Den våldtäktsdömde spanske pedofil som i går greps i Murcia sedan han benådats av Marockos kung hålls i fängsligt förvar i Spanien under det att hans utlämning övervägs.

kdryer39 writes "Like to tempt fate? Then you might want to check out Send Me To Heaven, the Android app that uses your phone's accelerometers to track how high it travels when thrown upward. Assuming you don't fumble your handset on its return trip, its distance will join that of other daredevils on the game's leaderboards. That's all there is to it. Really." I can't wait for the desktop version.

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if {[S 0 == {5\x0aSatan's_Dark_Delight}]} {emit {Quake I save: e3m4 Satan's dark delight}}

This cryptic phrase — which reads very much like a record played backward — is found on line 2985 in /System/​Library/​Tcl/​tcllib1.12/​fumagic/​filetypes.tcl.

I don’t know if this ships on all Macs. It might be only if you’ve installed Xcode. (But it might be on every Mac.)

Is fumagic a type of witchcraft? If you look up Tcl, you’ll find that it stands for Tool Command Language. Is fumagic Satan’s way of controlling us via our tools? We all know what f.u. — eff you — means.

As frightening as this is — and it is; it’s terrifying — far worse is knowing that Macs harbor daemons. Get someone to explain them to you, and they’ll sound innocuous. Which is the Devil’s greatest trick.

De internationella medlingsförsöken i Egypten har misslyckats.

Vittnen vid sjön Möckeln nära Karlskoga trodde i kväll att de hörde rop ute på vattnet och en räddningsinsats drogs igång.

Nerval's Lobster writes "In a new Gizmodo column, Andreas Goeldi calls it the 'frosted glass' effect: when a prominent tech company's latest upgrade to its flagship operating system features frosted-glass highlights as its primary innovation, you know that company is facing a period of severe stagnation. That's what happened to Microsoft around the time of Windows Vista, Goeldi wrote, and Apple's going down the same road with iOS 7. In light of what he views as Apple's sclerosis, it wasn't difficult for him to abandon his iPhone in favor of a Google Android ecosystem. But is Apple really becoming the next Microsoft? In short: no. Apple seems to recognize everything that seemed to elude Microsoft's corporate thinking six years ago: namely, that even the most successful companies need to keep breaking into new categories, and keep innovating, if they want to stay ahead of hungry rivals. Rumors have persisted for quite some time that Apple is prepping big pushes into wearable electronics and televisions, both of which could prove lucrative strategies if executed correctly. Goeldi faults iOS 7 for its frosted-glass effects, which he compares to those of Vista; but similar graphical elements aside, it's unlikely that iOS 7 will run into the same complaints over hardware requirements, compatibility, security, and so much more that greeted Vista upon its release. In fact, iOS 7 isn't even finished."

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mask.of.sanity writes "A backdoor has existed for at least seven months in a platform sold by OpenX, the self-described global leader of digital advertising which counts the New York Post, Coca Cola, Bloomberg and EA among its customers. The backdoor was contained within the official OpenX package and recently removed. Security researchers say it meant those who downloaded the compromised software could have provided attackers full access to their web sites."

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You may have read about this on Slashdot: Three researchers were going to present a paper next week at the USENIX Security '13 conference about security holes they found in one of Volkswagen's anti-theft systems, but a British court said they couldn't. One of the presenters works at a British university, and the court may have jurisdiction over him. The other two are not U.K. residents, and the Usenix conference is being held in Washington D.C., so jurisdiction questions are flying thick and fast. Amusingly, whether the paper is published and presented or not, the security holes and crack codes it is supposed to contain have been available on the Internet for quite a while, so bad guys who want to learn about them most likely have done so already. Then, last week, we heard that one of the presenters was going to show up at the conference and possibly ignore the injunction. Meanwhile, USENIX co-executive director Casey Henderson and EFF intellectual property director Corynne McSherry talked with Slashdot's Timothy Lord via Zoom and discussed this situation, and how this sort of problem might be prevented in the future.

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An open source web-based network management tool.