Thursday, October 13, 2011

TGIThursday

PC viruses are mostly your fault, Microsoft says

By David Goldman

Published: October 12, 2011

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If your computer is infected, it's probably because of something you did, according to a Microsoft study released this week.

CNN

BlackBerry outages spread to North America

By Peter Svensson

Published: October 12, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Yahoo News

Scientists Solve DNA Puzzle of the Black Death

By NICHOLAS WADE

Published: October 12, 2011

After the Black Death reached London in 1348, some 2,400 people were buried in East Smithfield, near the Tower of London, in a cemetery that had been prepared for the plague’s arrival. From the teeth of four of those victims, researchers have now reconstructed the full DNA of a microbe that within five years felled one- third to one-half of the population of Western Europe.

New York Times

3 hospitalized when pot brownies served at funeral

Associated Press

Published: October 11, 2011

UNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Pot-laced brownies served at a Southern California funeral sent three people to the emergency room over the weekend, Huntington Beach police said.

Yahoo News


At One College, a Fight Over Required Drug Tests

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

Published: October 10, 2011

Linn State Technical College in Linn, Mo., informed students this semester that they would be required to submit to a urine test that would be checked for illegal drugs as a condition of studying at the college. Almost immediately, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued on behalf of several dissenting Linn State students and have won a temporary injunction. The A.C.L.U. says Linn State is the first public college in the country to require all adult students to submit to mandatory drug tests. Linn State officials however, say the policy is legal and was developed in the interest of their 1,200 students.

New York Times

Sony: 93,000 PlayStation, Online Entertainment accounts hacked

By: Nathan Olivarez-Giles

Published: October 12, 2011

On Wednesday morning, Philip Reitinger, Sony's newly hired chief information security officer, said that about 93,000 PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment user accounts have been breached in a Web attack.

LA Times

Governor OKs college aid for undocumented immigrants in California

By David Siders

Published: October 9, 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday allowing undocumented immigrant college students access to public financial aid, marking California's relatively liberal ground in a bitter row over immigration nationwide.

Sacramento Bee


Sacramento State conference encourages girls to pursue math, science careers

By Chris Macias

Published: October 9, 2011

On a sunny Saturday morning when tween girls might otherwise be gearing up for soccer or glued to "iCarly" reruns on TV, they were calculating the speed of light and sporting safety goggles instead.

Sacramento Bee

Dealing with gay students, bullying in very different ways

By Chris Welch

Published: October 12, 2011

Minneapolis (CNN) -- Jared Pettingill's parents wanted a safe place for their son to attend school where he wouldn't be harassed for being gay.

They found that place in the Minneapolis Public School district.

CNN

Canceled Kings games could hamper drive for new Sacramento arena

By Dale Kasler, Tony Bizjak and Matt Kawahara

Published: October 12, 2011

It was shaping up as a crucial year for the Kings – possibly the team's final season in Sacramento – and now part of it has been wiped out.

Sacramento Bee


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