prisoninmate writes: A zero-day vulnerability in the FFmpeg open-source multimedia framework, which is currently used in numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems and software applications, also for the Mac OS X and Windows platforms, has been discovered recently by Russian programmer Maxim Andreev in the current stable builds of the software, and it would appear that it lets anyone who has the necessary skills to hack a computer to read local files on a remote machine and send them over the network using a specially crafted video file. Arch Linux devs already rebuild their FFmpeg packages without the AppleHTTP and HLS demuxers.

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1sockchuck writes: Colocation and content delivery specialist EdgeConneX is operating unmanned "lights out" data centers in 20 markets across the United States, marking the most ambitious use to date of automation to streamline data center operations. While some companies have operated prototypes of "lights out" unmanned facilities (including AOL) or deployed unmanned containers with server gear, EdgeConneX built its broader deployment strategy around a lean operations model. The company uses software to remotely control the generators and UPS systems at each data center, and can dispatch techs when on-site maintenance is needed.

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The artist, musician and rapper comments on her latest song Borders and its accompanying video, an ode to refugees.

jones_supa writes: More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the United States, with few exceptions. The researchers find that in Europe, deaths exceeded births in most of the counties of Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, as well as in Sweden and the Baltic States. Further south, natural decrease is found occurring in the majority of the counties of Greece, Portugal and Italy. More births than deaths (natural increase) is widespread in Ireland, Cyprus, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg. "Natural decrease is much more common in Europe than in the U.S because its population is older, fertility rates are lower and there are fewer women of child-bearing age," the researchers explain. "Natural decrease is a major policy concern because it drains the demographic resilience from a region diminishing its economic viability and competitiveness."

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Dochazka REST server

Conversion utilities for encryption applications

Compare local Perl packages/versions with your DarkPAN

Dochazka ATT system command line client

Dochazka ATT system command line client

Dispatches messages to one or more outputs

Crypto toolkit

Crypto toolkit

Pure Perl version of Digest::DJB32

Redis::CappedCollection module provides the fixed sized collections that have a auto-FIFO age-out feature.

Five years after their popular uprising, Tunisians remain divided about their country's future.