A hacker uses Amazon’s Kindle software for Windows to simplify a DRM hack for Kindle e-books that has been around for quite a while. Technology magazine Wired, on the other hand, demonstrates how to use an international Kindle to access Amazon’s US Kindle shop and a fully functional browser
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An initial analysis found that Google’s distorted letter images could be automatically detected, but the search engine giant countered that only outdated versions could. Now, the author has taken a closer look at current CAPTCHAs
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The US Patent Office’s Board of Patent Appeals has put a further stop to the granting of patents for mathematical formulae and software "per se"
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Just in time for Christmas, Sabayon Linux founder Fabio Erculiani has announced the availability of a "Gaming" Edition of version 5.1 of his popular Linux distribution, featuring a number of free and open source games
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The Cygwin developers have announced the availability of version 1.7.1 of their Linux-like environment and command-line interface for Windows, adding support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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The OpenOffice developers have announced the first release candidate for what will become version 3.2 of their free open source office suite, improving its start up time and adding several new features
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In version 1.0.0, of the digiKam photo management tool the developers have added new features and fixed numerous bugs found in the beta
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According to StatCounter, Firefox 3.5 is the most used browser version, narrowly beating Internet Explorer 7
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With the end of the next kernel version’s main development phase, the most important new features of Linux 2.6.33 have been determined: DRBD, Nouveau, support of the Trim ATA command and a bandwidth controller for block devices. The developers have also improved the Radeon drivers and the support of Intel Wi-Fi chips. Furthermore, new stable kernels fix a vulnerability in the code of Ext4, but will shortly be superseded by even more current versions
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Red Hat has confirmed that version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system will not support Intel’s Itanium processors
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