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The BBC has been forced to make musicians keep the volume down to comply with an EU safety directive to ensure performers are not exposed to excessive levels of noise. EU noise control officers have been monitoring rehearsals to ensure orchestras keep below 140 decibels.

Fabrics and textiles woven from fine quality banana fibre could be the next big thing in fashion if research carried out by the National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) here bears fruit.

Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIBTaiwan CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan’s current and former presidents :

Malicious hackers are starting to use fake Flash Player downloads as social engineering lures for malware, Adobe has issued a call-to-arms for users to validate installers before downloading software updates.

Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AGISS Malware password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com :

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.

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U.S. space agency NASA is paying people just to sleep. The U.S. space agency National Aeronautics Space Administration is paying 10 dollars per hour to the subjects participating in its bed rest study, which requires them to spend three consecutive months in bed. The participants will be paid about 17,000 dollars over the course of the study, which is carried out at the University of Texas.

Verizon Business Tuesday (May 6) joined a consortium of 16 companies building a next-generation undersea optical cable system connecting Europe, the Middle East and India.