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Submission + - Details about how LulzSec leader was taken down (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by uigrad_2000 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @12:24PM

uigrad_2000 writes: Last week, we learned that one of the top members of LulzSec (Sabu) had been an FBI informant for almost 6 months, and that this confidant of the LulzSec leader 'anarchaos' had given the feds what they needed to take him down. More details have come out now, completing a picture of how the sting took place from start to finish. It turns out that the even the server space given from Sabu to anarchaos store the details of 30,000 credit cards (from the Stratfor hack) had been funded by the FBI.

Submission + - Newfound Exoplanet is best yet candidate for supporting life (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by uigrad_2000 on Thursday February 02, 2012 @06:50PM

uigrad_2000 writes: With all the new exoplanets discovered recently with Kepler, it seemed a sure thing that the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star would be found soon. It's been found now, but the irony is that Kepler was not involved!

GJ 667Cc, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and lies in the habitable region of its host star, reports Scientific American. It was discovered by comparing public data from the ESO to recent observations from Hawaii and Chile. As opposed to the stars Kepler is watching, this is only 22 light years away, making it even more interesting.

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