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An anonymous reader found a story that starts "We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered," said Ronald Arkin, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1626244%2FRobots-Taught-to-Deceive" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Robots+Taught+to+Deceive%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fdvofvx" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1626244/Robots-Taught-to-Deceive?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782222amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d985bf4/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Q96rLZbyNUJecwSnkphf47cUP4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Q96rLZbyNUJecwSnkphf47cUP4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Q96rLZbyNUJecwSnkphf47cUP4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Q96rLZbyNUJecwSnkphf47cUP4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Lh7h7yln8xk" height="1" width="1"/

The son of a man killed in the Claudy bombings in 1972 says he does not believe Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has told the whole truth.

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp would find the England job "hard to turn down" should he be asked to replace manager Fabio Capello.

L'organisme Les Impatients et Radio Ville-Marie produisent une série où des personnes atteintes de maladie mentale racontent leur expérience.

From the Orlando Sentinel: A “suspicious” toy pony was blown up after it was found abandoned in the middle of a cul-de-sac near an Orange County elementary school this morning.

The FurReal pony, an expensive, life-like toy, was investigated as a possible explosive device after someone called Orange County deputies to report it. A robot inspected the toy before a pack of explosives was placed near the stuffed animal and detonated. For some reason Orlando and Cincinnati are mother lodes of wonderful stories.

(Via Cynical-C)

Over at LinuxPlanet, Sean Michael Kerner a href=http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7169/1/talks with Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman/a about the tools and processes used to work with the globally distributed Canonical team. spanWhile Zimmerman noted that he does get together face-to-face fairly regularly with his staff once a quarter, facilitating regular interaction requires a long list of common tools. For instance, Zimmerman said that Canonical engineers do a lot of work through IRC , wikis and teleconferences. The team also uses the open source a href=http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/Gobby tool/a for collaborative editing and a href=http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Mumble/a for voice chatrooms. [...] 'Mumble is sort of like IRC for voice,' Zimmerman said. 'You have a set of channels and then people come and go from one channel to another and whatever channel you're in, there is live voice between the people that are in the room.'/span

MPs overwhelmingly back keeping UK troops in Afghanistan - the first time they have voted on the issue.

p bCentOS/b has updated bseamonkey/b (a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404264/C3/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404266/C4/a: multiple vulnerabilities), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404268/kernel/a (C4: arbitrary code execution), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404269/rpm/a (C4: privilege escalation), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404270/firefox/a (C4: multiple vulnerabilities), and a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404272/thunderbird/a (C4: multiple vulnerabilities). p bDebian/b has updated a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404276/couchdb/a (arbitrary code execution). p bFedora/b has updated blibgdiplus/b (a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404279/F12/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404280/F13/a: arbitrary code execution), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404283/nano/a (F12: multiple vulnerabilities), bslim/b (a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404285/F12/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404286/F13/a: arbitrary code execution), bthunderbird/b (a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404290/F12/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404292/F13/a: multiple vulnerabilities), bsunbird/b (a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404293/F12/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404294/F13/a: multiple vulnerabilities), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404295/kernel/a (F13: multiple vulnerabilities), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404296/libmikmod/a (F13: arbitrary code execution), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404297/sblim-sfcb/a (F13: two arbitrary code execution flaws), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404302/firefox/a (F12: multiple vulnerabilities), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404303/xulrunner/a (F12: multiple vulnerabilities), and a smaller than usual cascade of fixes for Fedora 12 from firefox/xulrunner: a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404306/galeon/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404307/gnome-python2-extras/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404308/gnome-web-photo/a, a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404309/mozvoikko/a, and a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404310/perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed/a. p bopenSUSE/b has updated a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404277/libpng/a (two arbitrary code execution flaws). p bUbuntu/b has updated a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404273/mountall/a (arbitrary code execution), a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404274/firefox and xulrunner/a (multiple vulnerabilities), and a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/404275/thunderbird/a (multiple vulnerabilities).

US Marines have boarded and seized a vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, navy officials say.

(Video link) Well-made mashup of The Matrix and The Big Lebowski. (Via Blame it on the Voices)

Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted the Abu Ghraib inquiry, confirms that rape and sexual abuse are documented in the photographs that US president Barack Obama has ordered censored. From the Daily Telegraph: At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts. One of those incidents reportedly involved a 15-year-old male victim.

Maj Gen Taguba retired in January 2007, and supports the President's decision to ban the images:

These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency. I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them, and British troops who are trying to build security in Afghanistan. The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it. Full story here.

(via Declan McCullagh).

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coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1624210%2FSupernova-Shrapnel-Found-In-Meteorite" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Supernova+Shrapnel+Found+In+Meteorite%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbM7jpq" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1624210/Supernova-Shrapnel-Found-In-Meteorite?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782216amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d98325d/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/L21GlYvkbfA" height="1" width="1"/

A carload of suspected Islamist suicide bombers attack Mogadishu airport, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say.

The chair of the Mercury Prize claims that black British female artists are being ignored by the British public.

La 35e édition du Festival international du film de Toronto s'ouvre ce soir. De nombreuses vedettes sont présentes et des centaines de films du monde entier y seront présentés.

The chief executive of an NHS trust appears at an inquest into an elderly patient's death after she was summoned by the coroner.

Fernando Alonso tries to put the team orders controversy behind Ferrari after the FIA decided against further punishment for the Italian team.

Health officials are investigating a second death which is being linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in south Wales.