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SolarWinds TFTP Server Option Acknowledgement Request Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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Microsoft IIS FTPd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Apple iPhone and iPod touch Mobile Safari Alert Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Dnsmasq TFTP Service Remote Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Dnsmasq TFTP Service Remote NULL-Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

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MKPortal Multiple Modules Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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MKPortal Multiple BBCode HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

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Hitachi Device Manager IPv6 Security Bypass Vulnerability

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Everyone hates re-runs. They’re episodes you’ve likely already seen, being run out of order because there is no new content to run. But Fox may have just figured out a way to make them more interesting: Twitter.

The television network will be airing old episodes for two of its shows, Fringe and Glee, with Twitter commentary along the bottom of the screen. But no, sadly, not just anyone can tweet anything and have it be on national television, these will be moderated streams. And most of the it will be taken up by the tweets of the two shows’ casts and producers, apparently.

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One of our readers, Scott F., yesterday submitted to the ISC that he had been notified in early July …(more)…

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We suspect Business Catalyst, the company behind e-commerce software suite GoodBarry, went a little early with the news on its own website, but that’s a boon for tech business reporters awake at this time of day. Turns out Adobe Systems has agreed to acquire the part American, part Australian company for an undisclosed amount.

Details are scarce since there’s no press release or official word from Adobe yet, but Business Catalyst has published a couple of Q&A on its website that shed a minimal amount of light on the agreement. From what we can gather at this point despite the vague wording used for the announcement, there won’t be too many changes at Business Catalyst as the products, partner agreements, team, pricing, etc. should remain largely unchanged. GoodBarry, on the other hand, being merely a Business Catalyst brand set up for their retail operations, will be gradually phased out and morphed into the Business Catalyst offering.

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Platogo, an Austrian startup which we recently covered as being a Mini Seedcamp finalist, opens up in private beta tomorrow. Platogo, (as in Play Together Online) aims to be the one-stop-shop for simple online multiplayer gaming. You’ve heard of MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft, but Platogo focuses on simple, easy-to-learn, online flash games with nifty graphics which are easy to play, thus tapping into the far larger market of casual gamers. We have 50 exclusive Beta Invites for Techcrunch Europe Readers. The first 50 commenters on this post will get an invite code. And we’ll see if we can strong-arm the startup into handing out more.

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Recently NetVibes, the startup that lets you create a widget-filled customizable homepage, rolled out a free feature allowing users to create widget-based web pages, dubbed Theme Publishing. Ostensibly aimed at users, it also has one eye on potentially charging brands and agencies to create customised home pages.

In other words, Netvibes is trying to monetize itself as fast as possible. To that end it’s also now re-selling its architecture to portals and ISPs. Germany’s largest portal and ISP, T-Online, has thus now launched launched Meine Seite, a user-personalized, widget-based version of their site powered by Netvibes.

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Nokia has a history of rolling out Internet tablets. There was Nokia 770, Nokia N800, N810, and now the company’s latest offering Nokia N900.

Nokia N900 is positioned not exclusively as an Internet tablet. The manufacturers claim it is a mobile computer – one that is as sleek as, and behaves like a mobile phone but which has the power and capabilities of a desktop PC. Read more …

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iTunes has removed songs deemed homophobic, yet allows white supremacists to peddle their hate on their website.

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William Calley and the alleged Pan Am bomber were both convicted of mass murder. Yet Calley's recent appearances have provoked no outrage. Why the double standard?

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By refusing to stand up to the finance oligarchs, the Obama Admistration fed the cynics and dissipated the opportunity for real change.

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Creationist theme parks are filled with paleontological wonders. How do Christian fundamentalists reconcile creatures millions of years old with their Young Earth ideas?

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Glenn Beck spent last week smearing Van Jones with misinformation and outright lies. Here's setting the record straight.

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Sometimes developers have a prickly relationship with their users. Users may have unrealistic, or overly demanding, requests that can be difficult to respond to. The most vocal of these users are often unwilling to take “no”—or even “not yet”—for an answer. Some KDE developers are currently struggling with that problem, and trying to find ways to smooth the dialog between users and developers.

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Nokia has a history of rolling out Internet tablets. There was Nokia 770, Nokia N800, N810, and now the company’s latest offering Nokia N900.

Nokia N900 is positioned not exclusively as an Internet tablet. The manufacturer claim it is a mobile computer – one that is as sleek as, and behaves like a mobile phone but which has the power and capabilities of a desktop PC. You can consider Nokia N900 to be a metamorphosis of a desktop PC and a mobile phone, thereby embracing the best of both the worlds.

But what excites me the most is what lies underneath this technological wonder from Nokia. You guessed it right, Nokia N900 runs on Linux. This gives this gadget true multitasking capabilities that are not found in its far more popular contender the Apple iPhone.

Technical Specifications of Nokia N900

Let’s throw a glance at the technical specifications of this work of art called N900.

• 32 GB internal storage. Expandable to an additional 16 GB via micro SD memory card extension.
• Total available memory – 1 GB ~ (256 MB RAM + 768 MB Virtual Memory)
• Weight inclusive of battery – 181 gms
• Touch screen
• Side slide full keyboard
• 800×480 pixel resolution (WVGA)
• 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with dual LED flash.
• USB 2.0, Bluetooth, Integrated A-GPS receiver, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, WLAN, TV out … you name it, N900 has it.
• N900 runs Maemo – A Linux Operating system which brings the power of computers to mobile devices. Check out the features of Maemo to know more.

Full specs of Nokia N900 can be found here.

Nokia N900 in Pictures

The following images will give you an idea on how sleek this device looks. Shouldn’t we call it an Apple iPhone killer in the making ?

Nokia N900 Interaction Documentary

Watch and listen to what the very first users of Nokia N900 have to say about this device.

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Slackware 13.0 has been released. This new version of Slackware is considered a landmark release and contains many new features. The most prominent are as follows …

1. An official 64-bit port of Slackware

2. Linux kernel 2.6.29.6 is the default kernel in Slackware 13.

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Over the last few months we’ve seen the rise of a new and highly controversial kind of website that focuses on “Entertainment Shopping” — online stores that offer customers goods with very steep discounts, but with some risk involved in the shopping process. Some have likened these to gambling or scams, while others consider them auctions. In any case, it’s only becoming more popular, and now there’s a startup called SevenSnap that’s bringing Entertainment Shopping to the iPhone.

The app isn’t out on the App Store yet, but the company recently released a video (embedded below) that shows it off. Here’s how it works: every 60 minutes, SevenSnap puts a new item up for grabs (the example in the video is a Macbook Pro). If you want to have a shot at purchasing the item, you need to purchase “time credits”, which run a dollar per minute.

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Slackware 13.0 has been released. This new version of Slackware is considered a landmark release and contains many new features. The most prominent are as follows …

1. An official 64-bit port of Slackware
2. Linux kernel 2.6.29.6 is the default kernel in Slackware 13.
3. KDE 4 (version 4.2.4) is the default desktop. Previous version of Slackware had KDE 3 bundled with it.
4. Xfce 4.6.1 desktop.
5. X11 based on the X.Org Foundation’s modular X Window System.
6. Support for fully encrypted network connections with OpenSSL,
   OpenSSH, OpenVPN, and GnuPG.
7. Latest version of Firefox (3.5.2) web browser
8. An extra repository contain complied and ready to run software such as Java 2, Intel video drivers for X, an Mplayer browser plugin and so on.

… and much more.

You can download Slackware 13 from one of its official mirror sites. You may also choose to support the continued development of Slackware Linux by buying a set of CDs or a DVD set from the Slackware store.

I have fond memories of installing and using Slackware on my machine. Slackware is known for its KISS philosophy and adherence to a BSD style file layout for its system initialization files.

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Everybody loves microcontrollers, including the Arduino, allowing you to create whatever you imagine. That is unless you want to hack together something wireless. Originally you had to rely on the expensive XBee protocol or other wireless options, but no longer. Hobby Robotics found an extremely cheap transmitter and receiver and wrote a quick guide for [...]

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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, …) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols. It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn’t need any external codec, program or codec pack to work. Today will show you how to costumise the look of your vlc by changing the skins

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A while ago I posted some fixed ffmpeg and x264 packages for Ubuntu Jaunty (.deb) but you may want to upgrade to the latest version of ffmpeg and x264 (whichever the latest version is). So this how-to will explain how to install the latest FFmpeg and x264 and then how to always update those packages. Read on!

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