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Plus, US Congress wants more cybersec training, better breach laws

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'Sun in a box' system promises power storage from molten silicon

Energy boffins have proposed an alternative to lithium-ion batteries: Instead of costly electrochemical cells, which have been known to burst into flames, they have devised a "sun in a box" to store energy for power utilities.…

First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim

Analysis You've patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution processor bugs, right? Good, because IBM eggheads in Switzerland have teamed up with Northeastern University boffins in the US to cook up Spectre exploit code they've dubbed SplitSpectre.…

It's the least they could do. Really. The bare minimum

Hotel-chain turned data faucet Marriott says it will help some customers cover the cost of replacing stolen documents.…

DNS overseer faces probe over decision to award TLD to dot-com giant

Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word demanded an independent review of DNS overlord ICANN's handling of the saga.…

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use Win32::FileOp qw(ShellExecute); ShellExecute("http://www.google.com?foo=1&bar=2"); ...

I don't know any details about their SW or HW. I haven't checked in on the Princeton EGG Project in awhile. I mean more than a decade. But even so, its an interesting project. Interesting pr...