Cheap Thermal Imagers Can Steal User PINs Slashdotby timothy on security at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 11:31 pm)

Bismillah writes: A British infosec company has discovered that cheap thermal imaging attachments for smartphones can be used to work out which keys users press on -- for instance -- ATM PIN pads. The thermal imprint last for a minute or longer. That's especially worrying if your PIN takes the form of letters, as do many users' phone-unlock patterns.

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Iran unveils missile to 'counter regional neighbours' AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 11:29 pm)

Tehran rolls out latest surface-to-surface ballistic missile a little more than a month after concluding nuclear deal.
Many injured in Beirut 'you stink' protest over rubbish AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 11:29 pm)

Police battle thousands of Lebanese demonstrating against political dysfunction amid ongoing rubbish collection crisis.
Pakistan cancels security meeting with India AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 11:29 pm)

Islamabad says talks cannot be held on basis of India's preconditions, after Delhi demanded they focus on "terror" only.
Re-Examined IceCube Data Firms Up Case For Extra-Galactic Neutrinos Slashdotby timothy on space at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:31 pm)

In 2013, the IceCube neutrino telescope detected dozens of high-energy neutrinos. Now, reports Astronomy magazine, researchers "have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support of [those] 2013 observations confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos." According to the report, Albrecht Karle from UW-Madison notes that while the neutrino-induced tracks recorded by the IceCube detector have a good pointing resolution, within less than a degree, the IceCube team has not observed a significant number of neutrinos emanating from any single source. ... “The plane of the galaxy is where the stars are. It is where cosmic rays are accelerated, so you would expect to see more sources there. But the highest-energy neutrinos we’ve observed come from random directions,” said Karle. “It is sound confirmation that the discovery of cosmic neutrinos from beyond our galaxy is real.”

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Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions Slashdotby timothy on mozilla at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:01 pm)

Mozilla announced yesterday a few high-level changes to the way Firefox and Firefox extensions will be developed; among them, the introduction of "a new extension API, called WebExtensions—largely compatible with the model used by Chrome and Opera—to make it easier to develop extensions across multiple browsers." (Liliputing has a nice breakdown of the changes.) ZDNet reports that at the same time, "Mozilla will be deprecating XPCOM and XUL, the foundations of its extension system, and many Firefox developers are ticked off at these moves."

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Locale-TextDomain-OO-1.023 search.cpan.orgby Steffen Winkler at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:01 pm)

Locale::TextDomain::OO - Perl OO Interface to Uniforum Message Translation
Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ModuleBuildTiny-0.014 search.cpan.orgby Leon Timmermans at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:01 pm)

Build a Build.PL that uses Module::Build::Tiny
JSON-Validator-0.48 search.cpan.orgby Jan Henning Thorsen at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:01 pm)

Validate data against a JSON schema
Pod-Weaver-Plugin-Ditaa-0.001001 search.cpan.orgby Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 10:01 pm)

include ditaa diagrams in your pod
Blasts inside Ecuador volcano stir fear among locals AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 9:59 pm)

Cotopaxi explosions send columns of steam and ash high into sky as locals struggle to herd sheep and cattle to safety.
Australia on the verge of consolation Ashes win AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 9:59 pm)

England need another 129 runs to make Australia bat again while the tourists need just four wickets.
Life terms for Egypt's Badie and 18 Brotherhood members AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 22, 2015, 9:29 pm)

Cairo court sentences spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and 18 others over 2013 attack on police station.
Chinese Hackers Most Likely Targeting India: Experts (SecurityWeek) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 22, 2015, 9:29 pm)

COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 Slashdotby timothy on programming at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 22, 2015, 9:01 pm)

New submitter dmleonard618 writes: Micro Focus isn't writing off COBOL just yet. The company is trying to win developers over with COBOL with the latest release of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio. The new solution aims to bring back the ancient language and make it relevant again. "Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2015 is the next generation of COBOL development solutions, designed for today's application developer to do just that, in a productive and cost-effective way," said Micro Focus' Ed Airey.

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