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Flash and Java still as vulnerable as ever, says Microsoft
2014-05-08 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Java and Flash are still gigantic targets for attackers, and Java has become the biggest security problem for Windows users, according to Microsoft's most recent
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IPhone bug leaves emails vulnerable
2014-05-07 15:35:42| MobileTechNews
Apple says it encrypts email attachments you receive on your iPhone or iPad -- but it doesn't, according to a security researcher.
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Half U.S. population vulnerable to climate change: Report
2014-05-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: More than half the U.S. population lives in coastal areas that are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which will ripple throughout the U.S. economy, a White House advisory groups report concluded. The report released today said the impact of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is already affecting Americans, with coastal flooding, heavier downpours and more intense wildfire episodes. And more changes are coming. The real bottom line is that climate...
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U.S. corn yields increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather
2014-05-03 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Recorder: Corn, the backbone of much of the American Midwest, may be more vulnerable to droughts than it was just two decades ago, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The study was conducted by David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth science at Stanford University. "The Corn Belt is phenomenally productive," said Lobell in a statement to PHYS.Org News, "but in the past two decades we saw very small yield gains in non-irrigated corn under the hottest conditions....
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Corn crops increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather
2014-05-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US farmers can grow more corn than ever before thanks to genetic modifications and improved planting techniques, but the crops are also increasingly vulnerable to drought, researchers said Thursday. The study in the journal Science found that "densely planted corn appears to be unexpectedly more sensitive to water scarcity," raising concerns about future food supply as the planet warms. The United States is the largest exporter of corn in the world, shipping about 40 percent of the world's...
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