News

http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html Paul Graham’s word on publishing

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254.html Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ various stuff like photos and curious images and articles

http://www.osp.ru/cio/2008/06/4987902/ russian publication “IT Director” [rus: Директор ИС] has published a detailed article about legal status and a variaty issues that surrounds free/open source usage in Russian Federation

http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi Ivan Krstić [former chief sec guy for OLPC, designer of bitfrost ] writes about OLPC failure in his blog. Entertaining! Read it if u have spare 40 minutes.

http://event.perlrussia.ru/yr2008/talks YAPC (yet another perl conference) in Moscow this year, list of talks

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013067.html also see http://lwn.net/Articles/279173/ Thread on OLPC mailing list discussing recent departure of Walter Bender’s and most other hight-profile developers. Interesting info and comments from project insiders.

http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/ detalied description about Flash vuln that was used to vin a recent hack contest (where vista and mac were hacked )

http://habrahabr.ru/ cool site, various news, buzz and stuff around web2.0

http://www.baselinemag.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=4536&pop=1&hide_ads=1&page=0&hide_js=1 intersting article providing info that severl serious studies did not find any quantative facts that supports notion of shortage of IT workers in US