Transit of Venus live
If you missed it earlier (I did, because it’s so cloudy here), you can watch it live from Australia:
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Don’t be silly
The fundies say man has only existed for 5000 years – so it must have been space aliens!
Pay attention
The FBI says it’s time for Windows users to make sure their computers aren’t infected by an unusual virus. As it stands, hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide are infected and will be unable to surf the Web after July 9, the AP reports. It all started when an Estonian hacker gang allegedly installed malicious software on more than 570,000 computers. Then, when those users surfed the Web, the gang rerouted them through rogue servers to other websites in order to rake in advertising dollars.
Enter the FBI, which rounded up six Estonians last November—and realized that all those infected computers would be unable to surf the Web once the rogue servers were shut down. So the FBI set up its own server system to keep those computers Web-worthy. Now the FBI says it’s tired of playing Web server (and the feds are tired of paying for it—about $87,000 so far). So Windows users out there are advised to visitwww.dcwg.org, which will show you whether you’ve been infected and guide you through a quick fix.
Virtually Speaking Science tonight
Wed, April 4 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Science | Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri’s Night MSNBC.com’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto, director of marketing for Yuri’s Night 2012, about spaceflight’s past and future. VS Science is produced in cooperation with MICA, the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics. Pre-show interview at CosmicLog. Follow @b0yle @YurisNight @RyInSpace #YurisNight Listen live and later on BTR
Stuxnet virus
Richard Clarke says the U.S. was behind it – and why it was a disaster.
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