heise online news 24/01/2009

heise online news 24/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news 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 › Read article     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 › Read article     Seagate starts releasing new firmware updates Seagate has released new firmware updates for a number of defective Barracuda 7200.11 models › Read article     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 › Read article     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. › Read article     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 › Read article     Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released Ubuntu releases the second maintenance update to their "long term support" version of Ubuntu 8.04 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › 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 heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise 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.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.