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Hey, World, tired of taking that guy and/or girl out for a nice, expensive dinner and then having your heart broken? I know I am. Well, fear not! Now you can just disclose personal information to CyberLover, a bot making the rounds in Russian chat rooms. It'll steal your heart. And your identity. "It has been designed as a robot that lures victims automatically without human intervention," said Sergei Shevchenko, a senior analyst at PC Tools.

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When we first posted about the multinational effort between Russia, France, and the U.S. to drill near the hidden Lake Vostok in Antarctica, I have to admit I was worried. Not about the Frogs, mind you -- those cowards wouldn't do anything without our say-so. But you can't trust Russians around uncharted territory.

Sadly, I was right about those borscht-eating bastards: Russia plans to drill into the depths of Lake Vostok, ignoring researchers' principal concerns about potentially contaminating the pristine lake. Buried 4 km below Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok could harbor life forms that exist in a similar manner to possible extraterrestrial life in harsh environments like Europa. Introducing outside microbes could irreparably damage scientific efforts, but that seems to matter little to the vodka-swilling, Dostoevsky-reading intruders.

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Because it wasn't enough to just acknowledge that wiretaps happen, the makers of the M-55 Geophysica Russian spy plane are looking to turn it into a roaming cell phone tower. Actually the project seems ideal for humanitarian efforts. It can be used to cover remote areas without normal access or to help emergency workers in disaster areas where telecommunication lines have been wiped out. Still, Russian SPY planes + cell phone coverage? Creeeeeepy.

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Just in time for Halloween, photographer Alex Klochkov took these photos of an abandoned Soviet-era brain research facility in Russia. Klochkov's photos have a lyrical beauty about them — but then, that beauty gets mitigated by the exposed crania of decomposing, rodentine test subjects. Geesh.

There's plenty of Fincher-meets-Reznor ghoulishness to be found in here, with a touch of Cold-War sadness.

Art Deliverance: Brain Research Facility

Image Credit: Alex Klochkov

Graphics Card cc Johnny Anthony Evans

It would take most dual-core PCs about two months to crack an eight-letter, NTLM-hashed Windows Vista password using brute force techniques at 10,000,000 passwords per second. With a decent graphics card, now you can hack the system in just three to five days. Huzzah!

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