News Bytes for 1/4/2010

LOCAL: Dean of Stephens College invites students to power down and contemplate in a return to campus vespers services

Programmer conned CIA and the Pentagon into buying bogus anti-terror code

US Air Force says video feeds from drones can’t be properly encrypted until 2014

Attack of the RAM scrapers: beware of malware aimed at grabbing point-of-sale data

Has humanity reached a tipping point with space debris?

Malware authors and botnet masters are starting their own ISPs

The Chinese government is attempting a porn-free web

Are HP webcams racist?

The creators of VLC are going to release a video editor

Coronary artery drill gets cleared for use, sensor distinguishes between various kinds of plaque

‘Bumpy’ whale fins set to spark a revolution in aerodynamics

Researchers develop tiny, autonomous piezoelectric energy harvester

This just in: ‘lifeless’ prion proteins are ‘capable of evolution’

Underground, web-based services allow virus writers to ‘check their work’

Stem cell therapy restores British man’s eyesight

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