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24 January 2009

heise online news 24/01/2009


heise online news 24/01/2009
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RewiredState.org announce National Hack The Government Day

A day for pulling out the governments useful public information and remixing it into useful new resources is announced by RewiredState.org

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DECT cards for sniffing are selling out

Com-On-Air type II cards that are being used for sniffing DECT telephone calls, are now hard to find

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Seagate starts releasing new firmware updates

Seagate has released new firmware updates for a number of defective Barracuda 7200.11 models

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Google's new AJAX API playground

Google has released it's new AJAX API Playground, an interactive way for developers to learn how to use Google's JavaScript APIs

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New version of Tor plugs security leak

The developers of the Tor anonymisation software say the problem is important and recommend an update. The new version also eliminates many minor and major errors.

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Apache Ivy 2.0.0 released

The open source dependency management tool Apache Ivy, has been updated to version 2.0.0, the first non-beta release of Ivy under the Apache banner

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Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

Ubuntu releases the second maintenance update to their "long term support" version of Ubuntu 8.04

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First major release of g-Eclipse

The open-source European Union research project, g-Eclipse has released version 1.0 of it's software to interact with Grid and Cloud Computing

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5,000 Refugee children in Gaza Strip to get OLPC Laptop

One Laptop per Child is donating 5,000 laptops to refugee children in the Gaza Strip

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