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This is news cast 166.
In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I’ll also be attending Wiki White House at Google’s DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. [...]
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Latest Linux kernel release The two biggest changes are a new memory manager for the GPU, GEM, and the ext4 file system. The article also mentions moving new driver development to a more visible location in the mainline which may help prompt contribution. The article has links to more detail on [...]
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Open source tool adopted in Colorado for e-voting audit First PyVote, now this. I guess if there is too much money involved in the systems themselves, this is a reasonable and effective role for open source software to play.
Mozilla chief admits Chrome complicates Google relationship I’ve wondered why Google didn’t partner more [...]
This is news cast 165.
This week’s security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers’ password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.
In this week’s news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google’s efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and [...]
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FCC scraps plans on free wireless internet plan This was to be based on their conditions of certain chunks of wireless spectrum. Apparently the opposition was too stiff so they cancelled a vote and appear to be scrapping the plans altogether.
A good rebuttal of misinterpreting CDNs as violating neutrality Tim Lee had [...]
This is news cast 164.
If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.
This week’s security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft’s WordPad and Internet Explorer the [...]
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Risks of automatically scaling in the cloud George Reese distinguishes between the ability for an informed operator to add capacity in the cloud and the idea of having a system do it automatically. Really his criticisms of the latter are also an exhortation to understand proper capacity planning, first and foremost.
FF extension [...]
This is news cast 163.
This week’s security alerts are confusion around Apple’s recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.
In this week’s news worry over a change for one BitTorrent client to favor UDP traffic along with a clarification of their intentions about network [...]
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Reality mining and the privacy debate This is an incremental step beyond the existing privacy threats, driven by the same concerns, largely the tension between convenience and the desire to use this data, these tools to improve revenue.
Potential effect of the Drew verdict The problematic verdict conflates violation of terms of service with [...]
This is news cast 162.
In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.
This week’s security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.
In this week’s news the final SCO judgement, Sealand’s data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, [...]
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