* News about Mint
Monthly Stats – February 2009
mintCast – Episode 8
Email problems in Forums now completely solved
Short news about Mint from Twitter/Identica
* News about Linux
The Linux Foundation is taking over Linux.com.
OpenSUSE hard hit by Novell’s layoffs
KDE 4.2.1 released
FFmpeg 0.5 released
Xandros introduces Presto
Codeweavers to incorporate DX 10 (roadmap)
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
The Open Source replacement for Flash called Gnash has reached 0.8.5
* News about IT
One small mistake (if it even was a mistake) almost brought down the entire internet
What happened and why (why – basically not all routers on the internet are Cisco routers)
New Variant of Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook (as always Windows only)
IT pro gets four years for building botnets
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission
Exploit can hit Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows without even opening the file.
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk
L0phtCrack is back!
CSRF vulnerability in GMail service
Safekeeping Twitter Accounts
Security vendors to block police hacks
Arbor Networks Unveils the World’s Most Comprehensive Internet Monitoring System
* Hardware news
Intel Kept Global Chip Crown in 2008, AMD Fell From Top Ten
IBM Zone Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC) – a USB pen drive for safe banking business
* Other news
Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop
The Bush administration listened to “everything” according to papers just released
* Comic of the week
I’ll report about this trial when the sentence has been passed
Credit goes to xkcd – http://xkcd.com/
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