Cyberax - Slashdot User

Lake Vostok reached!-> 1

Submitted by Cyberax on Monday February 06, @09:23AM

Cyberax writes "Today the Antarctic underground lake Vostok has been reached by Russian scientists.

The water samples were gathered, however further exploration of the lake will continue in 2013-2014."
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Nokia sells out to Microsoft-> 0

Submitted by Cyberax on Friday February 11 2011, @04:39AM

Cyberax writes "What we feared has just happened:

Nokia and Microsoft announce plans for a broad strategic partnership to build a new global ecosystem: ...
- Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
- Nokia would help drive the future of Windows Phone. Nokia would contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies."
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Debian Squeeze is being release-> 0

Submitted by Cyberax on Saturday February 05 2011, @07:55PM

Cyberax writes "Debian Squeeze is being released right now. You can follow the release progress on http://identi.ca/debian and http://identi.ca/tag/squeeze"
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DNSSec is being deployed to the root zone.-> 0

Submitted by Cyberax on Thursday July 15 2010, @11:41AM

Cyberax writes "Yesterday the final root key ceremony had been successfully conducted: http://dnssec-deployment.org/ (alas, I can't find a record of its stream).

So DNSSec is just about to be deployed to the root zone. Right now it serves Deliberately Unvalidatable Root Zone (DURZ). In a few hours it's about to be changed ( http://dns.icann.org/ has a countdown)!"
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Blueprints for a new jet were stolen by hackers 0

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Cyberax

on Tuesday April 21 2009, @06:36AM

Cyberax writes "WSJ reports ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027491029837401.html ) that terrabytes of data about the new aircraft (which cost more than $300*10^9) were stolen from the Air Force networks.

I wonder, how long before it appears on ThePirateBay.."

iPhone to use LLVM?

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Cyberax

on Sunday January 21 2007, @06:33AM

Cyberax writes "Recently Apple has contributed ARM support for LLVM. Some people speculate that it might be used for iPhone applications. Might it be possible that iPhone will allow to run arbitrary applications in a 'sandbox'?"