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Submission + - Joost Signs on New Partners, Opens Up Invites

Submitted by rm69990
rm69990 writes: The new Joost internet television service, formerly known as the Venice Project, announced a handful of new content distribution agreements. In addition to previously-announced content deals with CBS and Viacom, Joost will also carry programming from CNN and other Turner Broadcasting System properties. Current beta users will also be able to invite anyone to sign up with Joost in advance of the service moving out of its beta phase later this month, as opposed to the old system where invites were sparse, much like the very early days of Gmail.
The Internet

Submission + - Digg.com down!

Submitted by ljh83
ljh83 writes: As 10,000's of diggers rebel against the populaur sute, digg.com went down for a brief period (timing out), and was replaced with a "we will be back shortly" message soon after.

A digg-insiders blog http://blog.digg.com/?p=74 talks about the recent digging of the HD-DVD keys, and gives us the situation from their point of view.
Wine

Transgaming Introduces Cedega 6.0 246

Posted by CowboyNeal from the because-rebooting-sucks dept.
Tux Penguin writes "Today Transgaming introduced Cedega 6.0, which is the popular Linux game emulator based upon WINE. Among the new features in Cedega 6.0 is support for a number of new games, Shader Model 2.0 support, new FBO extensions support, and ALSA audio. Phoronix has provided a performance preview that has Doom 3 and Enemy Territory benchmarks from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, WINE, and Cedega."

Nagios System and Network Monitoring 116

Posted by samzenpus from the keep-an-eye-on-things dept.
David Martinjak writes "Nagios is an open source application for monitoring hosts, services, and conditions over a network. Availability of daemons and services can be tested, and specific statistics can be checked by Nagios to provide system and network administrators with vital information to help sustain uptime and prevent outages. Nagios: System and Network Monitoring is for everyone who has a network to run." Read on for the rest of the review.
Movies

DVD Security Group Says It Has Fixed AACS Flaws 388

Posted by Zonk from the harder-boiled-egg dept.
SkillZ wrote to mention an article at the IBT site discussing a fix to the security breech of the HD DVD and Blu-ray media formats. "Makers of software for playing the discs on computers will offer patches containing new keys and closing the hole that allowed observant hackers to discover ways to strip high-def DVDs of their protection. On Monday, the group that developed the Advanced Access Content System said it had worked with device makers to deactivate those keys and refresh them with a new set."

Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life 123

Posted by Zonk from the gaaames-in-spaaace dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, 'CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public...' Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life."
Google

Google Pushes Open Source OCR 212

Posted by Zonk from the google-has-taken-all-knowledge-to-be-its-provice dept.
SocialWorm writes "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will 'advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.' OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus. 'The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies, and to deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis, and general desktop use. In addition, we are structuring the system in such a way that it will be easy to reuse by other researchers in the field.'"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Ziggurat Con - The First War Zone Game Convention

Submitted by
Aeonite
Aeonite writes: "When President Bush ordered troops to Iraq, he probably never imagined that he would be ultimately be responsible for what very well could be the very first D&D convention/game day ever held in a war zone. Ziggurat Con, being held June 9 from 1200 to 2100 hours at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase, is open to all allied military personnel and civilian contractors in Iraq."
Encryption

Submission + - Seagate's Full Disk Encryption (FDE) hard drive

Submitted by
Doctor High
Doctor High writes: "Josh Kuo's article Seagate's Full Disk Encryption (FDE) hard drive talks about the pros and cons of using the new Momentus FDE notebook drives from Seagate. They feature hardware encryption of the entire drive, so it is an excellent security mechanism to prevent data loss in the event that the laptop itself is stolen. However, what about the inevitable lost passwords?"
Power

Submission + - New solar cells that don't need direct sunlight

Submitted by ultracool
ultracool writes: New solar cells developed by researchers at the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand don't need direct sunlight to operate and use a patented range of dyes that can be impregnated in roofs, window glass and eventually even clothing to produce power. Researchers at the centre have developed the dyes from simple organic compounds closely related to those found in nature, where light-harvesting pigments are used by plants for photosynthesis.

Feed Apple Still Can't Buy Beatles' Love (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
The long and winding road to DRM-free downloads from a major record label led this week to the door of The Beatles' label, EMI. To the disappointment of many, the deal between Apple and EMI won't include the long-awaited release of the Fab Four's catalog on the iTunes Music Store.


Feed EMI's Last-Ditch Effort: DRM-Free Music (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
In its deal with iTunes, EMI is planting a flag in the online music marketplace as the first major label to drop the DRM software restricting music copying. The company is gambling that music lovers won’t mind paying a little more - - $1.29 versus .99 - - for hassle-free, higher quality music files.


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