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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- August 6, 2013

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The Future of Farming, Part 1: Controlling the Environment
Russian Social Network Tycoon Offers Job to Snowden
TotalFinder Adds Oomph to Apple's Adequate Native Navigator
DDoS Attackers Change Their Game Plans
FBI Attack on Child Porn Sites May Have Blown Tor Users' Cover

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Podcast
Porn, the UK and Search Engines' 'Moral Duty' (18:00)
Britain's crusade against online pornography has ramped up. Prime
Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech saying the pornography was
"corroding childhood" and declared that every household in the UK should
have pornography blocked by Internet service providers -- unless, that
is, the homeowners specifically opt in to pornographic content.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-08-03.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

The Future of Farming, Part 1: Controlling the Environment
Famine... or feast? Soil... or hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture or
aeroponics? Nine billion hungry human beings will be living on planet
Earth by 2050. "We will need to produce more food in the first half of
this century than we did in the previous 100 centuries combined,"
declared Tony Kajewski, president of the American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78646.html

Russian Social Network Tycoon Offers Job to Snowden
Hot air, maybe. But it's Edward Snowden, so it's news. Pavel Durov, the
28-year-old Russian CEO of social network site VKontakte, has offered
Snowden a job as a security software developer. VKontakte is akin to
Facebook and has 100 million active users, mostly from Eastern Europe.
Last week, Russia granted Snowden, who had been holed up in a Moscow
airport, temporary asylum.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78659.html

TotalFinder Adds Oomph to Apple's Adequate Native Navigator
Without a doubt, one of the most frequently used programs on a Mac is
the Finder. That's because files remain the milk of personal computing
interfaces, no matter how hard designers have tried to hide it. Finder
performs basic navigation functions well. It will display files in
several ways, let you move and copy files, compress files and archive
them, and empty the trash.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78649.html

DDoS Attackers Change Their Game Plans
DDoS attacks have long been a weapon of Internet dissidents to punish
those they disagree with, while cybercriminals use them to create a
digital smoke screen to hide their misdeeds. DDoS attackers typically
flood a website with traffic, denying legitimate users access to the
server. That tactic still works, but the firepower needed to launch an
effective attack is steadily increasing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78655.html

FBI Attack on Child Porn Sites May Have Blown Tor Users' Cover
Ireland-based Freedom Hosting, which hosted several servers on the Tor
Project's hidden network, has been taken down through a vulnerability in
the Firefox browser -- and the FBI is widely suspected of being the
attacker. The FBI reportedly is seeking to extradite Freedom Hosting's
owner, Eric Eoin Marques, to the United States to face charges of
running a huge child porn network.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78651.html

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