Virtual Quidditch and quantum keys

A student at Hampshire College has created a virtual Quidditch game as an experiment in artificial intelligence and genetic algorithms.  His virtual players evolve teamwork and strategies, but it seems the Snitch evolves too...

Deliberate errors:  Georgia Tech has designed probabilistic computing chips that save time and power by making approximate guesses instead of returning precise answers.  Simulations show energy savings of multiple orders of magnitude for some types of problems.  Oooooooookay, if it works....

NIST has set a speed record for quantum encryption with their demonstration of a quantum key distribution system that sends a quantum-encrypted bitstream at a megabit per second between two buildings 730m apart.  The system's data link uses an IR laser and 8" reflecting telescopes.

Crimes against humanity

Libya has sentenced six medical workers (a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses) to death for deliberately infecting around 400 children with HIV at a childrens' hospital in Benghazi, allegedly for purposes of AIDS research.  Another Bulgarian was sentenced to four years in prison; nine Libyans working at the same hospital were acquitted.  The medics claim it was an epidemic caused by poor hygeine at the hospital.  Bulgaria is protesting the death sentences.

(Poor hygiene?  Hey, I know how fragile the HIV virus is.  Exposure on a countertop for a few minutes will destroy it.  Are they trying to claim, as a defense, that they knowingly shared one unsterilized needle between 400 kids or something?)