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Submission + - Live Human Birth Captured by MRI (dailymail.co.uk) 2

Submitted by DIplomatic
DIplomatic writes: Doctors at a Berlin hospital have made a medical breakthrough after capturing live MRI images of the miracle of birth.
The pictures, taken after a German mother agreed to give birth inside a magnetic-resonance imaging machine, could provide valuable new insights into the birthing process and allow future lives to be saved.
The creation of the live MRI images of a birth could prove vital in understanding complications during the birthing process and the need for around 15 per cent of women to have a Caesarian section due to the baby not moving sufficiently into the birth canal.

Comment Use nightlies (Score 4, Informative) 238

by FedeTXF (#34055460) Attached to: For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011

I encourage everyone using beta 6 to use the nightly version (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) as their main FF experience. The JS is 10 times faster on most public benchmarks and the boomarks and profile data are not affected even when switching back and forth between 4.0 and 3.6.
I have both installed: 3.6 that comes with my Linux distro and 4.0 unzipped in my home folder and being updated every morning automatically.
Firefox

Submission + - Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 released (mozilla.org)

Submitted by surveyork
surveyork writes: Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 was released today at 13:30 Pacific time. It was originally scheduled for release on July 23, but was probably delayed due to the 'Chemspill' release of Firefox 3.6.8. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.8

New in this version:

— Firefox 4 Beta 2 is available in 24 languages.
— Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OSX — Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
— You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu.
— Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
— Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system.
— JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations.
— Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation.

As well as features from previous Firefox 4 Betas.

You can download Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b2&os=win&lang=en-US or check for updates if you are already using Firefox 4.0 Beta 1.
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New Hungarian Government OMGs All Gov Sites 59

Posted by samzenpus from the they-forgot-the-ponies dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."
Microsoft

Submission + - MS Kills Support for XPSP2 (threatpost.com) 1

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Microsoft's announcement this week that it is preparing to end support for machines running Windows XP SP2 not only represents a challenge for the thousands of businesses still running SP2, but also is the end of an era for both Microsoft and its customers. With Service Pack 2 Microsoft set out to fix that and add a number of other security protections, as well. It wasn't until 2004 that the final release of XP SP2 actually hit the streets. But when it did, it represented a huge step forward in security for Windows users. It wasn't necessarily the feature set that mattered as much as the fact that the protections were enabled by default and taken out of the users' hands.

Submission + - Facebook gets your id from each Like-enabled page! (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A very down-to-earth and step-by-step pratical demo that anybody can reproduce to see how our Fbook name and id are delivered to Fbook on each page impression having new Like button. Huge privacy implications!
Apple

Submission + - Steve Jobs hints at Theora lawsuit (fsfe.org)

Submitted by netcrawler
netcrawler writes: Steve Jobs' open letter on Flash has prompted someone at the Free Software Foundation Europe to ask him about his support of proprietary format H.264 over Theora. Jobs' pithy answer (email with headers) suggests Theora might infringe on existing patents and that 'a patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other "open source" codecs now.' Does he know something we don't?

Submission + - Ubuntu Linux Claims 12,000 Cloud Deployments (serverwatch.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: The cloud is more than just hype for Ubuntu. Canonical COO Mat Asay is now saying that they can count 12,000 deployments of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. He also things the cloud is where Ubuntu can make money — because to be frank in his view the company for the last five years wasn't setup to generate revenue.

"For the first five years of the company's life, it wasn't set up to make money," Asay said. "The company was set up to make a fantastic Linux distribution and other tools around it and get it out there and get people using it. That was the focus."
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Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak 320

Posted by timothy from the like-it-when-windows-crashed-more dept.
MonsterTrimble writes "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 is experiencing a major memory leak due to patches for X.org. 'An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. ... In order to make the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS deadline, the developers are looking at just reverting three of the patches, which brings the GLX version back to 1.2. Ubuntu developers are now desperate for people willing to test out this updated X.Org Server package so they can determine by this Friday whether to ship it with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or doing an early SRU (Stable Release Update). Right now this X.Org Server that's being tested is living in the ubuntu-x-swat PPA.'"

Submission + - Source code to Google authentication system stolen (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Aardvark
Aardvark writes: The details about the extent of the break-in at Google a few months ago seem to keep getting more serious. The New York Times is reporting that one of the things stolen was the source code to Google's single sign-on authentication system, called Gaia. Though Google is making changes to the system, this raises the possibility that attackers could analyze the code to find new exploits to take advantage of in the future. No wonder that Eric Schmidt recently said they've become paranoid about security.
Apple

Submission + - Will the iPad ruin books? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times is leading a backlash against the recent success of a strange eBook called Alice for the iPad. The newspaper claims that, on this evidence, the iPad will ruin books. Alice, a physics-enabled version of Alice in Wonderland was made by two hobbyist coders, using public domain illustrations. It's more like a hallucination than a book, but has stormed to the top of the iPad Book store, outselling Disney, Marvel and Amazon. However the NYT says this goes against the whole point of traditional books , knocking Alice and other interactive titles: "what I really love [about traditional books] is their inertness. No matter how I shake “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” mushrooms don’t tumble out of the upper margin, unlike the “Alice” for the iPad.". The NYT also worries that new eBook titles could distract kids from the tougher task of actually concentrating on literature: "what will become of the readers we’ve been — quiet, thoughtful, patient, abstracted — in a world where interactive can be too tempting to ignore?"

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