WASHINGTON — A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to media reports.
Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A “target” is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.
“Anger Management” has promoted Brian Austin Green to series regular status, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes little more than an hour after THR reported that the show was seeking a “male foil” for Charlie Sheen’s character Charlie Goodson, an anger management therapist dealing with his own issues in that area.
Instead of casting a new nemesis for Charlie, the FX comedy has chosen to make further use of Green’s character, Sean, the boyfriend of Charlie’s ex-wife Jen (Shawnee Smith), who has appeared in three previous episodes.
Additionally, the show is looking for a female potential regular to replace Selma Blair, who left following a disagreement with Sheen that reportedly resulted in the actress being fired via text message.
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We first got a look at Toshiba‘s upcoming Ultra HD 4K TVs in January at CES, with the company providing a lot of specs, but nothing in the areas of pricing, with availability being pegged as “summer 2013.” It has been a solid six months, and both the price tag and the launch date of
Valve’s Half-Life 2 along with Episodes One and Two are out of beta and available for download on Steam for Linux, the company announced today. While we welcome any Half-Life news, it’s hard to not get disappointed when the number three isn’t involved. Gordon Freeman’s last known appearance uses the new SteamPipe content delivery system and “numerous” community bug fixes have been implemented.
That’s not all! Oculus Rift (and other virtual reality device) support has been added as well. We aren’t aware of any other VR units besides the Rift, but in March Valve told us it’s pursuing hardware itself. Speculating about other VR systems isn’t far from speculating about Half-Life 3‘s existence — we don’t know anything at this point. However, Linux gaming site Phoronix says to expect more good Valve Linux news in July. We reached out to Valve for more info and will update if we hear anything back.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: Phoronix
Source: Steam
The outlook for science has never been brighter — we know more today than ever before about the molecular basis for thousands of diseases that impact millions of patients — but the outlook for funding has also never been bleaker.
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Sharp is going to release the new AQUOS TV series “AQUOS DR” (32V and 40V) on July 26.
It has a Blu-ray disc drive and 500GB HDD built-in so that it allows you to do all of the following actions by itself: Recording TV programs to the HDD, watching the recorded programs or BD/DVD, and writing them on Blu-ray disc. You can control all of them with one remote control.
Blu-ray disc tray is arranged at the front of the TV to make it easy for you to take out/put in blu-ray disc. It’s a space-saving TV because wiring is unnecessary for “AQUOS DR” and also the TV stand is integrated with the screen.
40V (LC-40DR9)
Price: Open price
Color: Black, White
Pixels: 1,920×1,080
Size: 93.6 × 27.7 × 61.8 cm
Weight: 17.5 kg
Audio maximum output: 20W (10W＋10W)
Tuner: Digital terrestrial broadcasting, BS, CS
32V (LC-32DR9)
Price: Open price
Color: Black, White
Pixels: 1,366×768
Size: 73.6 × 25.9 × 51.1 cm
Weight: 13 kg
Audio maximum output: 20W (10W＋10W)
Tuner: Digital terrestrial broadcasting, BS, CS
Political commentator David Gergen weighed in on some of this week’s big Supreme Court decisions in an appearance on HuffPost Live, saying that the court “split the difference” between their rulings on the Defense Of Marriage Act and the Voting Rights Act.
“Well obviously in one case they pleased the right on issues relating to the Voting Rights Act and in one case they pleased the left on gay marriage, so in some ways you could say roughly they split the difference,” Gergen said.
The former presidential advisor applauded the court’s rulings on gay rights, but also defended the controversial decision to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act.
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Firefox is an ever evolving beast, and that includes both its friendly orange fox logo, and its Beta channel browser. Today Mozilla unveiled the fourth Firefox logo, a (slightly) less textured and glossy icon for its favored web browser. Meanwhile, the latest update for for Firefox Beta brings access to the company’s Social API and, consequently, Share buttons to the platform — so Facebook fanatics can have one-click sharing of images, articles, videos and links from the Firefox toolbar. The new Beta is also getting a Mixed Content Blocker that prevents HTTP (read: nonsecure) content from loading on HTTPS websites. Plus, there’s a new Network Monitor feature to let devs see how quickly individual page components load and optimizations for OS X 10.7 that enable its scrollbar style and and the scroll bounce behavior Apple fans love.
Oh, and for you mobile fans, the Android Beta was updated today, too. Now, it’s got an auto-hide Awesome Bar, a URL autocomplete function and an updated RSS feed reader that allows you to add feeds to with a long press on the aforementioned Awesome Bar. Pretty awesome, gents, now let’s get these Beta features into a full release, and it’ll be really awesome.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: Mozilla Future Releases blog (1), (2), Mozilla about:pixels blog
Kevin Durant, the best basketball player in the world who isn’t a hybrid of a beast and monster, has a new pair of shoes. And it’s a low top. And it has a tongue that curves. And it basically looks like a soccer shoe. But it’s for basketball and they’re so bizarre looking that I think I’m falling for them.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Randy Wittman went through some anxious moments before it came time for the Washington Wizards to use the third overall pick in the NBA draft.
Washington’s coach didn’t care who went first and second — as long as it wasn’t Georgetown sophomore forward Otto Porter, Jr.
And so, after Cleveland took UNLV forward Anthony Bennett and Orlando selected guard Victor Oladipo of Indiana on Thursday night, the Wizards didn’t come close to using their allotted five minutes before making their pick.
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