Sunday, 19 August 2012

Ecuador Grants Assange’s Request for Asylum, Defying UK Threats

The Ecuadorian government announced on Thursday that it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum, defying threats from the UK government that British authorities would forcibly seize Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy if Ecuador granted Assange's request.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/ecuador-grants-assanges-asylum/

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The Arting Life: Mars-Inspired Art, Commissioned by NASA, Births Strange Sci-Fi Photos

Artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick's photo-montages depict a Martian landscape populated by two stoic women climbing rock formations, walking amongst romanesque ruins, examining technological relics and giving birth to children – and all the while in their space suits.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/making-art-with-mars-rover-images/

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Found Contest: Imagine the Future of the Post Office

Wired magazine’s Found page represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Now, we’re inviting readers to help create Found pages: What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? Found Found: The Future of Shopping Centers More Artifacts From the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/ff_found_contest_postoffice/

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Oracle halts open source HPC project

Oracle researchers are winding down development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing, an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which originally funded Fortress, pulled its backing in November 2006. Work continued at Sun and Oracle, however.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/oracle-halts-open-source-hpc-project-199955?source=rss_applications

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Google researchers expose unpatched flaws in Adobe Reader

Google researchers expose unpatched flaws in Adobe Reader

Two Google security researchers have accused Adobe of failing to fix various reported vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader in a timely manner and are using the delay as justification to publicize details behind the security holes.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-security/google-researchers-expose-unpatched-flaws-in-adobe-reader-200280?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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EMC rolls out Symmetrix disk library for mainframes

EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array.

The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays -- the DLm1000, DLm2000, and DLm6000. The earlier disk libraries were built using either EMC's Data Domain virtual tape library or its midrange VNX storage array.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/emc-rolls-out-symmetrix-disk-library-mainframes-199447?source=rss_storage

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Deathmatch: Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion

Deathmatch: Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion

With the final version of Windows 8 now complete, how does Microsoft's great hope for reinventing itself for the post-PC world compare to Apple's new flagship? The short answer: not well.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/deathmatch-windows-8-vs-os-x-mountain-lion-200175?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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