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Pwn2Own hacking contest winds down after paying a record $480K

2013-03-08 20:14:53| InfoWorld: Top News

A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days.

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Heavy Snow, Winds, Power Outages Could Begin Tuesday

2013-03-05 12:11:24| Energy - Topix.net

UPDATE A storm heading toward the Baltimore and D.C. Metro areas could dump one or more inches of heavy snow on Baltimore County, beginning overnight Tuesday.

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Storms Heavy Snow and High Winds Lash at the Northeast

2013-02-09 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: A vast storm system descended on the Northeast on Friday, bringing high winds, deepening snow and threats of flooding to southern New England and reopening the old wounds of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York. After a day of pelting wet snow, five states New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island had declared states of emergency, and Massachusetts had banned vehicles from every road in the state. As dusk fell, conditions quickly deteriorated. Major highways...

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Ozone Holes Shifting Winds May Sap Major Carbon Sink

2013-01-31 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: High above Antarctica, the atmosphere is slowly recovering from the decades-long barrage of manmade chemicals that ate a hole in the protective ozone layer. But the legacy of that destruction lingers. Scientists have linked the ozone hole that forms each Antarctic spring high above Earth to changes in the fierce band of westerly winds that swirls around Antarctica. Those winds, closer to the continent's surface, have grown stronger and moved poleward over the past several decades. This NASA...

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