Critical Flaws Found in Java Development Kit
The two flaws could be exploited remotely by hackers, with one resulting in the possible execution of code.
Software
May 18, 2007
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Naughty Norton: Symantec Fixes Flaw in Security Software
The security vendor has patched a buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code.
Software
May 18, 2007
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Microsoft's Patent Threats Evoke Retorts
Partly in response to Microsoft's recent patent threats to Linux and other open-source software, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) announced on May 16 the creation of a new activist campaigns team to organize public support ...
Software
May 18, 2007
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Nanoscale pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics
Pasta tastes like pasta – with or without a spiral. But when you jump to the nanoscale, everything changes: carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties ...
Nanophysics
May 18, 2007
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Fused nasal bones helped tyrannosaurids dismember prey
New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose finding demonstrates how a fused nasal bone helped turn the animal into a "zoological superweapon."
Archaeology
May 18, 2007
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Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution
Researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed the first global family tree of metabolic protein architecture. Their approach offers a new window on the evolutionary history of metabolism. The study appears this ...
May 18, 2007
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New biofuel from trees developed at UGA
A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new biofuel derived from wood chips. Unlike previous fuels derived from wood, the new and still unnamed fuel can be blended with biodiesel and petroleum diesel to ...
May 18, 2007
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Executable biology -- Computer science sheds light on animal development
By applying the techniques of computer engineering to a mechanistic diagram describing the development of the Nematode C. elegans, a group of researchers in Switzerland has been able to tease out what laboratory experiments ...
May 18, 2007
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Spotted owls facing extinction in Canada
Officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia have ordered all regional spotted owls to be collected to prevent the birds from going extinct.
May 18, 2007
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