Several news services are reporting that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs, has been kidnapped for ransom in Russia.nullnull

Security firm founder Kaspersky's son reportedly kidnapped in Russia - Computerworld

A gigantic laser experiment intended to study the nature of gravity and an x-ray telescope designed to look at black holes are being swept into the dustbin of history, too big and too expensive to survive the federal budget ax.

Citing Cost, NASA Bows Out Of Two Astrophysics Projects, Including Building the Largest Scientific Instrument Ever | Popular Science

Security researchers presenting at the Where 2.0 conference have revealed a hidden, secret iOS file that keeps a record of everywhere you've been.

iOS devices secretly log and retain record of every place you go, transfer to your PC and subsequent devices - Boing Boing

Teaching in Christian seminaries, or to largely Christian undergraduate populations, who wants to denigrate the cherished texts of Scripture by calling them forgeries built on lies? And so scholars use a different term for this phenomenon and call such books "pseudepigrapha."

Bart D. Ehrman: Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters

A federal judge has authorized the non-profit Internet Systems Consortium, working in conjunction with the FBI, to go beyond taking down the command-and-control servers: the ISC has installed its own command-and-control servers.

DoJ, FBI set up command-and-control servers, take down botnet

The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer "negligible," according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against "risky behaviour," such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves.

French group warns citizens about Fukushima fallout

Lee Bradley Brown, 39, was on holiday in the Arab state when he was arrested and put behind bars in the notorious Bur Dubai police station, reportedly following an argument with a hotel maid who entered his room unannounced.

Dubai Death: Lee Brown From Essex Dies In Police Custody In Bur Dubai Police Station | UK News | Sky News

Junichi Matsumoto, acting head of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Nuclear Power & Plant Siting Division, acknowledged the seriousness of the Fukushima accident at a press conference Tuesday. "Although the details of the [Chernobyl and Fukushima] accidents are different, from the standpoint of how much radiation has been released, [Fukushima] is equal to or more serious than Chernobyl."

"Though these substances don't pose a hazard to human health in the short term, if radioactive material keeps being discharged, the likelihood of it entering people's bodies through the food chain will increase," Kasai said.

Huge radiation release led to severity hike : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

Captain James Cook and his assistant Michael Lane, who mapped Newfoundland in the 1760s, often displayed a sense of humour in the place names they chose, and were not above selecting names that might offend overly sensitive readers. Regardless of the origin, the name has brought the town of Dildo a measure of notoriety that is not welcomed on all fronts. In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed.

Dildo, Newfoundland

Many high ranking government officials are afraid to keep a diary because of the possibility that it will be subpoenaed. This will undoubtedly be a great loss to future historians.

It is also exactly the sort of self censorship that the 4th amendment was intended to prevent.

SSRN-Creating A Subpoena-Proof Diary: A Technological Solution to A Legal Problem by James Miller, Lixin Gao