A hacker broke into Chile's government sites mining data from six million people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for several hours, the El Mercurio daily have said. The personal data included names, street and email addresses, telephone numbers, social and educational background, and was taken from Education Ministry, Electoral Service and state-run telephone companies' websites from late Saturday to early Sunday.
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The yawning divide between the haves and the have-nots of the digital revolution is a "threat to national unity" and even world security, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday. Yudhoyono told an audience including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates that information technology posed "formidable" challenges as well as great opportunities for developing countries like Indonesia.
The United States warned China Thursday that it risked "technological isolation" for developing unique technical standards of its own that also are shutting out foreign competition. Despite widely accepted international standards, China developed standards mandated by government regulations amid a lack of transparency and due process, said Under Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla.
Top US state attorneys have announced that Facebook has agreed to get tougher on keeping its young website users safe from bullies, porn, pedophiles and other online hazards. Facebook has agreed to a child protection pact similar to the one sealed with leading social-networking website MySpace in January, according to Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal. Science
France's prime minister toured a nuclear reprocessing plant in northern Japan on Saturday, hailing the facility as a symbol of friendship between the two countries and vowing to take global leadership in promoting nuclear power as a solution to climate change. Francois Fillon made a day trip to a controversial nuclear reprocessing plant that uses technology from France's state-run nuclear giant Areva. The plant, located in the village of Rokkasho, is in the final phase of testing and is to begin full operations next month.
A strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the open waters of the Southern Ocean near the Australian territory of Macquarie Island on Saturday, U.S. monitors said. No tsunami alert was issued. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the temblor occurred in the open ocean 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of Macquarie Island, Australia's main sub-Antarctic territory. The quake hit at 11:30 a.m. New Zealand time (2330 GMT Friday).
The Japanese fisheries agency said Friday up to 60 minke whales in the north Pacific Ocean will be caught in the coming month for research. Five boats will be dispatched Monday off northern Japan for the research mission that will run through late May. The agency said researchers will study the whales' dietary intake and the data will be used to analyze the whale population's impact on fishery resources.
A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species. The aquatic frog Barbourula kalimantanensis was found in a remote part of Indonesia's Kalimantan province on Borneo island during an expedition in August 2007, said David Bickford, an evolutionary biologist at the National University of Singapore. Bickford was part of the trip and co-authored a paper on the find that appeared in this week's edition of the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology. Technology
France's prime minister toured a nuclear reprocessing plant in northern Japan on Saturday, hailing the facility as a symbol of friendship between the two countries and vowing to take global leadership in promoting nuclear power as a solution to climate change. Francois Fillon made a day trip to a controversial nuclear reprocessing plant that uses technology from France's state-run nuclear giant Areva. The plant, located in the village of Rokkasho, is in the final phase of testing and is to begin full operations next month.
Indonesian Internet companies blocked access to YouTube and MySpace on Tuesday, heeding a government order aimed at stopping people from watching an anti-Islam film by a Dutch lawmaker. Anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders posted the 15-minute film on the Internet on March 27. It has since been widely available on blogs and file-sharing sites.
Indonesian Internet companies blocked access to YouTube and MySpace on Tuesday, heeding a government order aimed at stopping people from watching an anti-Islam film by a Dutch lawmaker. Anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders posted the 15-minute film on the Internet on March 27. It has since been widely available on blogs and file-sharing sites.
South Korea's first astronaut and two cosmonauts made final preparations Tuesday to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station. Yi So-yeon, a 29-year-old bioengineer, flashed a thumbs-up sign and told cheering Russian and Korean well-wishers that she felt great as she was escorted from the Cosmonaut Hotel to a bus that drove her and her crew mates to the Baikonur launch facility. Special Reports
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A hacker broke into Chile's government sites mining data from six million people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for several hours, the El Mercurio daily have said. The personal data included names, street and email addresses, telephone numbers, social and educational background, and was taken from Education Ministry, Electoral Service and state-run telephone companies' websites from late Saturday to early Sunday.
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