Summary: This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, my thanks to Craig for another donation, a particularly generous one this time. Also a heads up on some upcoming travel, to Transfabric in Budapest and Ohio Linux Fest. This week’s security alerts are child finds a flaw in mobile games and a clear illustration of why the common wisdom about secure passwords may be bad advice. In this week’s news, UCLA is the latest school to offer a digital humanities program (similar to MITH at UMD with its great speaker series), a stone-like optical disc that might last forever, breakthrough in portal and high resolution 3D scanning, and IBM CTO argues the PC is in decline. Following up this week Google aids Bletchley Park again and Google brings Android App Inventor to an end. 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.
