20th October 2012 Archive

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• US accused of hypocrisy over cyber warfare

  A state that sins more than its sinned against

  Recent warnings of a "cyber–Pearl Harbor" by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others are hypocritical, according to a leading security expert, given that the US is responsible for most of the online attacks so far uncovered. "If we look for offensive cyber attacks that have been linked back to a known government, we …

  Security 20 Oct 00:19

• Mozilla debuts Firefox Marketplace for Android apps

  Bleeding-edge bazaar offers apps based on HTML5

  Android users who enjoy living on the edge might like to try out the alpha version of Firefox Marketplace, the Mozilla Foundation's new online bazaar for mobile apps based on web technologies. "Just last year, we started working to turn the Web into a viable apps development platform," the Mozillians wrote in a blog post …

  Applications 20 Oct 00:27

• US climate-change skeptics LOSING SUPPORT

  Most Americans now believe in human-caused global warming

  Not only does a growing majority of Americans believe that global warming is, indeed, underway, but for the first time a majority have come to the conclusion that it's caused by human activity. "Americans' belief in the reality of global warming has increased by 13 percentage points over the past two and a half years, from 57 …

  Science 20 Oct 00:28