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Submission + - Wikipedia's just the beginning

Submitted by

Raindance

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @06:01PM

Raindance writes: "What fundamentally new things should we expect to arise from wikis? From Larry Sanger's Keynote at Germany's Handelsblatt IT Congress: "What if there were similar, Wikipedia-like global collaborations for every profession and global industry? Our professions and industries worldwide could use the same sort of collaborative techniques to create new kinds of resources that would be enormously valuable. Imagine what people in your industry, or your profession, could do if very many of them were ready to get together to collaborate online, Wikipedia-style.""

Submission + - MS Confirms 5th Office Zero-day Attack

Submitted by

El Tiante

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @04:07PM

El Tiante writes: "Microsoft has confirmed a fifth zero-day attack against Microsoft Office users, warning against opening Excel files that arrive unexpectedly, even if it comes from trusted sources. Although .xls files are currently being used to launch the attacks, users of other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.) are potentially at risk. Confirmed vulnerable: Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Office 2004 v. X for Mac."

Submission + - Crystalspace 1.0 released

Submitted by Qbertino on Saturday February 03, 2007 @03:39PM

Qbertino writes: The high-end open-source 3D engine Crystalspace has reached Version 1.0. From the website: "After almost 10 years of development we finally release Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer 1.0!" Crytalspace has several sub-projects: A game engine called CEL, a scripting exstension for that game engine called Cellstart, and CrystalCore, a single-player FPS Demo-Game built to show off Crystalspaces features. Crystalspace is generally considered a modern and extremely powerfull 3D engine and allready is in use in commercial products.

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