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Wireless (Apple)

Submission + - iPhone brings down Duke wifi network

Submitted by ecklesweb
ecklesweb writes: Inside Higher Education has a story that the iPhone is too popular at Duke. In nine incidents since Friday — the most recent Tuesday afternoon — as many as 30 of university's wireless routers have been knocked out of service for 10 minute intervals, after being flooded with as many as 18,000 requests per second that are believed to be coming from the iPhone's built-in 802.11b/g wi-fi adapter.
Security

Bill Gates Should Buy Your Buffer Overruns 196

Posted by CmdrTaco from the we're-having-a-sale-today-on-core-dumps dept.
Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton has written in with his latest essay. He starts "WabiSabiLabi generated some controversy recently by announcing their eBay-like site for security researchers to sell security exploits to the highest bidder. But WabiSabiLabi didn't create the black-and-grey market for security exploits, they merely helped draw attention to it. There's nothing that companies like Microsoft can do about the black market where security exploits sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but there's one obvious thing they can do to help protect users: offer to buy up the security vulnerabilities themselves. If they did that, then the exploits would probably never make it onto a black-market auction in the first place, because the "white hat" researchers would have found them and reported them first. Thus I think WabiSabiLabi is doing the world a favor, by shining a spotlight on the black market that thrives when companies won't pay for security bug reports." Click that magical little read more link below to continue the thought.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Core 2 Extreme Mobile X7800 Chip

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: News broke earlier this week regarding Intel's new family of desktop processors that feature a new core stepping and support for a 1333MHz front side bus speed. Intel, however, has also announced a brand new flagship mobile processor, dubbed the Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X7800. This new mobile CPU is fundamentally similar to other Merom-core based mobile processors. However, the 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X7800 sports a number of features that set it apart from the rest of Intel's mobile offerings, like an unlocked multiplier, a new deeper sleep state, and dynamic FSB switching. More details regarding the new Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X7800 are shown here.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S.

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.

More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday.

"I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote.
Yahoo!

Submission + - Ever seen anything like this? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Jorn Olsen works for the Dutton-Lainson Co. in Hastings, Nebraska, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College . The other night he took these photos . The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home."
Google

Submission + - Google to acquire Postini (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
Dynamoo
Dynamoo writes: "Google has announced that it is to acquire Postini — a company best known for its corporate spam filtering and security service, but also active in Instant Messaging and compliance areas.

The deal is to purchase Postini for $625m in cash. The acquisition is slated to enhance Google's application portfolio, and Google will also acquire several very large Blue Chip customers that have previously eluded it. More details can be found here."
The Courts

Submission + - Swedish ISPs to reveal file-sharers' IP addresses

Submitted by paulraps
paulraps writes: Sweden's Justice Department is backing a new proposal that would enable copyright holders to find out the identities of people illegally sharing their material on the internet. If the draft proposal results in new legislation it will allow courts to order internet providers to reveal the identities of people suspected of sharing files containing copyrighted material.
Robotics

Submission + - BJ the Linux powered robotic dog

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IXS Japan has announced a 4 legged walking robot BJ which is almost the same size as the Sony Aibo. The Linux powered dog has 3 joints for each leg (12 in all), 2 for neck, 1 for jaw and 16 for tail. It is powered by an i.MX Core 11 CPU, 64MB RAM and 16MB Flash ROM. BJ has a 350,000 pixel CMOS sensor (30 fps), 1 x Distance sensor, 1 x Acceleration sensor and 4 x Metal sphere sensors. It goes on sale later this year for $4850.
Google

Submission + - China's new ballistic-missile sub on Google Earth

Submitted by MsManhattan
MsManhattan writes: A rare public view of China's new ballistic-missile submarine is available on Google Earth, according to Hans Kristensen, a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists. The Chinese military typically keeps a low profile, by the image was captured by the commercial Quickbird satellite late last year. While some features of the sub are discernible from the photograph, such as the overall length, 'the picture was not clear enough to resolve a debate over whether the Jin-class submarine has tubes for 12 or 16 nuclear-tipped missiles,' Kristensen says.
AMD

Submission + - AMD-ATI TV Wonder 650 PCIe Card Launched (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: ATI's TV Wonder series of TV tuners have been around for a long time, with recent flavors supporting HDTV tuning and output for free-to-air programming only. Today AMD-ATI has launched their new TV Wonder 650 PCI Express-based card. This review and showcase explores the card's capabilities with both local air HDTV feeds, as well as cable driven local HDTV content. The new TV Wonder 650 utilizes a PCIe X1 slot but the product still doesn't support cable card just yet. The addition of an FM radio tuner was a nice bonus though.
United States

Submission + - IRS Tracking Party Affiliation (thenewstribune.com) 1

Submitted by
cybermage
cybermage writes: "According to the News Tribune, the IRS is tracking the party affiliation of taxpayers in the over twenty states that require identification of party affiliation on voter registration forms. The IRS is using the voter registration data to try to locate tax cheats. Some in Congress are looking to take steps to have the IRS purge such information and put a halt to IRS plans to outsource collections until the issue is resolved."
Privacy

Submission + - Germany's Home Seretary plans new anti terror laws

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An anonymous reader writes: According to Germany minister of Interior Wolfgang Schaeuble terror suspects should not be able to use the phone. Heise reports about the new plans of the controversial politician:

In an interview with German newsweekly Der Spiegel, Germany's Home Secretary says that "conspiracy" needs to be made a crime and "dangerous parties" need to be "incarcerated" as "combatants." [...] Schäuble also says that the "intentional killing of suspects" is not a taboo strictly ruled out by the German Basic Law, but rather a "legal problem" that the Home Secretary says "still has to be looked into." The example he mentioned was the possible capture of Osama bin Laden. Schäuble is thus calling for the German government to be given more legal "leeway."[...] Germany's Home Secretary believes that these measures are necessary because Germany is "in the crossfire of Islamic terrorism"; he also remembers the time before September 11, 2001. For that reason, Schäuble says the "monitoring of communication" is "vital.


Schaeuble plans also to enact a law that would allow state authorities to search computers per internet connection, but many experts suspect that the Federal Police is not capable to enforce this "online searches".
Republicans

Submission + - PA budget fight brings partial shutdown (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
JagsLive
JagsLive writes: "AP reports, " Gov. Ed Rendell late Sunday ordered a range of state government services shut down and placed about a third of the state work force on indefinite unpaid furlough after frantic last-minute negotiations failed to break a budget stalemate. Rendell, appearing outside his Capitol office, said the shutdown would go forward but added that he was optimistic that he and legislators could come to an agreement within a day. ""

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