* News about Mint
mintCast – Episode 9
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna reaches end-of-life
Linux Mint now has a forum at LinuxQuestions.org
New packages are continuously added to the community repositories – merlwiz79 has made a .deb that makes the “software-sources” application work on Mint
* News about Linux
LINUX MASCOT: Tux to make way for Tasmanian Devil
And this is what’s new in the latest kernel 2.6.29
Gnome 2.26 released
The ext4 data loss issue (by one of the devs)
Chromium on Ubuntu ! [HOW TO]
digiKam 0.10.0 release for KDE4
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Richard Stallman: You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser.
Khronos Launches Initiative to Create Open Royalty Free Standard for Accelerated 3D on the Web
* News about IT
Microsoft, Lexmark to cross-license patents
TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight
The next version of Firefox will be 3.5 not 3.1
Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable to serious viral attack
Facebook could be monitored by the UK government
Facebook defends its security and privacy tools
Songbird Bug Accidentally Wipes Users’ iPods, but the Bug Bites the Dust
Pwn2Own 2009 Day 1 – Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox Taken Down by Four Zero-Day Exploits
Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition
Researcher hacks just-launched IE8
First worm directed at home routers – infects devices which has weak username/passwords
The downadup/Conficker worm will do something on April 1st – probably no funny april fools joke
Microsoft and Yahoo talking again
Semantic Search Could Secure Google’s Future
Firewalls often do not filter ipv6 which is a major security hole (link in Swedish – sorry no good link in English)
Romanian police arrest Pentagon hack suspect
Aussie ISP pulls out of firewall trial
Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service
* Hardware news
* Other news
This is a bit odd – Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs
* Comic of the week
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