TCLP 2012-07-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)




The Command Line Podcast show

Summary: This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I mention to events of note, HOPE Number 9 which is at the end of this week and Ohio Linux Fest going on in a few months, in September. This week’s security alerts are the end of Flash support on Linux and John the Ripper now able to crack applications and networks in addition to OSes and better able to use your GPU to do so faster. In this week’s news, infinite capacity vortex beam carries 2.5 terabits per second, genetically evolved semiconductors, another call to build an open Twitter work-alike, and how open hardware is driving the 3D printing revolution. Following up this week details of the UK piracy monitoring plan made public including who bears the cost and what next after defeating ACTA in the EU. 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.