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Friday, October 26th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 2:27p |
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica) Ars technica summarizes
the latest round of the three-year DMCA exemption process. " The
new batch of exemptions illustrate the fundamentally arbitrary nature of
the DMCA's exemption process. For the next three years, you'll be allowed
to jailbreak smartphones but not tablet computers. You'll be able to unlock
phones purchased before January 2013 but not phones purchased after
that. It will be legal to rip DVDs to use an excerpt in a documentary, but
not to play it on your iPad." | | 2:51p |
Friday's security updates
Debian has updated exim4 (code execution).
Ubuntu has updated exim4 (code execution) and WebKit (multiple code execution, cross-site-scripting, and denial of service vulnerabilities). | | 3:39p |
Yocto 1.3 "danny" Released Version 1.3 of the Yocto embedded distribution builder is out. It features a new terminal-based interface, a lot of usability improvements, a number of upgraded components, and over 500 bug fixes. | | 8:11p |
Knight-Mozilla's Opened Captions At his blog, Dan Schultz writes about Opened Captions, his project that taps into closed-caption text from TV broadcasts and converts it to a usable data feed. "The Internet is filled with real-time updates triggered by online activity, but it still feels like magic when we see automatic updates driven by the real world. Opened Captions makes it easy for programmers to use live TV transcripts as an input." Schultz is a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Fellow; the program pairs developers with journalists. Opened Captions initially supports just the US government-access channel C-SPAN, but is extensible. |
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