(C.Maupas – Courrier international, 30/01/13) – Le sol s’est brutalement ouvert à Canton, engloutissant cinq boutiques et un bâtiment dans un trou de 9 mètres de profondeur. Cet effondrement spectaculaire n’a pas fait de victime. La cavité se trouve non loin du chantier de construction d’une ligne de métro, rapporte le Shanghaiist. La Chine est un vrai gruyère, à en croire Caixin Online. En 2009, on dénombrait 129 trous apparus soudainement. En 2012, entre le 21 juillet et le 12

(AFP, 28/01/13) –  Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem – one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in New Jersey, said there’s no such thing as rubbish, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started in May in Canada, TerraCycle collects cigarette butts from volunteers and turns them into plastic, which can be used for anything, even ashtrays.

(E.Nakashima – The Washington Post, 28/01/13) –  Washington: The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, more than quadrupling its size to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, according to US officials. The move, requested by the head of the Defence Department’s Cyber Command, is part of an effort to build an organisation that until now has focused largely on defensive

(Onda Newspaper, 11/01/13) – Da qualche ora è stato diffuso dal CERT-US (Dipartimento della Sicurezza Interna) l’allarme sulle applicazioni Java, per gravi vulnerabilità che sarebbero utilizzate dagli hackers per attacchi informatici. Lo stesso comunicato invita gli utenti a disabilitare il software Java di proprietà Oracle fino a risoluzione dei problemi. Java viene normalmente usato dai vari navigatori come plugin (componente aggiuntivo), pertanto occorre disattivarlo dai vari browser. Di seguito riportiamo il documento del CERT, con le indicazioni operative da seguire.

(AFP, 11/01/13) – Le département américain de la Sécurité intérieure appelle les internautes à ne plus utiliser Java. Le département américain de la Sécurité intérieure a mis en garde jeudi contre une faille dans le logiciel Java, appelant ses utilisateurs à cesser d’y avoir recours . Cette vulnérabilité du logiciel, qui fonctionne en général comme un « plug-in » dans les explorateurs internet, est actuellement exploitée par des pirates informatiques, met en garde la branche chargée des situations informatiques d’urgence

(P.Brown – Occupy.com, 09/01/13) – Robotic automation is a subject we rarely hear mentioned in all the talk about the economy, jobs, climate change, and other elements of our growing global crisis. Why? Because the 1% dare not address an issue that shakes our system to its foundations. The bipartisan perspective of our current leadership is that our problems are just another, mysteriously huge, business cycle; that “any day now” things will turn around and “we” must tighten our belts

(Jaeger – Occupy.org, 25/12/12) – When a Manhattan court ruled last month that Twitter must hand over tweets from Occupy activist Malcolm Harris following a protest on Brooklyn Bridge, it set a precedent that on-line communications are no longer our own property and can easily be used against us by law enforcement. Perhaps Malcolm and others should have taken some elementary precautions. Obviously, you don’t have to sign up with Twitter using your real name or with an email address

(Perfil.com, 28/09/12) – El explorador marciano más reciente de la NASA, el Curiosity, sigue dando que hablar en sus primeras semanas de andar por la superficie del Planeta Rojo. Es que si bien ya se había encontrado indicios de presencia de agua en Marte, ahora se ha dado un paso más y descubrió evidencias de la presencia de un río o riachuelo que erosionó y talló algunas de las rocas halladas en la superficie. La NASA fue la encargada de

(R.Revel – Le Nouvel Observateur, 27/09/12) – Le téléchargement est désormais reconnu comme légal au Portugal. Un tribunal a reconnu les échanges des fichiers en peer-to-peer (P2P, entre particuliers) et sans but lucratif comme ne violant pas les droits d’auteurs, rapporte le site spécialisé Exame Informatica. La décision fait suite au procès de 2.000 Portugais, poursuivis par un groupe de détenteur de droits d’auteurs nommé ACAPOR, pour téléchargement illégal, fin 2011. L’affaire prend une drôle de tournure quand le tribunal

(K.Cincotta – The Sydney Morning Herald,  06/09/12) – Online popularity in the form of a virtual voice can earn you loads of real-world perks. Following in the digital footsteps of ”brain dump”, ”bricks and clicks”, ”netiquette” and ”gamification”, the ever-widening lexicon of hipster tech jargon now has another buzzword – ”Klout”. In a rare show of logic, it is what it says: a measure of influence, the standard attributed to the millions of social-media pundits short-speaking, posting and linking their

(ANSA, 09/08/12) – Primi successi per Curiosity: rilevati per la prima volta raggi cosmici dalla superficie di un altro pianeta. A cento anni esatti dalla scoperta di questo flusso di particelle proveniente dal Sole e che investe l’intero sistema solare, il rover della Nasa, che intanto ha inviato anche la prima immagine a piena risoluzione, ne rivela le tracce anche su Marte. Poco meno di tre giorni di attività e il rover-laboratorio della Nasa, grande come un Suv, dimostra subito,

(ANSA, 03/08/12) – Facebook stima in 83 milioni, l’8,6% del totale, gli ‘utenti-fantasma’ del social network. In un documento di borsa, spiega di ‘avere delle difficolta” a misurare il numero di queste utenze, ‘nonostante i nostri tentativi per fermare questi comportamenti’. Secondo Facebook, il 4,8% dei suoi 955 mln di utenti attivi potrebbe essere costituito da profili duplicati, il 2,4% da societa’ o entita’ non umana come un animale domestico e l’1,5% da profili indesiderabili attivati con intenzioni criminali.

(A.Jouanne – Le Nouvel Observateur, 22/07/12) – Deux millions. C’est le nombre de nouveaux inscrits sur Facebook en Indonésie depuis le début de l’année. Le pays représente la quatrième nation sur Facebook, avec plus de 42 millions de membres, sur 240 millions d’habitants. Un phénomène qui ne cesse de s’accentuer, une croissance du nombre d’inscriptions de l’ordre de 10 à 15% par an, selon Social Bakers. Et pourtant, les utilisateurs indonésiens sont sept fois moins rentables que ceux aux Etats-Unis,

(Xinhua, 13/07/12) – Yahoo on Thursday confirmed that hackers had stolen around 400,000 account credentials from its computer system. In a statement to technology blog TechCrunch, Yahoo said that ” approximately 400,000 Yahoo! and other company users’ names and passwords” were stolen on July 11. The company said it is fixing the vulnerability that led to the theft, changing passwords of affected users and notifying the companies whose user accounts may have been compromised. But it did not reveal the

(Xinhua, 16/06/12) – She is a wife. She belongs to China’s one-child generation. On Saturday, 33-year-old Liu Yang becomes the country’s first woman entering space. The home-grown Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, atop an upgraded Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m. Saturday, carrying Liu and her two crew mates. China is the third country in the world to use its own technologies to send a female into space. Shenzhou-9 will dock

(S.Cypel – Le Monde, 19/05/12) – Ce ne fut pas la douche glacée, mais on est resté loin du succès espéré par ses promoteurs. L’introduction en Bourse, vendredi 18 mai, du réseau Facebook, valorisé la veille à 104,2 milliards de dollars (81,6 milliards d’euros), soit 38 dollars l’action, s’annonçait brillante, malgré les récentes mises en garde d’analystes quant aux doutes de nombreux investisseurs. Elle s’est soldée, à l’issue du premier jour de cotation, par une misérable progression de + 0,61

(Forbes, 16/05/12) – Is the upcoming Facebook offering a $100 billion sucker bet? As the mainstream media amps up the hype like a bunch of teenagers partying in a house their parents have left for the weekend, there are signs that millions may be suckered into a vortex of vertiginous investing. Facebook could very well be valued more than Amazon.com, Oracle and Intel , established companies with multiple products and marketing channels. But where the rubber meets the road, Facebook

(Milano Finanza, 03/05/12) – Facebook ha creato un business pubblicitario da 3 miliardi di dollari all’anno, convincendo gli operatori di mercato ad abbracciare nuove forme di pubblicità per far acquisire notorietà ai loro marchi. Tuttavia, come riporta il Wall Street Journal, alcuni grandi inserzionisti si chiedono se stiano impiegando bene il loro denaro. Secondo le fonti il dubbio è sorto proprio nel momento in cui le banche e i potenziali investitori stanno analizzando la valutazione di Facebook in vista dell’ipo