Android malware can wreak havoc on a user. The quick growing threat can exploit data and even take control of a device incurring hidden charges. There is a new effort to battle the menace on mobile security.

To help combat malware attacks on the platform, N.C. State researcher Xuxian Jiang announced The Android Malware Genome Project at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco. The goal of the project is to facilitate mobile security research by sharing malware-related code.

Jiang and his team are known for being the first to identify dozens of malware threats against Android.

"CBS This Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca visited North Carolina recently to film a report on homogenizing American accents. And no report on American accents is complete without a chat with N.C. State professor Walt Wolfram about the hoi toiders of Ocracoke. Wolfram, a William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor, has been studying dialects for almost than 50 years and has been at N.C. State for the past 20.

"Studying dialects in North Carolina is like dying and coming to dialect heaven," Wolfram told Rocca. "It's incredible. There's no state that has a richer tradition."

Video of Rocca's report is below and includes "CBS This Morning" host and North Carolina native Charlie Rose talking about this own accent.

If you are a subscriber (or even if you buy from the rack or the Kangeroo), you may have seen an unusual editor's note on today's front page. (Not a note from an unusual editor, but an unusual note.) 

It said, "Because of the later tipoff times for tonight's UNC and N.C. State games, the News & Observer final edition will be delivered later than usual Saturday morning to include coverage from the Midwest Regional......"

The UNC game against Ohio is scheduled to start at 7:47, which could mean 8 p.m. The N.C. State game against (gulp) Kansas is scheduled to start at 10:17 p.m., or later, depending on when the UNC game ends.  In these situations, listed TV game start times are accurate only within 15 or 20 minutes or so.

We will be hustling to get the UNC game in the State edition, which goes mostly to Eastern North Carolina all the way to the Four Corners Diner in Atlantic Beach (I've been looking for a chance to plug this place.)

The Final edition, which we usually have to send to the pressroom by 11:25 on Friday night, is being held to get the State game in, thanks to the extremely wonderful accommodation of the pressroom and our carriers.

We may not be sending the last pages of the Final to the pressroom until 1:15 a.m. We will start the press up and run a bunch of papers off so we can get the farthest Final edition trucks away from the dock. Then we will replate, which is newspaper jargon for updating several pages with additional stories and photos being sent by our reporters and photographers in St. Louis, hitting the button to send them to the pressroom,  wrapping the new plates around the press cylinders and starting back up again. (If you want to know what pressure is, the reporters and photographers in St. Louis, who have been working all day, will have - starting at 12:45 - about 15 minutes to get their first stories and game-end photos to the editors and page designers who then will have 15 minutes to muscle all that into pages to start the Final edition press run. And then they have to do this all over again for the replate. Meanwhile, getting all this to our online staff.)

As Brooke Cain noted on today's front page, the State and UNC games have been directed to TBS by the CBS-Turner Sports cabal, which undoubtedly has caused WRAL no end of angst as they will be airing the Baylor/Xavier and Kentucky/Indiana games. Which are huge in this market, no doubt.

Of course, if State and UNC both win tonight, this weekend will be crazy. The Sunday head-to-head between State and UNC will dominate the Sunday paper and the Monday paper.

Here's the schedule and channel lineup for Thursday and Friday's NCAA Regional Semifinal games:

Thursday
7:15 p.m. CBS - Wisconsin vs. Syracuse
After conclusion CBS - Cincinnati vs. Ohio State
7:47 p.m. TBS - Louisville vs. Michigan State
After conclusion TBS - Florida vs. Marquette

Friday
7:15 p.m. CBS - Baylor vs. Xavier
After conclusion CBS - Kentucky vs. Indiana
7:47 p.m. TBS - UNC vs. Ohio
After conclusion TBS - NC State vs. Kansas

NOTE: Both of the local games (UNC and NC State) will air on TBS, which means folks will need cable, satellite, or a streaming account with the NCAA to watch. WRAL, the Triangle CBS affiliate, says local stations are no longer part of the decision-making process over how NCAA games are distributed. The assignments are determined by CBS Sports and Turner Sports.

I'm not feeling a lot of love for the NCAA. The N.C. State game is scheduled to start at 10:17 p.m. Friday night. Which means 10:30. Which means it won't end, probably, until quarter to 1 at the earliest. Maybe 1 a.m. What does the NCAA think it is, Major League Baseball?

Our final edition press normally starts around 11:30 on Friday nights. So we just had a meeting to push back the press time so we can get the N.C. State-Kansas game story in.  Which means the papers might be a little late on Saturday morning, but we think it's worth it.  If UNC, which plays the early game, and State both win on Friday, they face each other on Sunday for the right to go to the Final Four from the Midwest Region.  Which would be incredible.

If that happens, we want to be able to tell people that in the Saturday paper. 

I just asked Sports Editor Steve Ruinsky what time the regional final would be on Sunday. He said that the time won't be set until Friday evening/Saturday morning. So I don't know what to tell you about planning your Sunday.

Lorenzo Brown hit three free throws in the final 10.6 seconds and N.C. State returned to the round of 16 with a 66-63 upset of third-seeded Georgetown in the NCAA tournament on Sunday. The Wolfpack (24-12) will play Purdue or Kansas on Friday.

The No. 11-seed N.C. State Wolfpack and No. 3-sed Georgetown Hoyas will go at it on Sunday in Columbus. Mark Gottfried and C.J. Leslie speak for the Wolfpack. John Thompson III talks for the Hoyas to the media.

Researchers at N.C. State University have developed a breakthrough that could have far-reaching impact on industrial and consumer electronics.

The chair of materials science and engineering, Dr. Jay Narayan, and his team at NCSU have developed a thin film that can handle more power and withstand more extreme conditions than solid state silicon electronics that have been in use for decades.

Better heat and radiation resistance makes it more suitable for automotive applications and space technology.

But there is another fascinating property of these oxide films. "These materials are also transparent," Narayan says, "so this makes transparent electronics possible."

Transparent displays, solar cells and embedded biocompatible medical devices are examples of where this technology could be used.

The material is the first functional oxide thin film that can be used efficiently in electronics.

This is the first time that researchers have been able to produce positively charged (p-type) conduction and negatively charged (n-type) conduction in a single oxide material. Using lasers, the team is able to precisely create the crucial positive-negative junctions resulting in greater efficiency.

Oxide films could be used to create higher voltage switches for the power grid, allowing more power to be transmitted on the existing infrastructure. This could make power transmission less expensive.

For more information read the press release from N.C. State.

Kendall Marshall banked in a shot with 10.2 seconds remaining and the fourth-ranked Tar Heels came up with a pair of defensive stops to edge their state rival 69-67 in the Semifinals of the 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament.

The North Carolina Tar Heels held off N.C. State in a 69-67 thriller to advance to the ACC Championship on Sunday. CineSport's Noah Coslov and The News & Observer's Joe Giglio recap the action.