Apple is no longer restricting Mac OS X betas to paying developers. As of today, anyone with an Apple ID can sign up for the OS X Beta Seed Program to test out unreleased versions of the operating system. You have to agree to Apple’s OS X Beta Seed and Confidentiality Agreement and install the Beta Access Utility to view betas in the Mac App Store.

 

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En domstol i diktaturen Bahrain har dömt tolv män till livstids fängelse. Männen, som dömdes i söndags, anklagades för att ha spionerat, för att ha tränats av Irans revolutionära garde, samt för att ha hanterat vapen och sprängämnen, uppger en människorättsaktivist.

Sökandet efter flight MH370 måste kanske börja om från början. Och att flygplanet fortfarande är försvunnet leder till spekulationer – kanske har planet landat någonstans i stället för att ha kraschat i Indiska Oceanen.

De senaste månaderna har det varit en våg av cykelstölder i Bromma. Men nu tror sig polisen ha avslöjat en av de ligor som antas ligga bakom de rekordmånga stölderna. En av de misstänka cykeltjuvarna kunde gripas efter att en man hittat sin stulna cykel på Blocket och gett sken av att vilja köpa den.

Details have leaked about the next iteration of Intel's Thunderbolt connector. The good news: bandwidth will double, going up to about 40Gbps from its current 20. Power usage will drop by half, and it'll support PCI-e 3.0. The bad news: it uses a redesigned connector, and will rely on adapters for backward compatibility. From the article: "Doubling the available bandwidth will enable next-generation Thunderbolt controllers to drive two 4K displays simultaneously, where current controllers can only drive one. The new controllers will allegedly be compatible with a variety of other protocols as well, including DisplayPort 1.2, USB 3.0, and HDMI 2.0. Intel will offer two different versions of the controller—a version that uses four PCI Express lanes to drive two Thunderbolt ports and an "LP" (presumably "Low Power") version that uses two PCI Express lanes to drive one port."

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Details have leaked about the next iteration of Intel's Thunderbolt connector. The good news: bandwidth will double, going up to about 40Gbps from its current 20. Power usage will drop by half, and it'll support PCI-e 3.0. The bad news: it uses a redesigned connector, and will rely on adapters for backward compatibility. From the article: "Doubling the available bandwidth will enable next-generation Thunderbolt controllers to drive two 4K displays simultaneously, where current controllers can only drive one. The new controllers will allegedly be compatible with a variety of other protocols as well, including DisplayPort 1.2, USB 3.0, and HDMI 2.0. Intel will offer two different versions of the controller—a version that uses four PCI Express lanes to drive two Thunderbolt ports and an "LP" (presumably "Low Power") version that uses two PCI Express lanes to drive one port."

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Den nyvalde borgmästaren Daniel Clevenger i den amerikanska småstaden Marionville i Missouri, USA, har tvingats avgå efter att ha uttryckt förståelse för Kansasskytten Frazier Glenn Cross antisemitiska åsikter, rapporterar The Washington Times.

Trailrunner7 writes: "Apple has fixed a serious security flaw present in many versions of both iOS and OS X and could allow an attacker to intercept data on SSL connections. The bug is one of many the company fixed Tuesday in its two main operating systems, and several of the other vulnerabilities have serious consequences as well, including the ability to bypass memory protections and run arbitrary code. The most severe of the vulnerabilities patched in iOS 7.1.1 and OSX Mountain Lion and Mavericks is an issue with the secure transport component of the operating systems. If an attacker was in a man-in-the-middle position on a user's network, he might be able to intercept supposedly secure traffic or change the connection's properties."

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Afrika står inför en ny svältkatastrof. FN beskriver nu läget i Sydsudan som mycket nära en livsmedelskollaps. Samtidigt förnekar rebellerna att de ligger bakom en etnisk slakt förra veckan i oljestaden Bentiu.

Leken avbröts abrupt när en klätterställning rasade samman i Bårslöv utanför Helsingborg på grund av en rötskadad trästock. Två barn skadades och fick föras till sjukhus.

hypnosec writes: "National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed the much-criticized Dual_EC_DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) from its draft guidance on random number generators following a period of public comment and review. The revised document retains three of the four previously available options for generating pseudorandom bits required to create secure cryptographic keys for encrypting data. NIST recommends that people using Dual_EC_DRBG should transition to one of the other three recommended algorithms as quickly as possible."

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