Technology news 2009-07-04T20:31:10+02:00 The H http://www.h-online.com/security/McAfee-update-brings-systems-down-again--/news/113689/from/rss

A McAfee signature update is currently causing system failures and a lot of overtime for administrators

http://www.h-online.com/security/McAfee-update-brings-systems-down-again--/news/113689/from/rss 2009-07-04T20:31:10+02:00

This week, The H reported on several new major releases, including Firefox 3.5, Python 3.1, NetBeans 6.7, PHP 5.3.0, VirtualBox 3.0 and PostgreSQL 8.4, and covered the result of Stallman's open letter criticising Debian's use of Mono

http://www.h-online.com/news/The-H-Week--/113687/from/rss 2009-07-04T09:34:53+02:00

The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 is the first time that the KDE and GNOME communities are co-locating their annual GUADEC and Akademy conferences

http://www.h-online.com/open/GNOME-and-KDE-developer-conference-begins-on-Gran-Canaria--/news/113688/from/rss 2009-07-03T17:08:07+02:00

The W3C announced yesterday that it will discontinue its work on XHTML 2 and will instead focus exclusively on (X)HTML 5 as a successor of current web standards

http://www.h-online.com/open/XHTML-2-to-be-discontinued--/news/113686/from/rss 2009-07-03T15:14:56+02:00

Some members of the WHATWG reject Ogg Theora, and H.264 is subject to licence fees, so Ian Hickson has decided to eliminate all reference to mandatory audio/video codecs from the HTML 5 specification

http://www.h-online.com/open/No-mandatory-audio-and-video-codecs-in-HTML-5--/news/113685/from/rss 2009-07-03T13:01:43+02:00

Although the attacks don't affect the practical security of AES, they represent substantial cryptological progress

http://www.h-online.com/security/Luxembourg-attacks-on-AES-encryption--/news/113684/from/rss 2009-07-03T17:17:04+02:00

Fluendo has released its own DVD player for Linux built on the open source GStreamer multimedia framework

http://www.h-online.com/open/Fluendo-releases-DVD-player-for-Linux--/news/113683/from/rss 2009-07-03T11:40:42+02:00

The Python developers have announced that there will be no additional maintenance or security update releases for version 3.0 of the Python scripting language

http://www.h-online.com/open/No-more-updates-for-Python-3-0--/news/113682/from/rss 2009-07-03T10:30:33+02:00

The GNOME release team have announced the availability of the final update to GNOME 2.26

http://www.h-online.com/open/GNOME-2-26-3-released--/news/113679/from/rss 2009-07-03T16:13:50+02:00

According to US media reports, Apple is working on an update for the iPhone to fix a critical vulnerability in its texting application

http://www.h-online.com/security/Alledged-critical-security-vulnerability-in-iPhone-SMS-application--/news/113680/from/rss 2009-07-03T14:29:51+02:00

The developers of the free open source NeoOffice office suite for Mac OS X have announced that, due to very low donation levels this year, they will be forced to make severe cutbacks

http://www.h-online.com/open/Hard-times-for-NeoOffice--/news/113678/from/rss 2009-07-02T17:42:53+02:00

According to MessageLabs, June 2009 saw a worldwide increase in spam being sent via botnets to 83.2 per cent, up from only 57.6 per cent in May

http://www.h-online.com/security/Study-shows-rise-in-spam-botnets--/news/113677/from/rss 2009-07-03T17:05:01+02:00

MD6 was, despite its relative slowness, one of the favourites. The reasons given for the withdrawal by lead developer Ron Rivest surprised even those in the know

http://www.h-online.com/security/MD6-hash-algorithm-withdrawn-from-SHA-3-competition--/news/113676/from/rss 2009-07-02T17:03:50+02:00

The Ubuntu Technical Board has clarified that the use of the Mono stack implementation is not considered to be a problem and that it, and applications based on it, will continue to be included with the default Ubuntu installation set

http://www.h-online.com/open/Ubuntu-to-continue-using-Mono--/news/113674/from/rss 2009-07-02T17:01:17+02:00

WordPress themes are derivative works and should be licensed under the GPL say WordPress developers after consulting the Software Freedom Law Center

http://www.h-online.com/open/WordPress-themes-must-be-GPL--/news/113675/from/rss 2009-07-02T15:37:30+02:00

To address concerns from users, the Google Update open source software installer and auto-updater for Windows now uses the Windows Task Scheduler to only run at periodic intervals

http://www.h-online.com/open/Google-Update-no-longer-runs-continuously--/news/113673/from/rss 2009-07-02T14:20:03+02:00

Linux 2.6.31 will include a new Wi-Fi driver for Intel chips and will be WPAN-capable in accordance with IEEE 802.15.4. The developers have also improved support for Ralink Wi-Fi components and for newer power saving technologies

http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-31-Part-1-New-Wi-Fi-drivers-and-other-network-related-changes--/news/113670/from/rss 2009-07-02T17:40:56+02:00

The reduced charges are primarily intended to benefit small studios and pressing companies that have yet to release any Blu-ray versions of their films due to the high cost

http://www.h-online.com/security/AACS-LA-reduces-copy-protection-charges-for-Blu-ray-Discs--/news/113672/from/rss 2009-07-02T17:02:44+02:00

SourceForge Inc. has announced that its SourceForge.net software site has served its four billionth download. The four billionth application was downloaded on the 8th of June from PortableApps.com

http://www.h-online.com/open/SourceForge-net-four-billion-served--/news/113668/from/rss 2009-07-03T09:05:26+02:00

A hole has been closed in Apple's iDisk storage system after a vulnerability allowing unauthorised access was discovered

http://www.h-online.com/security/Apple-s-iDisk-sealed--/news/113669/from/rss 2009-07-02T11:02:56+02:00

Apart from offering a range of new features and new and improved drivers, the beta is the first version of RHEL 5.4 to support KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualisation

http://www.h-online.com/open/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-5-4-beta-with-KVM--/news/113667/from/rss 2009-07-02T10:34:57+02:00

The distributed version control system is updated and adds experimental support for subrepositories and better local sharing

http://www.h-online.com/open/Mercurial-1-3-released--/news/113666/from/rss 2009-07-03T09:05:48+02:00

CMS Made Simple, an open source Content Management System, has been updated to version 1.6. The primary focus of the release was the complete re-working of the content permissions system

http://www.h-online.com/open/CMS-Made-Simple-1-6-released--/news/113665/from/rss 2009-07-01T16:09:52+02:00

The KDE developers have announced the availability of the first release candidate of KDE 4.3.0

http://www.h-online.com/open/KDE-4-3-0-release-candidate-available--/news/113663/from/rss 2009-07-01T15:22:54+02:00

Two sets of JavaScript unit tests have been released, one by Microsoft and one by Google, to help developers who are implementing the language

http://www.h-online.com/open/JavaScript-Tested--/news/113664/from/rss 2009-07-01T15:14:12+02:00

Less than 24 hours since it was released, Firefox 3.5 has already been downloaded more than four million times and is currently being downloaded approximately 77 times every second

http://www.h-online.com/open/Firefox-3-5-already-downloaded-more-than-4-million-times--/news/113661/from/rss 2009-07-01T14:34:01+02:00

16 months of development brings faster database restoration, new SQL functionality and conformance and more

http://www.h-online.com/open/PostgreSQL-8-4-now-available--/news/113662/from/rss 2009-07-01T14:31:39+02:00

Debian have responded to Richard Stallman's claim that the project is including Mono in the default installation of the GNU/Linux distribution

http://www.h-online.com/open/Debian-Mono-is-not-in-our-default-installation--/news/113660/from/rss 2009-07-01T12:47:28+02:00

Kaspersky has fixed its malware detection problem in its 2010 products via an automatic update. The cause of the detection problems that allowed malware to be overlooked seems to have been even more severe than was initially apparent

http://www.h-online.com/security/Kaspersky-tightens-up-anti-virus-engine--/news/113656/from/rss 2009-07-01T12:02:04+02:00

VMWare updates ESX Server to close a vulnerability in its Kerberos implementation

http://www.h-online.com/security/Security-updates-for-VMWare-ESX--/news/113659/from/rss 2009-07-01T11:29:20+02:00

The new version of the free Java build tool should bring greater stability and fixes a number of less critical bugs

http://www.h-online.com/open/The-new-Maven-2-2-0-requires-Java-5--/news/113658/from/rss 2009-07-01T11:23:20+02:00

Juniper Networks has withdrawn a presentation at the Black Hat conference entitled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines" after a cash machine manufacturer intervened

http://www.h-online.com/security/Cash-machine-cracking-presentation-cancelled--/news/113657/from/rss 2009-07-01T11:14:34+02:00

The PCLinuxOS developers have released version 2009.2 of the free PCLinuxOS and PCLinuxOS GNOME distributions

http://www.h-online.com/open/PCLinuxOS-2009-2-released--/news/113655/from/rss 2009-07-01T10:19:52+02:00

According to Gordon Brown, the internet today is as important to the UK as the seas were in the 19th century and the air was in the 20th

http://www.h-online.com/security/UK-presents-cyber-security-strategy--/news/113654/from/rss 2009-06-30T18:05:50+02:00

Mozilla has released version 3.5 of their open source Firefox web browser, code named "Shiretoko", which includes the new Trace Monkey JavaScript engine and is based on version 1.91 of the Gecko layout engine

http://www.h-online.com/open/Firefox-3-5-now-available--/news/113653/from/rss 2009-06-30T18:49:21+02:00

A 19-year-old American has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for placing faked phone calls that dispatched special police units to the homes of unwitting families

http://www.h-online.com/security/Swatting-phreaker-swatted-and-heading-to-jail--/news/113652/from/rss 2009-06-30T17:03:08+02:00

Sun Microsystems has announced the released of version 3.0 of its open source VirtualBox desktop virtualisation application for x86 hardware which now includes experimental support for Direct3D 8 & 9 in applications for Windows guests

http://www.h-online.com/open/VirtualBox-3-0-released--/news/113651/from/rss 2009-06-30T16:35:07+02:00

A GCC-based compiler developed by the MilePost project automatically learns how to translate source code into efficient binary code

http://www.h-online.com/open/MilePost-Compiler-AI-optimises-machine-code--/news/113650/from/rss 2009-06-30T16:27:51+02:00

The PHP development team have announced the release version 5.3.0 of PHP. The new version includes several fundamental new extensions, as well as a number of other new features

http://www.h-online.com/open/PHP-5-3-0-released--/news/113649/from/rss 2009-06-30T15:59:07+02:00

With 6.2, the developers have mainly focused on fine-tuning the existing functionality of the Linux distribution designed particularly for PowerPCs and PS3s. Xfce has been added as a further desktop environment choice

http://www.h-online.com/open/Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-2-released--/news/113648/from/rss 2009-06-30T13:55:55+02:00

HP has released updates for the OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) to close a remotely exploitable hole in rping

http://www.h-online.com/security/Once-again-HP-has-to-close-a-hole-in-OpenView-Network-Node-Manager--/news/113647/from/rss 2009-06-30T12:49:56+02:00

Palm has released version 1.0.4 of its Pre mobile phone software to address several security issues with the Palm webOS

http://www.h-online.com/security/Palm-Pre-1-0-4-update-fixes-security-issues--/news/113645/from/rss 2009-06-30T12:27:25+02:00

The latest maintenance release of the cross platform, open source .NET development framework is the first to incorporate Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC framework

http://www.h-online.com/open/Mono-2-4-2-with-ASP-NET-MVC-support--/news/113644/from/rss 2009-06-30T11:56:58+02:00

The third milestone release includes the latest Linux kernel and several updates to the included applications

http://www.h-online.com/open/openSUSE-11-2-Milestone-3-released--/news/113643/from/rss 2009-06-30T10:49:51+02:00

Tiny Core founder Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of version 2.1 of Tiny Core Linux and Micro Core Linux

http://www.h-online.com/open/Tiny-Core-Linux-2-1-arrives--/news/113642/from/rss 2009-06-30T10:00:45+02:00

NetBeans 6.7 has now been released by Sun Microsystems. The H looks at what's new in the latest version

http://www.h-online.com/open/NetBeans-6-7-released-focuses-on-Maven-and-Kenai-integration--/news/113640/from/rss 2009-06-29T16:30:16+02:00

Linux developer Andrew Tridgell has presented the second of two patches designed to work around Microsoft's FAT file naming patents

http://www.h-online.com/open/Linux-developers-want-to-circumvent-VFATs-patent-problem--/news/113641/from/rss 2009-06-29T15:57:56+02:00

Originally released on the 28th of June 1994, FreeDOS, a free open source DOS clone, is now 15 years old

http://www.h-online.com/open/15-years-of-FreeDOS--/news/113639/from/rss 2009-06-29T15:02:42+02:00

Too short for news, too good to lose; lost+found is a round up of useful security information. Today, Bug reports, eBay, anti-debugging and asterisks

http://www.h-online.com/security/Lost-Found-Bug-reports-eBay-anti-debugging-and-asterisks--/news/113638/from/rss 2009-06-29T12:54:25+02:00

The Mozilla developers have released a second beta for Nokia's N810 Internet Tablets and a second alpha for the Windows Mobile 6 platform, of their Fennec mobile web browser, focusing on performance and user experience improvements

http://www.h-online.com/open/Fennec-updates-for-Windows-Mobile-Maemo-released--/news/113637/from/rss 2009-06-29T14:26:11+02:00

The developers of the anonymity service have released version 0.2.0.35 and the first release candidate of 0.2.1.16, fixing DoS vulnerabilities and a DNS spoofing hole

http://www.h-online.com/security/New-version-of-Tor-fixes-two-security-issues--/news/113636/from/rss 2009-06-29T13:36:04+02:00

While Ruby 1.9.2 isn't due until the end of this year, details from a Japanese Ruby conference reveal what to expect in this next version of the dynamic scripting language

http://www.h-online.com/open/Roadmap-for-Ruby-1-9-2--/news/113635/from/rss 2009-06-29T11:16:00+02:00

The Debian project developers have announced the release of the second update to Debian 5.0, which includes a new version of the debian-installer and addresses several bugs and security issues

http://www.h-online.com/open/Second-update-for-Debian-5-0-Lenny-released--/news/113634/from/rss 2009-06-29T10:59:33+02:00

The renovation of the Python language continues with the production release of Python 3.1

http://www.h-online.com/open/Python-3-1-released--/news/113633/from/rss 2009-06-29T14:26:41+02:00

Richard Stallman has added to the protests about Mono, saying free software such as GNU/Linux should not depend on the Microsoft designed framework

http://www.h-online.com/open/Stallman-says-Don-t-depend-on-Mono--/news/113631/from/rss 2009-06-29T09:42:56+02:00

LinuxTag and 2 Kernel Logs, SCO still not dead, open-source and public institutions, Mozilla 3.5 'real soon', new open source benchmarks, TLD redirections criticised, another Twitter hack and the increasing importance of security updates

http://www.h-online.com/news/The-H-Week--/113632/from/rss 2009-06-29T09:18:02+02:00

Munich city council's switch to Linux and other open-source software is proceeding with great enthusiasm. Although other local authorities have now followed suit, Microsoft won't leave the field without a fight

http://www.h-online.com/open/LiMux-Munich-Linux-R-evolution-has-its-Imitators--/news/113629/from/rss 2009-06-27T19:02:10+02:00

The next version of the Fedora Project's Linux distribution, Fedora 12, will be named "Constantine"

http://www.h-online.com/open/Fedora-12-to-be-named-Constantine--/news/113630/from/rss 2009-06-27T17:21:12+02:00

A free browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox from anti-virus manufacturer Finjan, called SecureBrowsing, alerts users of dangerous URLs in Google Search and other popular sites

http://www.h-online.com/security/Free-extension-for-secure-browsing--/news/113627/from/rss 2009-06-26T15:08:58+02:00

Secunia says a hole in the Windows binary version of VLC media player is "highly critical"

http://www.h-online.com/security/Hole-in-VLC-Media-Player--/news/113628/from/rss 2009-06-26T14:39:30+02:00