Andrew sez, "Released by the NZPA on Wednesday, 09 April 2008, this article mentions the passing into law of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill in New Zealand."
It does not change the balance between protection and access to copyright material, but makes sure the balance can continue to operate when new technologies are involved.
It introduces an offence, carrying a sentence of a maximum fine of $150,000 or up to five years imprisonment, or both, for commercial dealings in devices, services or information designed to circumvent technological protection measures.
"Thanks Uncle Sam."
Thanks indeed -- now New Zealand joins the growing list of nations where it's illegal to sell digital lockpicks, even if you only use them to get at files you have the rights to, which have been locked up by greedy (or bankrupt, or uncaring, or sloppy) software and entertainment companies.
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Etsy seller Rivkasmom has these gorgeous cufflinks made from old watch-movements on sale for $55 -- I saw a similar item at a posh London men's store on Jermyn Street last week for £400!
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The Burj Dubai tower being built by Samsung Corp in Dubai is the worlds tallest skyscraper. The building will reach a height of 630 m this week, 38 months after the ground-breaking, Samsung Corp. said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 11:09 am
A paper by the University of Hong Kong's Li-Hai Tan and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that people who are dyslexic in one language may not have problems... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:23 am
A paper by the University of Hong Kong's Li-Hai Tan and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that people who are dyslexic in one language may not have problems with other languages -- particularily if the dyslexia is in a alphabetically written language as opposed to a symbolically written one:
People suffering from dyslexia may find that their problems evaporate when they learn a new language, especially one that works with symbols very different from their native one. A study released yesterday reveals that brain abnormalities in English-speakers with dyslexia are quite different from those in people who speak Chinese. So it's very possible that a person who is dyslexic in Chinese wouldn't be in English, and vice versa.
German company Lodenfrey have displayed a pair of high-tech lederhosen with built-in iPod controls for when you want to rock out during your ambulatory yodel-wanders.)
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German company Lodenfrey have displayed a pair of high-tech lederhosen with built-in iPod controls for when you want to rock out during your ambulatory yodel-wanders.) Link (Thanks, Marilyn!) ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:08 am
Today, HP made rumors of their releasing a low-cost ultra-portable PC a reality with the official announcement of the HP 2133 Mini-Note. Meant for the education market, the HP 2133 Mini-Note is designed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:08 am
The Extinct Attractions Club sells DVDs of long-departed themepark rides and vintage ride-throughs of existing rides, like family movies from Knott's Berry Farm and 8mm films from 1950s visits to Disneyland... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:07 am
The Extinct Attractions Club sells DVDs of long-departed themepark rides and vintage ride-throughs of existing rides, like family movies from Knott's Berry Farm and 8mm films from 1950s visits to Disneyland. There's an emphasis on interviews with and presentations by golden age Imagineers. This is pure park-nerd crack.
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By Andrew Liszewski Japan Trend Shop is now selling a black tissue box that comes complete with… wait for it… black tissues! Apparently items like black cotton swabs and black toothpaste... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:01 am
Meetro is finally coming out of the closet with the hosted forum solution we anticipated last October, and it’s pretty much what we expected it to be: a white label platform like Ning except without... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 10:00 am
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel takes note of a Slate article by Alexandra Harney on the end of cheap Chinese electronics, led by unstoppable inflation The era of cheap Chinese consumer goods may... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:57 am
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel takes note of a Slate article by Alexandra Harney on the end of cheap Chinese electronics, led by unstoppable inflation
The era of cheap Chinese consumer goods may finally be ending, thanks to irrepressible inflation. Now when the Chinese present their lists, some American importers are conceding higher prices, meaning that American shoppers, for the first time in years, are starting to pick up the tab for rising costs in China. Some Chinese factories are now asking their American customers for price increases of as much as 20 percent to 30 percent.
On WorldChanging, Alex Steffen gives a briefing on the Freeaire System, which pipes in cold external air when available to cut energy bills.
"...designed to provide such free cooling for walk-in coolers, freezers and cold storage warehouses. The system utilizes an electronic controller to finely tune the operation of standard refrigeration equipment, and this controller simply monitors the outdoor temperature and desired temperature settings and stops refrigerator evaporator fans when not needed, which also reduces the compressor's refrigeration load. Proper airflow is maintained when the evaporator fans switch off by operating one or more energy-efficient circulating fans.
Roughly half the electricity consumed by a typical convenience store is used for refrigeration. The Freeaire System is designed to save energy year-round by allowing refrigeration equipment for a walk-in cooler or freezer to run only as much as it has to. Once the system is installed, evaporator fans typically operate 50 to 75% less often, and reach-in door heaters operate 90% less frequently. Condensing units also usually experience a 10 to 20% reduction in operations. Moreover, a Freeaire System saving 20,000 kilowatt-hours annually can prevent 40,000 pounds of CO2 from being emitted to the atmosphere.
On WorldChanging, Alex Steffen gives a briefing on the Freeaire System, which pipes in cold external air when available to cut energy bills. "...designed to provide such free cooling for walk-in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:55 am
A Japanese roboticist plans to build a 13-foot-high Gundam clone (and wants to take it one further and build a six-storey version!)
[Takayuki Furuta,] the director of the Future Robotics Technology Center in Chiba, Japan, figured out how to make a real-life, six-story-tall Gundam, the classic battle robot from Japanese anime. He ran computer models on every aspect of the bot to determine what parts he would need to power and control the beast. Then he surfed electronics and industry-equipment catalogs to find the components. The result: a complete blueprint for a $742 million bot. By showing how the anime fixture can actually be built, he hopes to get schoolkids fired up about robotics. Well, that and he actually intends to build one. A 60-foot-tall robot may not be financially feasible, Furuta says, but he's going to try making a version that could be as tall as 13 feet. He aims to have it working by 2011, when, ideally, someone will have created something for it to fight.
A Japanese roboticist plans to build a 13-foot-high Gundam clone (and wants to take it one further and build a six-storey version!) [Takayuki Furuta,] the director of the Future Robotics Technology... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:52 am
When you look up gumption in the dictionary, you should find a reference to this July, 1931 Popular Science article entitled "Anyone Can Fly a Blimp." Ah, the sweet promises of yesteryear. We have been betrayed by the future comrades. I want to fly a blimp, dammit.
On the top end of the rope was a parachute. Untrustworthy as it may have been, it was better to clutch the three- quarter-inch manila than to ride a burning hydrogen bag down. In these modern blimps, however, there is no fire hazard. Helium will not burn and for that property blimp owners pay $60 for each thousand cubic feet. It costs $4,500 to fill her with 76,000 cubic feet of helium, and nearly $100 a month to replace in the envelope the helium that seeps through the rubberized fabric.
Here we were, comfortable in upholstered chairs, looking out from an inclosed five-passenger cabin, suspended beneath a gas-filled bag that, barring some nearly-impossible accident that would tear a great hole in the top, would bring us to earth under any circumstances. No parachutes here—no need for them.
WERE the blimp to become disabled, the motors to stop, Smithy would merely free-balloon her down again on some level spot, deflate the bag if necessary, and wait for help. These blimp pilots, you see, must become pilots of free balloons before they’re trusted with one of the six in the Goodyear fleet.
Roland Piquepaille notes the hype surrounding what the University of Texas at Austin is calling the world's most powerful laser. During a tenth of a femtosecond this laser is 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the US, and is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun. On his own blog Roland points out that UT's is not the first petawatt laser; that distinction belongs to a system installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1996.
A Christian group has launched a legal fight against a decision to allow university scientists to create human-animal embryos for research. The Christian Legal Centre... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:22 am
The creator of DNA fingerprinting, Professor Alec Jeffreys, and several inventors are on the shortlist for the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:16 am
A tuberculosis outbreak in Welsh cattle as resulted in a “targeted cull” of badgers to eradicate the disease.Details and location of the cull have not been announced.According to rural affairs minister Elin Jones, the Welsh Assembly Government's plan includes a one-off test of all cattle and a review of the compensation systemWales' chief veterinary officer said bovine TB was out of control and the current policy was not working.Incidents of TB in cattle have increased dramatically and compensation payments to farmers have skyrocketed over the last decade.Farmers and animal groups have long disagreed over whether badgers are responsible for spreading the disease in cattle. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 9:10 am
Regulatory News: Technip (Paris:TEC) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded by Husky Oil Operations Limited, a subsidiary of Husky Energy, a major engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract for the development of the White Rose oil field's North Amethyst Satellite. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
One durable Republican staple is the alleged commitment to "small government." I've heard this repeatedly during the GOP presidential debates. The candidates declare that the feds should butt out, that "one- size-fits-all" policies enacted by Washington would burden the states. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Laurence Hammack laurence.hammack@roanoke.com 981-3239 A Grayson County landowner has received a statewide environmental award for her work preserving a stretch of the New River. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Apr. 9--Eight of 10 La Crosse retailers Monday passed the city police department's third round of alcohol compliance checks in the past month. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Goodrich, Gregory B Ellis, Andrew W ABSTRACT The winter (December-February) of 2005/06 ranked as the driest in the instrumental record (since 1895) for nearly all regions of Arizona. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Two environmental groups want the U.S. Supreme Court to limit Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's power to suspend laws at the Mexican border. Chertoff issued 30 waivers last week, The New York Times reported. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous The state Transportation and Environmental Protection departments are organizing the Great Pennsylvania Cleanup on Saturday, April 19, in conjunction with Earth Day. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr. 9--Although the group is no stranger to traveling and competition, the Muskego Water Bugs water ski show team has announced it will soon compete in some notable out-of-town performances -- in China. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
A CURFEW is a relatively common condition of an accused being granted bail. Standard requirements include attending court at future dates, co- operating with reports and not interfering with witnesses. Others include a curfew on entering specified streets, buildings or areas. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
TORY justice spokesman Bill Aitken said the Spence case was further proof that home curfews did not work. He said: "This was a tragedy which should never have happened. The curfew imposed on this callous killer didn't work. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people with paper and pencil. Now it needs about 600,000 temporary workers. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Amazon Beauty has launched two new hair remedies, Rahua shampoo and Rahua conditioner for color-treated and delicate hair, at Cocoon Hair Studio in New York. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Zinie Chen S ampson Associated Press Writer MIDLOTHIAN -- On a screen at the front of a classroom, Gene Fishel flashed an online social-networking profile of "hotlilflgirl," which said she was 15, enjoys being around boys and wants to meet new people. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
By Damon Cline Graham Ellison's company is providing broadband Internet and data service to 20 businesses from Aiken to Thomson - and he hasn't put a single foot of copper wire or fiber optic cable in the ground to do it. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - Revenues from worldwide government and private spending on space projects rose to $251 billion last year, up 11 percent from 2006 despite slowing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 7:45 am
The aviation industry is being unfairly targeted over climate change and future reductions in aircraft emissions should be based on technological innovation rather than regulation, Airbus... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 7:23 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Gaming addicts with sore eyes and tired brains may be able to perk up with "Game Suppli", a new Japanese supplement developed specifically for the country's thousands of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 7:12 am
10 million of the $40 discounts have been asked for since the program began on Jan. 1 in preparation for the all-digtal signal switch in 2009. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Demand for the government's discount coupons is outpacing supply. Officials worry that many people are still unaware of next year's switch. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Pickens writes "Hundreds of retired New York City subway cars are being sunk sixteen nautical miles off Delaware's Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog. 'They're basically luxury condominiums for fish,' says Jeff Tinsman, artificial reef program manager for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. Subway cars are roomy enough to invite certain fish, too heavy to shift easily in storms, and durable enough to avoid throwing off debris for decades. Tinsman particularly favors the newer subway cars with stainless steel on the outside to create reefs. 'We call these the DeLoreans of the deep,' he said. But success comes at a price because other states, seeing Delaware's successes, have started competing for the subway cars, which New York City provides free. 'The secret is out, I guess,' said Michael G. Zacchea, the MTA official in charge of getting rid of New York City's old subway cars."
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel, April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading global provider of Integrated Revenue Management(TM) (IRM(TM))... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:40 am
HERNDON, Va., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), a state-chartered non-profit, today announced that it is now on the GSA Mission Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:30 am
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A leather jacket has been through an astonishing transformation. You can't even tell that it was once on the back of a Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:20 am
PLANO, Texas, April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the NAB2008 exhibition in Las Vegas this month, the broadcasting industry will get its first look at the ViewCast Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
NEW YORK, April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- 123Greetings.com today announced the launch of a new application for MySpace. The new application "123Greetings Ecards"... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected David Dorman to serve as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
Internet sites like YouTube and Myspace have been blocked by several Indonesian internet providers for carrying a Dutch film that is critical of the Koran, according to an information ministry official.Geert Wilder, a Dutch anti-immigration politician made the 15-minute film and posted it on several blogs and file-sharing sites.The film is called “Fitna” (translated as “Strife” when used in the Koran) and alternates images of the September 11, 2001 attacks and other Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran.It also shows an image of the Prophet Mohammad ready to explode and says the rising number of Muslims in Europe threatens democratic values.Last week the Indonesian information ministry ordered internet service providers to block sites where Wilders' film appears because it "could disturb relations between the faiths." Telecommunication firms PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) and PT Exelcomindo Pratama Tbk, and Internet provider Indonet had blocked access to YouTube and social networking site Myspace as well as numerous other blogs and file-sharing sites that provide access to the film.Some Indonesians, especially people who use those sites for business, were angry over the block.Protests over the film erupted in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a former Dutch colony.Wilders' film urges Muslims to tear out "hate-filled" verses from the Koran and starts and ends with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban, accompanied by a ticking sound.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged his predominantly Muslim nation not to use violence in protests against the film.The Dutch government and the Dutch upper house of parliament have condemned what it called Wilder’s “efforts to denigrate Islam and promote hatred”.Last year Thailand blocked YouTube for four months because of clips it deemed offensive to its king. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 5:05 am
MILWAUKEE _ A 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in western Wisconsin sold sex acts in Milwaukee to men who found her ad and photo on Craigslist, according to court documents. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 5:00 am
By Bob Shallit, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Apr. 8--A Gold River startup company is on the verge of a breakthrough deal with BART subway system to provide lightning-fast Internet connections for thousands of daily commuters. Even while zipping along beneath the San Francisco Bay. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Apr 2008 | 5:00 am
HighWizard notes the upcoming release, on Thursday, of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in 2000, believed it may hold as much as 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Later estimates have ranged to the hundreds of billions of barrels. Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.
A lonely newt, a strong-willed Scottish princess and modern-day elves are among the stars of 10 new animated movies from Walt Disney Studios and its boutique animation unit, Pixar. The media conglomerate... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 3:36 am
SAN FRANCISCO Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom and politicians rhetoric, European researchers say that the Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the worlds best and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 3:36 am
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have built the world's most powerful laser, a machine that produces one million billion watts of power for a tiny fraction of a second.
juraj writes "What font color and what background is best for the eyes, when you work for a long time? I have found various contradictory recommendations and I wonder if you know about any medical studies on this topic."
LOS ANGELES In another sign of a shake-out in the competitive flat-panel television market, Royal Philips Electronics, the Dutch consumer electronics giant, said it would no longer manufacture televisions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 1:35 am
SAN FRANCISCO Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 1:35 am
Mike Morris writes "Google email servers are responsible for a large volume of backscatter spam. No recipient validation is being performed for the domains googlegroups.com and blogger.com — possibly for other Google domains as well, but these two have been confirmed. (You can test this by sending an email to a bogus address in either of the domains; you'll quickly get a Google-generated bounce message.) Consequently spammers are able to launch dictionary attacks against these domains using forged envelope sender addresses. The owners of these forged addresses are then inundated with the bounce messages generated by the Google mail servers. The proper behavior would be for the mail servers to reject email traffic to non-existent users during the initial SMTP transaction. Attempts at contacting them via abuse@google.com and postmaster@google.com have gone unanswered for quite some time. Only automated responses are received which say Google isn't doing anything wrong."
JET engines are now so reliable that a pilot can go an entire career without seeing one fail. Autopilots are so good that some airlines have set up their cockpits to emit a loud beep every few minutes,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 12:36 am
THE next time you stop at a gas station, wincing at the $3.50-a-gallon price and bemoaning societys dependence on petroleum, take a step back and look inside your car. Much of what you see in there comes... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 12:36 am
Out on the farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground. Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the governments biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 12:36 am
DUNDALK, Ireland WHEN the fearsome Cuchulainn was transformed by the rage of battle into a Celtic Incredible Hulk, according to Irish mythology, the warriors intensity melted snow for 30 feet around him... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Apr 2008 | 12:36 am
Starting Tuesday, Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site is giving paid subscribers the ability to upload and share short, personal videos up to a minute and a half in length.
An anonymous reader writes "Analog TV users must purchase a DTV converter box before broadcasts go digital in 2009, and the US Government is offering $40 coupons to support the transition. The coupon program requires retailers to become certified by the NTIA (the Government body running the program) before processing orders for the boxes. Apparently the certification program is a bit lax, as the frenzy to purchase DTV boxes using these coupons seems to have drawn unscrupulous fraud artists into the mix. Memsen, via its web site convertmy.tv and its hardware partner Maxmedia, partnered apparently to pull a bait-and-switch game on unsuspecting consumers and the US Government." Read on for details of the scam claimed by this anonymous reader.
Not yet a Netflix devotee? Still getting stung with late fees? Here's a simple trick that will save you a few bucks and the embarrassing stares of strangers. In Wired.com's How-To Wiki.
EconolineCrush writes "Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."
Aron Schatz writes "VIA has announced that they will start a new site (http://linux.via.com.tw — doesn't exist yet) specifically for the development of open source drivers. From their press release: 'Over the following months, VIA will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to ensure the best possible Open Source experience on VIA Processor Platforms. 'To further improve cooperation with the community, VIA will also adhere to a regular quarterly release schedule that is aligned with kernel changes and release of major Linux distributions. In addition, beta releases will be issued on the site as needed, and a bug report and tracking feature will also be integrated.' Nvidia should be next."
An anonymous reader writes "2Wire manufactures DSL modems and routers for AT&T and other major carriers. Their devices suffer from a DNS redirection vulnerability that can be used as part of a variety of attacks, including phishing, identity theft, and denial of service. This exploit was publicly reported more than eight months ago and applies to nearly all 2Wire firmware revisions. The exploit itself is trivial to implement, requiring the attacker only to embed a specially crafted URL into a Web site or email. User interaction is not required, as the URL may be embedded as an image that loads automatically with the requested content. The 2Wire exploit bypasses any password set on the modem/router and is being actively exploited in the wild. AT&T has been deploying 2Wire DSL modems and router/gateways for years, so there exists a large vulnerable installed base. So far, AT&T/2Wire haven't done anything about this exploit."
canadacow writes "iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently 'expired' the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Apple has yet to release a new deployment of the iPhone OS. So developers like myself who use their iPhone for both actual phone and iPod use are bricked. Of note, this particular expired build is just 11 days old."
