Summary: This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are Microsoft warning of Facebook hijacking browser extensions and an Android app that tattles on other misbehaving apps. In this week’s news, considering whether supercomputing has hit a wall, a heart warming story about video games and gender swapped mechanics, one-time pads reinvented to overcome one of their limitations, and the first demonstration of a practical approach to an attractive model for quantum computing. Following up this week, France’s three strikes agency may be ending even if the regime is likely to continue in a less problematic form and new Xbox won’t allow indie gamers to self publish. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
