OSNews

Why Apple Just Realised the Company's First True Post-PC Quarter European Commission Signs ACTA KDE SC 4.8 Released Apple Restricts Certain APIs to Mac App Store Applications Android's Share of Tablet Market Jumps 5 Important Implications of the Windows 8 Pre-Beta HP To Commit webOS to Open Source by Fall 2012 Google Consolidates, Updates Its Privacy Policy Google's SPDY To Be Incorporated Into HTTP 2.0 Chromium-Based Remixes Worth Trying

Gentoo Packages

media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.4.10: A collection of tools and libraries for many image formats dev-vcs/tortoisehg-2.2.2: Set of graphical tools for Mercurial www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.5: A browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer sys-kernel/spl-9999: The Solaris Porting Layer is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs sys-fs/zfs-9999: Native ZFS for Linux media-video/gnome-mplayer-1.0.5: A GTK+ interface to MPlayer media-libs/gmtk-1.0.5: GTK+ widget and function libraries for gnome-mplayer net-libs/libgadu-1.11.1: This library implements the client side of the Gadu-Gadu protocol net-libs/libgadu-1.11.0: This library implements the client side of the Gadu-Gadu protocol media-sound/google-musicmanager-1.0.23.1334_beta: Google Music Manager is a application for adding music to your Google Music library.

Gentoo Universe

Diego E. Pettenò: Okay, so Dell wasn't that much a mistake... Diego E. Pettenò: How not to sell me something — Why I won't be maintaining Yubikey software directly in Gentoo Diego E. Pettenò: The web application security culture Jeremy Olexa: Solaris 11: Where is /usr/ucblib? Quick tips to install ‘ucb’ package Mike Pagano: Update: Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID Diego E. Pettenò: From Rails to Syslog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ditch production.log Steve Dibb: working with teenagers … the blog! Mike Pagano: Gentoo Kernel release for Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Ole Markus With: High load websites: Scalable HTTP infrastructure Andreas K. Hüttel: Gentoo zero-day packaging of new KDE releases explained

TechCrunch

Ron Paul, Mitt Romney Leading On Facebook Ahead Of Florida Primary Harvard Gets Its First VC Firm: The Experiment Fund Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your Laptop Twitter Puts Its DMCA Takedown Requests Up For All To See Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest Partner Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV) Flurry: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is Already Starting To Smoke Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future Employers Davos: Ushahidi Grows Its Global Crowd-sourcing Platform, Slams Twitter Censorship [TCTV]

Planet GNOME

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open Colin Walters: Platforms as a side effect Lionel Dricot: FlattrStat, a small statistic tool for Flattr Mendy Meng: previous two weeks work on GTG Mario Sanchez Prada: Accessibility support in WebKit2GTK+ Dave Richards: Losing Planet GNOME Feed Bastien Nocera: Wacom tablets in GNOME 3.4 Murray Cumming: Online Glom: More Translation Karen Sandler: Apply for your GNOME membership! Natan Yellin: Goodbye Planet GNOME

High Scalability

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 27, 2012 Google Goes MoreSQL with Tenzing - SQL Over MapReduce The State of NoSQL in 2012 Facebook Timeline: Brought to You by the Power of Denormalization Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 20, 2012 Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in the cloud? Paper: Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users’ Event Feeds Sponsored Post: Next Big Sound, ElasticHosts, 1&1, Red 5 Studios, SingleHop, Spokeo, Callfire, Attribution Modeling, Logic Monitor, New Relic, ScaleOut, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 13, 2012 Peregrine - A Map Reduce Framework for Iterative and Pipelined Jobs

Linux Journal: The Original Magazine of the Linux Community

Using Plop Boot Manager for USB Boot Moose Basic Chemistry on the GNOME Desktop Black Wednesday Can we help AT solve its mobile data problem? ZevenOS - Does it recapture the flavor of BeOS? Enter to Win a Free "Oops... Wrong window" TShirt! gStrings in Your Pocket Short Notices: News In Linux Audio Linux Mint 12 Offers a Traditional Gnome Feel

Slashdot

Sea Water Could Cause Uranium Pollution From Nuclear Fuel Rods How Allan Scherr Hacked Around the First Computer Password January 28 is Data Privacy Day Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig USPTO Declares Invalid Third of Three Critical Rambus Patents White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer North Star May Be Wasting Away Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed When Viruses Infect Worms

Yahoo! News: Technology News

Facebook IPO could value it among top companies (AP) Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP) Samsung 4Q profit rises 17 pct on smartphone sales (AP) Apple CEO responds to allegations of Chinese worker abuse (Yahoo! News) Just Show Me: Great free to-do apps for your iPhone (Yahoo! News) Flashpoint Demo Day a Glimpse of How Entrepreneurs' Dreams Come True (Mashable) Twitter's new censorship rules face opposition (Reuters) Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites (Reuters) RIM CEO eyes "significant" plans for BlackBerry (Reuters) DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android -Nikkei (Reuters)

Linux Today

Tech Comics: "One Day They Will Yell Back" The Grand /usr-fication of Linux Red Hat Taking Gluster from Open Core to Open Source Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront Be lazy, be fast Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition Basic Backup Script in BASH

Netcraft

Attacks resume against US Department of Justice “Operation Italy” takes down government website Attacks continue against Finnish anti-piracy website Nigerian government hosts Halifax phishing site January 2012 Web Server Survey Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in December 2011 Phishing sites using Extended Validation SSL December 2011 Web Server Survey Sustained LiveJournal DDoS attack continues Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2011

Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil (AP) GOP insiders rise up to cut Gingrich down to size (AP) Senegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term (AP) Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP) American economy not healthy yet, but it's healing (AP) US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed (AP) Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP) Need for courtroom artists fade as cameras move in (AP) Friend says on 911 call Demi Moore was convulsing (AP) Pats' line has tough job against Giants' pass rush (AP)

PostgreSQL news

PGCon 2012 Call for Papers DA-SOFT AnyDAC Winter 2012 (v 5.0.5) released PostgreSQL 2011-12-05 Cumulative Bug-Fix Release www.postgresql.org migrated to new framework Gazzang now supports Postgres for ezNcrypt Italian PGDay 2011: the schedule is online! Benetl, a free ETL tool for postgreSQL, is out in version 3.8 PostgreSQL Data Sync released LedgerSMB 1.3.0 Released phpPgAdmin 5.0.3 released

Popular Python recipes

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Rands In Repose

A Design Primer for Engineers 2011 in Review A Bag of Holding How Can I Help You? Why? The End The Rands Test You Are Underestimating the Future Building Serendipity Fred Hates It

Python News

OSCON 2012 CfP Readers vote Python best language third year in a row First China PyCon IronPython 2.7.1 released PyArkansas PyGotham Python 3.2.2 released Python 3.2.2rc1 released RuPy 2011 Registration Open ConFoo 2012: Python charmers wanted

programming

The State Of HTML5 Video Analysis shows that "solving" many classic computer games is NP-hard or even P-Space hard. CityHash: new hash function by Google (faster than Murmur) SpookyHash: new hash function by Bob Jenkins Vellum, a verified model for LLVM The WHY of WAT Programming can be so funny sometimes Tutorial on D ranges Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine From interpreters to JIT compilers: partial evaluation (part of a series by a PyPy developper)

Python Jobs:

Level 12 Technologies (Louisville, KY, USA) Curse, Inc. (Huntsville, AL, USA) Elysium Digital (Cambridge, MA, USA) Weekend Sherpa (San Francisco, CA, USA) Oxford Knight (Agency) (London, UK) Xtranormal (San Francisco, CA, USA) ENthEnergy, LLC (Indianapolis, IN, USA) Xator Corporation (Destin, Fl, USA) Insync (Singapore and Manila, Philippines) Greenphire, Inc (King of Prussia, PA, USA)

SAI

15 Silicon Valley Homes To Drool Over Ahead Of Facebook's IPO Filing Next Week Say Goodbye To The Nation's First CTO, Aneesh Chopra Email Shows How Steve Jobs Got A Google Employee Fired (GOOG, AAPL) Zynga Finally Sneaks Above Its IPO Price (ZNGA) Your Next Laptop Could Have Kinect Built In (MSFT) Banks Get Squat As Facebook Commands Super-Low Fees HP's Big Mobile Experiment Is In The Hands Of These Guys (HPQ) CHART OF THE DAY: The Kindle Fire Is The Most Important Android Tablet For App Makers (AMZN, GOOG) Here's What Everyone Is Drinking At The Accel Party In Davos Right Now Morgan Stanley Shares Shot Up After The Facebook IPO News (MS)

Engadget

Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades MasterCard's QkR mobile payment system enters trial in Australia Israel announces plans to build national broadband network, increases fiber intake FCC Fridays: January 27, 2012 Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site? Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET! First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down HTC Titan II works its charm on the FCC with AT&T LTE included OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity

Hacker News

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split Doing Y Combinator a second time Facebook to File for IPO Next Week Jekyll Bootstrap: The Quickest Way to Blog with Jekyll How I Develop Things and Why How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System Chapter 6 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition is out ("Modeling users") Welcome Geoff This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now