Week in Review for 8/31/2008
Quick News Links
- Joe Biden’s tech voting record
- Rosetta Disk designed as an archie for thousands of years
- Google drops bluetooth from Android 1.0
- 30 years of Lego minifig
- Pausing social networks
- IE privacy feature may inadvertently block ads
- Psystar to counter sue Apple
- New open source gaming handheld
- Neuros OSD gets web browser
- Sony pushing a new DRM scheme
- Review of MSIE8 beta 2
- Quicksilver work alike for Firefox
- FriendFeed founders want to simplify, improve RSS
- EFF, others urge Copyright Office to leave incidental copiesunlicensed
- Computers seized from Berkeley activist space
- Microsoft submits its DRM font spec to the W3C
- Video sharing site did not violate copyright by transcoding video
- New, more efficient network routing algorithm
- Judge allows posting of SSNs as privacy protest
- The state of scripting languages
- Google reverses decision on Mozilla Public License for Google Code
- Comcast reveals bandwidth caps, two strikes rule
- Qwest also capping bandwidth, threatening users
- Credit card company suppresses Mythbusters piece on RFID
Quick Security Alerts
- Attack on Linux servers with vulnerable SSH keys
- Major vulnerability in latest iPhone firmware
- Large vulnerability in trust-based BGP protocol
- Supposed one character patch to DNS flaw
