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• GoogleTV, AppleTV and the Battle For The Living Room September 9, 2010
  An anonymous reader pointed us to an article talking about Google TV and AppleTV challenging the major networks and taking their place in your living room. It'll be a tough battle, amusingly waged on cable company wires in many major markets. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  CmdrTaco
• DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network September 9, 2010
  Tootech writes "In a case of "physician, heal thyself," the agency — which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD — failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep of US-CERT using the vulnerability scan […]
  CmdrTaco
• Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites September 9, 2010
  theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use polic […]
  CmdrTaco
• IOS 4.1 Jailbroken Already September 9, 2010
  mspohr writes "Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future. The exploit in the boot ROM of iOS devices was first announced by iPhone Dev-Team […]
  samzenpus
• Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half September 9, 2010
  bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. […]
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