A website called NinjaVideo is the latest target of “Operation in our Sites,” the federal government’s aggressive campaign against movie-sharing websites. In an indictment handed down late last week in Virginia, the government charged five individuals …
LED headgear is marvel of free-formed circuitry
Hackaday contributor [Nick Schulze] popped out an impressive set of LED headgear for a hat-themed party. [Nick] is no stranger to working with LEDs. Previously he built a blue 8x8x8 cube something like this other 512 node full color version. He had a bunch of LEDs left over from that project and decided to put …
Kinect to get Windows drivers months after open source drivers were developed
Microsoft is planning to release Windows drivers for the Kinect this spring, months after open source drivers were developed by a motivated hacking community. [Johnny Chung Lee], who worked with the Microsoft team when the hardware was developed, mentions that he had pushed for the giant to develop and release at least basic Windows drivers. …
Trusted Computing Group, Leader in Computer Security Standards,…
Samsung as Contributor Advisors to its board of directors for a one-year term. The Trusted Computing Group , a worldwide open industry standards organization, creates specifications for a variety of devices and platforms that help protect critical data…
Fedora 14 final released with Amazon EC2 support
The Fedora Project announced the Fedora 14 final release, adding Amazon EC2 support. Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new “Spice” virtualization desktop framework, say…
Review of IT Security Metrics Posted
Amazon.com just published my five star review of IT Security Metrics by Lance Hayden. From the review:I was not sure what to expect as I started reading IT Security Metrics (ISM). I had just discarded another new book, published in July 2010, supposed…
