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Submission + - Why Apple's Steve Jobs released Safari for Windows (macdailynews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: SteveJack writes for MacDailyNews, 'Steve Jobs, by releasing Safari to Windows, has laid the foundation for the next major computing platform which will be Web-based, built for Safari, mobile, and Apple's. The big question is what, if anything (apart from the usual FUD campaign), can Microsoft do to effectively respond to this massive threat?'
OS X

Submission + - Finally, procfs for Mac OS X

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Have a burning desire to browse processes as files on your Mac like you can on most UNIX type systems? Amit Singh over at the Mac OS X Internals site has released an open source procfs filesystem for OS X. The implementation uses Google's MacFUSE which brought all the goodness of user filesystems to Mac earlier this year. In addition to things like Mach task and thread info, virtual memory, ports etc... The procfs also shows motionsensor and lightsensor data so you can simply cat these files to get sensor readings. Just like on Linux. There's also code to show TPM chip info. Cool! PS: didn't know kernel is pid 0 :)

Two Worm "Families" Make Up Most Botnets 176

Posted by CmdrTaco from the why-can't-they-fight-eachother-instead-of-us dept.
JMoon writes "HNS has an article about the Sdbot and Gaobot families which are responsible for most botnets worldwide. These two families were responsible for 80 percent of detections related to bots during the first quarter of 2007. Other culprits, although on a much lesser scale, included Oscarbot, IRCbot or RXbot."
Programming

Submission + - Google Delivers Maps Mashup Tool for Non-Techies

Submitted by PatPending
PatPending writes: Google Inc. has created a tool called "My Maps" to let non-technical users create Google Maps mashups, extending this capability beyond the realm of software developers. http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=e n&tab=wl&q= My Maps has a graphical, drag-and-drop interface that lets users create a map, add placemarks to it, as well as draw lines and shapes. Users can also add notes, photos, audio clips and videos to placemarks.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected mode

Journal by thisispurefud
Determina is previewing a version of the ANI exploit that will hijack Mozilla Firefox 2 as well as Internet Explorer 7 running on Vista. At this time, Alexander Sotirov (chief reverse engineer at Determina) has said that the proof-of-concept exploit code won't be released until there is a patch available in Firefox. What's interesting about this is the fact that Firefox doesn't have the benefit of Protected Mode under Vista, which can somewhat mitigate the damage that can be done if Internet Ex
Security

WoW Players Targeted By Windows Flaw Exploit 130

Posted by Zonk from the keep-your-cursors-peeled dept.
grimwell writes "The BBC is carrying the story that the ANI flaw is being used to target World of Warcraft players, as hackers search for account details. 'Analysis of that malicious software showed that it lay dormant on a victims machine until they ran World of Warcraft (WoW) at which point it captured login data and sent it to the hacking group ... Research by security firm Symantec suggests that the raw value of a WoW account is now higher than a credit card and its associated verification data.'" Doubtless, any compromised accounts would quickly see their equipment sold, and the resulting gold transferred to another account. This gold would then be sold for US currency to Real Money Traders like the company IGE.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - OpenBSD copies Linux code without attribution

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems like the OpenBSD guys are not as serious about copyright of other people as they claim they are. According to a post on various mailing lists the GPL'd bcm43xx driver has been copied into OpenBSD's bcw driver with all copyright notices removed and illegally relicensed as BSD license. One might wonder what other 'interesting' copyrighted code might lurk in that codebase...
Software

Submission + - VMWare cuts web application performance by 43%

Submitted by
czei
czei writes: "This just released research report Load Testing a Virtual Web Application looks at the effects of virtualization on a typical ASP web application, using VMWare on Linux to host a Windows OS and IIS web server. While virtualizing the server made it easier to manage, the performance of the system dropped by 43%. The article also shows interesting graphs of how hyper-threading affected the performance of IIS."
Portables

Submission + - Meet the OLPC team

Submitted by
gregdek
gregdek writes: "Wanna meet the people responsible for developing the OLPC? Red Hat Magazine is running the first of a series of videos on the OLPC team. Go inside OLPC headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Meet the faces behind the education-meets-technology project. See where they work, how they work, and why they work."
iMac

Submission + - Apple's iMac to get first redesign in nearly 3 yea

Submitted by bobbybobber
bobbybobber writes: Apple's popular iMac personal computer line is about to undergo a major facelift that will give way to some striking new industrial designs, according to AppleInsider. The Apple news site, which has a solid track record with its predictions on future Apple products, claims that new 20- and 24-inch models will be outfit in sexier enclosures that are noticeably thinner than the current iMac offerings. The bad news is that Apple will not carry the new industrial designs over to the 17-inch model, which is rumored to be on its way out of the iMac lineup. The new iMacs should arrive ahead of the educational buying season, which heats up in late June.
Programming

Submission + - Agents learning to talk to each other

Submitted by
bbc
bbc writes: "When programs talk to each other, they need to share a common language before they can initiate the conversation. PhD student Jurriaan van Diggelen developed a system called Anemone that will let agents learn each other's languages during the conversation. The problems that he foresees for such a system are words that an agent doesn't understand, and concepts that an agent doesn't understand.

Van Diggelen will defend his thesis called Achieving Semantic Interoperability in Multi-Agent Systems on March 21 in Utrecht."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks

Submitted by
writertype
writertype writes: "Are you a slob? Do you pile papers on top of folders on top of game boxes? Here's the thing that those anal neat people can't even conceive of: you're more productive than they are. That's the conclusion of "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity."

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