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ImageShack Hacked, Security Groups Threatened 288

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 11, 2009 @11:23AM from the a-picture's-worth-a-couple-hundred-words-or-so dept.

revjtanton writes "Last night a group calling themselves 'Anti-Sec' hacked ImageShack, one of the largest image hosting sites on the web, and replaced many of the site's hosted pictures with one of their own, which detailed their manifesto. The group's grievance is against full-disclosure of exploits, an issue that was debated recently after a presentation on an ATM exploit was canceled. Anti-Sec simply wants the practice within security circles to end, and they've promised to cause 'mayhem and destruction' if it doesn't. These people are taking direct aim against a sector of the IT industry that is already armed to fight the ... but they also already know that. It should be interesting to see how this plays out."

Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks 306

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:31AM from the this-cracks-me-up dept.

viktor.91 writes "Sun Microsystems announced three new MySQL products: MySQL 5.4, MySQL Cluster 7.0 and MySQL Enterprise Partner Program for 'Remote DBA' service providers." which showed up in the firehose today next to Glyn Moody's submission where he writes "Michael Widenius, founder and original developer of MySQL, says that most of the leading coders for that project have either left Sun or will be leaving in the wake of Oracle's takeover. To ensure MySQL's survival, he wants to fork from the official version — using his company Monty Program Ab to create what he calls a MySQL "Fedora" project. This raises the larger question of who really owns a commercial open software application: the corporate copyright holders, or the community?"

Submission + - "Facebook = Bad Grades" based on poor rese (wsj.com)

Submitted by alphacow on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @12:11PM

alphacow writes: The wonderful headline put out by Time magazine earlier this month ("What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades") appears to have been based on some fairly faulty research. While poorly conducted research is nothing new, its interesting to see how the article really describes to the public what you can do with bad research. From the article: "So read another way, the study might just as easily have erroneously concluded that 'Facebook somehow encourages students to seek technical careers rather than humanities interests,' notes Chris Dede, a professor of education at Harvard." Its not too often that the general press actually describes bad research and explains how a poorly conceived study can lead to partly — or completely — false conclusions.

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