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Friday, November 16th, 2012

    Time Event
    3:16p
    Friday's security advisories

    Debian has updated typo3-src (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated kdelibs (F16; F17: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated java-1.5.0-ibm (multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.6.0-ibm (multiple vulnerabilities), and java-1.7.0-ibm (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities) and xen (SLE11: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated django (information disclosure).

    3:22p
    Mozilla Foundation 2011 annual report
    The Mozilla Foundation has released it's 2011
    annual report     in a "collection of boxes" format that reminds one of
    a recent proprietary operating system release. "In June 2012 we
    released an update to Firefox for Android that we believe is the best
    browser for Android available. We completely rebuilt and redesigned the
    product in native UI, resulting in a snappy and dynamic upgrade to mobile
    browsing that is significantly faster than the Android stock
    browser.    "
    3:26p
    Barcelona Media Summit Report
    Hans Verkuil has posted a report from the meeting of kernel-space media
    developers recently held in Barcelona. Covered topics include a new
    submaintainer organization, requirements for new V4L2 drivers, asynchronous
    loading, and more. "Basically the number of
    patch submissions increased from 200 a month two years ago to 700 a month this
    year. Mauro is unable to keep up with that flood and a solution needed to be
    found.    "
    9:34p
    Apple Now Owns the Page Turn (New York Times)
    The New York Times describes the latest innovation from Apple: a page turning animation for e-readers. Not only is it astonishingly brilliant, it's patented. "Apple argued that its patented page turn was unique in that it had a special type of animation other page-turn applications had been unable to create.
    [ ... ]
    The patent comes with three illustrations to explain how the page-turn algorithm works. In Figure 1, the corner of a page can be seen folding over. In Figure 2, the page is turned a little more. I’ll let you guess what Figure 3 shows.    "

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