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The US Department of Defense has welcomed Apple's iDevices into its secure networks, and has announced that that it is "taking bold steps to provide sound information and proper analysis as it fortifies its cloud computing, acquisition and data processes." On Firday, the DoD set the stage for a three-way smackdown among Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry for some military love by approving the security technical implementation guide ( STIG ) for iOS 6 devices, thus allowing them to be used when connecting to DoD networks. BlackBerry passed muster earlier this month, and Samsung's KNOX hardware-software security combo is expected to...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/department_of_defense_approves_apple_discusses_cloud/

Video Fast, agile robots for reconnaissance and rescue have been under development for half a decade or more, but they all have needed to be tethered to a power cable. Now MIT thinks it has cut the leash with a battery powered "cheetah" capable of outrunning a human. The design, showed off at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation this month, borrows heavily in design from the animal kingdom. It's about the same size and weight as a regular cheetah, uses Kevlar tendons on its legs to make them 60 per cent more efficient, and has a spine controlled...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/mit_battery_powered_robot_cheetah/

A Romanian man serving a five-year jail sentence for bank-machine fraud says he's come up with a device that can be attached to any ATM to make the machine invulnerable to card skimmers. Valentin Boanta was arrested in 2009 and charged with supplying ATM skimmers – devices that can be attached to ATMs to surreptitiously copy the data from unwitting users' cards – to a local organized crime gang. It was during his subsequent trial and sentencing that Boanta saw the light and traded in his black hat for a white one, Reuters reports . "Crime was like a drug...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/romanian_hacker_atm_security/

Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been propositioned in a toilet by a 72-year-old man. He wants me to move in with him and do the business. Ah, it’s possible that I may have phrased this poorly. What I really meant to say is that he is looking to me to arise and provide him with a youthful injection to keep him in the game. No, no, you’re getting the wrong idea. This bloke, right, grabbed me on the back stairs and said he wasn’t ready to bow down, but insists he would always be straight with me. Oh...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/something_for_the_weekend_i_said_no_to_tech_city_empire/

A major study of nearly 12,000 peer-reviewed papers in the climate-science literature has – again – proven that among climate scientists, an overwhelming percentage agree with the consensus view that human activity causes global warming. The study was led by John Cook , a post-doctoral fellow in the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia, coauthor of Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand , and lead author of a paper discussing the findings of the study in question and published in Environmental Research Letters entitled "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature". As...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/survey_of_scientific_opinion_of_global_warming/