Archive for October, 2012
GNUs Trick-or-Treat at Windows 8 Launch
October 28th, 2012There were lines of people waiting to buy Windows 8??? Via: Free Software Foundation: Yesterday morning, the Free Software Foundation crashed the Windows 8 launch event in New York City. A cheerful GNU and her team handed out DVDs loaded with Trisquel, FSF stickers, and information about our new pledge, which asks Windows users to […]
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War
October 28th, 2012Via: Wired: The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia. Camp Lemonnier, originally a French […]
World’s Most Powerful Laser Beams to Zap Nuclear Waste, Cure Cancer [???]
October 27th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: The European Union will spend about 700 million euros ($900 million) to build the world’s most powerful lasers, technology that could destroy nuclear waste and provide new cancer treatments. The Extreme Light Infrastructure project has obtained funding for two lasers to be built in the Czech Republic and Romania, Shirin Wheeler, spokeswoman for […]
Surveillance Cameras and ‘Activity Forecasting’
October 27th, 2012Via: Cnet: Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras. The U.S. government has funded the development of so-called automatic video surveillance technology by a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers who disclosed details about their work this week — including that it has […]
China Unicom Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns
October 27th, 2012Via: Morning Whistle: China Unicom has replaced Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ.CSCO) in one of the country’s most important backbone networks, citing security reasons, the 21st Century Business Herald reported. The replacement project targets “China169,” Cisco’s backbone network router of Wuxi node, in Jiangsu province. Analysts indicated that the product vulnerability and back door problems are […]
Berlusconi Convicted of Tax Fraud
October 26th, 2012Via: Reuters: An Italian court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to four years in jail for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company. Berlusconi has the right to appeal the ruling two more times before the sentence becomes definitive and will not be jailed […]
Android on More Devices than Windows in 2016
October 26th, 2012Via: Reuters: Google’s Android operating system will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft’s Windows within four years, data from research firm Gartner showed on Wednesday, underlining the massive shift in the technology sector. At the end of 2016, there will be 2.3 billion computers, tablets and smartphones using Android software, compared with 2.28 […]
SSL Vulnerabilities Found in Critical Non-Browser Software Packages
October 26th, 2012Via: Threat Post: The death knell for SSL is getting louder. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University have discovered that poorly designed APIs used in SSL implementations are to blame for vulnerabilities in many critical non-browser software packages. Serious security vulnerabilities were found in programs such as Amazon’s EC2 Java […]
Jimmy Savile: ‘Other People May Have Acted with Him’
October 26th, 2012Via: New York Times: The number of people who said they were sexually assaulted by Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s most popular television hosts, expanded to 300 from 200 in just the last week, and other people may have acted with him, the Scotland Yard officer heading the investigation said Thursday. The officer, Cmdr. Peter […]
Australia: Banksia Financial Group Collapses
October 26th, 2012Via: Perth Now: RETIREES, schools and sporting clubs are in shock and fearful about the fate of their investments following the collapse of Banksia Securities. Thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars in losses after the shock collapse of Banksia Financial Group. Receivers McGrathNicol took charge of the non-bank financial firm, based in Kyabram […]
