The H news 24/02/2009

The H news 24/02/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Conficker becomes a more flexible worm Versions B and B++ of Conficker appear to be decidedly more flexible than their predecessors when downloading code. China has the highest estimated infections, while Germany appears to be ahead of the United States › Read article     The Cryptography Olympics : the hash algorithm contest 36 teams have qualified for the international competition for the best encryption algorithm › Read article     European investigators research VoIP tapping methods In Italy, organised criminals are increasingly using VoIP services, like Skype, to avoid surveillance. On the initiative of Italian investigators, the development of an interception solution is to be coordinated on a European level › Read article     The H Open Source news Kurt Roeckx is the new Debian Secretary Steve McIntyre has appointed Kurt Roeckx as the new Debian secretary › Read article     Red Hat announces Xen-free virtualisation road map Red Hat's virtualisation road map, which it has revealed today, shows it leaving leaving Xen and focussing on KVM, for its future virtualisation plans › Read article     Compiz 0.8.0 released The Compiz project has issued a bug fix release, with support for the latest Gnome 2.24 and KDE 4.2 desktops › Read article     New versions of VectorLinux, Foresight and SimplyMEPIS They may not be as well known as the likes of Ubuntu, but the Debian derivative SimplyMEPIS, the Slackware sibling VectorLinux and the Gnome-based Foresight Linux, do present alternatives to the "big" distributions › Read article     X11 on the G1 Android Smartphone Developers have ported the X Window System (X11) to run on the G1 Android smartphone › Read article     Asus developing Android netbook According to Samson Hu, the head of the Asus Eee PC division, Asus is developing an Android netbook for release by the end of 2009 › Read article     The Washington Times releases open source editing tools The Washington Times is releasing the source code for some of its self-developed editing tools › Read article     Kernel Log: Stable series development is speeding up, X Server 1.6 available soon Kernels 2.6.27.18 and 2.6.28.6 offer various bug fixes, but will soon be superseded by new versions with Ext4 corrections; discussions about improving the support of modern power saving techniques; new Radeon driver; X Server 1.6 is coming › Read article     New notifications for Ubuntu Jackalope Mark Shuttleworth says the new notification system Canonical have been working on, is ready for the next Ubuntu release › Read article     Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala Mark Shuttleworth has announced new details regarding the October 2009 release of Ubuntu 9.10, "Karmic Koala" › Read article     The H Open Source feature Spring 3 is in the air - a first look Spring 3 has been announced, prompting us to ask Spring expert Eberhard Wolff to take a first look at the Java framework's new directions › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving The H news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter The H Open Source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from The H, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter The H Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/security Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2009 Heise Media UK Ltd.