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Submission + - FCC Relaxed Media Ownership, ignores public (nytimes.com)

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anthrax

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @04:39PM

anthrax writes: "Completely ignoring Congress and public comments, the FCC voted to relax ownership rules which prevented broadcasters from owning newspapers in the nation's 20 largest media markets. After holding several public hearings that overwhelmingly opposed the relaxation or the rules, and Congressional hearing where Democratic and Republican (even Ted "The Internet is Tubes" Stevens) voiced opposition to the move, the FCC voted 3 to 2 to change the rules. Not hard guessing the political affiliation of the votes."

Submission + - SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @11:05AM

SkiifGeek writes: "Late last week the SquirrelMail team posted information on their site about a compromise to the main download repository for SquirrelMail that resulted in a critical flaw being introduced into two versions of the webmail application (1.4.11 and 1.4.12).

After gaining access to the repository through a release maintainer's compromised account (it is believed), the attackers made a slight modification to the release packages, modifying how a PHP global variable was handled. As a result, it introduced a remote file inclusion bug — leading to an arbitrary code execution risk on systems running the vulnerable versions of SquirrelMail.

The poisoning was identified after it was reported to the SquirrelMail team that there was a difference in MD5 signatures for version 1.4.12.

Version 1.4.13 is now available."

Submission + - F/OSS databases may gain on proprietary databases (sun.com)

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walterbyrd

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @09:25AM

walterbyrd writes: "Blog post from Allan Packer (author of Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform) discuses the likelihood of MySQL, PostgreSQL et al challenging Oracle, IBM and Microsoft."

Submission + - Tech giants form chip group (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by BosstonesOwn on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @08:43AM

BosstonesOwn writes: Seven of the world's leading chip makers are collaborating on chips which contain transistors with features just 32 billionths of a metre wide.

IBM, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered, Infineon and Freescale have formed the alliance to cut development costs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7149704.stm

Looks Like AMD found a way to retool to get back into the processor race with Intel.

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