| The Register |
| 'Jailbreak hole in iOS 4.1 will be hard to close' | 'All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men ... Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff ' |
| 'Microsoft wins court order crushing mighty spam botnet' | 'Waledac's 276 domain names seized A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down.…' |
| 'Appro sells another flash-happy HPC cluster' | 'Trestles gives Opteron 6100s some love Appro International, the upstart HPC cluster maker, has got another big order from its biggest customer, the San Diego Supercomputer Center.…' |
| 'Amazon buys (some of) digital music site Amie Street' | 'Founders sing a new Songza Digital music site Amie Street has been bought by Amazon, but the founders of the user-fueled music service aren't abandoning their efforts to bring social networking to music lovers.…' |
| 'Google Instant – more searches, less thought' | 'Sergey Brin gets in your head Analysis Google is on a mission to make web search as fast as the human brain will allow. On Wednesday morning in San Francisco, as she unveiled Google Instant, a radical overhaul of the company's search engine that updates search results as you type, uber-Googler Marissa Mayer called it "search at the speed of thought." We can safely classify that as an exaggeration for effect, but Mayer's bon mot at least gets to the heart of Google's intentions.…' |
| 'NoSQL CouchDB founder turns to phone and cloud services' | 'CouchIO no more NoSQL start-up CouchIO is targeting mobile and clouds after just a year of trying to monetize the company's CouchDB document store.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff ' |
| 'Apple releases iOS 4.1 into the wild' | 'Old devices need not apply Apple has released iOS 4.1, which Steve Jobs outlined in his presentation one week ago, during which he also introduced Cupertino's new iPods, revamped Apple TV, and iTunes-based music sales social networking effort, Ping.…' |
| 'Hurd to take $950,000 salary after Oracle pay cut' | 'Shares and $10m bonus topper upper in play Mark Hurd will take a 25 per cent pay cut to work for Larry Ellison — if HP fails in its legal maneuver to block the Oracle CEO's audacious hire.…' |
| 'Adobe Reader 0day under active attack' | 'No mitigations for click-and-get-hacked exploit Researchers have uncovered sophisticated attack code circulating on the net that exploits a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of Adobe Reader.…' |
| 'Google pulls trigger on 'Instant' search engine' | 'Results rejig as you type Updated Update: This story has been continually updated with additional info from Google's press event.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff ' |
| 'Netezza, Symantec jump on takeover rumors' | 'Eat or be eaten The global economy might not be on the mend as much as we would like, but there are plenty of IT behemoths sitting on big bags of cash, and tongues are a-wagging today about data warehousing appliance maker Netezza and security and systems software maker Symantec both being possible takeover targets.…' |
| 'HP punts MicroServer for SMBs' | 'Honey, I shrunk the ProLiants Hewlett-Packard is keen on scaring up some business at small and medium businesses, and today will dust off the old MicroServer brand from Digital Equipment and slap it on a new entry ProLiant x64 server aimed expressly at cheapskates who don't want or need a full-on ProLiant tower, rack, or blade box.…' |
| Chaos Computer Club e.V. |
| 'Tickets für den 27. Chaos Communication Congress' | 'Während der Call for Participation für den 27. Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) "We come in peace" noch bis zum 9. Oktober 2010 läuft, möchten wir geneigten Besuchern die Reiseplanung erleichtern. Es wird dieses Jahr einen Ticket-Vorverkauf geben.' |
| Telepolis News |
| 'Tanzen evolutionstheoretisch erklärt' | 'Britische Wissenschaftler versuchten herauszufinden, welche Körperbewegungen Frauen bei Männern attraktiv finden' |
| 'Neue Rechtspartei in Berlin?' | 'Für die Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl im nächsten Jahr gibt es rechte Parteiplanungen, gehofft wird auf Zulauf von den etablierten Parteien' |
| 'Deutsche Exporte brechen ein' | 'Angeblich "überraschend" sind die Ausfuhren im Juli gegenüber dem Vormonat um 1,5% gesunken' |
| 'Bund übernimmt auch noch die ganzen Kosten für die Asse' | 'LobbyControl fordert Offenlegung der neuen Verträge mit den AKW-Betreibern' |
| symlink.ch - Wissen vernetzt |
| 'Fettes Google' | 'Seit heute beglückt Google auch seine deutschen Anwender mit der euphemistisch als Klassik-Plus bezeichneten 'Verbesserung' der Startseite. Ein hübsches Hintergundbild für nurnoch 279 KiB ... Ja, für was eigentlich?' |
| Slashdot |
| 'The Real "Stuff White People Like"' | 'Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs' | 'AC95 writes "The FTC wants to give users a browser-based tool for opting out of online behavioral tracking, a proposal that has privacy advocates cheering and online advertisers up in arms. A key issue, says FTC attorney Loretta Garrison, is that while most consumers know they're tracked online, they don't fully appreciate how much information is collected. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, worries about knee-jerk legislation criminalizing mistakes that are an inherent part of applying any new technology." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Viking Landers Might Have Missed Martian Organics' | 'Sonny Yatsen writes "A new study suggests that the Viking Landers might have found organic compounds on Mars, but failed to recognize them because of the methodology used to detect organics. The findings may suggest specific strategies that would improve on the way organic compounds are detected on the red planet." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?' | 'AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Biometric IDs For All India's Citizens' | 'wiedzmin writes "This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for 'anytime, anywhere' biometric authentication. While enrolling with the UIDAI may be voluntary, other agencies and service providers might require a UID number in order to transact business. Usha Ramanathan, a prominent legal expert who is attached to the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in the national capital, said that, 'taken to its logical limit, the UID project will make it impossible, in a couple of years, for an ordinary citizen to undertake a simple task such as traveling within the country without a UID number.' Next step, tying that UID number and biometric information to to their RIM BlackBerry PIN number." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish' | 'An anonymous reader writes "Swedish researchers have devised a way to turn bioluminescent jellyfish into solar cells. It works like this: the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the Aequorea victoria glow is simply dripped onto a silicon dioxide substrate between two electrodes. The protein works itself into strands between the electrodes. When ultraviolet light is shined on the circuit, voila, the GFP absorbs photons and emits electrons, generating a current. The GFP-powered cells work like dye-sensitized solar cells, but don't require expensive materials such as titanium dioxide." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Anti-Product Placement For Negative Branding' | 'An anonymous reader writes "Product placement to promote your brand just isn't enough any more. These days, apparently, some companies are resorting to anti-product placement in order to get competitors' products in the hands of 'anti-stars.' The key example being Snooki from Jersey Shore, who supposedly is being sent handbags by companies... but the bags being sent are of competitors' handbags as a way to avoid Snooki carrying their own handbag, and thus potentially damaging their brand." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook' | 'Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem. The theory is that these people use the site as a means of self promotion or to feel important." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'University Offers Class In Zombie Studies' | 'Young people at The University of Baltimore will be able to study the zombie condition thanks to the newly available English 333. Students in the class will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. Instead of writing a final research paper they may write a script or draw storyboards for their own zombie movie. Unfortunately the class doesn't seems to cover brain appreciation. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads' | 'MexiCali59 writes "Four of California's largest school districts will be trying something new on eighth-grade algebra students this year: giving them iPads instead of textbooks. The devices come pre-loaded with a digital version of the text, allowing students to view teaching videos, receive homework assistance and input assignment all without picking up a pen or paper. If the students with iPads turn out to do improve at a faster pace than their peers as expected, the program could soon spread throughout the Golden State." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Cooking For Geeks' | 'jsuda writes "You've got to have a lot of confidence and nerve to write and try to sell a nearly 400 page book on cooking to the take-out pizza and cola set. No cookbook is likely to turn many geeks into chefs or take them away from their computer screens. However, even though Cooking for Geeks contains a large number of recipes, it is not a conventional cookbook but a scientific explanation of the how and why of cooking which will certainly appeal to that group, as well as to cooking professionals and intellectually curious others." Read on for the rest of jsuda's review. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'How 6 Memorable Tech Companies Got Their Names' | 'itwbennett writes "If Larry Page and Sergey Brin had stuck with the first name for their search engine, we'd be 'BackRubbing' instead of Googling. But the fun doesn't stop there. The unforgettable Go Daddy was first saddled with the eminently Seussian moniker 'Jomax Technologies.' And as for Yahoo!... its original name just rolled off the tongue: 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Tractor Beams Come To Life' | 'Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says "Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Google Instant Announced' | 'GCPSoft writes with this quote from a Google announcement: "Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'BP's Gulf Spill Report Shows String of Failures' | 'eldavojohn writes "News is out of BP's report on the gulf spill that shifts some of the blame on to other companies like Transocean that worked with BP in erecting the Deepwater Horizon rig. If you were affected by the spill, you might find the video, executive summary and 193 page report an interesting read. The summary outlines six or seven major failures in safety and engineering that all built up to the deaths of eleven workers and widespread contamination of the gulf. From incorrectly using seawater instead of drilling fluid to misinterpreting pressure test results, this report is just BP's side of the story as the blowout preventer has been pulled up and is still on its way to NASA where it will be analyzed by government investigators who will be able to compile their own report." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay' | 'maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the U.S. Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| 'Lo-Fi Phones and the Future' | 'bossanovalithium writes "Back in 1936 — 74 years ago — boffins accepted that about 3.3Khz was the accepted frequency that telephone calls are going to run on and it's been like that, generally, ever since. Call quality is reasonable but leaves a lot to be desired. Think calls from Skype to Skype where quality is often crystal clear." It's crazy to me that (for people with decent mics at least) Ventrillo sounds better than corporate conference calls. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ' |
| BBC World News |
| 'Low pay and squalor' | 'The plight of Commonwealth Games workers in Delhi' |
| 'UN aid chief Amos visits Pakistan' | 'The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.' |
| 'Brilliant Federer powers past Soderling' | 'Five-time champion Roger Federer produces a stunning display to beat Robin Soderling and reach the semi-finals of the US Open.' |
| 'US economic growth 'decelerating'' | 'US economic growth showed "widespread signs of deceleration" in August, says the Federal Reserve's Beige Book.' |
| 'Planes in 'near-miss' over London' | 'A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals.' |
| 'Empty shops highlighting 'divide'' | 'The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.' |
| 'Mexico rejects drug 'insurgency' analogy' | 'Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.' |
| 'Colorado fire destroys 136 homes' | 'A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, officials say.' |
| 'Rig firms hit back at BP report' | 'Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.' |
| 'Honduras massacre 'gang rivalry'' | 'A mass shooting in a shoe factory in Honduras is blamed on rival street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels.' |
| 'Taliban chief says victory close' | 'Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".' |
| 'Lion lunges at Las Vegas trainer' | 'A lion lunged at a trainer as stunned onlookers watched in horror, at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.' |
| 'Sect members escape Nigeria jail' | 'At least 700 prisoners have escaped during an attack on a jail in northern Nigeria, including members of a militant Islamist sect.' |
| 'Pressure mounts against Koran burning' | 'A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.' |
| 'Live text - US Open day 10' | 'More semi-final places at the US Open are up for grabs following Vera Zvonareva's win, with Novak Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Robin Soderling and Roger Federer all in action.' |
| 'UN 'failed' DR Congo rape victims' | 'UN peacekeepers "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said.' |
| 'Ferrari escape further punishment' | 'Ferrari have avoided further punishment for using banned team orders, a Formula 1 disciplinary hearing in Paris has ruled.' |
| 'Secretive militia' | 'West Bank crackdown pushes Hamas militia deeper underground' |
| 'How BP will kill the oil spill' | 'A scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired' |
| 'Nigeria replaces security leaders' | 'Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed new military and police chiefs ahead of planned January presidential election.' |
| 'Morgan to replace host Larry King' | 'Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.' |
| 'Residents of 'Lustful' street seek less sinful name' | 'Residents of a small street called Lustful Court in the US state of Georgia are told to raise a petition if they want a less provocative street name.' |
| ''One in four' has given fake net names' | 'A survey shows a majority of web users have suffered cybercrime, but many respondents were themselves less than honest.' |
| 'Google unveils 'instant' searches' | 'Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product, Google Instant, that displays results as soon as users type in queries.' |
| 'Goldman Sachs fined £20m by FSA' | 'Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £20m by the UK's financial watchdog, the BBC learns.' |
| 'Second Iraqi TV presenter killed' | 'Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad.' |
| 'Merkel defends Danish cartoonist' | 'German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused outrage in 2006.' |
| 'Senegal convictions over begging' | 'Seven Koranic teachers in Senegal are given suspended jail sentences for forcing their students to beg.' |
| 'Koran bonfire 'still going ahead'' | 'A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.' |
| 'Vitamin B 'puts off Alzheimer's'' | 'High doses of B vitamins may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.' |
| 'Obama defiant on tax cut stance' | 'President Obama defends his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier people and criticises what he calls Republican obstruction.' |
| Securityfocus.com Vulnerability |
| 'Vuln: EMC Celerra Unified Storage Platform NAS Security Bypass Vulnerability' | ' EMC Celerra Unified Storage Platform NAS Security Bypass Vulnerability ' |
| 'Vuln: Linux Kernel 'snd_seq_oss_open()' Multiple Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities' | ' Linux Kernel 'snd_seq_oss_open()' Multiple Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities ' |
| 'Bugtraq: ESA-2010-014: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, releases security hot fixes for potential vulnerability in RSA® Access Manager Server under certain conditions.' | ' ESA-2010-014: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, releases security hot fixes for potential vulnerability in RSA® Access Manager Server under certain conditions. ' |
| 'Bugtraq: ESA-2010-016: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, releases security hot fix for a potential vulnerability in RSA® Access Manager Agent when working with RSA® Adaptive Authentication.' | ' ESA-2010-016: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, releases security hot fix for a potential vulnerability in RSA® Access Manager Agent when working with RSA® Adaptive Authentication. ' |
| 'Bugtraq: [USN-985-1] mountall vulnerability' | ' [USN-985-1] mountall vulnerability ' |
| 'Bugtraq: ESA-2010-015: EMC Celerra NFS authentication bypass vulnerability using IP spoofing.' | ' ESA-2010-015: EMC Celerra NFS authentication bypass vulnerability using IP spoofing. ' |
| 'Vuln: Wireshark 0.8.20 through 1.2.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities' | ' Wireshark 0.8.20 through 1.2.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities ' |
| Futurezone.at |
| 'Google stellt Echtzeitsuche vor' | 'Schneller suchen mit Google Instant' |
