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Posted on 15th Jun 2011 at 07:41 by Podcast with 8 comments
After noticing some suspicious commits to popular WordPress plugins today in the main WordPress.org repository, passwords are being reset for all users of WordPress.org, bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org, Matt Mullenweg said on the WordPress blog.
The reset comes after suspicious commits to AddThis, wpTouch and W3 Total Cache that contained backdoors were spotted. The WordPress team promptly rolled back the changes and pushed updates to users who might have installed the plugins with the trojans, and shut down access to the repository.
The WordPress team is still looking into the situation to find out what happened, but to use the forums, trac or commit plugins and themes you?ll need to reset your password before logging in.
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Posted on 15th Jun 2011 at 07:41 by Podcast with 8 comments
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Eizo Nanao has announced the DuraVision FDH3601, an industrial 36.4-inch LED-backlit monitor with a 4096 x 2160 resolution. It will set you back a whopping ¥2,880,000 ($36,000). The good news is that it comes with a 24-year warranty, so you don't have to worry that you'll have wasted tens of thousands of dollars on something that breaks in a few years.
The price tag, along with the fact there is no manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) because you can only buy it from the company's online store, clearly indicates that this monitor is primarily aimed for industrial applications. Eizo Nanao claims the monitor is perfect for monitoring air traffic control and geographic such as survey maps.

Other specifications of the monitor include a brightness of 700cd/cm2, the ability to display about 1,073.74 million colors (10 bits each for red, green, and blue), a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, a viewing angle of 176° both vertically and horizontally, as well as normal and maximum power consumptions of 350W and 162W, respectively. It even comes equipped with a human presence sensor, which allows it to automatically turn itself off when the user is away.
Last month, we wrote about a possible successor to the HDTV. Japanese national TV broadcaster NHK and Sharp jointly developed an 85-inch LCD compatible with Super Hi-Vision, a next-generation television broadcast format. With approximately 33 megapixels, Super Hi-Vision is touted as having 16 times the resolution of 1080p. NHK began R&D into Super Hi-Vision in 1995 and aims to begin trial broadcasts in 2020.
Eizo Nanao's product seems like a good alternative while you wait.
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In the town of Lehi is the sprawling headquarters of Xango, where company officials praised Mr. Hatch, a Utah Republican, late last year for helping their exotic fruit juice business ?operate without excessive intrusion? from Washington.
Up in Sandy, Utah, is 4 Life Research, whose top executives donated to Mr. Hatch?s last re-election campaign after federal regulators charged the company with making exaggerated claims about pills that it says helps the immune system. And nearby in West Salem, assembly-line workers at Neways fill thousands of bottles a day for a product line that includes Youthinol, a steroid-based hormone that professional sports leagues pushed to ban until Mr. Hatch blocked them.
?Senator Hatch ? he?s our natural ally,? said Marc S. Ullman, a lawyer for several supplement companies.
Mr. Hatch, who credits a daily regimen of nutritional supplements for his vigor at 77, has spent his career in Washington helping the $25-billion-a-year industry thrive.
He was the chief author of a federal law enacted 17 years ago that allows companies to make general health claims about their products, but exempts them from federal reviews of their safety or effectiveness before they go to market. During the Obama administration, Mr. Hatch has repeatedly intervened with his colleagues in Congress and federal regulators in Washington to fight proposed rules that industry officials consider objectionable.
While Congress is often stalled or bitterly divided in addressing some of the nation?s most pressing problems, like the economy and immigration, legislative champions like Mr. Hatch are often remarkably successful in delivering for niche industries or parochial programs. It is not unusual, of course, for lawmakers to fight for local interests, but Mr. Hatch?s alliances are particularly strong and mutually beneficial.
Mr. Hatch has been rewarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, political loyalty and corporate sponsorship of his favorite causes back home.
His family and friends have benefited, too, from links to the supplement industry. His son Scott Hatch, is a longtime industry lobbyist in Washington, as are at least five of the senator?s former aides. Mr. Hatch?s grandson and son-in-law increase revenue at their chiropractic clinic near here by selling herbal and nutritional treatments, including $35 ?thyroid dysfunction? injections and a weight-loss product, ?Slim and Sassy Metabolic Blend.? And Mr. Hatch?s former law partner owns Pharmics, a small nutritional supplement company in Salt Lake City.
But many public health experts argue that in his advocacy, Mr. Hatch has hindered regulators from preventing dangerous products from being put on the market, including supplements that are illegally spiked with steroids or other unapproved drugs. They also say he is the person in Washington most responsible for the proliferation of products that make exaggerated claims about health benefits.
Just in the last two years, 2,292 serious illnesses, including 33 that were fatal, were reported by consumers of supposedly harmless nutritional supplements, federal records show. (These ?severe adverse reaction? reports do not necessarily mean the supplements caused the illnesses, just that the consumers became ill after taking them.) And some of Mr. Hatch?s most important supporters in Utah have faced repeated accusations of falsely claiming their products can treat almost everything, including cancer and heart disease.
?Orrin Hatch certainly has a right to fight for his constituents,? said Steven Novella, a clinical neurologist at the Yale School of Medicine who was a co-founder of a Web site that tracks claims by the supplement industry. ?But the consequences are we have an effectively unregulated market for these products, a Wild West, and people are being abused by slick marketing, and as a result taking things that are worthless or in some cases not even safe.?
Mr. Hatch rejects such accusations, noting that he has repeatedly demanded that federal regulators step up enforcement of existing laws, and even worked to expand their powers.
?No relationships have or will ever have any impact on my policy positions,? Mr. Hatch said in a written statement. ?Supplements are healthy and safe, and they are a major industry in my home state of Utah.?
The depth of his industry support could be put to a test over the coming year, as Mr. Hatch prepares for what could be a tough re-election fight if Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, mounts a primary challenge. Mr. Chaffetz, a former executive at a Utah company that sells anti-aging and skin care products, is also an industry ally.
Several executives, though, say they cannot imagine turning their back on Mr. Hatch.
?Some folks get elected, go to Washington, forget where they came from,? John F. Gay, chief executive of an industry trade association, said last year in introducing Mr. Hatch at an industry convention in Las Vegas. ?Others get elected, go to Washington, and use the knowledge they have gained, the relationships they?ve built, the power they have developed over the years of incumbency to help the folks who got them there. That is the type of person that Senator Hatch is.?
Hatch to the Rescue
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 21, 2011
An earlier version of this article rendered the name of an advocacy group incorrectly. It is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, not the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=f2c7ac0d8f7d3096357bef8148740802
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Apple has hit a small open source startup Amahi with a cease and desist notice over the App Store trademark suit. The notice was posted on Amahi?s blog in an attempt to help publicise the suit. We noticed it after it was tweeted out by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents.
The company says that it was served with the notice due to the use of the term ?App Store? on its site. Amahi says that the action is most likely being taken by Apple in an effort to show that it is defending its claim to the term. Apple must show that it is taking action to defend the term in order to bolster its claims against Amazon and to defend an opposing motion by Microsoft.
Amahi isn?t the first company aside from Amazon to be hit with a notice by Apple either. Earlier this month the Wireless Industry Partners was targeted by Apple in an effort to get the organization to stop using the term in relation to its catalog of online marketplaces to purchase mobile applications.
Apple has met with some resistance from Microsoft on the matter as the Redmond giant fought back against Apple?s claims, stating that it believes the term ?App Store? to be a generic one. Apple fired a salvo right back in May, claiming that Microsoft was ?missing the forest for the trees?.
Small companies like Amahi seem to be taking on the role of legal canon fodder in this battle of monolithic technological schooners. For its part, Amahi is still trying to figure out the best way to navigate these newly deep legal waters.
?We?re still trying to determine what is the best course of action, however, this looks like a rather heavy handed move,? states the blog post. ?Amahi being literally nothing next to Apple (sigh) we do not have the resources to fight this battle. Instead, we?re holding a Name the Store Contest?.
You can read the post about Amahi?s legal troubles here. It is asking for help from anyone who knows of current or prior use of the term ?app store?, particularly before June 2008. This could help support the claims that Apple has no proprietary claims on the term.
What do you think about the term App Store? Is it truly a generic term as Microsoft claims? Or is there more meat here that belongs to Apple alone?
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Today, a startup called TrapIt launched a beta website that recommends content after learning your tastes via an artificial-intelligence engine spun out of research originally funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The company hopes this technological pedigree will set its method apart from other ways of finding information, such as searching or receiving recommendations from social-media sources.
TrapIt's technology has its roots in the CALO project at the independent nonprofit research institution SRI. CALO is an ambitious attempt to help computers understand the intentions of their human users. A previous company spun out of CALO, Siri, developed an intelligent software assistant that could perform simple tasks, such as planning an evening out, when given voice commands. Apple acquired Siri in April 2010, although the technology has yet to appear in any Apple products.
TrapIt relies on a different part of CALO's intelligence. "Learning from data is the property we've got our hands on," says CEO and cofounder Gary Griffiths. He explains that in the aftermath of September 11, U.S. government agencies felt they'd had access to data that could have predicted the attacks, but they didn't know where to look for it. DARPA funded CALO in part to work on this problem. The project sought ways to sift through information to find what might be most relevant to a given topic, and to learn from a user's response to the information offered. It's this technology that TrapIt is converting into a consumer product.
At first blush, TrapIt might look like any Web 2.0 site. After signing up, the user can select from existing "traps"?collections of articles related to featured or trending topics, such as the golfer Rory McIlroy, who just won the U.S. Open. The user can also create new traps by entering a few keywords and going through one screen of training data.
However, in either case, the traps then belong to the user, and they change according to his or her tastes alone?even if they were originally created by someone else. TrapIt's algorithms comb through about 50,000 unique sources of content, analyzing articles to classify the types of information they contain. (The 50,000 sources were vetted by humans to filter out content farms and other material of dubious quality.) TrapIt combines this information with machine-learning analysis of what the user has previously clicked on to recommend new information.
Source: http://feeds.technologyreview.com/click.phdo?i=13809b9e69cade62e1b8540f63026ce5
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Posted on 13th Jun 2011 at 07:29 by Clive Webster with 22 comments
See what I mean? They?re much more reminiscent of the original trilogy than the rubbish prequel films. There?s a focus on people that you readily recognise and empathise with overcoming obstacles; the classic setup for injecting drama and interest into a scene or story. Furthermore, there?s absolutely no mention of trade disputes, midi-sodding-chlorians or annoying lizard-rabbits.
In fact, some of the intros' cinematic characters are really close to those of Episodes IV to VI. There?s a dependable droid that happily receives rushed instructions, and it?s on a ship with dingy, circular corridors and laser-cannon pods. Then there?s the pilot of this ship ? he?s instantly introduced as a likeable yet roguish smuggler, and his attire hardly suggests otherwise. He even seems to steal Han?s dialogue: his is the fastest ship in the fleet, even though it might not look like much. All we need is a co-pilot with a shaving phobia and we?re done.
But who cares if Bioware is borrowing heavily from the source material to produce something this fun? Arguably, the mistake that George Lucas made with his prequels was refusing to follow his own conventions. We wanted a bit more of the same please, not some confused reinterpretation of the Universe we?d spent the last however many years discussing in detail.
So when the ?trader? ship blasts through the Imperial turbo laser, rushes through its guts, and then hits its hyperdrive, we?re cheering on the crew. When the Jedi master Force-pulls the second lightsaber to him, we?re given a moment to consider the great duel that?s about to ensue.
Even the cutting and pacing between the personal fight between Jedi and Sith and the action on the not-Millenium Falcon is so reminiscent of The Empire Strikes Back that it can?t fail to make Star Wars fans happy. The trailer even conveys emotion brilliantly ? Malcus exudes rage as he stalks towards the Jedi master and bats away his defence, while you can read the thoughts of his Padawan perfectly well after his death.
So please, can we just have the cinematics to watch, and leave the MMO to WoW deserters? Please?
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JERSEY CITY ? Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, officially announced he was running for president on Tuesday, telling an audience of supporters and reporters gathered at a park facing the Statue of Liberty that he would be a better leader than President Obama, for whom he served as the ambassador to China until recently.
?He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love,? Mr. Huntsman said of Mr. Obama. ?But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who?s the better American.?
Under cloud cover that turned the Hudson River behind him a steely gray, Mr. Huntsman vowed to provide ?leadership that knows we need more than hope,? and ?leadership that doesn?t promise Washington has all the solutions to our problems.?
Speaking in a steady voice and with little noticeable emotion, Mr. Huntsman gave hints of a platform that would include ?broad changes to the tax code,?? a tackling of entitlement spending and a shift in foreign policy ?- for now ? away from overseas conflict, saying it is ?not that we wish to disengage from the world, but rather, that we believe the best long-term national security strategy is rebuilding our core here at home.?
Mr. Huntsman promised a cordial campaign, saying ?it concerns me that civility, humanity and respect are sometimes lost in our interactions as Americans,? adding, ?I don?t think you need to run down somebody?s rep in order to run for the office of president.?
Professing respect for the president, Mr. Huntsman argued that the Obama administration had failed to fix the economy. ?For the first time in our history we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive and less confident than the one we got.?
In response, the Obama campaign released a statement saying that in his speech, Mr. Huntsman called for ?a more competitive and compassionate country, but he has embraced a budget plan that would slash our commitment to education, wipe out investments that will foster the jobs of the future and extend tax cuts for the richest Americans while shifting the burden onto seniors and middle-class families.?
?Like the other Republican candidates, instead of proposing a plan that will allow middle class families to reclaim their economic security, Governor Huntsman is proposing a return to the failed economic policies that led us into the recession,? the campaign said.
In speaking at Liberty State Park here, Mr. Huntsman was revisiting the spot where Ronald Reagan returned to the campaign trail after winning the nomination in 1980 as the great promise of the conservative movement after the Watergate scandal left the Republican Party out of power and out of favor.
Mr. Huntsman enters the field without such perceived conservative bona fides. Although he has a record in Utah of tax cuts and opposition to abortion, he also has taken some positions ? including previous support for same-sex civil unions and a cap on emissions ? that, along with his stint in the Obama administration, may prove unpopular with Republican primary voters.
Mr. Huntsman sought to turn that to his advantage, however, saying that his service in China ? and other foreign postings during his career, including in Singapore for the elder George Bush ? gave him a useful perspective on his home country. ?The view of America from 10,000 miles away is a picture of liberty, opportunity and justice; people secure in their rights and in love with their freedom, people who?ve done more good for more people than any other nation on earth.?
Mr. Huntsman has referred to himself as a ?margin of error? candidate, an acknowledgement that he remains among the least known of the Republican field. And the crowd here as he made his announcement was a reflection of that: the number of reporters covering the announcement seemed to be equal to if not more than the number of supporters. The speech itself, subdued and lacking the energy and enthusiasm common to campaign announcements, did little to draw out the crowd.
But his campaign lived up to its early reputation for expert stage management. Mr. Huntsman, slim with salt-and-pepper hair, stood on a riser draped by two American flags that fluttered gently in the breeze and with the Statue of Liberty at his back.
Mr. Huntsman, wearing a blue suit and power-blue tie, approached the podium by walking across a long field of grass with his family ? his wife and six of his seven children ? at his side as slow Western music played in the background.
Before he began speaking the campaign showed a video in keeping with several it has released showing a motorcyclist racing across the Utah desert plain. This time an announcer introduced the governor?s biography, to a backdrop of slow Western guitar music, saying he was ?married forever,?? ?had five great kids, adopted two more,?? and was the ?ultimate conservative.?
The announcer seemed to make a subtle dig at the perceived Republican front-runner, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ? who once headed a private equity firm that specialized in leveraged buyouts ? saying that at Mr. Huntsman?s family chemicals conglomerate, the Huntsman Corporation, he ?built jobs, didn?t just buy them.?
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 21, 2011
An earlier version of this story said that Mr. Huntsman was joined by his wife and seven children.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2a5f6f3c08fbcc33c4e6434cd5ba764e
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JERSEY CITY ? Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, officially announced he was running for president on Tuesday, telling an audience of supporters and reporters gathered at a park facing the Statue of Liberty that he would be a better leader than President Obama, for whom he served as the ambassador to China until recently.
?He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love,? Mr. Huntsman said of Mr. Obama. ?But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who?s the better American.?
Under cloud cover that turned the Hudson River behind him a steely gray, Mr. Huntsman vowed to provide ?leadership that knows we need more than hope,? and ?leadership that doesn?t promise Washington has all the solutions to our problems.?
Speaking in a steady voice and with little noticeable emotion, Mr. Huntsman gave hints of a platform that would include ?broad changes to the tax code,?? a tackling of entitlement spending and a shift in foreign policy ?- for now ? away from overseas conflict, saying it is ?not that we wish to disengage from the world, but rather, that we believe the best long-term national security strategy is rebuilding our core here at home.?
Mr. Huntsman promised a cordial campaign, saying ?it concerns me that civility, humanity and respect are sometimes lost in our interactions as Americans,? adding, ?I don?t think you need to run down somebody?s rep in order to run for the office of president.?
Professing respect for the president, Mr. Huntsman argued that the Obama administration had failed to fix the economy. ?For the first time in our history we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive and less confident than the one we got.?
In response, the Obama campaign released a statement saying that in his speech, Mr. Huntsman called for ?a more competitive and compassionate country, but he has embraced a budget plan that would slash our commitment to education, wipe out investments that will foster the jobs of the future and extend tax cuts for the richest Americans while shifting the burden onto seniors and middle-class families.?
?Like the other Republican candidates, instead of proposing a plan that will allow middle class families to reclaim their economic security, Governor Huntsman is proposing a return to the failed economic policies that led us into the recession,? the campaign said.
In speaking at Liberty State Park here, Mr. Huntsman was revisiting the spot where Ronald Reagan returned to the campaign trail after winning the nomination in 1980 as the great promise of the conservative movement after the Watergate scandal left the Republican Party out of power and out of favor.
Mr. Huntsman enters the field without such perceived conservative bona fides. Although he has a record in Utah of tax cuts and opposition to abortion, he also has taken some positions ? including previous support for same-sex civil unions and a cap on emissions ? that, along with his stint in the Obama administration, may prove unpopular with Republican primary voters.
Mr. Huntsman sought to turn that to his advantage, however, saying that his service in China ? and other foreign postings during his career, including in Singapore for the elder George Bush ? gave him a useful perspective on his home country. ?The view of America from 10,000 miles away is a picture of liberty, opportunity and justice; people secure in their rights and in love with their freedom, people who?ve done more good for more people than any other nation on earth.?
Mr. Huntsman has referred to himself as a ?margin of error? candidate, an acknowledgement that he remains among the least known of the Republican field. And the crowd here as he made his announcement was a reflection of that: the number of reporters covering the announcement seemed to be equal to if not more than the number of supporters. The speech itself, subdued and lacking the energy and enthusiasm common to campaign announcements, did little to draw out the crowd.
But his campaign lived up to its early reputation for expert stage management. Mr. Huntsman, slim with salt-and-pepper hair, stood on a riser draped by two American flags that fluttered gently in the breeze and with the Statue of Liberty at his back.
Mr. Huntsman, wearing a blue suit and power-blue tie, approached the podium by walking across a long field of grass with his family ? his wife and six of his seven children ? at his side as slow Western music played in the background.
Before he began speaking the campaign showed a video in keeping with several it has released showing a motorcyclist racing across the Utah desert plain. This time an announcer introduced the governor?s biography, to a backdrop of slow Western guitar music, saying he was ?married forever,?? ?had five great kids, adopted two more,?? and was the ?ultimate conservative.?
The announcer seemed to make a subtle dig at the perceived Republican front-runner, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ? who once headed a private equity firm that specialized in leveraged buyouts ? saying that at Mr. Huntsman?s family chemicals conglomerate, the Huntsman Corporation, he ?built jobs, didn?t just buy them.?
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 21, 2011
An earlier version of this story said that Mr. Huntsman was joined by his wife and seven children.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2a5f6f3c08fbcc33c4e6434cd5ba764e
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We?ve known for a while that The Huffington Post was coming to the UK, and we reported on its recruitment back in April. But founder Arianna Huffington today confirmed that the UK launch date will be 6th July, as reported in The Drum, and will kick-start the publication?s plans to have a presence in twelve countries by the end of 2011.
Speaking in Cannes earlier this morning, Huffington said the UK site would have the same format as the US version.
?It is going to take the template of the Huffington Post which is a combination of curation, regional reporting, blogging and commentary. That is the platform we are going to take internationally.?
AOL acquired The Huffington Post back in February for $315m, and it launched a Canadian edition back in May, and the UK is the next port of call in the publication?s global expansion. Next up is believed to be France, followed by a number of Latin American countries, Australia and India.
AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, was also quoted as saying the publication would be a lot bolder in the future and be more editorially-driven. The Drum quotes Armstrong as saying:
?What Amazon is to commerce, and what Google is to search, AOL has to be to content. We?re going to keep investing in taking risks and changes, we?re not going to make incremental moves. Going forward we think there is a big opportunity here.?
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