Raspberry Pi: Solar Eclipses from Past to Future, Earth to Jupiter
Liz: Here’s another space-themed post from our friends at Wolfram Research, showing how the Wolfram Language can be used to visualize solar eclipses total and partial, past and present, and as seen...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Thursday
CentOS has updated kernel (C7: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2014). Fedora has updated kernel (F22: three vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated ghostscript (13.2, 13.1: code execution) and php5...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Torrent Site Proxies Rife With Malware Injecting Scripts
New research shows that torrent site proxies, which are often used to access blocked sites, are rife with malware and suspicious ads. From a sample of more than 6,000 sites more than 99% were found to...
View ArticleLWN.net: Federated Cloud Sharing in ownCloud 8.1 (ownCloud blog)
The ownCloud blog has a post about federated file sharing between ownCloud instances in ownCloud 8.1, but it also looks at the wider view of federation between various kinds of cloud servers. ownCloud...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Security for the Rest of Us
Good fictional account of an average computer user and how people understand and view security. Related: "Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users."
View ArticleLWN.net: Grasch: A Frank Look at Simon: Where To Go From Here
On his blog, Peter Grasch considers the future for the Simon speech-recognition system for KDE. He is passing the torch and will no longer be actively participating in the project, but he spent some...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday, August...
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View Articlexkcd.com: Water Phase Diagram
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleЧорба от греховете на dzver: iCloud Backup
Моят Macbook Air е изключително упорит в това да поддържам iCloud Backup. Настроил съм го да архивира бебешките снимки. Имам известен проблем с приемането на Terms and Conditions. За щастие проблемът...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Sky News’ Live Stream Shut Down By Fox News DMCA Notice
The official live stream of Sky News has been pulled from YouTube after a copyright complaint from competing news outlet Fox News. Instead of the latest news, visitors to Sky News' website are greeted...
View ArticleLWN.net: An active Firefox exploit
Mozilla has posted a warning about a Firefox vulnerability that is currently being actively exploited on the net. "The vulnerability comes from the interaction of the mechanism that enforces JavaScript...
View ArticleLWN.net: Privacy Badger 1.0
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the 1.0 release of the Privacy Badger browser extension. "As you browse the Web, Privacy Badger looks at any third party domains that are loaded on a...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Outing of ECHELON
Before Edward Snowden told us so much about NSA surveillance, before Mark Klein told us a little, even before 9/11, Duncan Campbell broke the story of ECHELON. This is his story of that story. It's a...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: String pong
If you’re not a daily reader of this website, you might have missed our big news last week: The MagPi, our official magazine, is no longer a download-only magazine; you can now buy or subscribe to a...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Making The Most of Skype on Linux
Although Skype is owned by Microsoft, it is still one of the most popular VOIP clients/services available. And with good reason. You can use Skype on nearly every platform on the market, it makes for...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Critical Firefox Update Today,...
The good folks at Firefox have released their latest version, 39.0.3, in response to vulnerability ">, which has been seen in the wild and allows an attacker to read and steal sensitive local files....
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Friday
Arch Linux has updated firefox (information leak) and wordpress (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated openssh (two vulnerabilities)...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: EFF Told to “Shut the Hell Up” About SOPA
Warnings from the EFF this week that Hollywood is making renewed efforts to obtain SOPA-like powers over Internet companies has touched a nerve, with filmmakers and anti-piracy activists attacking from...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Meerkats that Look like Bruce Schneier
Yet another example of my surreal life. (No, I have no idea who did this.)
View ArticleLWN.net: CentOS Linux 6.7 released
CentOS Linux 6.7 has been released for x86 and x86_64. "There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared with the past CentOS Linux 6 releases, and we highly recommend everyone study the...
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