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Submission + - DARPA wants to make complex 3D printing trustworthy, dependable, safe (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: If additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are to become mainstream for complex engineering tasks – think building combat fighter aircraft wings or complete rocket engines – there needs to be a major uptick in the reliability and trustworthiness of such tools. That’s what researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aim to do with its Open Manufacturing program which this week announced new labs and other facilities that will be used to develop these additive technologies and prove whether or not they can be trusted for widespread use in complicated applications.

Submission + - SOGo v2.3.0: The viable FOSS alternative to Microsoft Exchange (sogo.nu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Inverse team has just released SOGo v2.3 which features massively improved native Outlook compatibility, improved Enterprise Active``Sync support, Debian Jessie and RHEL 7 support and many enhancements and bug fixes.
With Samba 4 and OpenChange integration, Microsoft Outlook 2003 to 2013 can talk directly to SOGo — just like if it was a Microsoft Exchange server. No plugins are required in Outlook to make this work. A virtual appliance with everything installed and configured is available for download, for testing purposes.
The Courts

Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard 67

Posted by timothy from the one-way-or-another-it's-over dept.
New submitter juniorkindergarten writes: Blackberry and Typo have reached a final settlement that effectively ends Typo selling its iPhone keyboard accessory. Blackberry took Typo to court for twice for patent infringement over the copying of Blackberry's keyboard design. Blackberry and Typo first battled it out in court, with Typo losing for copying the Blackberry Q10 keyboard design. Typo redesigned its keyboard, and again Blackberry sued them for patent infringement. The final result is that Typo cannot sell keyboards for screens less than 7.9", but can still sell keyboards for the iPad and iPad air. Exact terms were not disclosed.

Submission + - Who's behind mysterious flights over US cities? FBI (csmonitor.com)

Submitted by kaizendojo
kaizendojo writes: The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.

Submission + - Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Angie Schmitt writes in Streetsblog USA that city streets with the widest lanes — 12 feet or wider — are associated with greater crash rates and higher impact speeds and that there is hard evidence that wider lanes increase risk on city streets. Dewan Masud Karim conducted a wide-ranging review of existing research as well as an examination of crash databases in two cities, taking into consideration 190 randomly selected intersections in Tokyo and 70 in Toronto. Looking at the crash databases, Karim found that collision rates escalate as lane widths exceed about 10.5 feet. According to Karim "human behavior is impacted by the street environment, and narrower lanes in urban areas result in less aggressive driving and more ability to slow or stop a vehicle over a short distance to avoid collision. Designers of streets can utilize the “unused space” to provide an enhanced public realm, including cycling facilities and wider sidewalks, or to save money on the asphalt not used by motorists." Karim concluded that there is a sweet spot for lane widths on city streets, between about 10 and 10.5 feet.

According to Jeff Speck the fundamental error that underlies the practice of traffic engineering is an outright refusal to acknowledge that human behavior is impacted by its environment and it applies to safety planning, as traffic engineers, designing for the drunk who's texting at midnight, widen our city streets so that the things that drivers might hit are further away. "When lanes are built too wide, many bad things happen. In a sentence: pedestrians are forced to walk further across streets on which cars are moving too fast and bikes don't fit," writes Speck adding that a pedestrian hit by a car traveling 30 mph at the time of impact is between seven and nine times as likely to be killed as one hit by a car traveling 20 mph This tremendously sharp upward fatality curve means that, at urban motoring speeds, every single mile per hour counts. "Every urban 12-foot lane that is not narrowed to 10 feet represents a form of criminal negligence; every injury and death, perhaps avoidable, not avoided—by choice."

Submission + - New SOHO Router Security Audit Uncovers Over 60 Flaws In 22 Models

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: In yet another testament to the awful state of home router security, a group of security researchers uncovered more than 60 vulnerabilities in 22 router models from different vendors, most of which were distributed by ISPs to customers. The researchers performed the manual security review in preparation for their master’s thesis in IT security at Universidad Europea de Madrid in Spain. They published details about the vulnerabilities they found Sunday on the Full Disclosure security mailing list.

Submission + - Has SoundHound's New Hound Service Outdone Siri? (fastcompany.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Hound can parse what you say even when you add complex criteria, exclusions, and negation to the question. For example, ask one of the voice recognition platforms you currently use to "show restaurants that aren't Chinese food" and the platform will latch onto keywords and list Chinese restaurants. Hound understands that negation. Like Siri, it also understands previous question criteria, so asking "What is the population of Japan?" and then "What about China?" gives the population of China. Leave out context and add criteria, it doesn't matter: I saw a demonstration of Hound handling the dizzying request "Give me a hotel room that's more than $300 but less than $400, has WiFi, has air conditioning, picks me up from the airport, and don't show me rooms that don't have air conditioning" —it gave a list of accurate results within a few seconds."
Graphics

Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C 126

Posted by timothy from the chips-and-chips dept.
edxwelch writes: Intel has finally released their Broadwell desktop processors. Featuring Iris Pro Graphics 6200, they take the integrated graphics crown from AMD (albeit costing three times as much). However, they are not as fast as current Haswell flagship processors and they will be soon superseded by Skylake, to be released later this year. Tom's Hardware and Anandtech have the first reviews of the Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C.

Submission + - Measuring the performance of a community manager (opensource.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In an open organization, measuring performance for particular roles like community managers may not be straightforward, especially when comparing those roles to others with more defined success metrics, goals, and outcomes. In Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure from Harvard Business Review, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst explains how to capture difficult-to-measure output and reward influence in an organization. The key points in the article resonated with community manager Jason Hibbets as he thought about his role with Opensource.com. In this article, he takes a look at how the work he do compares to Jim's assessment of how managers can measure performance in an organization.

Submission + - Hiding Exploit Code In Images

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Successfully hiding messages in images has already been done, but is it possible to deliver an exploit in one — and run it?

Saumil Shah, founder and CEO of Net-Square, has demonstrated at Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2015 that it's possible, and has posited that such attacks are more than likely to crop up in the near future, as he can't be the only one who thought about this, tried it and succeeded.

Submission + - Intel releases Broadwell desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C And i5-5675C

Submitted by edxwelch
edxwelch writes: Intel has finally released their Broadwell desktop processors. Featuring Iris Pro Graphics 6200 they take the integrated graphics crown from AMD (albeit costing 3 times as much). However, they are not as fast as current Haswell flagship processors and they will be soon superseded by Skylake, to be released later this year.
Tom's Hardware and Anandtech have the first reviews of the Core i7-5775C And i5-5675C.
GUI

Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements 155

Posted by timothy from the also-delicious dept.
jones_supa writes: The Linux Mint team has just announced that Cinnamon 2.6 desktop environment is considered stable and ready to download. It is a big update. The load times have been greatly improved and unnecessary calculations in the window management part are dropped, leading to a 40% reduction in the number of CPU wakes per second. Other improvements include a screensaver that does more than just lock the screen, panels that can be removed or added individually, a much better System Settings panel that should make things much clearer, a cool new effect for windows, and a brand new plugin manager for Nemo. Linux Mint users will receive the new Cinnamon as an update by the end of the month.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Intel cranks up speed of Thunderbolt 3, builds in support for USB - Computerworld (google.com)

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Computerworld
Intel cranks up speed of Thunderbolt 3, builds in support for USB
Computerworld
Intel is giving Apple and other laptop makers a reason to put its Thunderbolt high-speed data ports back in their next ultrathin laptops: Thunderbolt 3.0 ports will use the same Type C connector as USB 3.1 -- but when connected to other Thunderbolt devices,...
New Thunderbolt USB is reversible and twice as fastIrish Examiner
Thunderbolt 3 spec announced with support for USB-C connector, transfer ... Apple Insider
Intel adopts 40Gb per SECOND USB-C plug for Thunderbolt 3.0The Register
Mac Rumors-CNET
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: Apple, Spotify, and the futile economics of music streaming - VentureBeat (google.com)

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Apple, Spotify, and the futile economics of music streaming
VentureBeat
Several weeks ago, I suggested that it didn't make much sense for Apple to pursue such a thing. While I certainly didn't expect the company to take my advice and forget about streaming, everything I've heard since then has only convinced me that the efforts...
Apple is reportedly days from launching its Spotify-challenging music-streaming ... The Week Magazine
Apple's Streaming Plans Come into Focus as WWDC NearsTom's Guide
Drake and Pharrell rumoured to be iTunes Radio guest DJsThe Guardian
PYMNTS.com-Local 10-Times of India
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Submission + - 100kb of unusual code protecting nuclear, ATC and United Nations systems (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For an ex-academic security company still in the seeding round, startup Abatis has a small but interesting roster of clients, including Lockheed Martin, the Swiss military, the United Nations and customers in the civil nuclear and air traffic control sectors. The company's product, a kernel driver compatible with Windows, Linux and Unix, weighs just 100kb with no dependencies, and achieves a 100% effectiveness rate against intruders by preventing unauthorised I/O activity. The CEO of Abatis claims "We can stop zero day malware — the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns,”. The software requires no use of signature files, white-listing, heuristics or sandboxing, with a separate report [http://www.abatis-hdf.com/downloads/AV%20Power%20Consumption%20Trial%20Executive%20Summary%20v1%200.pdf] from Lockheed Martin confirming very significant potential for energy savings — up to £125,000 p/a in a data centre with 10,000 servers.

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