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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Vista Security Claims Debunked
* Supercomputer On-a-Chip Prototype Unveiled
* CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal
* Bank on Your Cell Phone
* Bigelow Aerospace Deploys Genesis 2 Space Module
* Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing
* Red Hat CEO Talked Patents with MS
* Integrated HIV Successfully Cut Out of Human Genome
* iPhone Doesn’t Surf Fast Enough for Jobs
* Controversial Security Paper Nixed From Black Hat
* Value Propositions of Current CPUs Put to the Test
* The Internet Of Things
* Rutkowska Faces ‘Blue Pill’ Rootkit Challenge
* New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs
* Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD
* GPLv3 Released
* Microsoft to Simplify Downgrades From Vista to XP
* Drugs to Prevent Cell Suicide
* Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole
* AMD Announces August Release Date for Barcelona
* Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing
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| Vista Security Claims Debunked |
| from the setting-things-straight dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 28, @20:14 (Windows) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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An anonymous reader writes “Apparently Microsoft still hasn’t learned
that counting vendor acknowledged vulnerabilities isn’t a good way to
establish the security of an OS. As an [0]analysis of Microsoft’s claims
on Full Disclosure shows, we see that the methodology used was badly
flawed. A bug in Firefox (not to mention emacs), counts as a flaw for
Linux, while [1]IE bugs get ignored on Vista’s chart. Then we see that
vulnerabilities aren’t vulnerabilities when they’re security-challenged
features such as [2]Vista’s Teredo. Also, there’s far too little
consideration given to severity, given that it stoops to counting even
extra access restrictions on a file in OSX to have something to show. In
short, the original Microsoft analysis was good PR and poor research.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://seclists.org/fulldisclo
1. http://www.pctipsbox.com/ie-7
2. http://www.securiteam.com
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| Supercomputer On-a-Chip Prototype Unveiled |
| from the more-is-better dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 28, @21:41 (Supercomputing)|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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An anonymous reader writes “Researchers at University of Maryland have
developed a prototype of what may be [0]the next generation of personal
computers. The new technology is based on parallel processing on a single
chip and is ‘capable of computing speeds up to 100 times faster than
current desktops.’ The prototype ‘uses rich algorithmic theory to address
the practical problem of building an easy-to-program multicore computer.’
Readers can win $500 in cash and write their names in the history of
computer science by [1]naming the new technology.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.eng.umd.edu/media
1. http://www.ece.umd.edu/superco
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| CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal |
| from the phoning-home dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 28, @23:05 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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MadJo writes “US Congress has just approved a bill that will make it
[0]illegal to spoof CallerID. From the bill: ‘The amount of the
forfeiture penalty (…) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, or
3 times that amount for each day of a continuing violation, except that
the amount assessed for any continuing violation shall not exceed a total
of $1,000,000 for any single act or failure to act.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin
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| Bank on Your Cell Phone |
| from the little-big-business dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 29, @00:33 (The Almighty Buck|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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AnonGirl writes “Big banks are [0]launching mobile banks to ‘keep
customers and generate more payment revenue down the line.’ Citibank is
working on two pilots: one with Obopay, and the other for contact-less
payments. AT&T phones will have Wachovia already installed in their
phones by fourth quarter 2007. The downside: ‘Even though banks are not
charging for their service, carriers do charge for accessing data through
their phone.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.cnbc.com/id/1937152
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| Bigelow Aerospace Deploys Genesis 2 Space Module |
| from the final-frontiers dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 29, @03:18 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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ThePopeLayton writes “Space.com is reporting that Bigelow Aerospace has
[0]successfully launched its Genesis 2 Space Module. This is significant
as Bigelow Aerospace is one of a few private groups currently developing
space technologies. The module was launched in a compact form and upon
achieving a stable orbit will be inflated using compressed air. Bigelow’s
website is reporting ‘the second experimental pathfinder spacecraft has
been [1]successfully launched and inserted into orbit.’ The module has a
variety of things on board: Scorpions, Hissing Cockroaches, Ant colonies,
and even a Bingo game.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.space.com/missionla
1. http://www.bigelowaerospace
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| Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing |
| from the on-the-far-horizon dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 29, @05:18 (Upgrades) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]prostoalex writes “PC Magazine looks at [1]5 ideas that will reinvent
computing. IMAX-quality movies at home with new projectors, a mid-air
mouse that requires no flat surface, a home quantum computer, a
router-based peer-to-peer system, and a man-made brain all made the
list.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.pcmag.com/print
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| Red Hat CEO Talked Patents with MS |
| from the sleeping-with-the-enemy dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 29, @07:26 (Red Hat Software)|
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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c3ph45 writes “Before the Novel-Microsoft deal, [0]Red Hat was in talks
with Microsoft over patents. Thankfully, the deal fell apart before Novel
made their infamous partnership with Microsoft. As has been reported
before, [1]Red Hat doesn’t plan to enter into any patent agreements with
Microsoft, but it leaves open the question: What if both Red Hat and
Novell had entered into such deals? One large vendor doing so has caused
enough disruption. How would the community have coped with two of the
largest vendors doing so?”
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article
1. http://linux.slashdot.org
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| Integrated HIV Successfully Cut Out of Human Genome |
| from the a-little-hunter-killer-nanotec
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @08:43 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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Chris writes “German scientists have [0]succeeded in snipping HIV out of
human cells after it has integrated itself into a patient’s DNA. The
procedure is a breakthrough in bio-technology and fuels hope of a cure
for AIDS. The group is only cautiously optimistic, though, as treating a
full-on infection would be substantially different than succeeding in a
controlled lab environment. ‘Researchers … began with the bacterial
enzyme Cre recombinase, which exchanges any two pieces of DNA flanked on
either end by a certain pattern of nucleotides (DNA subunits) known as
loxP. HIV does not naturally contain loxP sites, so the team created a
hybrid of the two DNA molecules, which they used to select a series of
mutated Cre enzymes that were increasingly able to recognize the combined
DNA. The final enzyme, Tre, removed all traces of HIV from cultured human
cervical cells after about three months, the researchers report online
today in Science.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.sciam.com/article
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| iPhone Doesn’t Surf Fast Enough for Jobs |
| from the must-go-faster-must-go-fastr dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @09:29 (Communications) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org
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[0]ElvaWSJ writes with a link to a Wall Street Journal [1]interview with
Steve Jobs and AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson. As you can imagine, they’re
pretty enthusiastic. Just the same, they address the possibility that the
iPhone will slow internet access on Ma Bell’s cell network. “Mr. Jobs
acknowledged that the company’s new iPhone won’t surf the Internet as
fast as he would like on the network, called “Edge,” but added that the
device’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots would give consumers a
speedier alternative for Web browsing. For his part, Mr. Stephenson said
the iPhone represents a broader push by AT&T into Wi-Fi services,
including, potentially, mobile Internet calling. The two men also
discussed the iPod’s “halo effect” and reflected on the origins of their
corporate partnership.”
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://wsj.com/free
1. http://online.wsj.com/public
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| Controversial Security Paper Nixed From Black Hat |
| from the keep-it-under-your-hat dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @10:21 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]coondoggie writes us with a link to the Network World site, as he
tends to do. Today he offers an article discussing the cancellation of a
presentation which would have [1]undermined chip-based security on PCs.
Scheduled during the Black Hat USA 2007 event, the event’s briefing
promised to break the Trusted Computing Group’s module, as well as
Vista’s Bitlocker. Live demos were to be included. The presenters pulled
the event, and have no interest in discussing the subject any more.
“[Presenters Nitin and Vipin Kumar's] promised exploit would be a chink
in the armor of hardware-based system integrity that [trusted platform
module] (TPM) is designed to ensure. TPM is also a key component of
Trusted Computing Group’s architecture for network access control (NAC).
TPM would create a unique value or hash of all the steps of a computer’s
boot sequence that would represent the particular state of that machine,
according to Steve Hanna, co-chair of TCG’s NAC effort.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com
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| Value Propositions of Current CPUs Put to the Test |
| from the more-gerbils-for-the-money dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @11:11 (AMD) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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J. Dzhugashvili writes “Processors are typically compared by their
performance alone. However, the folks at The Tech Report have put
together an article that attempts to [0]quantify the value propositions
of AMD’s and Intel’s latest processors. The article takes 16 processors
through an extensive battery of tests that range from gaming and video
encoding to Folding@Home and energy efficiency, and examines the value
they offer in each. The results may surprise you.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://techreport.com/reviews
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| The Internet Of Things |
| from the will-it-help-me-find-my-socks dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @11:58 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]Roosta writes “BBC News has an article by Bradley Horowitz,
responsible for novel technology development at search giant Yahoo,
[1]looking ahead to the ‘internet of things’. He discusses the importance
of the ‘W4′ problem, the four ‘W’s’ being who, when, what and where, and
how to bring together metadata to make the world a more searchable place.
‘All entities - everything from the particular chair I am sitting on to
objects like the Lincoln Memorial monument should have a unique digital
identifier. As an example - let’s start with people. I don’t know if
//darren [Email address: //darren #AT# yahoo.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ] is the same as //darren [Email address: //darren #AT# gmail.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]. There is a problem of
managing identity across the internet, so when I say Darren Waters I mean
this person and all of the manifestations and representations and
personas of that person. The ability to knit those together is a huge
challenge and opportunity for us as an industry. That’s what I mean by
resolving people - I mean this person and not the likely thousands of
other people who share your name.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto://sjk [Email address: //sjk #AT# psimonkey.org.uk/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi
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| Rutkowska Faces ‘Blue Pill’ Rootkit Challenge |
| from the exciting-conference dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @12:41 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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Controll3r writes “Three high-profile security researchers — Thomas
Ptacek of Matasano Security, Nate Lawson of Root Labs and Symantec’s
Peter Ferrie — [0]have issued a challenge to Joanna Rutkowska to prove
that her ‘Blue Pill’ technology can create “100 percent undetectable”
malware. The Black Hat 2007 challenge will feature two untouched laptops
of the make/model of Rutkowska’s choosing for her to plant Blue Pill on
one. From the article: ‘She picks one in secret, installs her kit, sets
them up however she wants,’ Lawson explained in an interview. ‘We get to
install our software on both and run it, [and] we point out which machine
[Blue Pill] is on. If we’re wrong, she keeps the laptop.’ No word on
whether Rutkowska will accept the challenge.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://blogs.zdnet.com/securit
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| New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs |
| from the see-you’ve-got-some-porn-there
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @13:25 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]Montgomery Burns III writes with a link to a ComputerWorld article on
a … unique approach to bank security. New Zealand financial
institutions are looking for a way to [1]access customer PCs used in
online banking transactions. Their goal is to verify the security of the
user’s terminal. “Under the terms of a new banking Code of Practice,
banks may request access in the event of a disputed transaction to see if
security protection in is place and up to date. Liability for any loss
resulting from unauthorized Internet banking transactions rests with the
customer if they have ‘used a computer or device that does not have
appropriate protective software and operating system installed and up to
date, [or] failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that the protective
systems, such as virus scanning, firewall, antispyware, operating system
and antispam software on [the] computer, are uptodate.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://montgomery-burnsatzaqzd
1. http://www.computerworld.com
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| Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD |
| from the money-for-nothing dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @14:02 (Businesses) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]Mike writes “You might not like Prince, but he’s planning on [1]giving
away a free CD in a national British newspaper. Harmless publicity,
right? The music industry disagrees. Executives are practically going
insane over the idea and are threatening to ‘retaliate’. ‘The Artist
Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behavior like this he will
soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to
all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on
Sunday,’ said Entertainment Retailers Association spokesman Paul Quirk,
who also said it would be ‘an insult’ to record stores. Shouldn’t an
artist be able to give away his own music if he wants to without fear of
industry retaliation?”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://quicktrivia.com/
1. http://business.guardian.co.uk
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| GPLv3 Released |
| from the clarity-for-the-sake-of-it dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @14:39 (GNU is Not Unix) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]A GNU Dawn writes “The [1]GPL v3 has just been released. Among other
things, the released version grandfathers in the Novell deal so that
Microsoft’s SLES coupons will undermine their patent threats, replaces
references to the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act with more specific
language, and clarifies that using BitTorrent to convey a GPLed work is
not a breach of the license (it might be one, technically, in GPLv2). The
[2]GPL FAQ has been updated to cover the new changes.” [3]Commentary is
available over at Linux.com (which is owned, along with Slashdot, by
Sourceforge).
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.xkdc.com/
1. http://gplv3.fsf.org/
2. http://www.gnu.org/licenses
3. http://www.linux.com/feature
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| Microsoft to Simplify Downgrades From Vista to XP |
| from the where-do-you-want-to-go-today
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @15:30 (Microsoft) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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castrox writes “Microsoft has noted that [0]many corporate users want to
run XP instead of Vista. They are now simplifying the downgrade process
for top OEMs. Currently, all OEMs must call Microsoft whenever a
downgrade is done. After the new procedure is put into place, OEMs may
submit batches of keys to Microsoft online. According to the Microsoft
blog on ZDNet, the ‘downgrade software’ will still need to be supplied by
the end user. The deal is rather perplexing — it does not seem like you
can convert the license since the only eligible versions for downgrading
is Ultimate and Business. The company has [1]more details available in a
pdf document online.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microso
1. http://download.microsoft.com
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| Drugs to Prevent Cell Suicide |
| from the my-mitochondria-never-loved-me dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @16:24 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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MrErlenmeyer writes “Many injuries and diseases including heart attacks,
stroke, and Parkinson’s cause healthy cells to kill themselves. A group
of scientists at Washington University in Saint Louis believe they have a
lead on [0]how to stop apoptosis (unwanted cell suicide) and thus
minimize the tissue damage that occurs as a result of these injuries.
They designed drugs that halt the actions of executioner caspases,
proteins that act as a molecular wrecking crew. Other scientists had
found that a chemical called isatin could prevent tissue damage in rabbit
hearts that were deprived of oxygen. This was the starting point for the
team of researchers in Missouri. By making some changes to the molecule,
they were able to develop an even more effective molecule. With some
further refinement, this may lead to a new class of emergency
medications.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://blog.wired.com/wiredsci
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| Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole |
| from the also-santa-claus dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @17:03 (The Almighty Buck) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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kungfoofairy writes “Russia has laid claim to over [0]one million square
kilometers of the Artic. This announcement comes on the return of a
scientific expedition into the region which found that the [1]Lomonosov
Ridge connects to Russia. The area is supposed to have a reserve of 10
billion tons of natural gas and oil. ‘[2]A BBC map shows Russia’s
proposal; [3]this set of maps from The New York Times illustrates the
area at stake and different ways it might be divided … The Russians
have tried to advance their claim before, and were turned away by the
United Nations in 2001. The new geological data is evidently meant to
improve the odds for a second try. ‘”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
2. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media
3. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa
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| AMD Announces August Release Date for Barcelona |
| from the chip-love dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @17:50 (AMD) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “Rumors said the release wouldn’t be until
late Q4 but [0]an August ship date is now promised for AMD’s quad-core
chips. They’re only releasing up to 2.0 GHz processors at first, with the
top speed devices coming out later in the year. ‘AMD’s Barcelona puts
four cores on a single slice of silicon, an approach AMD calls native
quad-core, and the company has argued that Barcelona will outperform the
Xeon 5300. The only problem: that comparison soon will become obsolete.
Intel’s second-generation quad-core server processors, Harpertown a
server member of Intel’s Penryn family, will arrive this year, too, with
the promise of better performance, lower power consumption and lower
manufacturing costs by virtue of a manufacturing process with
45-nanometer features. AMD is only just now moving to a 65-nanometer
process.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1006
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| Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing |
| from the madison-to-seattle-by-way-of
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, @18:46 (Google) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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An anonymous reader writes “Remember how cool it was the first time you
used MapQuest or Google Maps or Google Earth? You’ll feel like it’s the
first time again, when you use [0]interactive dragging of routes on
Google Maps. Some of the folks from the development team have even
whipped up a handy video to explain the concept.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://googlemapsmania.blogspo
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