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Hardware Hacking

Submission + - TI Calculator DRM Defeated (ticalc.org)

Submitted by josath
josath writes: Texas Instrument's flagship calculator, the Nspire, was hacked to allow user-written programs earlier this year. Earlier this month, TI released an update to the OS that runs on the calculator, providing no new features, but only blocking the previous hack. Now, just a few weeks later, Nleash has been released, which defeats this protection. The battle rages on as users fight for the right to run their own software on their own hardware...

Submission + - Slashdot is Dying, New York Times Confims It (nytimes.com) 12

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times is running a story about how Slashdot has dropped in popularity compared to other news sites in social web space. Quote: "Why is Slashdot almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to tech web sites, but now it hardly delivers any traffic at all to them. We explore some of the reasons, including input from our own community."
GNOME

Submission + - GNOME Contributions: Canonical 1% - Red Hat 16% !! (digitizor.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war – Canonical’s contribution to GNOME is only a mere 1%, while Red Hat contributes 16%.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Richard Garriott Wins $28 Million from NCSoft Suit (prnewswire.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Last year Lord British sued NCSoft over stocks and severance and yesterday his lawyers announced he has won $28 million from NCSoft. His legal team said "In Texas, a deal is a deal, no matter how a company might try to spin the events after the fact. We're pleased that the jury listened to the facts in this case, and decided it is 'game over' for NCsoft's attempt to deny Richard what he is rightfully owed." The three-and-a-half-day trial and three hours of deliberations by a jury resulted in quite the haul for Garriott.
Games

Submission + - Angry players lash out at CCP over bugs (eveonline.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: A straight forward request from the creators of Eve Online (CCP) to their players to support a bid for best online game at the European Games Award quickly turned embarassing when an angry player base almost universally refused, often throwing support behind other games instead. Players of the beleagered game have been angered by the lack of progress made in squashing bugs that snuck into the last few expansions as well as a recent development blog saying that no developers will be free to work on reviewing existing content for at least 18 months.
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone data leads to rape charges being dropped (theage.com.au) 1

Submitted by one eyed kangaroo
one eyed kangaroo writes: The Age reports that a Sydney man has used deleted iPhone messages to have serious charges against him dropped.
"In what may be the first time an iPhone's elephantine memory has saved someone accused of a serious crime, deleted data retrieved by a leading surveillance expert appears to have led to the dropping of five rape charges against a Sydney man." His lawyer said, "'Without the ability of Coulthart to drag the content out, a man's life may have been ruined'.'
Graphics

Submission + - OpenGL 4.1 Specification Announced (extremetech.com)

Submitted by WesternActor
WesternActor writes: The Khronos Group has announced full details for the OpenGL 4.1 specification. Among the new features of the spec, which comes just five months after the release of the 4.0 specification, is full support for OpenGL ES, which simplifies porting between mobile and desktop platforms. It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this new spec has on the graphics industry--more compatibility could change the way many embedded systems are designed. There are lots of other changes and additions in the spec, as well.
Amiga

Submission + - Amiga Turns 25

Submitted by
retsamxaw
retsamxaw writes: "It is the 25th anniversary of the Amiga today. I got the news from @craigerskine on Twitter, and sure enough — almost no coverage of a massive, historical computing event. Here is one story at Technologizer."
Apple

Submission + - Apple Engineer Told Jobs About iPhone Antenna (bloomberg.com) 1

Submitted by Garabito
Garabito writes: An anonymous source inside Apple told Bloomberg that Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may hurt reception. A carrier partner also raised concerns about the antenna before the device’s June 24 release, according to another person familiar with the situation.

Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, declined to comment. Apple plans to hold a press conference tomorrow about the device. Dowling declined to elaborate on what will be discussed. A separate person familiar with the matter said Apple doesn’t plan to announce a recall of the phone.
Software

Submission + - Texas Instruments takes control of TI-Nspire users

Submitted by DJ Omnimaga
DJ Omnimaga writes: Since Ndless, a tool allowing 3rd-party softwares to be ran on the TI-Nspire, has been released on ticalc.org (link: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145908.html ), Texas Instruments has done everything to prevent users from using it. TI trapped the newest OS (version 2.1) that permanently block the handheld from downgrades to OS 1.6 or older. Ndless requires OS 1.1, meaning that once the user upgrades his TI-Nspire to the new OS, he will never be able to use Ndless again on his machine. Is TI going the way Apple and Sony did?

Without Ndless, it is impossible to run ARM9 assembly language applications on the TI-Nspire series of handhelds. Only simple softwares may be written, programmed in the very slow and limited TI-BASIC language available on the Operating System.

More information about the anti-downgrade protection can be found at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic=3761 . The original article, in French, was posted at http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=837 .

Ndless release original news article on Ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145908.html
Link to OS 2.1 for the TI-Nspire: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&tabId=1&appId=6766
Censorship

Submission + - UK gov't pressured Facebook to remove page (wikinews.org)

Submitted by
Thinboy00
Thinboy00 writes: "The UK government pressured Facebook to remove a page; Facebook said no. The page contained what Prime Minister David Cameron described as "a whole host of anti-police statements", and as we all know, the UK government can't stand any opposition to the police. The page was a tribute to British killer Raoul Moat. Facebook responded "Facebook is a place where people can express their views and discuss things in an open way as they can and do in many other places, and as such we sometimes find people discussing topics others may find distasteful, however that is not a reason in itself to stop a debate from happening.""

Submission + - Apple knew of antenna problem says Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Jack Kolesar
Jack Kolesar writes: Bloomberg is reporting that an Apple engineer repotted the antenna design issues long ago and that service providers complained as well prior to the phone's release. The plot thickens or had many already assumed this?

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