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A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @04:11PM from the five-is-better-than-one dept.

Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."

Comment Re:Mine does exactly what it was meant to do (Score 1) 617

by Sloven on Saturday April 03, 2010 @02:02PM (#31717220) Attached to: iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked

"to prevent the installation of anything that does not come from the apps store"

While this may be true of apps, this is not true of music, movies, or ebooks. All of which can be imported into iTunes, and will appear on your iDevice. Music not purchased through iTunes, movies not purchased through iTunes, etc....

Robot Fish To Hunt Down Pollution 55

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 20, 2009 @03:02PM from the uncanny-trench dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Financial Times, scientists are building a shoal of robot fish to be let loose in the port [of Gijon, Spain] to check on the quality of the water. The fish are equipped with tiny chemical sensors capable of detecting pollutants in the water. These let them home in on the sources of hazardous pollutants, such as leaks from vessels or undersea pipelines. Modeled on carp and costing about £20,000 ($29,000) each to make, the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behavior so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants."

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