gareth and Syd!)

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