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11/20/09 09:19 Debian Linux-based Google Chrome OS (www.desktoplinux.com) While the two operating systems share some core components, Google Chrome OS will provide a very different experience to Ubuntu. Ubuntu will continue to be a general purpose OS running both web and native applications such as OpenOffice and will not require specialized hardware." 11/20/09 09:00 Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened (linux.slashdot.org) the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation 11/20/09 08:59 MS Finds Security Flaw In Google Chrome Frame (tech.slashdot.org) Now comes word that a security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a 'high risk' security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections." 11/19/09 21:22 Google Releases Source To Chromium OS (tech.slashdot.org) it will only be available on hardware that meets Google's specifications. Hard disks are banned, for instance, 11/19/09 07:48 Warning:Fedora 12 allows users to install packages (www.h-online.com) Under Fedora 12, users are able to install software from repositories without being prompted for root password. The undocumented change in Fedora 12 has caused consternation amongst Fedora users....can install a signed software package from a signed repository, without being prompted for a administrators password. 11/19/09 07:40 US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption (it.slashdot.org) Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. 11/19/09 07:40 Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan (it.slashdot.org) have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers. Officers arrested a man and woman, both aged 20 years, 11/19/09 07:39 Found on eBay: An original Apple-1 with wonderful documentation (www.tuaw.com) The starting bid for the Apple-1 is US$50,000. What do you get with your winning bid? 11/19/09 07:38 Radioactive Batteries Keep Going and Going (news.discovery.com) Minuscule amounts of radioactive elements could safely power handheld electrical devices for months or even years, according to new research from the University of Missouri. 11/19/09 07:37 Palin claims webmail hack disrupted GOP campaign (www.theregister.co.uk) Sarah Palin has described the hack of her webmail account as the "most disruptive" event in her campaign to become US vice president last year. 11/19/09 07:37 Apple's Tablet gets postponed (www.theinquirer.net) After churning out rumours about how wonderful the Tablet is going to be, the rumour mill is now telling the world that Apple might not be ready to expose the tablet to reality yet. 11/19/09 07:36 MySpace acquired Imeem (news.cnet.com) MySpace on Wednesday acquired social-networking site Imeem for an undisclosed sum, but sources with knowledge of the deal say is worth about $8 million. 11/19/09 07:36 Google remaps Earth for iPhone (www.theregister.co.uk) Google has released a major update to its Google Earth iPhone app, boosting it a full point to 2.0. 11/19/09 07:34 Rumour mill gears up for Google smartphone (www.v3.co.uk) TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington suggested that Google is handling the hardware and software design for the device, in a manner similar to Apple's approach with the iPhone. 11/19/09 07:33 Malware writers feeding on Twilight mania (www.v3.co.uk) Security firm PC Tools documented a growing number of attacks and scams related to the popular book and movie series. The company expects such attacks to increase with the release of the New Moon sequel. 11/19/09 07:25 California restricts energy-guzzling TV sets (www.sfgate.com) In a move that brings California's pioneering greenhouse gas reduction drive into the living room, state regulators Wednesday approved limits on how much energy televisions can consume, citing the increased use of power-guzzling flat-panel sets. 11/19/09 07:21 Pentagon expands exclusive deal with McAfee (news.techworld.com) The US Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurity efforts. 11/19/09 07:21 Microsoft Office 2010 beta available for download (news.techworld.com) Computerworld immediately began downloading the preview. Although the beta had not finished downloading as this story was filed and posted, Computerworld encountered no problem reaching the site, retrieving a product key or initiating the download. 11/19/09 07:20 Microsoft reveals Silverlight update plans (news.techworld.com) Microsoft revealed on ambitious plans for the next version of its Silverlight browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications, including faster startup times and software development improvements as well as more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser. 11/19/09 07:17 NSA helps Apple, Sun and Red Hat harden their systems (www.h-online.com) but what is news is that the NSA now also assists Apple, Sun and Red Hat with increasing the security of their operating systems. 11/18/09 22:31 Five Best Features in the Office 2010 Beta (www.pcworld.com) Here are five reasons you should check out the beta and make the switch to Office 2010. 11/18/09 19:06 Missing Hard Drive Exposes Soldiers' Data (www.internetnews.com) The U.S. Army on Friday confirmed that a hard drive was either stolen or lost from the Army Corp of Engineers' Southwestern Division in Dallas, exposing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 60,000 soldiers and civilian personnel. 11/18/09 19:00 Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere (yro.slashdot.org) Possibly, because the city refuses to confirm just how many cameras are in the network. Critics say that Chicago is becoming the city of Big Brother. ' 11/18/09 18:56 NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security (www.npr.org) The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. 11/18/09 18:55 Ecommerce Scams:How big sites may have stolen your money (www.huffingtonpost.com) Consumers are usually offered cash back if they just hit a confirmation button. But when they do, their credit card information is automatically passed through to a marketing company that signs them up for a credit card subscription to a package of useless services 11/18/09 15:15 Fedora 12 is on Slug (www.theinquirer.net) You can get it from the FTP Site. 11/18/09 14:05 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics (entertainment.slashdot.org) "The article points to this YouTube video of a short documentary made by Larry Cuba, the original artist, that explains how he did it. In 1977." 11/18/09 14:04 IE9 will close performance gap (www.computerworld.com) Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks. 11/18/09 14:04 AMD's Dual GPU Radeon HD 5970 is Fastest Ever (www.tomshardware.com) AMD today announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which it calls the fastest card ever created thanks to pairing two HD 5870 GPUs together. 11/18/09 14:03 Second-hand ATM trade opens up fraud risk (www.theregister.co.uk) Second-hand ATM machines containing sensitive transaction data are easily available for purchase on eBay or even Craiglist, according to an investigation by a US-based security consultant. 11/18/09 14:03 Facebook Adopts Simplified Privacy Policy (www.internetnews.com) Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies. 11/18/09 14:00 IBM's Cat-Brain Breakthrough (www.forbes.com) On Wednesday, the tech giant plans to announce at the SC09 conference a joint project with researchers from five universities and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that it calls "Blue Matter," a software platform for neuroscience modeling. Pulling together archived magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan data and assembling it on a Blue Gene P Supercomputer 11/18/09 10:49 Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons (tech.slashdot.org) Dubbed "component directory lockdown," the feature will bar access to Firefox's "components" directory, where most of the browser's own code is stored. 11/18/09 10:47 60 per cent of Xbox 360s have broken (crave.cnet.co.uk) Sixty per cent of Xbox 360s have kicked the red-ringed bucket, compared to 16 per cent of PS3s and just 6 per cent of Wiis, according to our survey on the reliability of games consoles in the UK. 11/18/09 09:32 Thousands of web sites compromised (blogs.zdnet.com) Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software (Inst_58s6.exe), commonly referred to as scareware. 11/18/09 09:31 64-bit Windows safer, claims Microsoft (www.computerworld.com) "They can run their code in compatibility mode, or they can compile it for 64-bit. The reason they're not is that there's still not a lot of 64-bit deployment. There's 64-bit malware out there, just like there's Mac OS malware out there. But right now, [64-bit] is just not as opportune a target as 32-bit." 11/18/09 08:05 MinWin (arstechnica.com) Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and embedded applications. That project, called "MinWin," has now started to bear fruit. 11/18/09 07:57 Macs not all that for reliability (www.channelregister.co.uk) Apple is fourth placed for reliability behind, in ascending order, Sony, Toshiba and in first place Asus. 11/18/09 07:57 1TB SSD Colossus (www.reghardware.co.uk) Memory and storage specialist OCZ has unwrapped its latest SSD and it's a biggie: the Colossus packs in 1TB of solid-state storage. 11/18/09 07:56 Top 10 Windows tools for IT pros (www.computerworld.com) I offer the following list of my top 10 must-have Windows utilities for PC support professionals. Some you probably already know. Others you may have heard of only in passing. But all deserve your consideration for a place in your PC support and diagnostics toolkit. 11/18/09 07:56 Symbian toast in 2012 (www.theregister.co.uk) Nokia says it will replace Symbian with its Maemo Linux by 2012. 11/18/09 07:55 Android 2.0 debuts on touchscreen tablet (www.reghardware.co.uk) Manufacturer Innovative Converged Devices (ICD) has released the specifications for a sleek and sexy touchscreen tablet onto which it plans to install the Eclair edition of Google’s Android OS. 11/18/09 07:38 Man charged in $111k domain name theft (www.theregister.co.uk) A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing the p2p.com domain name and selling it to a professional basketball player for more than $111,000 in the first US indictment for domain name theft. 11/18/09 07:33 Casio Exilim EX-G1 (news.cnet.com) The $299 0.8-inch thick, ultracompact 12-megapixel camera can withstand a 7-foot drop because of a two-layer construction with a stainless steel outer casing, a resin ring protecting the lens, and a polycarbonate cover on the body side near the shutter. 11/17/09 13:41 Microsoft Unleashes Windows Azure (www.eweek.com) Microsoft will turn on its Windows Azure cloud platform as of January 1, 2010, said Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie 11/17/09 13:35 Fedora 12 Released (linux.slashdot.org) With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. 11/17/09 13:33 "WWW Foundation" (arstechnica.com) Now, Berners-Lee has a new project. The World Wide Web Foundation advertises itself as an incubator "leading transformative programs to advance the Web as a medium that empowers people to bring positive change." 11/17/09 12:41 The Lung Flute (www.boingboing.net) The Lung Flute is a simple device that uses sound waves to vibrate wads of mucus in your chest cavity until they rip apart and become more easily cough-up-able. 11/17/09 12:37 Metasploit 3.3 (isc.sans.org) This version contains 446 exploits, 216 auxiliary modules and hundreds of payloads. The Windows payloads now support NX, DEP, IPv6, and the Windows 7 platform 11/17/09 12:21 Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% (it.slashdot.org) UK company Iceotope has launched liquid-cooling technology which it says surpasses what can be done with water or air-cooling and can cut data centre cooling costs by up to 93 percent. |
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