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Federal computers hacked

The leader of the Romanian hacking group “The White Hat Team,” Victor Faur, has been indicted on charges for hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers. After breaking into them, Faur took control and programmed them to operate as chat rooms he used to speak to his team.

The interference cost NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Navy a total of $1.5 million. Faur faces up to 54 years in prison.

Source: USA Today

Corporate logos stimulate emotion

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study the brain’s responses to various well-known corporate logos. The experiment, done by Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, found that the centers most stimulated were those associated...

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