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Included in this months issue:
Airbus shows off transparent plane concept for 2050
Are there criminals hiding in the cloud?
Are Children becoming 'digitally illiterate'?
Lady Gaga download deal crushes Amazon servers
The best password is a sentence, says expert
These days anyone could be watching you, monitoring your every move, waiting to pounce and poach passwords to access your personal data.
"There are new attacks every day, we see something like 90,000 new pieces of malicious codes coming into our labs every day -- that's one every second," said Graham Cluely, Senior Technology Consultant at the software security company, Sophos.
By Durgahee
Airbus shows off transparent plance concept for 2050
Airbus has shown off its latest concept plane, which features a glass membrane fuselage to give you a real magic carpet feel.
The plane, which Airbus is speculating could be a reality in 2050, features a whole host of future tech but it will be the see-through walls that strike both awe and terror.
According to Airbus, the transparent membrane will apparently mimic the efficiency of bird bone and will help regulate temperature within the plane.
By Patrick Goss
Facebook denies losing users
Facebook has denied that it is losing customers, saying it is "pleased" with growth.
Figures from Faceboook monitoring site Inside Facebook suggested that during May, Facebook lost six million users in the US and 100,000 in the UK.
But the social network, which does not usually comment on third party statistics, questioned how it arrived at this figure. Other net measurement firms said they had seen growth over the same period.
From BBC News Technology
Hackers break into senate computers
The Sergeant at Arms Office confirmed that the Senate's website had been hacked and that it has ordered a review of all Senate computer sites.
"Although this intrusion is inconvenient, it does not compromise the security of the Senate's network, its members or staff," a Sergeant at Arms Office official said. "Specifically, there is no individual user account information on the server supporting senate.gov that could have been compromised."
The revelation came after a loosely aligned group of computer hackers calling themselves Lulz Security said they broke into the Senate's computer network.
by Diane Bartz and Thomas FerraroLady Gaga download deal crushes Amazon servers
Demand for a cut-price Lady Gaga download looks to have overwhelmed Amazon's servers on Monday, a sign that the company's cloud may have problems dealing with major spikes in demand.
The Amazon Cloud Player promotion on Monday, which saw the new Born This Way album available to buy as a one day-only offer for 99 cents (61p), led to fans rushing to the site in such numbers that Amazon's servers failed to hold up and downloads slowed to a crawl.
"We're currently experiencing very high volume," Amazon acknowledged in a post to its Amazon MP3 account on Twitter on Monday evening. The company assured users that if they bought the album that day, it would be delivered to them.
By Jack Clark
How the net traps us all in our own little bubbles
An invisible revolution has taken place is the way we use the net, but the increasing personalisation of information by search engines such as Google threatens to limit our access to information and enclose us in a self-reinforcing world view, writes Eli Pariser in an extract from The Filter Bubble.
A slide from Eli Pariser's TED Talk presentation which discusses how major internet players are tailoring information to individuals. Illustration: Justin Kemerling and Eli Pariser
Few people noticed the post that appeared on Google's corporate blog on 4 December 2009. It didn't beg attention – no sweeping pronouncements, no Silicon Valley hype, just a few paragraphs sandwiched between a round-up of top search terms and an update on Google's finance software.
By Eli Pariser
Are there criminals hiding in the cloud?
Sony's shares have fallen significantly in the aftermath of the security breach
Following the exposure of the Sony PlayStation 3 security flaws - and with so much of our data stored online - are we making it too easy for criminals to get hold of our information?
When over 100 million people's details were garnered illegally from Sony recently, users were up in arms about their prized information being leaked.
By Alex Hudson
Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'?
As computers become ever more complicated, there are concerns that schools and universities are not teaching the basic programming skills that underpin some of Britain's most successful industries.
The UK's video games sector is bigger than either its film or music industries with over £2bn in global sales. Just one best-selling game series, Tomb Raider made by British company Eidos has had sales of over 35 million.
But with games becoming increasingly complicated to make, the programmers used to make the games are in high demand. And there are concerns about where the talent of the future is going to come from.
By Alex Hudson
Apple agrees to pay Nokia royalties for iPhone & iPad
Back in 2009 Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple because it believed the iPhone infringed ten of its patents. What followed was an escalating battle between the two companies that saw Nokia file further patent infringement lawsuits and Apple countering with its own. The fight even extended to asking the US International Trade Commission to ban each others imports.
Today, that legal feud has come to an abrupt end with a surprising outcome. Apple has agreed to license patents from Nokia. Apple will now make a one-time payment to Nokia and then be subject to ongoing royalties for “the term of the agreement.”
By Matthew Humphries
Data roaming to become much cheaper under EU rules
The costs of using mobile data services while travelling within Europe could fall drastically if upcoming proposals from digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes become law.
ZDNet UK understands the proposals, due to be unveiled on 22 June, will contain a triumvirate of measures combining retail price caps with deeper, structural changes intended to give people greater ability to choose between data-roaming packages. This would make it cheaper for people with smartphones such as the iPhone, or tablets such as the iPad or Xoom, to use the internet on those devices while travelling within the EU on holiday or business.
By David Meyer
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