Clippings is dragges screaming and kicking into the 21st century and
now has a blog with an RSS feed:
http://viksnewsclippings.blogspot.com
Richard Stallman, the creator of the GPL, is interviewed on Radio NZ
by Kim Hill on a variety of freedom-related topics. OGG and MP3 audio:
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom.ogg
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-048.mp3
A video of the HTC Dream, a mobile phone powered by Google's new
Andriod phone OS, shows orientation sensor and qwerty keyboard:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/217464/htc-android-handset-video-emerges.html
You can watch the Olympics under Linux. Instructions here:
http://newblogonstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-watch-live-olympics-on-linux.html
The venerable PHP4 HTML embedded scripting language reaches its
scheduled end-of life. 3rd Party support to continue:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1239055978
The OpenGL 3.0 specification is announced at SIGGRAPH. Developers are
reported to be significantly underwhelmed:
http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/khronos_releases_opengl_30_specifications_to_support_latest_generations_of/
Following Intel's recent chip branding announcement, AMD Promises to
improve the way it makes chips. Doesn't quite say how:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080810_422113.htm
And finally. US Courts issue an order preventing the presentation of
an MBTA e-ticketing system hack - the court order shows how to do it!:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/11/EFF_to_appeal_court_order_halting_subway_hacker_talk_1.html
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/10-declaration-henderson-vulnerability.pdf
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.