Tag: cern
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large hadron collider ‘set to create a mini-big bang’
from bbc: Since 2009, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks. The LHC is housed in…
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Large Hadron Collider Achieves Big Bangs After Initial Problems
It’s official: as this is written, the most powerful particle collisions ever achieved by the human race are taking place inside the great subterranean detector caverns of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Defcon 3/25: Killswitch, Siphons & Existential Threats
Large Hadron Collider cranked to ‘maximum redline power’ // US Secret Service paid TJX hacker $75k a year // Your health, tax & search data siphoned // Why CNN exec fears social-networking sites // Google exits China – except for part known as Hong Kong // Chinese media: Google is tied to US intelligence
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large hadron collider ‘performing well’
from ria novosti: A detailed check of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a low energy has showed that it is “performing well,” the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website Thursday. The world’s most powerful atom smasher was restarted Saturday. The first protons were injected into the LHC following a…
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Defcon 3/4: Cyberwar Hype, Hadron & The Grid
Cryptome’s John Young: Net is police state surveillance grid // Cyberwar hype intended to destroy the open internet // Critics not satisfied with partial revelation of secret cybersecurity plan // Don’t let White House ignore EMP threat
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Defcon 2/25 – Cryptome, Catastrophe, Echelon & CERN
Microsoft takes down whistleblower site, Cryptome.org* Update: Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart* Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ* Intel hit by cyber attack* Playstation 3: The future of big brother surveillance?* Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks* US pinpoints coder behind Google attack* Echelon computers can’t cope with bad lines* Italian…
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defcon 12/7: track, leak, shock & confuse
feds ‘pinged’ sprint gps data 8m times over a year*yahoo issues takedown notice for spying price list*yahoo threatens cryptome over leaked surveillance document*yahoo, verizon: our spy capabilities would ‘shock & confuse’ consumersibm poised to acquire database security start-up for $225m*google expands tracking to logged out users*murdoch accuses google of news ‘theft’*pub ‘fined £8k’ for wi-fi…
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defcon 11/27: cern, wrecking cru, copyright & crackdown
triumph in geneva! lhc beams up & running again* potty-mouths charged for comcast hijack* nj man sentenced in scientology cyber attack* ‘godfather of spam’ to prison for 4 years* wrecking cru: hackers cause massive climate data breach* climate change hackers leave trail* beginning of the end for the internet in the uk* google previews chrome…
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defcon 11/19: arms race, web games, cern & biometrics
raytheon to provide cybersecurity across dod networks* obama said to be close again to naming cybersecurity chief*place your bets: is cyber czar announcement really near?*US cyber defenses full of holes* senate panel: 80% of cyber attacks preventable*web security company warns of ‘cyber arms race’* icann attendees: america, surrender the root zone file!*nasa: the moon is…
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cern scientist arrested for alleged terror connections
from the register: An atomic physicist who worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research for six years has been arrested on suspicion he had links to an Al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa. The unnamed man had been assigned to an analysis project for the organization, better known as CERN, since 2003, the group…
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cyber/spacewar: black holes, false claims & digital warfare
cyber czar position will be announced this week a favorite emerges in obama’s cyberczar searchfrom time: Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration’s newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House’s deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington…
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miltech: biolabs, spysats, germs & cern
cern atom-smasher relaunch delayed to septemberfrom afp: Researchers announced Monday a new delay for the restart of Europe’s Big Bang atom-smasher, saying the faulty multi-billion dollar machine would now be turned back on in late September. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had planned to relaunch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this spring before…