Remedial courses in higher education

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/04/17/essay-argues-legislation-wont-end-remedial-education

A plan in Connecticut to legislate the end of most remedial
education courses in public higher education has once again raised
questions about why so many incoming students are not prepared for
college-level work and what can be done about it.

Rome Lab's supercomputer is made up of 1,700 off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 gaming consoles

Supercomputing, fast and cheap. As with most supercomputers, the
system runs Linux.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/rome_labs_supercomputer_is_mad.html

Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous? : NPR

As reported on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129528196

Clara Lazen, Ten-Year-Old Fifth Grader, Discovers New Molecule (VIDEO)

10 year old discovers a new molecule, gets published in a major
chemistry journal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/ten-year-old-discovers-chemistry-molecule-published_n_1250825.html?ref=canada&ir=Canada

DARPA-Funded Hacker's Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/27/darpa-funded-hackers-tiny-50-spy-computer-hides-in-offices-drops-from-drones/

"Brendan O'Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware:
building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that's so
cheap it can be sacrificed after one use, with off-the-shelf parts
that anyone can buy and assemble for less than fifty dollars."

Smarter password checker lets you compare with others

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/smarter-password-checker-lets.html

"...researchers at INRIA in Rocquencourt, France and Ruhr
University Bochum in Germany have come up with a more advanced
strength checker that rates passwords relative to those already
stored in a site's database. Rather than vague strength messages,
their system can tell users their password is amongst the weakest 5
per cent on the site, encouraging them to try again with a stronger
alternative."

The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Strangers iPhone

http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone

"Every single iMessage to and from this mans iPhone—his friends
call him Wiz—has been sent to us by accident. We know about his
job, sex life, and address. Apple, you might want to fix this."