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Web Open Font Format Gets Backing from Mozilla

                   
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Nov 2, 2009
 
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A new format specification has reached consensus among web and type designers and is being backed by Mozilla. Dubbed Web Open Font Format (WOFF), it is an effort to bring advanced typography to the web in a much better way. [read full story]                    

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EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes

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EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes

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Nov 5, 2009
 

The battle was hard, but the final text of the agreement ensures that people in the EU are not disconnected from the Internet without a chance to get a fair and impartial hearing beforehand. The important part is: ‘Accordingly,...

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Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine

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Nov 5, 2009
 

Just a week after Unity announced its engine is now available for free to indie users, Epic Games has revealed a free version of its popular Unreal Engine technology. Called the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), it is a free...

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Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed

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Nov 5, 2009
 

jamie writes with news of a Facebook app developer who found a significant security hole while he was trying to get around function limitations for his application. Quoting: “Luckily — just with browser AJAX requests — a flash...

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Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County

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Nov 5, 2009
 

A central traffic control computer in Montgomery County, Maryland failed early Wednesday morning, leading to widespread gridlock across the entire county. The computer, which dates to the 1970s, is the single point of unified...

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Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort

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Nov 5, 2009
 

A few years after the Con Kolivas fiasco, the FatELF project to implement the ‘universal binaries’ feature for Linux that allows a single binary file to run on multiple hardware platforms has been grounded. Ryan C. Gordon, who...

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NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight

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Nov 5, 2009
 

Just one week after the first test flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn’t scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping...

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Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems

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Nov 5, 2009
 

Researchers from VUPEN have discovered critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave, a technology installed on over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution by tricking a user...

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Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer?

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Nov 5, 2009
 

An anonymous reader writes ‘In comparison to the advanced technology in today’s smart phones, the standard home phone is painfully backwards. My current setup is a Panasonic system that has 4 cordless phones over one base station.

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Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All

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Nov 5, 2009
 

Contrary to previous reports, Atom chip support is working fine in the latest 10C535 build of OS X 10.6.2. Apple’s EULA still states that OS X is licensed to run only on Apple hardware, but it looks like OSX86 hackers can...

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Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two

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Nov 5, 2009
 

An anonymous reader writes ‘Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has appeared in northeastern Ethiopia.’

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