schwit1 writes: Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp - that is the promise of Li-Fi, short for 'light fidelity,' which features Internet access that is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the revolutionary wireless technology at the Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, this week. As soon as this smartphone was placed under an office lamp, it started playing a video. The big advantage of Li-Fi is theoretical speeds of over 200 Gbps.

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An anonymous reader writes: A CloudFlare engineer has discovered that 1000 of the top one million websites, including bitcoin holding sites and trading sites, are running a default setting that enables cross-site scripting. This article details his examination of the top 1 million Alexa sites for evidence of compromised settings and finds that about 1000 of the sites on the list are capable of being compromised because of running a header called Access-Allow-Origin. He found the vulnerability while working on a legitimate use of domain-communication called Cross Origin Resource Sharing for the Stripe API. The header, which Johnson claims the vulnerable websites are outputting, is concluded with a wild-card asterisk, meaning that the sites in question are giving full permission for cross-domain communication via venerable protocols such as SOAP/AJAX XML exchanges.

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Damascus has accepted the Russian-US cessation of hostilities plan, but insists it will continue to fight "terrorism".

New submitter mmoorebz writes: The Linux Foundation is announcing new areas of focus for its Open Mainframe Project. The Open Mainframe Project is a collaborative effort launched six months ago as a focal point for the deployment and use of the Linux OS on the mainframe.

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New submitter mmoorebz writes: The Linux Foundation is announcing new areas of focus for its Open Mainframe Project. The Open Mainframe Project is a collaborative effort launched six months ago as a focal point for the deployment and use of the Linux OS on the mainframe.

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A collection of helper functions powered by L.

A collection of helper functions powered by L.

create and process Pandoc documents

create and process Pandoc documents

A base agent for working with maven

A base agent for working with maven