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Submission + - Startup Britain site points to scareware (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

Jack Spine

on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:30AM

Jack Spine writes: "The Startup Britain site, a knockoff of Startup America, began life on Tuesday helpfully pointing users to a site compromised with fake antivirus.

The site, which is backed by the prime ministers' office, has also been accused of being a taxpayer-funded piss-poor excuse for link-spam."

Submission + - Japanese Nuke Plant Radiation Spotted in UK (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:07AM

Stoobalou writes: Radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has been detected in the UK.
Low levels of radioactive Iodine 131 have been measured in air samples 6,000 miles away from the battered nuclear plant in Oxfordshire and Glasgow although public health officials say there's no need to head for the fallout shelter just yet.

Submission + - Jet Contrails a Big Global Warmer (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:01AM

sciencehabit writes: The white, cloudlike trails left in the wake of high-altitude jets are warming the earth more than the planes' carbon-dioxide emissions, a new study suggests. Although some so-called contrails, which are simply clouds of tiny ice crystals condensed from the moisture in aircraft exhaust, evaporate quickly, many linger for hours and spread across the sky. As much as 6% of eastern North America may be covered with these humanmade clouds, which, just like natural cirrus clouds, block infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface and warm the planet.

Submission + - Apple sets WWDC dates, focuses on iOS, Mac OS X (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday March 28, 2011 @10:26AM

alphadogg writes: Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2011) will be held June 6-10 in San Francisco, and promises to unveil the future of the iOS software used in its iPad and iPhone as well as the Mac OS X software at the heart of its computers. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, says in a statement "If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss." iOS 5 is expected to at least be introduced, Mac OS X Lion is expected to be released and it's unclear whether the iPhone 5 and Steve Jobs will make appearances.

Submission + - EU wants no petrol or diesel cars in cities by 205 (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by zrbyte on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:43AM

zrbyte writes: There should be no petrol or diesel cars in city centres by 2050, the European Commission has proposed.
Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas also set out plans to shift half of "middle distance journeys" from road to rail, and to cut shipping emissions by 40%.
He said: "Freedom to travel is a basic right for our citizens. Curbing mobility is not an option. Nor is business is usual."

Submission + - ISP's war on BitTorrent hits World of Warcraft (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:40AM

jfruhlinger writes: "Canadian Internet users have the prospect of a metered Internet looming over their head, and now World of Warcraft players who use Rogers Communications as their ISP are encountering serious throttling. The culprit seems to be Rogers' determination to go after BitTorrent. WoW uses BitTorrent as a utility to update game files — something most users probably aren't even aware of."

Submission + - LLVM/Clang Still Not Faster Than GCC (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: With the release of GCC 4.6 and LLVM 2.9 coming quite soon, there's new benchmarks of these compilers. GCC 4.5.2, GCC 4.6.0, LLVM DragonEgg, and LLVM Clang are benchmarked on five Linux x86_64 computers. Though LLVM may be the new and modern compiler on the scene from Apple, it's still not decisively faster than GCC. But LLVM/Clang did win in some tests as did DragonEgg, the LLVM plug-in for GCC.

Submission + - Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327 (slackware.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:26AM

An anonymous reader writes: Sun Mar 27 08:28:47 UTC 2011
There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release
candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716.
Very close now! But we'll likely hold out for 2.6.37.6.

Submission + - Iranian Hacker Claims Credit For Comodo Hack (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:22AM

Trailrunner7 writes: Someone claiming to be the person behind last week's attack on a registration authority tied to Comodo has posted an explanation of the methods he supposedly used and the reasons for the attack. The rambling, disjointed message claims that the Comodo attack was not the act of an organized, state-sponsored group, but was instead the work of a lone actor who stumbled upon a way in.
"I was looking to hack some CAs like Thawthe, Verisign, Comodo, etc. I found some small vulnerabilities in their servers, but it wasn't enough to gain access to server to sign my CSRs. During my search about InstantSSL of Comodo, I found InstantSSL.it which was doing same thing under control of Comodo. After a little try, easily I got FULL access on the server, after a little investigation on their server, I found out that TrustDll.dll takes care of signing. It was coded in C#. Simply I decompiled it and I found username/password of their GeoTrust and Comodo reseller account," he said.

Submission + - Norton Insecurity

Submitted by Anne Thwacks on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:10AM

Anne Thwacks writes: A colleague of mine has developed a web shop for his client. The shop is working, but people visiting it with Norton Security on their computer are advised that the site is risky, which is clearly damaging its business prospects.

A visit to Norton's web site suggests that they will remove this notice if he signs up to their program. While this might be free (or might not), it is not something he wishes to do.

How is this not an illegal extortion racket, and illegal restraint of commerce?

Submission + - Facebook Traffic Routed Through China (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28, 2011 @05:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook traffic on some networks was routed through Chinese and Korean servers, raising privacy concerns

A number of Facebook users may have made a detour to China recently on their way to connect with friends.

Some of the network traffic heading to Facebook’s servers in Palo Alto, California was re-routed to first pass through Chinese and Korean servers, according to Barrett Lyon, a network security expert who flagged the incident on 22 March. Lyon suggested in a blog post that it was probably an accident.

Submission + - Google to Hold Back 'Honeycomb' From Phones

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:31PM

adeelarshad82 writes: Andy Rubin, vice-president for engineering at Google and head of its Android group, informed that Google will hold back its Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" to smaller phone manufacturers for undisclosed period of time. He said that Honeycomb was designed for tablets, not phones, and that it had more work to do before Honeycomb was released in an open-source format. Since OEMs like HTC or Motorola already have the code, it puts smaller phone manufacturers at a disadvantage plus carriers like Cricket Wireless, and its plans to carry forthcoming seven-inch Anydata tablet that will run on Honeycomb, up in the air.

Submission + - Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:30PM

jfruhlinger writes: "Time Warner Cable this month released an iPad app that would allow its subscribers to stream (some of) the channels they already pay for to their iPad, so long as they're connected to home Internet service provided by Time Warner Cable. The app probably seems like a baby step to most Slashdotters, and was extremely popular among subscribers — but it's thrown the owners of those channels into a panic, and they're threatening lawsuits. Time Warner says the contracts they've signed with the channel allows broadcast to any device in the home — "I don't know what a TV is anymore" says one company exec — but the channel owners fear that this will disrupt current and future revenue streams and that they need to stop it now. "If we allow this without litigation, everyone will do it tomorrow," says an anonymous source. "If we litigate, we have a chance to win.""

Submission + - Google Withholds Honeycomb Source, Draws Criticism (businessweek.com)

Submitted by bonch on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:23PM

bonch writes: Google is delaying the release of Honeycomb's source for the foreseeable future, drawing criticism form those who recall their original commitment to openness. 'Everyone expects this level of complete trust from a company that's worth $185 billion,' said tech analyst Dave Rosenberg. 'To me, that is ridiculous.' Google claims it's withholding the source so that hardware vendors don't adapt it to form factors on which it won't function properly, but Arstechnica said the decision disregards open source and third-party development, accusing Google of maintaining 'an insular platform mired in a culture of secrecy that serves a small handful of prominent commercial hardware vendors and mobile carriers.'

Submission + - The HP-Oracle-Itanium soap opera: Should you care? (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Friday March 25, 2011 @12:39PM

jfruhlinger writes: "HP, Oracle, and Intel have been engaged in an extremely overdramatic spat conducted entirely by press releases, as Kevin Fogarty explains in hilarious detail: Oracle says that Intel is going to kill the flagging chip, and HP and Intel claim that Oracle is making stuff up to boost flagging Sun server sales at HP's expense. Still, if your organization needs high-end servers, you should try to read between the lines to figure out where this is all going."

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