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KDE

KDE 4.5 Released 302

Posted by Soulskill from the newer-and-shinier dept.
An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."

Comment That's not a very good method of tracking usage... (Score 1) 548

by erayd (#33202396) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

...the program is to be added to the daily Cron jobs to be executed so that each day it will report to Canonical over HTTP the number of times this system previously sent to Canonical...

That's not a very good method of tracking usage - not everybody leaves their PC on 24/7, so the cronjob may not always run - and using the number of cronjob runs as a counter for how long the system has been active isn't a great idea either. Storing the install date and sending that would be a better indication.
KDE

KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing 187

Posted by timothy from the that's-software-compilation-to-you dept.
An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."
Security

With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair 258

Posted by CmdrTaco from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.
JDRucker writes "Supporters are concerned. Very concerned. Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise. Wikileaks' submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world's most prominent secret-spilling website."
Cellphones

Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year 183

Posted by Soulskill from the soon-we-can-expand-crysis-jokes-to-phones dept.
rocket97 writes "On Wednesday, at the Executives Club of Chicago, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly decided to chat about the relatively near future of the mobile landscape as he sees it — which, in part, includes the ultimate demise of mobile computers in favor of highly-capable smartphones. This being his vision, Jha discussed Motorola's plans for a smartphone with a 2GHz processor — by the end of this year. While Jha did not want to divulge any further information, Conceivably Tech cites another anonymous Motorola executive who was a little more chatty, talking up a device intended to 'incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smartphone today.'"
Toys

Brick Shooting Shotgun Built From Lego By 15-Year-Old 70

Posted by samzenpus from the knock-your-block-off dept.
Lanxon writes "A mildly terrifying young Brit named Jack Streat has managed to build a series of working guns, including a Lee Enfield bolt-action sniper rifle, entirely out of Lego and rubber bands, reports Wired. Streat, who lists himself as 15 years old on his profile, has constructed an enormous and diverse armory of weaponry that fire either rubber bands or Lego bricks. Most are based on real-life guns, including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun and a minigun that he calls the Obliterator."
Microsoft

Submission + - Bing Localizations break links

Submitted by crossmr
crossmr writes: Since I moved halfway across the world, I have found that a lot of websites and software likes to make assumptions about you based on your IP. While it isn't obvious if you move to a country that has the same native language as you it becomes rather apparent when you move to a country with a different native language. Besides Windows Live Messenger sending me updates in Korean, even though I've selected English as my language and my account was created in an English speaking country years ago, Microsoft has taken this a step further with Bing and absolutely destroying links people send. A Bing video was linked on facebook today. Those of you in North America and maybe the UK will have no issue viewing the video. However here in South Korea Microsoft has decided that instead of serving the linked content, they're going to break the link and redirect to a local provider doing a search for itself. While I can appreciate that a site like google redirects to a Korean version when you go to google.com from Korea, they don't invalidate links to deeper content just because you're out of the country. I cannot find any obvious way to disable this "service". I had no inclination to use Bing before, but even less now.
Australia

Submission + - Steven Conroy Does it Again (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Hoarse Whisperer
Hoarse Whisperer writes: Australian Federal Government Communications Minister Steven Conroy had this to say about Google's recent blunder involving un-secured wireless routers:
''If you had an unprotected Wi-Fi router in your house and you were doing a banking transaction or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it up into their machine,'' ... and yes, this is the same guy who is in charge of the plan to filter the internet in Australia. We're screwed.

Submission + - Plastic Antibodies Fight Off Antigens Like the Rea (popsci.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We use plastics to make everything from our computers to our toothbrushes, but a collaboration of researchers from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Shizuoka in Japan has made a big breakthrough by taking plastics to microscopic levels. Using plastic nanoparticles just 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, the team has created plastic antibodies that successfully function in the bloodstream of living animals to identify and fight a variety of antigens.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Impersonates Bank Officials to Pitch IE8

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Techflash reports that Microsoft is employing old-fashioned fear tactics in the latest IE8 TV ads, showing New Yorkers getting ripped off at a scam bank. Microsoft explains it's staged live recreations of notorious internet scams to 'raise awareness of just how easy it is to fall victim to these risks and to highlight some of the ways that Internet Explorer 8 can help to protect you.'
Graphics

Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday 151

Posted by Soulskill from the how-about-games-with-a-three-dimensional-story dept.
Stoobalou writes "Sony plans to show off the first 3D PlayStation 3 games in the UK on 10 June, with a retail launch on 11 June. If you were wondering why Sony is shutting down half the PSN today for maintenance, then wonder no more. We reckon the company's simply gearing up for the launch of the PlayStation 3's first stereoscopic 3D games. Unfortunately, many game developers are seemingly indifferent to the 3D revolution at the moment. In fact, EA CEO John Riccitiello reckons that it's going to be a good three years before 3D becomes a standard gaming feature. Riccitiello explained that there's a big difference between converting a game to run in 3D mode and properly developing it to take full advantage of the extra dimension."
Privacy

AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users 284

Posted by samzenpus from the sieve-security dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Daily Tech reports that in what is one of the biggest leaks of email addresses in recent history, a group called Goatse Security has published the personal email addresses of 114,067 iPad 3G purchasers in what appears to be a legal fashion by querying a public interface that AT&T accidentally left exposed. Apparently AT&T left a script on its public website, which when handed an ICC-ID would respond back with the email address of the subscriber. This apparently was intended for an AJAX-style response inside AT&T's web apps. Gawker reports that it's possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the US has been exposed. 'This is going to hurt the telecommunications company's already poor image with iPhone and iPad customers, and complicate its very profitable relationship with Apple,' writes Ryan Tate, adding that the leak is likely to unnerve customers thinking of buying iPads that connect to AT&T's cellular network. 'Although the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers, Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads.' In a statement, AT&T says that the issue was escalated to the highest levels of the company and that it has essentially turned off the feature that provided the email addresses. 'We are continuing to investigate and will inform all customers whose email addresses and ICC IDS may have been obtained,' says AT&T. 'We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted.'"
KDE

A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 122

Posted by timothy from the delicious-candy dept.
dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."

Comment Re:Worthless plan (Score 1) 169

by erayd (#32500066) Attached to: NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home

Google is your friend. Clue one. The southern cross cable *network* doesn't just go to Austria.

I am fully aware of that fact, and I did check Google before posting. Now instead of being so patronising, I suggest you make note of the following clues yourself, and then provide some evidence to back up your claim:

  1. I never claimed the SSC system was a single cable - read my post again.
  2. The SSC system doesn't go to *Austria* either - we don't live in the middle of Europe.
  3. The SSC system is a ring network connecting NZ and Australia to the US via Hawaii & Fiji (ref).
  4. There is no other cable system connecting NZ to anywhere of note internationally with a design capacity over half a gigabit or so.
  5. You mention additional cables headed to the US and Japan with capacity charges on the order of 'cents per 100 gigabits', yet I find it extremely hard to believe such a claim - if that were true, then I could lease the entire capacity of one of the other low-capacity cables for a couple of bucks.

So as I said before - references please. Your claim has no credibility otherwise.

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