Fears
of a double-dip recession and concerns about Europe’s debt problems
have wiped out all of this year’s gains on Wall Street as stocks had
their worst day since the financial crisis three years ago. The Dow
Jones Industrial average dropped 513 points on Thursday, putting the bellwether index back where it was at the beginning of January. Source Link
Government
agents are at a big conference of computer hackers that’s underway in
Las Vegas, but it’s recruitment and not surveillance that they have in mind.
The Defense Department, Homeland Security, and National Security Agency
all want to hire experts with skills to help defend against computer
attacks. The annual Defcon convention brings together some of the
world’s best hacker talent. Source Link
A
new study points up what many parents will attest to -- tweens love
their screens, and they use several at once. Researchers looked a a
group of 10 and 11-year olds and found that the youngsters often had
multiple devices in use at the same time, including TV’s, video games,
computers and phones, and moved from one screen to the other and back to
multitask or fill brief moments of downtime. Source Link
