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Submission + - Firefox Gets Faster Builds - To Be Fast As Windows (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to use GCC 4.5 with aggressive optimization and profile guided optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit systems).
Hardware

Submission + - Worlds first community funded CPU ASIC (opencores.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The 32 bit OpenRISC CPU has been available for many FPGAs and was turned into a commercial ASIC in 2003 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/12/08/2326236/Open-Source-Finally-Hits-Real-Silicon. Now, the OpenCores community is asking for donations to create a new ASIC with the openrisc cpu, ethernet, PCI, UART, USB and other peripherals. The goal is to be able to sell these ASICs at a low price to anyone who wants to build a cheap embedded system built completely on open source. The OpenRISC currently runs on linux 2.6.37 and has ports of gcc 4.5.1 among other things.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Quote of the Day 18

Journal by snowgirl

"[T]he truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They're so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don't see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what's everyone's fuss all about? That's the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want." --David Gaider
Privacy

Submission + - Hackers Steal Kroger's Customer List (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer with more than 338,000 associates, notified customers today of breach of the database that stores its customers' names and email addresses.

The company said incident occurred at Epsilon, the third-party vendor Kroger uses to manage its customer email database.

This breach follows several other similar breaches from email service providers including The American Honda Motor Co., MacDonald’s, and Walgreens.
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This is not an April Fools' joke, which makes it even more ridiculous:

"Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for their role in furthering a “radical” Facebook Page called “Third Palestinian Intifada,” which openly advocated another uprising against the citizens of Israel. The complaint reserves the right to be amended into a class action suit and prays for compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $1 billion.

As a quick refresher, Facebook originally said it would not remove the Page but would monitor it instead. The company later pulled the Page after discussions degraded into violence and hatred."

Comment biz n personal (Score 0) 5

by alsmair (#28702421) Attached to: Should Employers Pay for Tools of the Trade?
ask your self . the following if company didnt give you cell,internet .. etc well u get it your self . like phone you will get one anyway but if you make buisness calls log it in your bill and claim it . thats wt i do . for internet and vpn its the same .

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