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Submission + - ICANN seeks comment on limiting anonymized domain registration (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by angry tapir on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:15AM

angry tapir writes: Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm over a potential policy change that would prevent some people from registering website addresses without revealing their personal information. ICANN, the regulatory body that oversees domain names, has asked for public comment on whether it should prohibit the private registration of domains which are "associated with commercial activities and which are used for online financial transactions."

Submission + - New Google and CMU Moonshot: The 'Teacherless Classroom'

Submitted by theodp on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:28PM

theodp writes: At the behest of Google, Carnegie Mellon University will largely replace formal lectures in a popular introductory Data Structures and Algorithms course this fall with videos and a social networking tool to accommodate more students. The idea behind the multi-year research project sponsored by Google — CMU will receive $200,000 in the project's first year — is to find a way to leverage existing faculty to meet a growing demand for computer science courses, while also expanding the opportunities for underrepresented minorities, high school students and community college students, explained Jacobo Carrasquel, associate teaching professor of CS. "As we teach a wider diversity of students, with different backgrounds, we can no longer teach to 'the middle,'" Carrasquel said. "When you do that, you're not aiming at the 20 percent of the top students or the 20 percent at the bottom." The move to a 'teacherless classroom' for CS students at CMU [tuition $48K] comes on the heels of another Google CS Capacity Award-inspired move at Stanford [tuition $45K], where Pair Programming was adopted in a popular introductory CS class to "reduce the increasingly demanding workload for section leaders due to high enrollment and also help students to develop important collaboration skills."

Submission + - Google asks Android developers to show sensitivity to disasters and atrocity (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:03PM

Mark Wilson writes: Today Google revealed an updated version of its Google Play Developer Program Policies. There aren't actually all that many changes or additions, but those that are present are quite interesting. Google is clamping down on the problem of impersonation, making it clearer that it is not permissible to mislead users by imitating other apps, making false claims, or suggesting endorsements that do not exist.

One of the more intriguing changes to the document sees Google calling on developers to show sensitivity to evens such as natural disasters, war, and death. Any apps or other content that attempt to benefit by exploiting such events are explicitly banned.

Submission + - Virtually climb El Capitan with Google's first vertical Street View (latimes.com)

Submitted by mpicpp on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:36PM

mpicpp writes: Gogle Maps has announced its first vertical Street View, giving people the opportunity to virtually climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

"People around the world will now be able to virtually experience the unique act of ascending a 3,000-foot cliff by going on a self-directed, vertical climb," the Mountain View, Calif., company said. "Climbers" can make their way up the Nose route and part of the Dawn Wall.

To collect the imagery for Google Maps, the company worked with photographers and partnered with climbers Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell.

Submission + - NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: NVIDIA's latest mark of their newly discovered open-source kindness is beginning to provide open-source hardware reference headers for their latest GK20A/GM20B Tegra GPUs while they are working to also provide hardware header files on their older GPUs. These programming header files in turn will help the development of the open-source Nouveau driver as up to this point they have had to do much of the development via reverse-engineering. Perhaps most interesting is that moving forward they would like to use the Nouveau kernel driver code-base as the primary development environment for new hardware.

Submission + - 3D Printed Supercar is Unveiled – 0-60 in 2.2 Seconds, 700 HP Motor, Comin (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:08AM

ErnieKey writes: Divergent Microfactories is unveiling a revolutionary approach to car manufacturing, as evidenced by their supercar, the Blade. Using 3D printed aluminum 'nodes' in strategic manufacturing, they've created an automobile that weighs in at just 1,400 pounds, and can go from 0-60 MPH in only 2.2 seconds. DM will be producting 10,000 cars per year and also making technology available to any other companies interested.

Submission + - The Open Container Project and what it means (opensource.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @09:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday saw the announcement of the Open Container Project in San Francisco. It is a Linux Foundation project that will hold the specification and basic run-time software for using software containers.

The list of folks signing up to support the effort contains the usual suspects, and this too is a good thing: Amazon Web Services, Apcera, Cisco, CoreOS, Docker, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, the Linux Foundation, Mesosphere, Microsoft, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat, and VMware.

In this article Stephen R. Walli takes a look at what the project means for open source.

Submission + - Killer character HOSES almost all versions of Adobe Reader, Windows (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:36AM

mask.of.sanity writes: Google Project Zero hacker Mateusz Jurczyk has dropped 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities, including a single devastating hack against Adobe Reader and Windows he reckons beats all exploit defences.

The accomplished offensive security researcher published a video demonstration of the exploit for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. His slides are here [PDF].

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