Apple has issued a security patch for its Safari web browser that closes a number of vulnerabilities, including the one that caused OS X to lose the hacking contest at CanSecWest, the security conference held in March. Today’s update fixes four flaws in the Windows version of Safari and two in the Mac version. Of [...]

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The Ubuntu team has announced the arrival of the release candidate for Ubuntu 8.04, code-named “Hardy Heron.” The release candidate is considered complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Also available today are the release candidates for other Ubuntu variants like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu. The final releases of all 8.04 variants [...]

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While I’ve been posting blog posts quietly puzzling over the role of Facebook and how it seems unnecessarily intrusive, a Dallas woman, more proactive and litigious than I, has sued Blockbuster Video. The woman rented videos from Blockbuster. Blockbuster told Facebook which videos they were. Facebook’s controversial Beacon program published the information for the world [...]

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For the last few years, Captcha, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, has been one of our main lines of defense against the machines that want to impersonate us. Recently, though, the various most popular Captcha implementations have been cracked. Bots with character-recognition ability have gotten pretty reliably good [...]

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