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MoonShadow sent word that Ubuntuforums have been hacked. Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not stored in plain text. However, if you were using the same password as your Ubuntu Forums one on another service (such as email), you are strongly encouraged to change the password on the other service ASAP. Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are NOT affected by the breach.
Simon Hackett has recently given a talk about delivering a fibre NBN on a copper budget. This talk proposes just a few of the many ways in which the build cost, build time, and operating cost of the FTTH NBN could be lowered (perhaps dramatically lowered) by auditing the entire existing design and by applying the fruits of some lateral thinking about what is really needed to make the network work – and what the network can do without.
An Australian student has designed a high-tech helmet for Police motorcyclists, thanks IntelInside. Named Forcite, his helmet includes a "heads-up" display that shows critical information in front of the wearer's eyes, delivers turn-by-turn GPS by voice, and links to the automatic number-plate recognition system used by police, which identifies vehicle registration details and checks if there are any infringements.
Microsoft have written down $1B in unsold Surface tablets. The large write-off may explain why Microsoft cut the price of its Surface RT models by $180 this month and gave away thousands of free Surface Pro tablets to attendees at its developers conference in June. Surface RT runs on a stripped-down version of Windows 8 designed for tablets.
Panasonic meanwhile have been fined for price fixing. Such price fixing tendencies weren't limited to the auto market, unfortunately. Another Japanese electronics maker, SANYO Electric, which Panasonic acquired for $4.5 billion in 2009, was charged working together with Korean rival LG Chem to fix the prices of cylindrical lithium ion battery packs for laptop computers worldwide. The conspiracy, which included these competing companies agreeing to sell batteries at the same prices to computer companies, took place from at least 2007 to 2008, according to the Justice Department.
If you're a Star Wars fan wanting to visit the set where young Anakin's home was filmed, you'd better do it soon. Sand dunes migrating over the Tunisian desert are poised to bury a famous Star Wars film set. The buildings of the fictional city Mos Espa featured in The Phantom Menace, "Episode I" of the Jedi saga. Sited on the planet Tatooine, this was the home of the young Anakin Skywalker, later to become Darth Vader.
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