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Comment Publish the submission but change the source? (Score 1) 142

by ddfall (#37861312) Attached to: Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself
I'm confused, I submitted this story (as it says) and it was accepted - http://slashdot.org/submission/1829554/avira-anti-virus-detects-itself - however, the version that's gone onto the front page of /. has had the source changed from The H (http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Avira-anti-virus-detects-itself-1367055.html) to The Register (which did the story later in the day). The text in the submission is the same / what I had but the original source has been removed. What was the reason for this?
Security

Canon's Image Verification System Cracked 118

Posted by Soulskill from the picture-is-worth-a-thousand-lies dept.
TJNoffy writes "The H Security's H-online reports that 'Hacker Dmitry Sklyarov has succeeded in extracting the secret signing key from numerous digital SLR cameras and has used it to sign modified images which Canon's latest OSK-E3 security kit verifies as legitimate. Canon's Original Data Security System is intended to show whether changes have been made to photographs and to verify date and location information. The system is primarily used for ensuring the integrity of evidence, for reporting accidents and for construction records.'"
Ubuntu

Ubuntu's Engineering Director Debunks Rolling Release Rumours 80

Posted by timothy from the really-wrong dept.
Responding to yesterday's post indicating that Ubuntu might move to a rolling release schedule, reader ddfall writes "This is wrong! Engineering Director of Ubuntu Rick Spencer says 'Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release.' He goes on to say, 'We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu. This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.'"
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu Rolling release rumours wrong (h-online.com) 1

Submitted by ddfall
ddfall writes: Previously on /. — http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/24/1346221/Ubuntu-May-Move-To-Rolling-Releases — This is wrong! Engineering Director of Ubuntu Rick Spencer says "Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release". He goes on to say, "We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu. This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes".
Microsoft

Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License 164

Posted by timothy from the share-nicely dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The H Online writes: 'Microsoft has placed its process for secure software development under a Creative Commons License. The company hopes that this will lead to more developers utilising its process for programming software more securely across the entire product lifecycle ...'"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsofts Security Development Lifecycle under Cr (h-online.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The H Online writes: 'Microsoft has placed its process for secure software development under a Creative Commons License. The company hopes that this will lead to more developers utilising its process for programming software more securely across the entire product lifecycle...'
Security

A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105

Posted by timothy from the five-is-better-than-one dept.
Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."
Desktops (Apple)

Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux 347

Posted by kdawson from the ooh-shiny dept.
ddfall writes "Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux — the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms. Chrome 5.0.375.55 is available to download from google.com/chrome. Users who currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function."
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Google releases Chrome 5.0 for Win/Mac/Linux (h-online.com)

Submitted by ddfall
ddfall writes: Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux — the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms
Programming

ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158

Posted by timothy from the javascript-by-any-other-name dept.
systembug writes "After 10 years of waiting and some infighting, ECMAScript version 5 is finally out, approved by 19 of the 21 members of the ECMA Technical Committee 39. JSON is in; Intel and IBM dissented. IBM is obviously in disagreement with the decision against IEEE 754r, a floating point format for correct, but slow representation of decimal numbers, despite pleas by Yahoo's Douglas Crockford." (About 754r, Crockford says "It was rejected by ES4 and by ES3.1 — it was one of the few things that we could agree on. We all agreed that the IBM proposal should not go in.")

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