Hate goes viral on social network sites

Militants and hate groups increasingly use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube as propaganda tools to recruit new members, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Examples of what the report calls “digital terrorism and hate” range from a Facebook group named “Death to gays” in Croatian to a YouTube video of a Koran being burned and various Web sites promoting militant groups such as Hezbollah, the Taliban, al Qaeda and Colombia’s FARC. Full Story : MSNBC.com…..

Canadians find vast computer spy network

Canadian researchers have uncovered a vast electronic spying operation that infiltrated computers and stole documents from government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama. The researchers concluded that computers based almost exclusively in China were responsible for the intrusions. Full Story : Reuters.com….

Cyber robots to patrol government networks

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created software that uses colonies of borg-like cyberrobots it says will help government agencies detect and fend off attacks on the nation’s computer network infrastructure. When these cybots detect network intruders, they communicate with one another, preventing cybercrooks from creating and using a diversion in one spot within the network to then break through in another. Full Story : CNet.com…….

Google’s MLab, fights for Net Neutrality

Many ISPs (Internet Service Providers) have a practice of  blocking  or restricting certain kind of internet traffic for their users. There are many groups fighting for what they called network neutrality. Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. Google is a strong advocate for network neutrality, and as part of its efforts towards network neutrality, it released a open source tool MLab. If you want to know if your ISP blocks or throttles applications you are running, you can diagnose it using this tool.

Japanese Mobile System reaches 250M bps

In trials of a future 3G cellular technology, a download speed of 250M bps (bits per second) has been achieved by NTT DoComo, Japan’s biggest mobile service provider. The speed was attained in outdoor tests near the carrier’s research and development laboratory in Yokosuka, Japan. The new system is named “Super 3G” and expected to be launched commercially in the next decade. DoCoMo’s network in Japan currently offers download speeds up to 3.6M bps.

Squirrels Network without Facebook

A new study on a colony of 65 ground squirrels revealed that Squirrels are connected, on average, by three degrees of separation, meaning any two squirrels could be connected by three intermediate animals. Most of the connections were between mating squirrels and their families. But friendship, too, exists in the squirrel world. The study was conducted by Theodore Manno, a biologist at Auburn University in Alabama. It is notable that Human social network is separated by six degrees.

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