Guess I won't be able to Buy a new Saturn anymore.

GM kills Saturn after Penske ends deal

Auto dealer terminates deal with General Motors, citing future vehicle supply concerns after GM stopped producing the Saturns.

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New Trojan virus poses online banking threat

Cyber criminals have created a highly sophisticated Trojan virus that steals online banking log-in details from infected computers.

The Clampi virus, which is spreading rapidly across hundreds of thousands of computers in Britain and the United States, infects computers when users visit websites that host a malicious code.

Once on the computer, the virus sits unnoticed until the user logs on to bank, credit card or other financial websites. It then captures log-in and password information and sends it to a server run by the attackers. They can then tell the compromised computer to send money to accounts that they control, or they can buy goods with the stolen credit card details.

The trojan has a list of more than 4,500 finance-related websites that it monitors, including British high street banks. Security experts warned that it was one of the stealthiest and most pervasive threats to computers using the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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White House collects Web users data without notice.

The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.

Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information.

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Fire at Forest Hill Towers, 200 Apartments affected.
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NHL fuming over flight ban

"Cabotage." It sounds like a Beastie Boys B-side, but it's actually a term used in aviation to describe the rights of an airline to fly passengers between domestic destinations in a country. It's also at the heart of a breaking story in Canada that has NHL and government officials outraged after the U.S. Department of Transportation banned Air Canada's charter fleet from flying between U.S. cities,

Here's the deal: The D.C.-based Air Line Pilots Association initiated this action from the Obama Administration by complaining that Air Canada charter flights were transporting passengers to and from U.S. cities who weren't also transported to or from Canada, according to these findings from the U.S. Department of Transportation (.pdf). The ALPA claimed this practice was a violation of U.S. Code Title 49, which "prohibits the transportation of persons ... between points of the U.S. in a foreign civil aircraft."

For example, an NHL team would charter an Air Canada flight to a U.S. city, pick up more passengers in that city for whatever reason, and then fly to the next U.S. city where the team would play. The U.S. DOT said it found instances of that occurring after an audit of Air Canada charter programs from the Boston Bruins and the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. The Bush Administration last year allowed the Bruins to fly Air Canada charter flights for the 2008-09 season.

300 DVDs On A Single Disc?

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have come up with a new optical recording method that could allow a giant 1.6 terabytes of information - the equivalent of 300 DVDs - to fit on a single disc, according to Nature.

Their 5-D recording method uses nanometer-scale particles of gold as a recording medium and manipulates the light pointed at them.

How does it work? The nanoparticles record information in different color wavelengths, all in the same physical disc location. As the amount of incoming laser light absorbed by the nanoparticles depends on its polarization, this allows the researchers to record different layers of information at different angles to create the 5-D effect.

Previous recording techniques have been through polarization or color; this is the first to combine the two. And they say that refining the technique could eventually mean being able to put 10TB of information on a single disc.

James Chon, a co-author on the research, told the BBC:

"The optical system to record and read 5-D is very similar to the current DVD system. Therefore the industrial scale production of the compact system is possible."

The cost of the discs for recording this way are about a nickel each, but moving to silver nano-rods would bring that cost down by a factor of 100.