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mask.of.sanity writes “Over a 1000 students were accepted into the fifth year of the program from 70 countries and will work on about 150 open source projects with mentor organisations. The program, created in 2005, has exposed some 2500 students to “real-world” software development and opened employment opportunities within mentor organisations and in fields relevant to their academic study. The United States scored the lion’s share with 212 accepted students; 101 from India; 55 from Germany; 44 from Canada, 43 from Brazil. The Dominican Republic, Iceland, Luxembourg and Nigeria were new entrants to the program each with a single accepted student. Check out the slideshow summary of some project highlights, with hyperlinks back the detailed project pages.”

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suraj.sun writes “Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s 0 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department’s costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force’s air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft”

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Barence writes “BT and other mobile broadband providers are blocking access to The Pirate Bay, as part of a “self-regulation” scheme with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). BT Mobile Broadband users who attempt to access the notorious BitTorrent tracker site are met with a “content blocked” message. The warning page states the page has been blocked in “compliance with a new UK voluntary code”. “This uses a barring and filtering mechanism to restrict access to all WAP and internet sites that are considered to have ‘over 18’ status,” the warning states. It goes on to list a series of categories that are blocked, including adult/sexually explicit content, “criminal skills” and hacking. It’s not stated which category The Pirate Bay breaches, although the site does host links to porn movies.”

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prostoalex writes to tell us The Daily Mail has an interesting look at current research in the field of running and injuries related to running. Most of the evidence pointed at a lack of any need for running shoes. Some of the more interesting points: the more expensive the running shoes, the greater the probability of getting an injury; some of the planet’s best and most intense runners run barefoot; Stanford running team, having access to the top-notch modern shoes sent in for free by manufacturers, after a few rounds of trial and error still chose to train with no shoes at all.”

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