Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, half seen as ‘critical’:
Mozilla also patched potential identity leaks, spoofing bugs and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in 2.0.0.13. But the fix that caught Storms’ eye was detailed by 2008-18, a fix for LiveConnect, a feature that harks back to Firefox’s predecessor, Netscape Navigator. LiveConnect lets Java applets call a Web page’s [...]
A few quick updates…
BSD
I updated my BSD blog this weekend. I learned DragonFlyBSD has and OpenBSD will have bwi, a BSD-native Broadcom wirecutter-like module. So I’m at least going to test it out on my laptop and see how well it works. I’m most likely transitioning back to FreeBSD or OpenBSD (maybe DragonFlyBSD), but I’ll [...]
Apple shareholders should be outraged. Why should the company eat $100 per phone just because early adopters bought into the company’s hype and had to be the first kids on the block to get one? All of a sudden, you’re unhappy because someone else was smart enough to wait for the initial rush to die [...]
Phishers Can Misuse Google Gadgets, Researcher Says:
Google told him that what he sees as a flaw is simply part of the site’s expected behavior.
Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project:
The company did not rule out a potential leap into the desktop security market.
Major Skype outage in progress:
Plenty of theories have been floated as to what caused [...]
Sun has released their new JavaFX scripting language they claim will allow “content developers to leverage the enormous popularity of Java to create rich applications and services for deployment on the widest range of platforms - from mobile devices to set-top boxes and Blu-ray DVDs to desktops.”
Benefits
* Increases developer productivity
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Sun is announcing today that they’ve completed re-licensing — to GPL version 2 — the core of Java. With this move, Sun hopes to get some help with the rest that isn’t yet GPLed:
Sun hopes the open-source community will help it resolve the issue of Java source code that remains “encumbered,” where Sun doesn’t hold [...]
Sun is considering relicensing their Solaris OS under GPL. Is this why they hired Ian Murdoch?
In Sun’s view, more developers writing to its platform equals more revenue. To get there, the company needs to make Solaris “palatable and effective for people who traditionally use Linux,” says Bob Brewin, Sun’s chief technology officer for software. “And [...]
Ian Murdoch of Debian and now Sun’s Chief Operating Platforms Officer is answering lots of questions about Sun’s friendliness with Linux. I wrote earlier about Sun’s partnership with Ubuntu in getting Java development applications into the main Ubuntu repository. Here’s an interview Murdoch gave technewsworld.com. Says Ian,
Solaris has some great technology, and I think [...]
Sun is working closely with Canonical, parent company of Ubuntu, to get Sun’s Java platforms (and other technologies) into Ubuntu’s multiverse repository. Open sourcing of Java continues to be a roadblock to getting Java into the main repository, but Sun is moving quickly to do that.
Included are packages for Netbeans, Glassfish, Java SE, and Java [...]
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