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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- August 12, 2014

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Russian Gang's Credentials Theft Exposes Web's Wild, Wild West Side
Nvidia's Tegra K1 Stars in New Acer Chromebook
Stepping Up the Search for ET
FOSS' Documentation Dilemma

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Today's Story Highlights

Russian Gang's Credentials Theft Exposes Web's Wild, Wild West Side
News that a Russian gang has stockpiled more than a billion purloined
user name and password combinations has revved up the Internet's
reputation as a post industrial Wild, Wild West. Just how much havoc
will be raised by the gang remains to be seen. The data thieves so far
appear content to use their ill-gotten trove for spamming, according to
Hold Security, which discovered the credential cache.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80877.html

Nvidia's Tegra K1 Stars in New Acer Chromebook
Acer America has rolled out a new Chromebook contender featuring a 13.3-
inch display and an Nvidia Tegra K1 mobile processor. With a battery
life of up to 13 hours, along with a light, fanless design, the Acer
Chromebook 13 is available with a full HD display with 1920 x 1080
resolution, 2 GB of memory and a 16-GB solid state drive for $299.99; or
1366 x 768, with similar specs, for $279.99.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80872.html

Stepping Up the Search for ET
Atmospheric pollution may not be among mankind's proudest achievements,
but it's an incontrovertible sign that we are here. Could something
similar help us find civilizations on other planets? That's the premise
behind one of several recently announced new approaches to the search
for extraterrestrial intelligence. One involves detecting pollutants
like Earth's in the atmospheres of other worlds.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80844.html

FOSS' Documentation Dilemma
Hang around for any length of time in the seedy bars and watering holes
of the Linux blogosphere, and you'll soon realize that certain topics
tend to recur with surprising frequency. The most obvious example, of
course, is the Year of Linux on the Desktop -- a topic scientists have
determined will surely outlive us all. The latest example to rear its
head? FOSS documentation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80875.html

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