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Submission + - Open Document Format 1.2 Published as ISO/IEC Standard (documentfoundation.org)

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes: The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) Version 1.2, the native file format of LibreOffice and many other office applications, has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC. ODF defines a technical schema for office documents including text documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or presentations. The current version of the standard was published in 2011, and then was submitted to ISO/IEC in 2014.

Submission + - Intel's Tick Tock cycle skips a beat. (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Ramze
Ramze writes: ArsTechnica reports Intel has confirmed it will make three generations of 14nm processors, delaying the switch to 10nm. The planned 14nm Kaby Lake processor marks the first time Intel has skipped the "tick" of a die shrink on its regular "tick/tock" cycle. Production of Cannonlake processors on 10nm has been pushed back to the second half of 2017 — likely due to manufacturing difficulties. Intel reported earlier this year that it may have to switch away from silicon to exotic materials such as indium gallium arsenide to make the next shrink to 7nm. Are we finally seeing the beginning of the end of Moore's Law?

Submission + - Gun-firing drone video causes controversy (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A video posted on YouTube showing a drone firing a gun in a wooded area has caused some controversy today [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/16/drone-firing-handgun-video-youtube]. The short video shows a four-rotored custom drone with a special rig containing a handgun. The handgun proceeds to fire four shots, handling the recoil better than might be expected. The user who posted the video also submitted it to Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/3cyd67/], where a commenter noted that the apparent use of a solenoid trigger would class the device as an automatic weapon under ATF rules.

Submission + - New RC4 Encryption Attacks Reduces Plaintext Recovery Time (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267
msm1267 writes: Two Belgian security researchers from the University of Leuven have driven new nails into the coffin of the RC4 encryption algorithm. A published paper, expected to be delivered at the upcoming USENIX Security Symposium next month in Washington, D.C., describes new attacks against RC4 that allow an attacker to capture a victim’s cookie and decrypt it in a much shorter amount of time than was previously possible.

The paper “All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS,” written by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, explains the discovery of new biases in the algorithm that led to attacks breaking encryption on websites running TLS with RC4, as well as the WPA-TKIP, the Wi-Fi Protected Access Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.

Submission + - 3-Year-Old with Huge Head Has Groundbreaking Skull Replacement Surgery (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey
ErnieKey writes: Doctors in China have just successfully performed a groundbreaking surgery on a 3-year-old little girl named Han Han. Han Han was suffering from congenital hydrocephalus which caused her head to grow to four times the normal size. If something wasn't done, she probably wouldn't have lived much longer. This is when surgeons at the Second People’s Hospital of Hunan Province elected to remove a large portion of her skull and replace it with a 3d printed titanium mesh skull. The results were truly amazing, and Han Han is expected to make a full recovery.

Comment Re:Gym ball (Score 1) 220

That must've been a very shitty ball, or you were just unlucky. I have an Italian-made one that can't burst - the guaranteed worst case scenario is that it slowly deflates if punctured. I'm sitting on it for more than 3 years now, 12 hours a day on average. It's better for sitting in front of a computer than any chair I ever had.

Comment Sam Lantinga! (Score 1) 167

by vst (#40656769) Attached to: Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent
Oh myyy, that's some very, very good news. All the other Linux devs Valve hired recently, as Phoronix reports, and now Slouken, the creator of SDL. Seems like Valve has already built itself quite a nice team of Linux game devs. I've waited for something like this to happen since the (sigh) unfortunate demise of Loki games... It seems at last the time has come for Linux to become a full-fledged gaming platform. That could also help a wider penetration into the desktop OS market, eventually.

I'm very glad Slouken landed this, it seems like a perfect position for someone like him. I felt really sad when he left Blizzard, as there were some between-the-lines indicators that he didn't leave it quite as consensually as it was reported... And then went on to that 38studios which infamously collapsed recently...

Well, I just wish the best of luck to Valve and their Linux team, and will be anxiously waiting too see what they'll come up with...

Comment Re:hmmm (Score 1) 449

by vst (#40075929) Attached to: Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser

Try living without google for a day. Because otherwise if they ever turn evil (whether or not they already are is open to debate), we're fucked.

too bad I already spent my mod points. this one is the most enlightened and the most truthful I've heard lately... cheers!
Apple

Submission + - Apple launches new legal attack on Samsung (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by
walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: "Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said the Galaxy Nexus infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products. Those include the ability to unlock phones by sliding an image and to search for information by voice."
Idle

Submission + - Zap your brain into the zone (newscientist.com)

Submitted by
Morganth
Morganth writes: "According to New Scientist, researchers at DARPA are investing efforts in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) machines to cut the time it takes to train snipers.

From the article: "a 2-milliamp current will run through the part of my brain associated with object recognition — an important skill when visually combing a scene for assailants."

The story also serves as a nice explainer on the psychology of "flow" — the state that experts tend to enter (e.g. programmers, tennis players, pianists) when focusing on their work."
Encryption

Submission + - Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password 5

Submitted by wiedzmin
wiedzmin writes: A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password. If she does not remember the password by month’s end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies. It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense.

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