Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Rinisari writes "Finally, the day has come. Adobe has released a pre-release version of the
64-bit Flash player. It is facile at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 10 key in site immediately.
Where are the Windows and Mac versions? 'Release of this alpha version ...
(more)Fixes Released (and More Promised) For "Clickjacking" Exploits (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "As discussed fore on Slashdot, concern has been raised over a class
of 'clickjacking' vulnerabilities which affect all major Web browsers. These exploits allow an
attacker to place invisible or ostensibly legit objects on a ...
(more)Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well (Wednesday 08th of October 2008 10:00:01 AM)
Presto Vivace and others sent us this CNet report on a just-released NRC report coming to the
conclusion, which will agape no one here, that data mining doesn't work very well. It's all
those darn false positives. The submitter adds, "Any chance we could ...
(more)US-FILM Summary (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 12:47:53 AM)
Filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest documentary for free on the world wide web on
Tuesday, marking a first for the maverick big man who aims to endorse young people to vote --
preferably for Democrats -- in November's U.S. item veto election. ...
(more)What Modern Games Are DRM-Free? (Saturday 13th of September 2008 09:45:01 AM)
IceDiver writes "I used to be an avid PC gamer. However, I have only bought 1 game in the last
18 months because I am sick and tired of the problems caused by the various intrusive, and at
intervals damaging DRM schemes game publishers insist ...
(more)Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes (Sunday 03rd of August 2008 09:30:01 AM)
Ryan1984 writes "Only a week after the bad press mold connected with the Linux-related bugs in
a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several
board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly ...
(more)KARACHI KIDS, AMERICAN CHILDREN RELEASED FROM PAKISTANI TALIBAN ... (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:06:21 AM)
(Atlanta, GA) - Imran Raza, the director and executive producer of the documentary
“Karachi Kids” who discovered up to 80 American children in a Taliban-backed
madrassa in Pakistan released the following statement regarding the return Children ...
(more)A Year of GPLv3 (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 11:55:16 PM)
Javipas writes "GPLv3 and LGPLv3 were released one year ago, on 29 June 2007. Palamida, who
tracks Open Source projects, has made a study of the current seat of these licenses along with
AGPLv3, which was released later, in November. The number of projects ...
(more)Third Edition Of BEYOND BELIEF - Journey To A Miracle Released (Monday 30th of June 2008 12:00:00 PM)
BEYOND BELIEF-- Journey To A Miracle, an unimaginable and inspiring true story, was first
released in February 2008 and the third edition will be released this month. The story of Jeff
Scislow, a man who was given a death sentence by the medical community, ...
(more)Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)
Unkgoon writes "The Mozilla creator News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34
months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, ...
(more)Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
VonGuard writes "I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my
eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were
unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). ...
(more)Study Confirms ISPs Meddle With Web Traffic (Friday 18th of April 2008 03:45:04 PM)
Last July, a inquest team from the drilling mash unit of law released an online tool to analyze
whether web pages were being altered during the transit from web server to user. On Wednesday,
the team released a paper at the Usenix seminar analyzing the ...
(more)Zvents Releases Open Source Cluster Database Based on Google (Saturday 09th of February 2008 10:45:04 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "Local search engine company, Zvents, has released an open source
distributed data storage system based on Google's released design specs. 'The new software,
Hypertable, is designed to scale to 1000 nodes, all commodity PCs ...
(more)Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business (Friday 01st of February 2008 10:30:03 AM)
WebsiteMag brings us news from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) about a recent
study of drop catching —'a process whereby a domain that has expired is released into the
pool of available names and is instantly re-registered by another ...
(more)Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act (Wednesday 30th of January 2008 10:00:07 AM)
A group of respected security researchers has released a paper on the security holes that would
be opened up if a broad warrantless wiretapping law is passed. The subject could hardly be more
timely, as delegation is debating the subject now. Steve Bellovin, ...
(more)Adobe Opens Up AMF Spec (Monday 17th of December 2007 12:15:04 PM)
Neutrino38 writes "Adobe has released the detail of the AMF format, the format used by Flash
Remoting — the equivalent of AJAX for the Flash world. The article doesn't mention the
AMFPHP project and the fact that some German and Canadian guys had ...
(more)Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? (Saturday 03rd of November 2007 12:00:14 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "According to recent research, huge amounts of sulphur dioxide released by
volcanic eruptions may have had more to do with wiping out dinosaurs than the meteorite strike
at Chicxulub on Mexico's Yucatn Peninsula. Marine sediments drilled ...
(more)openSUSE 10.3 Public Release (Friday 05th of October 2007 07:45:03 AM)
Shizawana writes "The latest version of openSUSE was released this week. The site has a sneak
peak of all the new features and additions, including highly anticipated changes to the YaST
package management. The official announcement of the release offers ...
(more)Google Video Blasted Over Piracy Claims (Thursday 27th of September 2007 01:15:06 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "A US-based copyright watchdog has sunk its teeth into Google by sending
a report alleging copyright violations on Google Video to members of Congress. The National
Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) researched the extent of copyrighted ...
(more)Post-jail Paris: Quiet philanthropist? (Monday 25th of June 2007 11:30:01 AM)
Dealing with jail time for driving offenses was difficult, but now Paris Hilton faces the
aftermath. The 26-year-old heiress is expected to be released from a Los Angeles County women's
jail early this week, and she professes a desire to shift her life's ...
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