29th July 2012 Archive

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• Boffins: VAMPIRE stars are PREYING on their companions

  What's a scientist doing watching True Blood?

  Astroboffins peering through the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have figured out that most of the brightest stars in the universe are constantly having the life sucked out of them by vampire stars. In the heart of Transylvan-ia, In the Vampire Hall of Fame-yeah... Credit: ESA/NASA/L. Calcada (ESO)/S.E. …

  Space 29 Jul 10:29

• Netflix scores $1bn own goal after company shoots off mouth

  Throwaway comment ruins investor confidence despite solid results

  A throwaway comment in the Netflix results (PDF) – suggesting that the Olympics will impact everyone's TV watching, including Netflix customers – has the company in PR trouble once again, with deeply suspicious investors, ready to jump at anything. After an innocuous set of results which looked like it had almost done enough to …

  Cloud Business 29 Jul 11:01

• Boffins nail oceanic carbon capture process

  It’s official: the Southern Ocean sucks

  The world’s oceans are known to be carbon sinks, but the process that draws CO2 from the air down into the deep ocean hasn’t been documented. Until now. A team of British and Australian scientists have identified huge plunging currents – as much as 1,000 kilometers wide – that appear to be key to the process of storing CO2 in …

  Science 29 Jul 22:32

• IOC asks Olympic spectators to cut back TXTs and tweets

  Network congestion blamed for Beeb’s bike bungles

  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has blamed spectators’ twitchy thumbs for the infamously spotty television coverage of the Men’s Olympic Cycling Road Race. Reuters reports an un-named official said the sheer volume of data traffic generated by the million-plus spectators on the route prevented cyclists’ GPS units …

  Networks 29 Jul 22:59

• South Korean crackers arrested

  Yet another data leak at KT

  South Korean police say they have arrested two malicious hackers that obtained personal details of 8.7 million KT mobile customers and on-selling the data to telemarketing firms. The police accuse the pair of earning one billion won, which sounds a lot more than the roughly $US800,000 it converts to, in the scam. The data …

  Security 29 Jul 23:30