Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. ... of the two most prominent conferences in the field of theoretical computer science. Sahai has also presented this research in recent invited talks at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The real challenge ...

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Prefab Building on Florida Polytechnic Campus Recommended



The structure would serve facilities functions eventually. (PROVIDED TO THE LEDGER)

Published: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 29, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.

LAKELAND | As Florida Polytechnic University gears up for a fall 2014 opening, administrators and staff have been working out of office space on South Florida Avenue.

But when prospective students and parents come calling, they will want to see the future site of the state's 12th university.

By mid-November, a premanufactured building should be on site to house about a dozen university employees to allow them to operate before permanent space is ready. Others will remain at the 1 Poly Place address on South Florida Avenue.

The university's Operations Committee met via conference call Monday and voted on the premanufactured building option. The committee will recommend the full board approve $1.169 million for the building.

They also heard about modular trailers and conventional construction, but the premanufactured option was chosen for several reasons, including the fact that it can be used by the facilities staff later, so most of the cost will not go to waste. It will be set up next to a campus control center for that purpose.

Contractor Pete Karamitsanis, president of Lighthouse Advisors, said the building should be ready to be occupied by mid-Novem?ber.

The concept of setting up the recruiting space is similar to that of a model home at a construction site. The approximately 5,000-square-foot building will give students and parents an idea of what the Florida Poly experience will be like.

"We are actually setting up a classroom because we won't be able to show students classrooms for a long time," said Admissions Director Scott Rhodes.

The classroom area will be divided into four sections and include a laboratory setting and a typical classroom.

The building will provide space for group presentations, conference rooms, private meeting rooms and office space for recruiters and financial aid counselors.

The staff wants the structure to present an appropriate public "face" for the univer?sity.

"A steel structure will communicate permanency, which we believe is critical at this juncture to selling the total Florida Polytechnic first-year student experience," Rhodes said.

Brochures, information on a website and videos might show prospective students a bit of what it will be like there, but an on-site setup will serve as a more informative way to describe Florida Poly, he said.

"Florida Polytechnic University is selling a completely new type of 21st-century college experience," he said. "So while you're selling the future and a dream, you are still selling a college experience. Therefore, it's critical that the experience be as real as possible and help prospective families visualize what they are choosing: Florida Polytechnic University.

The budget includes $919,302 for a total projected cost for the building, including $670,000 for construction and additional funds for setting up parking lots and land?scaping.

About $50,000 is budgeted for golf carts to transport people on tours. Another $100,000 is included for furnishings and electronic equipment, but Rhodes and others will be using a lot of furnishings the university inherited from the University of South Florida Polytechnic.

[ Mary Toothman can be reached at mary.toothman@theledger.com or 863-802-7512. Her Twitter feed is @MaryToothman. ]

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    Thursday, July 25, 2013

    Nike+ Running iOS update adds social challenges, trash talk

    DNP Nike updates adds trash talking, err 'group chats'

    Sometimes you need a little extra encouragement to hit the trail. The latest update to Nike+ Running for iOS should give you that friend-based push to lace up when you're feeling particularly lazy. Social competitions make up most of what's new in version 4.3, bringing in the same functionality between the app and its Nike+ FuelBand counterpart. To start a challenge, simply set a distance, a duration and invite your buddies. From there, group chats allow for motivation (read: trash talk) and checking in on your temporary frenemies' progress. Each time you clown your pals, you'll earn a medal. Like Nike+ Fuel, what those are good for is anyone's guess. After you're done topping the leaderboards, sprint to Distro's latest issue for an inside look at the swoosh company's Accelerator startup program.

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    Wednesday, July 24, 2013

    Android 4.3 brings 1080p Netflix streaming

    Android 4.3 brings 1080p Netflix streaming

    After revealing Google's new Nexus 7, Director of Product Management Hugo Barra revealed that the company has teamed up with Netflix to bring higher resolution video streams to compatible devices, a feature you'll only enjoy on devices running the just-announced Android 4.3. Yep, Netflix will now run at 1080p resolution, with the video-streaming company one of the first to use the new set of DRM APIs announced in tandem with this latest OS release. Unfortunately, of course, you'll just have to wait for that pesky OTA update before you can try it.

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    Rosemarie DeWitt Joins Poltergeist

    Mike Fleming

    EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is the choice to play the female lead in Poltergeist, the new installment of the Tobe Hooper-directed horror classic that will be made by MGM and Fox 2000, with Gil Kenan directing a script by David Lindsay-Abaire. They are looking to cast the male lead. Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson were the original parents whose ideal family life is uprooted by a cavalcade of spirits that culminates in the kidnap of their youngest daughter. Given how well these fright films are faring against studio product lately, this one seems ripe for remaking and I?m surprised someone didn?t reheat the 31-year old film sooner. Sam Raimi and Nathan Kahane are producing. DeWitt is coming off Promised Land and Your Sister?s Sister, and is currently starring in Kill The Messenger with Jeremy Renner for Focus Features.? She?ll next be seen in the Lynn Shelton-directed Touchy Feely and is repped by CAA and Wishlab.

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    75 Close-Ups Of Bugs

    Up close, bugs are terrifying. Heck, from far, bugs are terrifying. But with the safe distance through the lens of a camera? They're amazing.

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    GOP threatens to subpoena EPA over pollution studies

    Washington ? House Republicans say they are tired of waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency to hand over research data behind the nation?s clean-air regulations and on Monday threatened to issue a subpoena if they don?t receive the information by the end of the month.

    Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, the chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the agency, co-signed a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who was confirmed Thursday after a five-month delay. Stewart, who joined forces with Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, accused the organization of "blatant disregard for administration policy and President [Barack] Obama?s promise of transparency" by ignoring repeated requests for copies of the studies used to link air quality to health problems.

    The subpoena threat came on the same day that the House GOP proposed slashing the EPA budget by a third.

    "Given the central role of these publicly-funded analyses in providing justification for major, costly EPA regulations, it is imperative that this information be open and transparent," the letter read.

    Americans, the letter said, "have a right to know whether EPA?s new rules are based on sound science or a partisan agenda."

    EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson said in a statement that the agency has provided Congress with all of the information it currently has available, and has requested additional data from outside researchers. Those researchers, including some at Harvard University, have declined to release the data collected 20 years ago citing legally binding confidentiality agreements with study participants.

    Stewart and Smith counter that these claims "ring hollow" given that they have been asking the agency for this data for more than two years.

    The committee?s request sounds much like the challenges of climate skeptics aiming to discredit the science behind global warming. They hint at the possibility that faulty and "hidden" data has been used to justify regulations under the Clean Air Act that cover all types of air pollution, including summer smog, coal-plant emissions related to regional haze and the sooty pollution that plagues Wasatch Front valleys in the winter.

    The letter comes weeks after the Obama administration ordered the EPA to propose limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal- and gas-fired plants, angering those in the fossil-fuel industry and their Republican allies. It also comes up as the Obama administration scrutinizes scientific studies on the health impacts of ozone pollution, with an eye on possibly tightening allowable limits.

    Restrictions on ozone levels, Stewart and Smith argue in the letter, "are expected to be some of the most costly regulations the federal government has ever issued."

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    These regulations will likely have a significant effect in Utah, a state which suffers from poor air quality. Stewart has argued previously that naturally occurring levels of ozone are much higher in Western states due to the area?s topography and the frequency of wildfires.

    The current acceptable ozone standard is 75 parts per billion, a level all 29 Utah counties are able to meet. The agency has yet to determine how strict the new regulation will be, but Utah lawmakers are concerned that it may set an impossible threshold. Counties that fail to comply with EPA standards encounter construction restrictions and reduced federal funding.

    Smith and Stewart suggest that a reluctance to release the data, which support the health-benefit claims behind emission reduction, casts doubt on the legitimacy of the agency?s research, writing: "If EPA has nothing to hide, why not provide this information to Congress and the American people?"

    Johnson said that peer-reviewed science "consistently shows that particulate matter and ozone are linked to harmful health and environmental effects," adding that the EPA will continue to take into account relevant research in the field.

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    Witness bolsters SEC case against Fabrice Tourre

    By Nate Raymond

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A key witness in the fraud trial of former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre said Tuesday she believed hedge fund Paulson & Co Inc planned to invest in a 2007 mortgage deal at the center of the trial.

    The testimony of Laura Schwartz, a former managing director at ACA Capital Holdings Inc, is central to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case that Tourre misled investors in the deal, known as Abacus 2007-AC1.

    The Tourre case, which began last week in federal court in New York and is expected to last three weeks, is one of the biggest brought by the SEC over the events leading up to the financial crisis of 2008.

    Tourre is expected to testify Wednesday.

    The SEC accuses Tourre of failing to tell investors that Paulson & Co intended to bet against Abacus. It also claims Tourre misled ACA into thinking Paulson was investing in the deal.

    According to the SEC, Paulson & Co came to Goldman Sachs looking for a way to bet against the subprime mortgage market. They came up with a $2 billion synthetic collateralized debt obligation tied to mortgage securities.

    When Goldman brought on a subsidiary of bond insurer ACA to help select the mortgage securities underlying Abacus, Tourre allegedly misled ACA into believing Paulson intended to invest in the transaction.

    Schwartz, who now works at the broker-dealer Seaport Group, was the main point of contact with Tourre and Paulson & Co, the SEC says.

    "I believed Paulson would be the equity investor in the transaction," Schwartz told the court on Tuesday. She said her belief was based in part on discussions with people at Goldman and a document Tourre emailed her summing up the investment.

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which was a defendant when the case was filed in 2010, settled for $550 million without admitting or denying the allegations.

    Last week a former executive at Paulson & Co, Paolo Pellegrini, testified that he believed he told Schwartz over drinks in January 2007 at a conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, about Paulson's strategy of betting against the U.S. housing market before the Abacus transaction closed.

    On Tuesday, Schwartz said she recalled the drinks meeting but said Pellegrini never told her Paulson was going to short Abacus.

    ACA had never worked on a deal with a purely short investor, she said, adding it "would have been something very different for us."

    Lawyers for Tourre have said they will question Schwartz's credibility by focusing on a recently concluded probe by the SEC of Schwartz's role in a different transaction.

    Schwartz received a so-called Wells notice in February indicating that SEC was considering recommending a case against her over that transaction. Then, a week before Tourre's trial, Schwartz's lawyers notified the court that the SEC staff had decided against bringing a case against her.

    On Monday, former ACA Chief Executive Alan Roseman told the court that ACA would have stopped the Abacus deal "in its tracks" if Paulson's real role had been known.

    The case is SEC v. Tourre, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 10-03229.

    (Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Eddie Evans and Douglas Royalty)

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    Tuesday, July 23, 2013

    Family of Egypt?s deposed president lashes out at military

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    University Hospitals study shows poor quality sleep linked to poor skin health, faster aging

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A study released on today by University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Est?e Lauder Companies Inc. shows that people who don?t get enough sleep at night are more likely to have poorer skin health and skin that ages more quickly.

    Preliminary results? of the clinical trial, which took place at UH?s Skin Study Center in 2012 and was paid for by Est?e Lauder, were originally shared at the International Investigative Dermatology Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland in May.

    Researchers say the study is the first to conclusively demonstrate the link between lack of sleep and skin damage.

    We all know that constant all-nighters for school or work leaves us looking haggard the next morning. And more and more evidence is showing that a good night?s sleep is essential for our health. Skimp on it and you?re at risk for high blood pressure, gaining weight. If you don?t get good quality sleep, you could be susceptible to metabolic diseases, gastrointestinal orders and other conditions.

    With an interest in seeing if lack of sleep damages one?s skin, Est?e Lauder?s research division turned to UH.

    Sixty women, all pre-menopausal between ages 30-49, were in one of two groups ? good sleepers and poor sleepers (those getting less than five or fewer hours), as measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.

    Among the study results:

    *The intrinsic age score (natural aging) for poor quality sleepers was twice as high as that for good sleepers. The higher the age, the more evidence of fine lines, loss of facial skin elasticity and other signs of aging.

    *While there wasn?t any significant difference in the two groups in terms of extrinsic aging (damage to the skin from external factors such as smoking and the sun), the skin of good quality sleepers recovered more quickly from environmental stressors to the skin such as sunburn.

    *Poor sleepers showed a higher rate of water loss in the skin, an indication that the skin?s ability to act as a barrier may be damaged.

    Not surprisingly, the women who got enough sleep had a better self image than their sleepy counterparts. Of the study participants, poor quality sleepers were more likely than good quality sleepers to be obese (44 percent vs 23 percent).

    ?We think that poor sleepers are holding onto inflammation a lot longer,? said Dr. Elma Baron, director of UH?s Skin Study Center and the principal investigator of the study.

    ?We want that skin to be restored.?

    Baron, who also is associate professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has collaborated with Est?e Lauder on previous skin studies.

    ?We don?t know how long it would take before someone?s [skin] can recover from [the damage caused by] being a poor sleeper,? Baron said. ?We definitely want to restore the skin health. We just don?t know how long it would take for these physiological changes.?

    When asked what new products are being developed based on the findings at UH, Est?e Lauder?s executive director of global research and development-skin biology declined to provide details.

    ?Over the years we have become an expert in products that help remove internal damage in the cells,? said Dr. Nadine Pernodet. ?We?re going to do more related research.?

    Source: http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/07/university_hospitals_shows_poo.html

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    Timeline of Anthony Weiner's online sex scandal (Providence Journal)

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    Monday, July 22, 2013

    U.N. warns on mobile cybersecurity bugs in bid to prevent attacks

    By Jim Finkle

    BOSTON (Reuters) - A United Nations group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion phones.

    The bug, discovered by German firm, allows hackers to remotely gain control of and also clone certain mobile SIM cards.

    Hackers could use compromised SIMs to commit financial crimes or engage in electronic espionage, according to Berlin's Security Research Labs, which will describe the vulnerabilities at the Black Hat hacking conference that opens in Las Vegas on July 31.

    The U.N.'s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union, which has reviewed the research, described it as "hugely significant."

    "These findings show us where we could be heading in terms of cybersecurity risks," ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Tour? told Reuters.

    He said the agency would notify telecommunications regulators and other government agencies in nearly 200 countries about the potential threat and also reach out to hundreds of mobile companies, academics and other industry experts.

    A spokeswoman for the GSMA, which represents nearly 800 mobile operators worldwide, said it also reviewed the research.

    "We have been able to consider the implications and provide guidance to those network operators and SIM vendors that may be impacted," said GSMA spokeswoman Claire Cranton.

    Nicole Smith, a spokeswoman for Gemalto NV, the world's biggest maker of SIM cards, said her company supported GSMA's response.

    "Our policy is to refrain from commenting on details relating to our customers' operations," she said.

    BECOMING THE SIM

    Cracking SIM cards has long been the Holy Grail of hackers because the tiny devices are located in phones and allow operators to identify and authenticate subscribers as they use networks.

    Karsten Nohl, the chief scientist who led the research team and will reveal the details at Black Hat, said the hacking only works on SIMs that use an old encryption technology known as DES.

    Nohl said he conservatively estimates that at least 500 million phones are vulnerable to the attacks he will discuss at Black Hat. He added that the number could grow if other researchers start looking into the issue and find other ways to exploit the same class of vulnerabilities.

    The ITU estimates some 6 billion mobile phones are in use worldwide. It plans to work with the industry to identify how to protect vulnerable devices from attack, Tour? said.

    Once a hacker copies a SIM, it can be used to make calls and send text messages impersonating the owner of the phone, said Nohl, who has a doctorate in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.

    "We become the SIM card. We can do anything the normal phone users can do," Nohl said in a phone interview.

    "If you have a MasterCard number or PayPal data on the phone, we get that too," if it is stored on the SIM, he said.

    The newly identified attack method only grants access to data stored on the SIM, which means payment applications that store their secrets outside of the SIM card are not vulnerable to this particular hacking approach.

    Yet Nohl warned that when data is stored outside of a SIM card it could fall victim to a large range of other already known vulnerabilities, which is what has prompted the industry to put payment information on SIMs in the first place.

    IPHONE, ANDROID, BLACKBERRY

    The mobile industry has spent several decades defining common identification and security standards for SIMs to protect data for mobile payment systems and credit card numbers. SIMs are also capable of running apps.

    Nohl said Security Research Labs found mobile operators in many countries whose phones were vulnerable, but declined to identify them. He said mobile phone users in Africa could be among the most vulnerable because banking is widely done via mobile payment systems with credentials stored on SIMs.

    All types of phones are vulnerable, including iPhones from Apple Inc, phones that run Google Inc's Android software and BlackBerry Ltd smartphones, he said.

    BlackBerry's director of security response and threat analysis, Adrian Stone, said in a statement that his company proposed new SIM card standards last year to protect against the types of attacks described by Nohl, which the GSMA has adopted and advised members to implement.

    Apple and Google declined comment.

    CTIA, a U.S. mobile industry trade group based in Washington, D.C., said the new research likely posed no immediate threat.

    "We understand the vulnerability and are working on it," said CTIA Vice President John Marinho. "This is not what hackers are focused on. This does not seem to be something they are exploiting."

    (Reporting by Jim Finkle. Additional reporting by Leila Abboud. Editing by Tiffany Wu and Andre Grenon)

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    New scheme set up to boost community involvement in heritage projects

    SINGAPORE: Singaporeans with good ideas on how to capture and celebrate Singapore's shared heritage will now find it easier to turn these ideas into reality.

    The National Heritage Board (NHB) wants to encourage more Singaporeans to lend a voice to the Singapore story through its new Heritage Grant Scheme.

    The S$5-million grant will provide funding to individuals and groups such as non-profit interest groups, societies and organisations with little or no financial support to develop heritage projects which will deepen Singaporeans' learning and appreciation of the nation's heritage.

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced this at the launch of this year's HeritageFest, which runs from 19 to 28 July.

    Mr Lee said: "The government doesn't own the Singapore heritage. It doesn't define the Singapore heritage. Our heritage is a collection of individual memories woven together into a national story. It's something that belongs to every Singaporean, and which each one of us can contribute to and help to preserve, individually and collectively."

    He noted that heritage is essential to people and nations as "it anchors our sense of place and identity, it enables a nation to adapt to change and progress, and it is the yin to the yang of material progress."

    Mr Lee added: "I hope many more will step forward to contribute your own ideas to celebrate our cultural heritage, not just during HeritageFest, but every day of our lives, to move beyond just being passive audiences of heritage content, to being active creators and participants."

    The money will be disbursed to the community over the next four years and the NHB will call for proposals from 1 August.

    The scheme is made up of two grants.

    The Heritage Participation Grant supports a wide range of small-scale projects. It has a funding cap of S$50,000 for each successful applicant per financial year.

    The Heritage Project Grant, which caps funding at S$150,000 for each successful applicant per financial year, provides support for projects that make a significant and lasting impact and addresses the gaps in Singapore's heritage scene.

    A person or organisation can successfully apply for multiple projects in a single financial year but funding will be capped at these specific amounts.

    The grant quantum for the Heritage Participation Grant is expected to range between S$1,000 and S$30,000, or up to 50 percent of the total realistic project expenditure, whichever is less, and will be open for applications six times a year.

    The grant quantum for the Heritage Project Grant is expected to be S$30,000 or up to 50 percent of the total realistic project expenditure, whichever is less, and will be open for applications twice a year.

    Rosa Daniel, CEO of NHB, said: "We're very encouraged by people who have already come to us to say, ?Can you support this idea??, and it was because we saw such a groundswell of interest, we have noticed that in the last few years, there has really been added interest from Singaporeans to want to contribute and it was really in response to that that we said. Now, this is quite timely."

    The new grant scheme will complement existing NHB efforts as well as grant schemes administered by the National Arts Council for the arts.

    NHB also said it is heartened by how Singaporeans are making the annual HeritageFest a festival for the people, by the people.

    Visitorship to the HeritageFest has surged from 620,000 in 2004 to 1.3 million in 2012.

    When it first started in 2004, the HeritageFest was largely driven by NHB. Over the past 10 years, more Singaporeans have come on board to share stories of their own heritage by organising heritage trails as well as sharing items close to their hearts at the festival.?

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    T-Mobile offers free Lookout Premium subscriptions for Asurion PHP and Jump! customers

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    New partnership will help keep your personal data, and your phone, a little safer.

    Lookout and T-Mobile have a special treat for customers who elect to purchase Asurion PHP (Premium Handset Protection) or enroll in T-Mobile's new Jump! program -- a free subscription to Lookout's premium features. 

    If you're enrolled in the Asurion program, or have signed up for Jump!, and a current Lookout user, you should soon be getting an email about the new promotion telling you a little more information. The gist of it all is that in addition to the antivirus, find-my-phone and backup and restore options offered in the free version of Lookout, you'll also have access to photo backup, remote lock and wipe, Safe Browsing, and Lookout's privacy advisor.

    This is very much like the partnership between US Cellular and NQ Mobile, and any trend that helps people keep their phones and personal data more safe is a very good thing -- we hope it continues.

    These tools are pretty useful, and Lookout has a long history with Android. You may or may not find the antivirus features useful, but the monitoring ans security features are great to have. Look for your email soon!

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