According to James Gosling, often called the father of Java, the Java Micro Edition (ME) will gradually supplanted by the Java Standard Edition (SE). He said, "We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. Cell phones and TV set-top boxes are growing up."
Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which include cross-platform flaws discovered in the Java Runtime Environment, vulnerabilities discovered in Thunderbird in Ubuntu, and a local buffer overflow in IBM AIX.
A "highly critical" vulnerability has been reported in the popular TikiWiki software. It can be exploited by malicious parties to compromise vulnerable systems.
The University of California, Berkeley, has begun posting its entire course lectures onto YouTube. Over 300 hours of videotaped courses will be available at http://youtube.com/ucberkeley.
Ok, so it's not exactly what you were thinking. According to News.com Blog, gesture recognition is all the rage as Japanese companies show off their prototypes or upcoming products at the Ceatec show this week.
Researchers from F-Secure say that cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to make it harder for software security companies to track and contain botnet operations.
IBM has announced that it will begin shipping version 3.2 of its General Parallel File System (GPFS) software on October 5, 2007. GPFS enables high-end technical and high performance computing, and it is able to scale to multi-petabytes or thousands of nodes accessing a single file system.
According to Ars Technica, new laws go into effect in the United Kingdom that make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data requested as part of a police investigation.
Networking pioneer 3Com, the dominant player prior to being supplanted by Cisco Systems, has been acquired by a private equity firm in a $2.2 billion cash deal.
Yahoo has issued a security update for Yahoo Messenger. This latest update fixes the nasty Webcam flaw, which apparently results in a denial-of-service attack, as well as potentially allowing the introduction of a remote exploit. Yahoo Messenger client downloaded before August 21st, 2007 is vulnerable to these issues. As mentioned in a previous post about ...