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Ubuntu

Submission + - Will Ubuntu Again Benefit from Industry Turmoil? (crn.com) 1

Submitted by deadeyefred
deadeyefred writes: With HP trying to exit the PC business, Apple in transition but with skyrocketing Mac sales, and Windows 8 yet to ship, can Ubuntu once again benefit from serious turmoil in the PC industry? Not only that, but the last time there was a world economic slump, free software got a lot more serious look. Ubuntu's beta launch this week, which has been fairly well received, might be a good sign.
Books

Submission + - Scammer selling Wikipedia entries as Kindle ebooks (beyond-black-friday.com) 1

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: A Kindle blogger has identified a supposed ebook "author" whose 887 different ebooks were all apparently cut-and-pasted directly from Wikipedia entries. The "WikiFocus" series targets obscure niches with few competing ebooks, like Hello Kitty, Aquaman, or the comic strip Archie. "Of the 887 ebooks, all but 10 earned terrible reviews, averaging one star or less," this article notes, "or received no reviews at all." A typical review? "This 'book' is just a word for word copy of the Wikipedia page." (And a least one other "author" has attempt the same trick, trying to pass off a Wikipedia page about Charlie Sheen as an $18.95 biography!)
Security

Submission + - Linux Kernel Attackers Didn't Know What They Had (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The attack that compromised some high-value servers belonging to kernel.org--but not the Linux kernel source code--may have been the work of hackers who simply got lucky and didn't realize the value of the servers that they had gotten their hands on.

The attackers made a couple of mistakes that enabled the administrators at kernel.org to discover the breach and stop it before any major damage occurred. First, they used a known Linux rootkit called Phalanx that the admins were able to detect. And second, the attackers set up SSH backdoors on the compromised servers, which the admins also discovered. Had the hackers been specifically targeting the kernel.org servers, the attack probably would've looked quite different.
Google

Submission + - "Do no evil" - but only if it doesn't cost us $$ (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by pcause
pcause writes: The WSJ reports that Larry Page knew Google was running illegal ads, but went for the money over what was legal and right. From the article — "Larry Page knew what was going on," Peter Neronha, the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney who led the probe, said in an interview. "We know it from the investigation. We simply know it from the documents we reviewed, witnesses that we interviewed, that Larry Page knew what was going on."

Google is as greedy and corrupt as anyone other big company.
Apple

Submission + - Steve Jobs Has 313 Apple Patents to His Name (gizmocrazed.com)

Submitted by
Mightee
Mightee writes: "Apple is a much cautioned company, protecting all that it has created by filing patents. It has over 1000 patents which include 313 patents in the name of Steve Jobs — some obvious and some not.

Some of these patents have completely changed the face of the company which includes the iPod's Click Wheel and the iTunes store. These services have not only served the consumers but also some musicians who can now safely broadcast their music."
Chrome

Submission + - Google Is Prepping Chrome As A Game Platform (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Video gaming is a big topic for web browsers as well as HTML5, but there are few enthusiast gamers who are taking this scenario serious. Can a Joystick API and a 3D Client change the perception? On Friday I noticed that Google is heavily pushing New Game, a game developer conference that is focused on HTML5-based gaming content — and, of course, content that runs in web browsers. The fact that such an event already exists and that there is game content being developed in HTML5, is quite stunning by itself. However, Google also noted that a sandboxed native client (NaCl) with 3D (in addition to 2D) will be available in Chrome soon, which will allow the browser to connect to traditional C and C++ code via its integrated Pepper API.
Hardware

Submission + - $25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Late last month it was reported that the $25 PC had gone into alpha production. That meant the spec of the board had been finalized by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and they wanted hardware to start testing. Now they have an alpha board to play with. That board is significantly larger than the final product will be, but as testament to just how small this thing is even scaled up, the alpha version is about the size of 3 credit cards--the final version will be credit-card sized. The board, complete with its 700MHz ARM11 processor, successfully ran Linux (version 2.6.35.7).
Games

Submission + - Nvidia launches Tegrazone.com (geektech.in)

Submitted by
GeekTech.in
GeekTech.in writes: "NVIDIA has launched TegraZone.com, For those of you who are not familiar with ‘TEGRA’. NVIDIA TEGRA is a system-on-a-chip series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices. Tegrazone will be a hub for people to know about the best games and apps that run on the Tegra platform. This is a like a community site where Tegra users can come get to know the latest developments in the Tegra world.

This is not an app store. Tegrazone has been launched in English, Japanese and Portuguese with more languages to follow. We are also expecting sweepstakes to start soon, which could attract a lot of users. Developers can also submit heir apps here for consideration."
Apple

Submission + - Apple Loses Court Battle In Europe (muktware.com) 1

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Justice will prevail. The European Courts have once again reinstated the faith in justice. Apple today lost its monopolistic battle against Samsung and Android. The Dutch court has rejected all of Apple's design and patent claims but one. The remaining patent can be easily circumvented as it is related to how photos are shows.
Technology

Submission + - Worlds first Self Inflating bicycle tire (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A brand new project just launched on Kickstarter that is perfect for Slashdot – it’s a self -inflating bicycle tire that inflates as you ride. PumpTire uses Peristaltic pump technology to create pressure equalization. The rider can set the PSI anywhere between 65 to 100, making it perfect for the urban cyclist. Visit KickStarter to view our demo video to see how it works! Please help this project get started by spreading the word, thank you very much.
Privacy

Submission + - Epson Korea Hacked: 350k Customers Exposed (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Epson Korea Co., Ltd. confirmed that hackers had accessed the personal data of approximately 350,000 customers last week in a series of cyber attacks. A company Spokesperson said the compromised information was stored on a Web server and contained names, IDs, passwords, and resident registration numbers of people registered with a Korean language site.

This cyber attack follows other major attacks including one in late July, when SK Communications Co. said the personal information of approximately 35 million online users coming from its “Nate” search engine site and Cyworld social networking site had been hacked, resulting in the country’s biggest known cyber attack to date.
Security

Submission + - Anti-Gadaffi hackers deface Libyan domain registry (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nic.ly, the official domain registry of Libya, which is responsible for administering the ".ly" domain used by bit.ly and many other sites has been defaced by anti-Gadaffi hackers.

Hackers calling themselves "Electr0n" left a message on the site, saying "Bye bye Qadaffi".

Companies which have .ly in their domain name do not appear to have been impacted.
Games

Submission + - Flickr founder looks to strike lightning again (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Stewart Butterfield has it made. He’s famous for co-founding the popular photo-sharing service Flickr in 2004. He lives comfortably in Vancouver, having sold Flickr to Yahoo for a reported $35 million in 2005. And investors including Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz have thrown $17.2 million behind his two-year-old game company, Tiny Speck, even though the Flash-based multiplayer game it’s been developing, Glitch, hasn’t launched publicly yet"
The Internet

Submission + - Former Wikileaks spokesman destroyed documents (activepolitic.com) 2

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: Former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg claims to have destroyed more than 3,500 unpublished files that had been sent from unknown informants and are now apparently lost irrevocably. Among the files destroyed include the U.S. gov's "no-fly list" and inside information from 20 right wing organizations. Daniel Domscheit-Berg is now known as one of the founders of openleaks.
Education

Submission + - More Stanford Computing Courses go free (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Following on the recent Slashdot item on the availablity of a free Stanford AI course there is news that two other Stanford Computer Science courses are also joining in this "bold experiment in distributed education" in which students not only have access to lecture videos and other course materials but will actively participate by submitting assignments and getting regular feedback on their progress. The subjects are Machine Learning with Andrew Ng and Database with Jennifer Widom.
This open approach looks as if it might be a sucess with well over 100,000 prospective students signing up to the AI course alone.

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