nVidia does not intend to open GeForce graphics card drivers for the community, but as a compensation they get full hands working and releasing five versions of high quality binary drivers only for one month. So the things have really changed from the past where driver updates were so rare.
The latest nVidia 180.44 Linux driver [...]

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Does anyone with a tiny grain of intelligence think that US gun control will stop the importation of AK-47 clones in to Mexico? They are NOT made here, but in China, Africa, and even in Latin America. It is estimated that 1,000,000 illegally made copies are produced each year and the cost in Africa is [...]

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Ars Technica has a report from the FTC’s hearings on DRM, where Hal Halpin from the Entertainment Consumers Association proposed that game manufacturers should be required to disclose what kind of DRM they’re using prior to purchase (“WARNING: World of Warcraft contains spyware called Warden to stop you from cheating — it checks files and [...]

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Wired has a great piece up on the world’s burgeoning crop of Hacker Spaces — clubhouses where members pitch in to share the rent in exchange for a role in governing a collectively managed collection of hacking kit: workbenches, tools, and components. I’ve visited hacker lofts in Vienna, San Diego, Los Angeles and elsewhere, and [...]

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The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a telephone exchange.
But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, part-mechanical code-breaking machine and forerunner of the modern computer, which cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma machines during the Second World War.
There were 210 such bookcase-like [...]

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Researchers have come up with a way to create an even stealthier rootkit that survives reboots and evades antivirus software.
Anibal Sacco and Alfredo Ortega, both exploit writers for Core Security Technologies, were able to inject a rootkit into commercial BIOS firmware using their own Python-based tool that installed the rootkit via an update, or flash, [...]

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200 children in the UK, some as young as 13, have had files opened on them by the British anti-terror cops as potential terrorists… even though they have committed no crimes. The children were reported to the anti-terror squad by their teachers on the basis of school work, journals and conversations that, in the teachers’ [...]

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Security expert Ben Laurie has a scorching indictment of the “Verified by Visa” program used by British banks. This system is basically the perfect system for phishers and identity thieves, and conditions honest people to behave in foolish ways that leave them vulnerable to having their life’s saving taken off of them.
“Frame inline displays the [...]

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Linux vendor Red Hat’s latest earnings report indicates that the company’s total annual revenue has grown 25 percent over the previous year, to $652 million. The company’s success has led analysts to speculate that it might be a hot target for an acquisition.

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Ending a 21-month selection process, the city of Pittsburgh today announced it has picked Maryland-based Avrio Group to deploy a network of public safety surveillance cameras, starting along riverfronts and extending into high-crime areas.
The initial funding includes $3.45 million in camera funding is federal money that includes $2.59 million from the Department of Homeland Security, [...]

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“How many times can you do that in a row?”

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Apple’s iTunes plans to boost the price of many hit singles and selected classic tracks to $1.29 on April 7, breaking the psychological barrier of 99 cents in what could be the first big test of how much consumers are willing to pay to download individual songs.
Although the price-hike date hasn’t been publicly announced, Apple [...]

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The excitement has already started in anticipation of Q2 2009 l distro releases. As usual, the big names are Ubuntu 9.04 (a.ka. Jaunty Jackalope) and Fedora 11 (Leonidas). It’s time for a straight off comparison on the upcoming features of these two distros.
I have not mentioned minor version numbers of most packages, since it is [...]

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Cybercrime is on the rise as organizations face the tough realities of a poor economy putting the squeeze on their security spending. But don’t panic — some creative ways to defend your data on a tight budget do exist.
The discrepancy between security priorities and the money to fund them is becoming painfully obvious. According to [...]

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Privacy campaigners expressed alarm today over government plans to monitor all conversations on social networking sites in an attempt to crackdown on terror.
A Home Office spokesman said that the internet eavesdropping plan, which would be set out in the next few weeks, would cover any social network that allows people to chat to one another, [...]

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Since it’s Solaris, they’ll fix this by installing BSD and GNU versions of words somewhere, and we will all have to write branches into our scripts to check for the presence of /opt/sfw/dict/gwords before we can ggrep it.
That way, then can leave all the spelling errors in the Solaris version for backward compatibility. Because it’s [...]

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PITTSBURGH, PA – A federal judge says a man who flipped his middle finger at a Pittsburgh police officer shouldn’t have been cited for disorderly conduct.
David Hackbart, of Pittsburgh, made the gesture at another driver in April 2006, then made the gesture again when he heard someone yelling at him – realizing only later [...]

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WASHINGTON — A new, more aggressive effort by airport screeners aims to halt randomly selected passengers for a security check just before they step onto their departing plane, according to a government memo obtained by USA TODAY.
Scores of passengers have already been pulled aside for searches as they waited in line at airport gates for [...]

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