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London, September 13 : The security of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest scientific experiment, is in danger, with hackers mounting an attack on the systems of the mega machine.

The LHC is the world’s largest and the most powerful particle accelerator, located near the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

London, September 10 : Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle have come up with a new scheme that can solve the problem low connection speeds during peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading.

Such problems usually occur when Internet users download P2P content that is stored a long way from their homes, and the online links over thousands of kilometres get tied up delivering it.

The researchers say that their scheme called Proactive Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) can help ease the load.

Their idea is to take the help of Internet service providers (ISPs) in supplying P2P sites with data on the shortest routes between peers.

London, September 9 : Google Inc. has undertaken a new project to make archives of the world-famous newspapers available on the Internet.

Making an announcement in this regard, the company said that its newspaper-scanning project would begin with a handful of North American newspapers, including the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, considered to be the continent’s oldest newspaper.

Melbourne, Sept 9: The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopaedia on the Internet, Wikipedia has come under fire for allowing pornographic images and videos in its articles.

In fact, some of the site's own editors have confessed that the objected content is ‘dressed-up porn’.

Using Wikipedia, instead of dictionaries, for looking up dirty words can expose children to images and videos of masturbation, "hardcore" sex and orgies, according to child protection campaigners.

Washington, Sept 9: Move over drugs, smoking and even gambling, for a new compulsion has hit today’s youth – Internet addiction.

The new finding will make mental health professionals face a new affliction, besides compulsive gambling or even the ‘age-old’ smoking and drug addiction.

Louise Nadeau, from Universite de Montreal’s Department of Psychology, is now investigating this newly found compulsive affliction, in which large number of people are continuously hooked on to the Internet for hours.