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Katelyn Nicole Davis suicide video is going viral – and cops are powerless to stop it | Daily Mail Online

The horrific suicide video of Katelyn Nicole Davis, a 12-year-old girl from Cedartown, Georgia, has gone viral – and police say there is nothing they can do to stop it from being shared.

Source: Katelyn Nicole Davis suicide video is going viral – and cops are powerless to stop it | Daily Mail Online

OpenSSL after Heartbleed | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

Despite being a library that most people outside of the technology industry have never heard of, the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL caught the attention of the mainstream press when it was uncovered in April 2014 because so many websites were vulnerable to theft of sensitive server and user data. At LinuxCon Europe, Rich Salz and Tim Hudson from the OpenSSL team did a deep dive into what happened with Heartbleed and the steps the OpenSSL team are taking to improve the project.

Source: OpenSSL after Heartbleed | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

Cyanogen Inc. shuts down CyanogenMod in Christmas bloodbath | Ars Technica

Open source Android ROM project dies, developers launch fork.

Source: Cyanogen Inc. shuts down CyanogenMod in Christmas bloodbath | Ars Technica

So, CM is dead, but like with most things in the open source world, things will be forked, especially if there’s a disagreement between the two. In this case, rather than compete, it’s a desire to keep the project going.

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New Zealander says passport photo rejection ‘not racist’ – BBC News

Technology still has a way to go it seems.

I remember when trying to get back into Heathrow from Germany – and the automatic barriers wouldn’t let me in because I was wearing glasses :/

New Zealand man of Asian origin has “no hard feelings” after passport system said eyes were closed.

Source: New Zealander says passport photo rejection ‘not racist’ – BBC News

Time is running out for NTP | InfoWorld

A lot of projects are corporate, but some, like NTP are small, or even solo projects. When these small projects become really important and still not have enough resource to maintain, the security issues can’t be patches as fast as, say Oracle, Microsoft or Google.

Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives

Source: Time is running out for NTP | InfoWorld

The Voting Process

This is why Trump got voted.
 
Maybe this will give america the kick in the arse it needs to change its voting system.
 
And maybe it’ll give the UK a kick it needs to also get rid of the first past the post system here too.
 
But I’m not holding my breath.
 

Wix gets caught “stealing” GPL code from WordPress | Ars Technica

Well… “stealing”? I guess it depends on how you interpret the GPL.  Nonetheless bottom line is — if you are going to use GPL code, your code and product must follow the same license. i.e.

“… if you’re going to embed GPL stuff in your code and produce a derivative product, you’re going to have to make that derivative compliant with GPL—either by shipping the code with it or providing the code on request”

So, the headline of “stealing” GPL code? Can you actually “steal” code that is open source? Using open source in a closed source product would be a violation of the GPL (which I believe is what’s being talked about here), but is that “stealing”?

I’m not siding with either side here, I’m just not sure the word “stealing” is the right phrase to use in this headling here, quoted or not. Guess that’s clickbait for you….

Source: Wix gets caught “stealing” GPL code from WordPress | Ars Technica

Cybercrooks 1, Akamai 0 – The Boston Globe

Akamai Technologies broke ties with Internet security researcher Brian Krebs, his website was attacked.

Source: Cybercrooks 1, Akamai 0 – The Boston Globe

Meet Saya, the Japanese Schoolgirl Who Doesn’t Exist | Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities

Saya may look like a young, beautiful schoolgirl, but she is actually just an ultra-realistic computer generated model created by Japanese duo Telyuka.

Source: Meet Saya, the Japanese Schoolgirl Who Doesn’t Exist | Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities

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Sony wins battle over preinstalled Windows in Europe’s top court | Ars Technica

This shows how out of touch the justice system is with the requirements of the users. I agree that some users want to be able to use the computer immediately. I am NOT “some users”.

If the computer doesn’t come with the OS I want, I don’t want it to come with any OS at all, so I can install it myself.

My laptop and my computer both have Linux (my desktop has Linux Mint, my laptop has Ubuntu). Both came with Windows 7 Home Basic when I purchased it, because there was no option for “No Operating System”. If I can save £50 on my machine by not having to install crapware by Microsoft, I’d take it if it were an option.

CJEU rejects French citizen’s complaint, rules consumers want an OS on their PCs.

Source: Sony wins battle over preinstalled Windows in Europe’s top court | Ars Technica