Topic: COMPUTER - on March 9, 2012 at 11:09:00 AM CET
Raspberry Pi Linux distro released, but the $35 computer faces new delays
The wrong jacks have been soldered to the Raspberry Pi boards and will have to be removed and replaced before the product can ship to end users. According to the foundation, the ethernet jacks are relatively easy to replace. The problem is that sourcing a sufficient quantity of the right ethernet jacks might take some time. This will be the second time that the Raspberry Pi project has suffered a minor delay due to component sourcing difficulties.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 9, 2012 at 11:08:00 AM CET
Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix Ready For Download
The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is ready for download! The recommended distro to run on the Raspberry Pi is a Remix of the Fedora open source software. The Remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues – in particular, the libraries for accessing the VideoCore GPU on the Raspberry Pi.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 9, 2012 at 11:06:00 AM CET
WikiLeaks to Woodsy Horrors: The Must-See Films of SXSW
Woodsy horror, indie videogame documentaries, chess in Brooklyn, WikiLeaks, moon Nazis. This year's South by Southwest Film festival begins Friday and brings with it more films than any one person could watch in just nine days.
To help narrow down the potential viewing list for those attending the festival in Austin, Texas &mdash and give film fans elsewhere a sneak peek at some great upcoming titles — we scoured the SXSW Film slate to find the films we we're most looking forward to seeing at the annual event.
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Topic: WEB - on March 9, 2012 at 11:04:00 AM CET
Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon
"Script kiddie"—no hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him. Anyone with modest computer skills can cause modest havoc using other people's code fragments, scanners, and infiltration tools, but this is little more than knowing how to point a gun in the right direction and pull the trigger. It lacks art. True hacking requires a deep knowledge of computer and network security, an ability to navigate around obstacles, and the willingness to be careful enough to always hide one's tracks. The script kiddies, they might be easy targets for the feds, but the true hackers? Shadows are their home.
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Topic: Drone - on March 6, 2012 at 2:07:00 PM CET
I Love You, Killer Robots
Quadrotor drones are amazing and cute and will probably destroy us all.
It was way back in May 2010 that I first spotted the flying drones that will take over the world. They were in a video that Daniel Mellinger, one of the robots’ apparently too-trusting creators, proudly posted on YouTube. The clip, titled “Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight,” depicts a scene at a robotics lab at the University of Pennsylvania, though a better term for this den might be “drone training camp.”
In the video, an insectlike, laptop-sized “quadrotor” performs a series of increasingly difficult tricks. First, it flies up and does a single flip in the air. Then a double flip. Then a triple flip. In a voice-over so dry it suggests he has no idea the power he’s dealing with, Mellinger says, “We developed a method for flying to any position in space with any reasonable velocity or pitch angle.” What does this mean? It means the drone can fly through or around pretty much any obstacle. We see it dance through an open window with fewer than 3 inches of clearance on either side. Next, it flies and perches on an inverted surface—lying in wait.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 6, 2012 at 11:04:00 AM CET
GitHub hacked, millions of projects at risk of being modified or deleted
GitHub, one of the largest repositories of commercial and open source software on the web, has been hacked. Over the weekend, developer Egor Homakov exploited a gaping vulnerability in GitHub that allowed him (or anyone else with basic hacker know-how) to gain administrator access to projects such as Ruby on Rails, Linux, and millions of others. Homakov could’ve deleted the entire history of projects such as jQuery, Node.js, Reddit, and Redis.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2012 at 11:02:00 AM CET
Hackers Steal Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks from Sony
The plot thickens, and Sony once again has found itself in the news surrounding another hacking-related incident. This time around, the breach doesn’t appear to be in regard any lost user data or customer accounts, but instead, some valuable property owned by the record company.
Today, the UK’s Daily Star and other British news outlets have reported that more than 50,000 music tracks have been illegally accessed and downloaded by hackers, including a large number from the late Michael Jackson.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2012 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Presseverlage gegen den Rest der Welt
Wie heute früh schon kurz berichtet, haben sich FDP und CDU/CSU auf die Einführung eines Leistungsschutzrechts für Presseverlage geeinigt (Seite 4). Gewerbliche Onlineangebote sollen für die Nutzung von Presseerzeugnissen (“oder kleiner Teile davon”) zahlen, die Abwicklung findet nach den Vorstellungen der Koalition über eine neue Verwertungsgesellschaft statt. Primäres Ziel der Initiative ist Google, das den Verlegern seit langem ein Dorn im Auge ist (obwohl sie stark davon profitieren).
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2012 at 10:58:00 AM CET
Gefälschte Transparenz im EU-Parlament
Im Europäischen Parlament fand am letzten Donnerstag (1. März) die Hauptveranstaltung zu ACTA statt. Eingeladen waren einige Kommissionsbeamte und – für das Podium zu Grundrechtsfragen – sogar ein Urheberrechts-Anwalt, der sich auf Nachfrage aus dem Publikum als Lobbyist der Markenvereinigung INTA entpuppte. Als einziger offensichtlicher ACTA-Gegner durfte Michael Geist, Professor an der Universität Ottawa, sprechen. Vertreter der Zivilgesellschaft wurden nicht eingeladen. Obwohl man also allen Grund hatte pessimistisch zu sein, wurde man während des Workshops angenehm überrascht – die Stimmung im Saal war klar gegen das Abkommen.
netzpolitik.org ACTA workshop in the European Parliament Workshop
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 4, 2012 at 6:03:00 PM CET
Scareware Locks Down Computer Due To Child Porn and Terrorism
Recently, my sandbox came across a scareware that locks down the victim’s computer due to “terrorism and child pornography”. The malware is being detected by some AV vendors as “Win32/LockScreen”.
The schema is pretty simple: The criminals try to infect computers with scareware (eg. through Drive-By exploits). As soon as the computer is infected, the malware locks down the machine so that the user won’t be able to log in any more. The malware then displays a message to the user that the law enforcement agency XY found child pornography on the victims computer and that the his computer was used to send out “spam mails with terrorist motives”:
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 3, 2012 at 5:36:00 PM CET
Australia Proposes Mass Monitoring of Blogs
A chill went through the Australian blogosphere Friday as the government released a report recommending that blogs with an annual readership of 15,000 or more be subject to the same regulatory body and rules as mainstream newspapers and other professional media. That’s 40 pageviews a day, for those of you who are counting. Welcome to the big time.
The Independent Media Inquiry stated:
“There are many newsletter publishers and bloggers, although no longer part of the ‘lonely pamphleteer’ tradition, who offer up-to-date reflections on current affairs. Quite a number have a very small audience. There are practical reasons for excluding from the definition of ‘news media’ publishers who do not have a sufficiently large audience. If a publisher distributes more than 3000 copies of print per issue or a news internet site has a minimum of 15 000 hits per annum it should be subject to the jurisdiction of the News Media Council, but not otherwise. These numbers are arbitrary, but a line must be drawn somewhere.”
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Topic: NATURE - on March 3, 2012 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
No, this isn't a make-believe place. It's real.
They call it "Ball's Pyramid." It's what's left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball was the first European to see it in 1788. It sits off Australia, in the South Pacific. It is extremely narrow, 1,844 feet high, and it sits alone.
What's more, for years this place had a secret. At 225 feet above sea level, hanging on the rock surface, there is a small, spindly little bush, and under that bush, a few years ago, two climbers, working in the dark, found something totally improbable hiding in the soil below. How it got there, we still don't know.
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