BBC News - Technology- Apple overturns Motorola's ban
Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany. - Hackers breach FBI-UK police call
Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing their efforts to fight hacking. - BT vow fibre optic 'game changer'
Fibre optic connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK next year, BT says. - Hackers fool bank security system
Criminal hackers have found ways around new security devices used for online banking, the BBC has learned. - Megaupload bail appeal rejected
Kim Dotcom's bail appeal is rejected by a New Zealand Court, as US campaigners hint at legal action to prevent files being deleted. - Google asked to pause rule change
An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy policy. - Micron's Appleton dies in crash
Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Boise, Idaho. - Blogger removal now 'per country'
Blogger, Google's blog platform, switches domains to make "per country" content removal possible. - Microsoft launches Kinect for PCs
A more costly version of Microsoft's record-breaking Kinect motion and voice sensor is now available for use on Windows. - UK download speed gains 'uneven'
Ofcom reports a lopsided rise in the UK's broadband download speeds, noting that many subscribers could do better without paying much more. - BT cuts costs to increase profits
Telecoms group BT reports a sharp rise in profits, thanks largely to a jump in the number of broadband users. - S Korea activist held over tweet
Amnesty International demands the release of a man held by South Korean authorities after re-tweeting a North Korean "propaganda" message. - Facebook unveils plans to float
The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, confirms plans to raise $5bn (£3.16bn) in a share sale and reveals it made $1bn profits. - Panasonic predicts a record loss
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic forecasts a record net annual loss of $10bn for the year to March. - Petitioners want 'ethical iPhone'
An online petition calls on Apple to address growing concerns about the conditions of its Chinese factory workers. - TripAdvisor rebuked for publicity
The travel review website is told to make changes to its adverts and stop implying that all its reviews are honest and trusted. - Self-steering bullet researched
US researchers are developing a bullet that guides itself to a laser-illuminated target. But an expert is concerned it may be sold to the public. - Largest optical telescope created
Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror. - VIDEO: How computers help Sweden's ice sculptors
Ice sculptors in Sweden are making use of computers to complete their cold creations - Can Netflix compete with 'offline' TV?
Is it time we started speaking of YouTube or Netflix in the same breath as the BBC or Sky?
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LWN.net- The end of LinuxDevices?
LinuxDevices.com is carrying a
brief note from the "outgoing editor-in-chief" stating that the site's
owner has been acquired. "At this point, the future of
LinuxDevices.com is uncertain. What we can say for sure is that it has been
a pleasure serving our readers -- the best in the business."
- Slackware updates
Slackware has been silent for some time (noted in this comment thread). Although we
haven't seen any advisories in the LWN mailbox, the changelogs are showing some
new updates. Slackware users should update their systems.
- Stable kernels 3.0.19, 3.2.3 and 2.6.32.56
Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.0.19,
3.2.3 and 2.6.32.56. All of them have important fixes
across the board.
Update 3.2.4 has now been released
to address a compilation problem in 3.2.3.
- Friday's security updates
CentOS has updated ghostscript (C6; C5; C4: multiple vulnerabilities), php (C6; C5; C4: remote code execution), and C5: php53 (remote code execution).
Debian has updated iceweasel
(multiple vulnerabilities), iceape
(multiple vulnerabilities), and php5
(remote code execution).
Mandriva has updated mozilla
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated RHEL5: php53
(remote code execution), RHEL4,5,6: php
(remote code execution), ghostscript (RHEL5,6; RHEL4: multiple vulnerabilities), and RHEL5.6: freetype (code execution).
Scientific Linux has updated SL5:
php53 (remote code execution), SL4,5,6:
php (remote code execution), and ghostscript (SL5,6; SL4:
multiple vulnerabilities).
- PHP 5.3.10 released with critical security fix
The PHP 5.3.10 release is out; it contains a fix for a remote code
execution bug introduced recently by another security fix. Anybody running
5.3.9 should probably upgrade as soon as possible.
- Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed (The H)
The H is reporting that a critical remote code execution bug has been found in PHP that was caused by the recent fix for the widespread denial of service via hash collisions vulnerability. "The cause of the problem is the security update to PHP 5.3.9, which was written to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks using hash collisions. To do so, the developers limited the maximum possible number of input parameters to 1,000 in php_variables.c using max_input_vars. Because of mistakes in the implementation, hackers can intentionally exceed this limit and inject and execute code. The bug is considered to be critical as code can be remotely injected over the web."
- Security advisories for Thursday
CentOS has updated openssl (C4:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated tomcat6 (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated BackupPC (F15; F16:
cross-site scripting), polipo (F15; F16:
denial of service), moodle (F15; F16: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (F16: multiple vulnerabilities), xulrunner (F16: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (F16: multiple vulnerabilities),
thunderbird-lightning (F16: multiple
vulnerabilities), gstreamer-plugins-bad-free (F16: multiple
vulnerabilities), and libvpx (F16: multiple
vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated apache
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated firefox (OL4; OL5; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), seamonkey (OL4: multiple vulnerabilities),
thunderbird (OL4; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (OL4: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated openssl (RHEL 4:
multiple vulnerabilities)
Scientific Linux has updated thunderbird (SL4&5; SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), seamonkey (SL4: multiple vulnerabilities), and
openssl (SL4: multiple vulnerabilities).
- Seigo: Spark answers
Aaron Seigo answers questions about the Spark tablet, which is based on Plasma Active, that he announced on January 29. There is more information about the hardware and software, delivery timeframe (May 2012), and pre-orders: "Pre-order registration will open early next week. This was one piece in the puzzle that was taking a bit [longer] than I hoped for to come together, but it's finally slotted in and our distribution partner has got the necessary infrastructure settled. I'll lift the veil off of the pre-order and our distribution strategy when it goes live."
- Gettys: Bufferbloat demonstration videos
Jim Gettys says: "If
people have heard of bufferbloat at all, it is usually just an abstraction
despite having personal experience with it. Bufferbloat can occur in your
operating system, your home router, your broadband gear, wireless, and
almost anywhere in the Internet. They still think that if experience poor
Internet speed means they must need more bandwidth, and take vast speed
variation for granted. Sometimes, adding bandwidth can actually hurt rather
than help. Most people have no idea what they can do about bufferbloat. So
I’ve been working to put together several demos to help make bufferbloat
concrete, and demonstrate at least partial mitigation." Definitely
useful viewing for anybody who is concerned with the problem and how to
begin addressing it.
- [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2012
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2012 is available.
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