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VLC Media Player 1.1.3 fixes critical security vulnerability

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The VideoLAN Project has released version 1.1.3 of its VLC Media Player, a maintenance and security update that addresses a critical vulnerability that could lead to a possible denial of service attack or the execution of arbitrary code...

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[How To] Use Launchy (Open Source Keylauncher)

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[How To] Use Launchy (Open Source Keylauncher)

I love Launchy. I use it to launch programs without having to navigate the desktop or Windows start menu. Find out more about it at www.launchy.net
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Rails 3.0: It's ready!

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Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.

This third generation of Rails has seen thousands of commits, so picking what to highlight was always going to be tough and incomplete.

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Week in tech: unexpected purchases, old security flaws, and Bulldozer

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Why Intel bought McAfee: Theories abound for why Intel bought McAfee, but the reality is more prosaic than most imagine. The Aurora attacks on Google and others were a wakeup call for Intel, and the company got serious about developing vPro's security potential.

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What Illumos is and is not

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When I wrote disparagingly of Illumos yesterday, I got some well-deserved pushback.So it may be useful to discuss what Illumos is, and is not.Illumos is a fork of Open Solaris, but it’s a fork of a special type.A normal fork takes today’s code and goes off in a new direction with it. Gradually the forked program and the root diverge.Illumos isn’t going to be like that.

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Google knits 11 patches into Chrome browser

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Google applied patches to three critical and eight high risk vulns in a new iteration of its Chrome browser released late last week.…...

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phpMyAdmin updates close vulnerabilities

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The latest 3.3.5.1 and 2.11.10.1 releases of the phpMyAdmin database administration tool address one critical and several serious security vulnerabilities, including an issue that could allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code...

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Week in tech: FM radio, broadband speeds, and bandwidth hogs

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Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future: Radio stations are willing to fork over $100 million a year to music labels, but in return they want Congress to make FM receivers mandatory in portable devices.

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Sen. Al Franken: We Have a Free Speech Problem

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Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government's failure to stop it, is one of the most important issues of our time.
Franken said our media system is at risk everywhere we turn -- from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.
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Report: KDE 4.5 Improves in Dozens of Small and Satisfying Ways

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At last, the breakneck torrent of changes and improvements has slowed, and KDE 4 is settling into a quieter groove. Bruce Byfield examines this latest new KDE release.

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apt-file: Locate Missing Package Files

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Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer.

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Hands-on: Motorola's Droid 2 sequel is a worthy update

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Motorola set the standard for Android-based QWERTY sliders when it launched the original Droid last year. An aggressive advertising campaign, excellent specs, and an appealing form factor propelled the Droid to the top of the charts and made it one of the best-selling Android smartphones.

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ClamAV 0.96.2 released

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The ClamAV project has updated its open source virus scanner toolkit to version 0.96.2, addressing several bugs from the previous release and closing various memory leaks...

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The deafening silence in the Oracle-Google lawsuit

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Amid all the Sturm-und-Drang over the Oracle-Google suit, there are some voices notably absent.The Free Software Foundation has not issued a press release. Neither has the Linux Foundation. Nor the Open Invention Network. Linux Defenders 911 has not replaced its penguin “bat signal” with a Drudge-like police strobe.It’s the mystery of the dogs that don’t bark. Why?

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Compliance specialist Palamida joins the Linux Foundation

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The Linux Foundation has announced that compliance and IP management specialist Palamida has become its newest member. Palamida will collaborate on and contribute to the non-profit organisation's new Open Compliance Program...

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