Wednesday, 4. September 2013

Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux


SolidRun refreshed its line of tiny 2 x 2 x 2-inch mini-PCs with four new community-backed models based on 1.2GHz multi-core Freescale i.MX6 SoCs. The CuBox-i devices support Android 4.2.2 and Linux, offer HDMI, S/PDIF, IR, eSATA, GbE, USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth interfaces (depending on model). All the models offer 1.2GHz clock speeds, OpenGL/ES 2.0 3D support, and video acceleration for 1080p video, while the two higher-end ones supply more robust GPUs that add OpenCL 1.1 support.

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Tuesday, 3. September 2013

USB-Tastatur kapert Linux-Kern


ChromeOS-Entwickler Kees Cook hat beim Experimentieren mit USB-Endgeräten zwölf Schwachstellen im Code des Linux Kernels entdeckt, der für die Interaktion mit HIDs (Human Interface Devices) zuständig ist. Der gravierendste Fehler kann dabei eine Speicherverletzung auslösen, wenn das USB-Gerät mehr "Report ID" Felder generiert, als der Kernel erwartet. Einen entsprechenden Patch, der das Problem behebt, hat Cook ebenfalls vorgelegt

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Daft Punks “Get Lucky”, gespielt in Mario Paint


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NSA BANGERS


NSA BANGERS is an audio landscape full of paranoia, espionage, epic snooping, unhealthy obsession, and the stress of being a contemporary type human being. Basically, NSA BANGERS is the soundtrack of Freedom! And Freedom is expensive y'all! Apparently, it like, costs your Freedom!

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Wieder brannte ein Mann in der Wüste


Mehr als 61.000 Menschen ließen heuer wieder das alltägliche Leben hinter sich, um am Burning Man Festival 2013 teilzunehmen. Jährlich wird die Black Rock Wüste im US-Bundesstaat Nevada zum Schauplatz einer künstlerischen Subwelt. Das Thema war in diesem Jahr "Cargo Cult" und spielte auf die Landung von außerirdischem Leben auf der Erde an.

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With $7.17 Billion Nokia Buy, Microsoft Brings Its Trojan Horse Home


Microsoft is paying about $5 billion to buy a majority of Nokia’s cellphone business, while shelling out another $2.17 billion to license the struggling Finnish company’s patent portfolio. And none of this should surprise you.

With this $7.17 billion play, Microsoft has redoubled its efforts to compete with Apple and Google in the smartphone game, nabbing a handset maker that can more closely combine its Windows Phone operating system with the hardware that runs it, and expanding an already massive smartphone-related patent portfolio that can jockey with rivals in other ways. But it has also bought itself the new CEO it so dearly needs: Stephen Elop, the former head of Microsoft’s business division who left Redmond in September 2010 for the top post at Nokia.

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Thai prosecutors to issue arrest warrant for Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya


Thai prosecutors have said they will issue an arrest warrant for an heir of the Red Bull energy drink creator who failed to show up to hear charges against him in a fatal hit-and-run case that sparked nationwide outrage.

Vorayuth Yoovidhya, 28, is accused of being behind the wheel of his Ferrari sports car when it collided with an on-duty policeman in the early hours of 3 September 2012.

"Investigators will issue an arrest warrant for the suspect tomorrow and he can be arrested anywhere in Thailand," Reuchai Krairerk, a senior public prosecutor at Bangkok South criminal court, said on Monday.

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Monday, 2. September 2013

Sarin chemicals' export claim rejected by UK


The Government was accused of “breathtaking laxity” in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.

The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will today be asked by MPs to explain why a British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while Syria’s civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month’s atrocity in Damascus.

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DRUMMER einigen Gitarren


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Merkel's Germany Necklace' clear winner of debate on Twitter

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EU plans to fit all cars with speed limiters


Under the proposals new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded.

Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, is said to be opposed to the plans, which could also mean existing cars are sent to garages to be fitted with the speed limiters, preventing them from going over 70mph.

telegraph.co.uk

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'Anonymous' to Reg hack: We know SEA leaders' names


Following the Syrian Electronic Army's (SEA's) attack on a Melbourne IT reseller which resulted in the temporary compromise of domain name records for targets as diverse as The New York Times and Twitter, a group claiming association with Anonymous now says it has compromised SEA databases and servers.

As first reported here (in French with NSFW images) and here by Brian Krebs, the attackers say they have compromised SEA servers, obtained members' names along with user IDs and passwords, and have copied gigabytes of SEA data.

theregister.co.uk

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