Thursday, April 8, 2010

08-Apr-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Google may have let Chinese hackers break in to their systems, but it is giving US authorities consensual access to e-mail accounts:
http://itnews.com.au/News/171122,opinion-conroy-is-right-to-question-googles-privacy-record.aspx

Telecom's XT network goes down yet again, this time Aucklanders get it in the neck as the network goes intermittend Nort of Taupo:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/3560440/Telecom-XT-outage-hits-Auckland

Ubuntu is now claiming 12 million users worldwide, alongside Red Hat which claims 24 million:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7032/1/

Diamond wafers now look to be a real possibility as researchers in Tsukuba seamlessly stitch "cloned" CVD diamond sheets together:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18736-diamond-chips-to-make-meaner-greener-electronics.html

And finally. A multi-cellular organism resembling a jellyfish is found that does not need oxygen and apparently never used it:
http://www.physorg.com/news189836027.html

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