Newslinx

• Run your own repository with Apt-Mirror - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

   DarkDuck: There will come a time (Precise ends April 2017, Lucid already stopped last year) when support will seize and quite possibly the repositories of their software packages will fold up 

  
  
• Alleged Bitcoin creator denies he's the one - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Read full story for latest details.
  
• Chart: Acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The big orange circle is Google's Motorola. The big blue one is Facebook's WhatsApp.
  
• SXSW has no more 'breakout hits' - and that's fine - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The 20-year-old festival is constantly evolving.
  
• What would a computer cook for dinner? - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Would you let a computer cook you dinner?
  
• Simplicity 14.1 - A fresh take on Puppy Linux - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

   EveryDayLinuxUser: Simplicity Linux takes the best bits of Puppy Linux and turns them in to a user friendly, easy to use distribution that you can carry around on a pen drive.

  
  
• Professional online Linux classes for all - and the first one is free - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

   ZDnet: Want a good-paying Linux job, but don't have the skills? The Linux Foundation is setting up a new program of online classes for you.

  
  
• Can Microsoft make enterprise search better? - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Updates to its Office 365 suite show benefits from a 2008 acquisition.
  
• At Apple, CFO's departure leaves big shoes to fill - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Peter Oppenheimer quietly presided over one of the most remarkable runs in the technology industry's history.
  
• Alleged Bitcoin creator pursued in L.A. car chase - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The engineer identified by Newsweek as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was chased by reporters across Los Angeles Thursday.
  
• Here's why Bitcoin matters - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Read full story for latest details.
  
• VIDEO: Tech review: This week's headlines - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  A business card fitted with a computer capable of playing a number of games including Tetris, plus other tech news.
  
• VIDEO: How to protect your photos online - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Click's Kate Russell looks at sites and tools to protect photos plus other sites and apps reviewed.
  
• Get ready for 'over-the-top' TV - CNN -- Tech News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  A cable-like offering without the physical cable pipe increasingly feels inevitable, and Dish's deal with Disney is a big step forward.
  
• VIDEO: 'I have nothing to do with Bitcoin' - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Controversy is surrounding claims by Newsweek to have found the creator of the Bitcoin virtual currency.
  
• Create Classy Slow Motion Videos In Linux With slowmoVideo - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

   webupd8: slowmoVideo is a Qt application for Linux that can be used to create beautiful slow motion videos.

  
  
• Team of European archaeologists find alabaster statue of Egyptian pharoanic princess in Luxor - Fox News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Egypt has announced that a team of European archaeologists have found a nearly 2-meter- (6 ½-foot-) tall alabaster statue of a pharoanic princess, dating from approximately 1350 B.C., outside the southern city of Luxor.
  
• Hubble captures asteroid's odd death - Fox News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The Hubble Space Telescope continues to wow astronomers.
  
• 'Bitcoin creator' denies involvement - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The man singled out by a magazine as being behind the virtual currency denies any involvement.
  
• Can Cloud Services be Exploited to Aid Attackers? - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

  eSecurityPlanet: Ragan said that he was in fact able to build a botnet using free trials from multiple cloud vendors, without spending a penny.

  
  
• Facebook's WhatsApp purchase opposed - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp - one of the biggest ever tech acquisitions - runs into trouble over privacy concerns.
  
• Hubble Space Telescope captures shattering asteroid, at least 10 pieces seen in photos - Fox News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first pictures of a disintegrating asteroid.
  
• Ancient Egyptian soldier's letter home deciphered - Fox News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in Europe
  
• Make OpenStack speak your language - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  

  OpenSource.com: Every contribution is welcome and what you decide to do depends on what you have to offer. That is, your knowledge and your time.

  
  
• Turkey PM warns social media sites - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan says his government could ban Facebook and YouTube, amid leaks suggesting government corruption.
  
• Abortion provider hit by data fine - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  An abortion provider has been fined £200,000 for a data breach that revealed thousands of people's details to a hacker.
  
• Slow broadband 'damaging education' - TG Daily
  Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  A survey suggests that school children could be missing out because of poor home broadband connections.
  
• US state bans Peeping Tom photos - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Massachusetts passes a bill against taking indecent images of people in public, after a man who snapped photos up women's skirts goes scot-free.
  
• Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  A row has broken out between Dell and Mozilla over charges for installing the Firefox browser.
  
• Trolls target mother of suicide girl - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  The mother of a schoolgirl who hanged herself amid claims of bullying is the target of internet abuse.
  
• Shivering with... Slava Rubin - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Enduring the polar vortex with the chief executive of the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo.
  
• Twitter bans porn on Vine app - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Video-sharing Twitter app Vine announces a ban on all sexually explicit content from being published on the platform.
  
• Understanding the Mt. Gox bankruptcy process - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Those who have lost bitcoins or cash with Mt. Gox have a long wait and a lot of hurdles between them and restitution. Here's what you need to know if Mark Karpeles smashed your piggybank.
  
• Bank websites put to 'sinister' use - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Many websites once used by US banks have been taken over by spammers and virus writers, reveals research.
  
• Europol warning over wi-fi hotspots - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  People should not send sensitive information over public wi-fi hotspots, as data theft by hackers is rising, Europol warns.
  
• Twitter buys log cabins for cafeteria - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Read full story for latest details.
  
• Getty makes 35m photos free to use - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, makes millions of its pictures free to use, in an effort to combat piracy.
  
• AUDIO: Son criticises iPad inheritance rule - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  A man who was left an iPad in his late mother's will has criticised Apple for not unlocking the device.
  
• Charges over web-link sharing reduced - TG Daily
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Some charges brought by the US government against an American journalist who helped share leaked information have been dropped.
  
• Einstein's WWII-era letter to US soldier on sale for $40G - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Nearly 70 years ago, a group of American soldiers puzzled by a scientific article they read while in the Philippines during World War II decided to go directly to the source. Their subsequent letter inexplicably reached none other than Albert Einstein, who replied that “space should be looked at as a four-dimensional continuum.”
  
• Poachers targeting California's redwoods to feed drug habits - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  California's majestic redwood trees are in danger as poachers enter the sunshine state's national parks to steal its wood to sell for furniture.
  
• Land a piece of space history - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Space mementos including spacesuits, control panels, and one cosmonaut survival machete are among 300 of space memorabilia being auctioned off in the Space History sale at Bonhams on April 8.
  
• Scientists dig into mystery of sea turtles' 'lost years' - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Amid discoveries about lost cities and lost treasure come new findings on something else that has been long lost to science: knowledge of sea turtles' "lost years."
  
• 16th-century artillery manual shows illustration of 'rocket cat' weaponry - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  You're a 16th century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you're leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or looking to settle the score with a rival nobleman.
  
• NASA planning to send robotic mission to Europa, Jupiter's watery moon that may harbor life - Fox News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be life.
  
• GnuTLS: Big internal bugs, few real-world problems - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  

  ZDNet: To sum up, no one should be using GnuTLS.

  
  
• DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M in New Funding to Build Cloud (Linux Powered) - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  

  eWEEK: Fast-growing cloud startup DigitalOcean today announced that it has raised $37.2 million in a Series A round of funding.

  
  
• A Q and A with Comcast's top government guy - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  A key fundraiser for President Obama, longtime political operative and strategic adviser to CEO Brian Roberts, David Cohen talks to Fortune about its streaming deal with Netflix, the Time Warner merger, and signing the deal papers at 2am.
  
• Sean Parker formally leaves Founders Fund - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  Sean Parker will not make new investments for Founders Fund, but will maintain board seats like Spotify.
  
• How hit trivia app QuizUp survived the hype cycle - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  The app launches on Android today.
  
• Oscar Mayer wakes you up with bacon alarm - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  You can now wake up to the smell of bacon everyday, if you're lucky.
  
• Linux Kernel Patching Gets Dynamic - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  

  ServerWatch: For much of the Linux operating system's history, patching a kernel has been a process that has typically involved downtime

  
  
• Reaction Housing raises $1.5 million to make disaster relief shelters - CNN -- Tech News
  Thu, 06 Mar 2014
  The coolest new startup in Austin doesn't make apps.
  
• Facebook tightens rules on gun posts - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  The world's biggest social networking site Facebook tightens its rules on posts relating to guns.
  
• E-cigarette ban for Los Angeles - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Los Angeles council votes to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in the city's restaurants, bars, nightclubs and public spaces.
  
• Police password lost for eight years - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Complaints pile up for eight years because Indian police officers did not know a computer password.
  
• Apple's CarPlay draws safety criticism - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Apple's new "CarPlay" system, which allows drivers to use iPhones behind the wheel, is raising concerns among auto safety experts.
  
• VIDEO: Body cameras used to tackle crime - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Police officers in a Cheshire town are wearing body cameras in a pilot project aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour.
  
• Rules leave inherited iPad 'useless' - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Family left iPad in mother's will say restrictive Apple security rules have rendered it useless.
  
• Will TripleLift be the startup that fixes the dreaded banner ad? - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  TripleLift raises $4 million to solve digital advertising's prickliest problem.
  
• Cyber 'stand-off' in Ukraine crisis - TG Daily
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  After Ukraine accuses Russia of disrupting mobile networks, security experts warn that the countries are locked in a cyber stand-off.
  
• Two economists file pro-Apple brief in e-book antitrust case - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  Judge Denise Cote, they write, doesn't understand markets. Or antitrust law.
  
• Yahoo cutting off access to services for Google, Facebook log-ins - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 05 Mar 2014
  It might be time to dust off your old Yahoo account.
  
• AUDIO: Lasers speed up New York share trades - TG Daily
  Tue, 04 Mar 2014
  Mike Persico discusses his firm's plans to introduce laser beam connectivity between the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
  
• VIDEO: Hands on with Google's Project Tango - TG Daily
  Mon, 03 Mar 2014
  Click's Spencer Kelly tests a prototype smartphone which can build a 3D map of a user's surroundings.
  
• Robots attempt Tokyo university exam - TG Daily
  Mon, 03 Mar 2014
  Japanese scientists try to create a robot smart enough to pass the University of Tokyo's entrance exam.
  
• VIDEO: 'Superman suit' lets man lift 100kg - TG Daily
  Mon, 03 Mar 2014
  Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to date.
  
• VIDEO: School Reporters check out coding - TG Daily
  Sun, 02 Mar 2014
  Students from Eastlea Community School give computer programming a go and interview Moshi Monsters creator Michael Smith to find out why he thinks everyone can code.
  
• VIDEO: Will we still use mobiles in 20 years? - TG Daily
  Thu, 27 Feb 2014
  Industry experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona look forward to the phones of the future.