5:48 PM
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/aviation-security-milestone-tsa-performs-100-percent-watch-list-matching-domestic-flights
After the federal government rejected BP's previous plan because they said it moved too slowly, BP submitted a new plan that can collect 50,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of this month and can soon capture all the oil leaking from the well:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704324304575306291990174942.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
Scientists have reported the first evidence that an antibody made up of plastic particles works in the bloodstream of a living animal. This is a critical advance towards the medical use of plastic antibodies that can be custom tailored to fight a variety of antigens. This could provide treatment for a variety of viruses and even allergies...with plastic particles!
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/plastic-antibodies-put-to-the-test/1002908.article
Study found that getting 10 hours per night of sleep can improve an athlete's performance significantly. For example, after 6 weeks of extra sleep the players' average 40-yard dash time went from 4.99 seconds to 4.89 seconds--a huge difference. Another new study found that bedtime rituals with preschool-age children was associated with higher scores on language and math skills. Children with bedtime rituals scored 6% higher on vocabulary and 7% higher on early math skills:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127478147&sc=nl&cc=es-20100613
It looks like the big winners in the India spectrum auction are all planning to use LTE, with WiMAX companies being outbid by LTE companies:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=193100
Cablevision is using its WiFi network to put down the 3G networks for both Verizon and AT&T in New York:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cablevision-Mocks-Sluggish-3G-In-New-Ads-108842
Ericsson claims to hold 24% of the essential LTE patents, disputing the Informa estimate that Ericsson only had 7% of LTE patents (and only a third of that 7% key to the LTE standard): http://connectedplanetonline.com/3g4g/news/ericsson-lte-patents-061110/
AT&T is trying to blame "hackers" for its iPad security breach, but the group that discovered the flaw pointed out that they disclosed the flaw to a single journalist and then destroyed the data afterwards, where others might have exploited the flaw for their own benefit. They also point out that AT&T did not inform users that their security had been compromised for days after the attack was disclosed to them:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-ts-apple-ipad-security-breach-is-goatse-the-bad-guy/35765
The hacker group says that the iPad "simply is not a safe platform." They seem to have the facts on their side--they released an overflow exploit for Safari back in *March*. Apple patched the vulnerability for Macs but NOT for the iPad. The attack gets through government firewalls and cannot be detected by any IDS/IPS system! Apple's failure to close the security hole in the iPad since March has given hackers an opportunity to develop thousands of active iPad exploits...they revealed the hole in the name of national security because AT&T was not moving quickly enough to protect iPad users, which include high-profile military leaders, politicians, and CEOs:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/hacker-group-apple-ipad-simply-not-safe-platform-154?source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2010-06-14
Interesting note about the criticism that parents of the 16-year-old that had to be rescued last week during her attempt to be the youngest person to sail around the world: Her parents are broke and film crews have been at their home to film their family for 4 months. The father been trying to sell a reality show based on his daughter's trip. His family has 7 kids and his wife is pregnant with their 8th, all 7 children are home-schooled and reportedly rarely leave their house and rarely talk to neighbors:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sail_kid_parents_set_cour_for_tv_crGRuKCVBcBCM5v3s23ULK