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Submission + - DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain (google.com) 3

Submitted by

A Sage Developer

on Thursday November 29, 2007 @07:17PM

A Sage Developer writes: "During a recent conference, Sage Days 6, Dan Bernstein (who has recently come under attack for his licensing policy) was among the invited speakers. During a panel discussion on the future of open source mathematics software, Bernstein declared that all of his past and future code would be released to the public domain (video here). This includes qmail, primegen, and a number of other projects. Given the headache that incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2 is causing developers, will we see more of this?"

Submission + - Mulberry Mail is now open source (mulberrymail.com)

Submitted by Vultan on Thursday November 22, 2007 @12:00AM

Vultan writes: Mulberry Mail has been around for a number of years, but it became free (as in beer) a while back when Cyrusoft stopped marketing it and let its developer, Cyrus Daboo, take ownership of it. Daboo has just announced that Mulberry Mail is now open source under the Apache 2 license. Mulberry is a remarkably full-featured and mature piece of software: it should provide some interesting competition for Thunderbird.

Submission + - Alleged Cisco hacker convicted in Sweden, FBI next (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by JohnnyUtah on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:51PM

JohnnyUtah writes: A 19-year-old Swedish man has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorized access to Swedish university servers and research computers. The FBI also suspects him of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code. He became known as the "Uppsala hacker" after the name of the Swedish city he was living in when the alleged hacks took place, the report indicates he was no older than 16 at the time of the crimes. Swedish police raided his home after a series of intrusions into university systems, seizing computers and other equipment. Police allege the attacks stopped after the raid. The man admitted that he was responsible for creating some of the tools used in the crimes, but professes his innocence saying others who had access to his personal server were responsible. In a separate investigation carried out by the FBI, the same man is suspected of breaking into Cisco servers in May 2004 and stealing source code for networking equipment, which was later posted online. The now 19-year old said he will take the verdict to the Supreme Court, claiming "they have destroyed my life before I'm even a grown-up".

Submission + - Apple, Burst Reach Settlement

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: In 2005, Microsoft settled Burst's lawsuit for infringements on media player patents for $60 million. Many thought that Apple would be a ripe target next. However, Apple successfully voided 14 out of 36 Burst.com's patent claims in iPod lawsuit. Apple would have gone after the remaining 22 claims. Today, Market Wire announced that the case was settled out of court: "Apple agreed to pay Burst a one-time payment of $10 million cash in exchange for a non-exclusive license to Burst's patent portfolio, not including one issued U.S. patent and 3 pending U.S. patent applications related to new DVR technology. Burst agreed not to sue Apple for any future infringement of the DVR patent and any patents that might issue from the pending DVR-related applications." The big winner would be the lawyers who reduced the settlement to approximately $4.6 million.

Submission + - Futurama Movie - Benders Big Score - LEAKED!! (buzzpatrol.com)

Submitted by

Buzz111

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:34PM

Buzz111 writes: "Here are some good news for our fellow lovers of Futurama, the movie 'Bender's Big Score' has leaked online! No doubt a lot of Futurama fans will love this, one wonders what Matt Groening and company thinks."

Submission + - Google building their own switches (lightreading.com)

Submitted by mrand on Monday November 19, 2007 @03:18PM

mrand writes: An analyst tracing optical components has come to an unexpected conclusion: in order to lower its cost and power consumption, Google appears to be designing and manufacturing its own multi-port 10 Gbps Ethernet switch, likely centered around an off-the-shelf component from Broadcom.

Submission + - Why Web-Freedom Should Matter for Stallman Too (logilogi.org)

Submitted by

wybo

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @01:29PM

wybo writes: "As we all know the Web-Loophole was not fixed in GPL v3. But what fewer of us know is that Richard Stallman still really seems to think that Web-applications don't need to be free. In Why Web-Freedom Should Matter for Stallman Too, and as part of it's conversation with Stallman, the LogiLogi Foundation sets out clearly why, with the growth of the web and the slow reduction of the OS to the status of not much more than a device-driver, freedoms are needed on the web too if we want the powerfull ideals of Free Software to remain relevant. A list of four freedoms on each of three different planes (code, data, and the running application) is suggested, but open for debate."

Submission + - Cure for cancer may be ready in two years (newscientist.com)

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Thursday September 20, 2007 @03:02PM

GnarlyDoug writes: Dr Zheng Cui has, through a stroke of luck, found that the granulocytes from some mice are up to 50 times better at fighting cancer than others. He has cured mice with simple transfusions of granulocytes. These cells seem to recognize almost all cancer lines, are extremely effective even in advanced cases, and and the resistance seems to last for the life of the mouse. So not only does this treatment cure many cancers, but it also provides resistance to future cancers as well.

Evidence suggests that this should hold true for humans as well. Because this is based on blood transfusions, a technology already long established, this could be ready to so very soon. The go-ahead for a human trial has already been given, and if it pans out then this could be available in as little as two years time. Some simple tests to find people with the resistant strain of blood and then a system of transfusions is all that is needed to get this started.

If it pans out, we may be looking at a general cure for cancer within a few years time.

Submission + - The aerogel revolution is almost upon us (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Monday August 20, 2007 @01:07PM

GnarlyDoug writes: Aerogels, nicknamed liquid smoke, are basically nanofoam. Imagine a material with such a low density that it is transparent yet extremely tough, and such a good insulator that even asbestos cannot compare. It also has a massive surface area, making it perfect as a filter and purifier. Aerogels have been around since the 1930s but they have mainly been laboratory curiosities because they were so brittle and so expensive to make. It seems that has finally changed and that aerogels are about to become mainstream.

Submission + - Scientists claim to have broken the speed of light (breitbart.com)

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Thursday August 16, 2007 @03:40PM

GnarlyDoug writes: German scientists claim that they have broken the speed of light barrier while researching quantum tunneling. In effect they claimed that some photons traveled a greater distance than other photons in the same amount of time, and thus moved faster than the speed of light. Personally I'll wait to see what happens when their tests are peer reviewed and duplicated, but it's interesting.

Submission + - Microsoft unveils new device called Surface

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @12:01PM

GnarlyDoug writes: According to MSNBC, Microsoft has a new device called Surface . It is in effect a very large touch-screen device built into a large work surface, and it looks like Bill Gates sees this as the future of computing. What do you think?

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