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Submission + - Are Private Trackers safer?

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neuron2neuron
neuron2neuron writes: "Just how safe are private torrent trackers? With a renewed burst of litigations and letters hitting net users mailboxes, this analysis of the safety/security provided by such trackers asks the question — How safe are private sites from investigation?"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Verizon Wireless To Spend $6B On Network Upgrade

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narramissic
narramissic writes: "Verizon Wireless has signed a 3-year, $6 billion contract with Alcatel-Lucent to update its wireless data network. The network update is part of Verizon Wireless' transition to an all-IP network and will also support other new multimedia services that combine voice, data and video. 'Growth in wireless is not just about voice but about all the other things we can do with wireless phones like watch television, movies, take pictures, send messages, manage calendars and so on,' commented independent industry analyst Jeff Kagan."
Biotech

Submission + - Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human

Submitted by Strudelkugel
Strudelkugel writes: The Mail reports "Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera — which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells — and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer. Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus. He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep." But there are risks: "But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race." Plus the sheep might start gambling excessively for all we know.
Media

Submission + - HD DVD lagging, NEC making Blu-ray players

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Former HD-DVD champion NEC has turned agnostic and is working with Sony to launch a lineup of Blu-ray players. This is presumably driven by the market numbers, which show Blu-ray outselling HD-DVD by nearly 5:1 last week according to Neilsen. NEC isn't the only member of the HD DVD which is wavering. Microsoft is openly discussing Blu-ray support for the XBox 360, and rumors are swirling that Universal is considering Blu-ray. To stay in the game, Toshiba is slashing HD DVD player prices to $399, though Blu-ray players are selling for $469 on Amazon. Of course, DVD is outselling both and neither format has any real open source support, so maybe none of this matters.
Linux Business

Submission + - Microsoft's project to classify Linux users

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RJ2770
RJ2770 writes: "Microsoft has started a project for their partners to help identify the personas of different Linux users in an attempt to sway them toward Microsoft products. They've created a web site (http://www.linuxpersonas.com) and released a webcast (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f amilyid=fc78610a-711d-4de7-9ae5-cc8b57d38d7d&displ aylang=en&tm). Hurry over and find out how Microsoft classifies you!"
Intel

Submission + - The Multicore CPU Race Is On

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Anonymous
Anonymous writes: "Data center consolidation and virtualization may be driving server implementations these days, but there's a much more fundamental shift occurring at the microprocessor platform level. To wit, an article on ChannelWeb.com reports that systems based on the industry-standard x86 architecture are taking on a predominant role in the overall infrastructure, rivaling the performance and capability of higher-end processors. At the same time, new generations of RISC-based enterprise platforms that run improved multithreaded implementations of Unix are making huge strides in throughput and performance."
The Internet

Submission + - Internet2 and National LambdaRail to Merge

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An anonymous reader writes: [From Arstechnica] The two main US providers of high-speed networks to academic and research institutions, Internet2 and National LambdaRail, have finally agreed to merge — and they're doing so just as quickly as the connections they provide. After tussling over the details of such an agreement for more than a year, the two groups have suddenly decided to put final merger documents before their respective boards by April 20, with merger completion to take place by June 29. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070319-high -speed-academic-networks-kiss-make-up-then-merge.h tml
Businesses

Submission + - DRM will cost over $9 billion the 5 coming years

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DRM coward
DRM coward writes: "According to a recent report, companies will spend over 9 billion dollars on DRM technology, hardware and software, over the 5 coming years. At the end of 2007 over 1 billion dollars will have been spent on trying to prevent copyrighted material from spreading without control. The study, which was published by Insight Research, states that the industry is not moving to a more userfriendly nature, but actually on the contrary. More and more, companies will be working on creating tougher and tougher protections with less and less care for the end-users."
Announcements

Submission + - Free GPS Navigation for Mobile Phones is here

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Veripath Navigator
Veripath Navigator writes: "Most people who use GPS navigation pay for it. Veripath Navigator is a new alternative. It is a Java-based GPS voice navigation system that works on most Java-enabled phones / PDAs. Veripath supports devices with internal or external (via Bluetooth) GPS receivers, has clear voice instructions, business / POI finder, auto-rerouting and most features of a traditional navigation system. Sign up to get up to 5 trips per month for free. http://veripath.us/"
Security

Submission + - OpenBSD: Now 2 remote holes in more than 10 years

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Saint Aardvark
Saint Aardvark writes: "CoreLabs released an advisory today about a remote hole in OpenBSD. The vulnerability, which affects versions 3.1, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0 and the upcoming 4.1 release (for code obtained prior to Feb 26th; the upcoming CD is fine), comes from the way OpenBSD's IPv6 code handles mbufs. Theo's terse announcement is an interesting counterpoint to Core Security's timetable, which details their efforts to convince the OpenBSD team of the flaw's seriousness. The workaround is to block IPv6. Discussion continues on Undeadly.org, and a short discussion of the flaw's details can be found here."
Announcements

Submission + - Dell Takes Linux Survey

Submitted by Ciaran Mooney
Ciaran Mooney writes: After the Dell Idea storm-Linux fiasco, it looks like Dell actually listened to the suggestions. They have set up an online survery to find out what kind of Linux install people want. Take the survey and help make the world a better place. Dell Survey
Security

Submission + - Certification of AV companies "worthless"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: You may have noticed that packaging or advertisements for your anti-virus program carries a certificate from Checkmark. Computer Shopper has an interesting article explaining how AV companies achieve those certifications. Basically, they just pay Checkmark to provide them with a certificate. The author explains how samples are provided before testing, and the products retested until they pass. In his words "It is hard to imagine circumstances where an anti-virus product could fail this test."
Security

Submission + - Report: Sloppy firms, not hackers, cause breaches

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BobB
BobB writes: "Electronic records in the United States are streaming out of companies at a rate of 6 million a month this year, up roughly 200,000 a month from last year, according to a University of Washington researcher. About a third of 550 breaches were attributable to malicious hacks between 1980 and 2006, whereas 60% happened as a result to organizational mismanagement, the study says. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1241 2"

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