First was the Crypto-1 cipher (used in stuff like the Oyster card), then the DNS flaws and now will be the Intel CPUs bug…

“Teens use technology to party in strangers’ pools. [...] Google Earth’s used to identify pool-equipped victims and then Facebook helps organise the crash…”

In: RegHardware

… Second Edition!

Maybe because he promised it in the last three JavaOnes, there isn’t a big buzz about the Effective Java Second Edition book… We have an official release date! You can pre-order yours now…

While most IP-based communications technologies could use security improvements, Codenomicon’s chief technology officer Ari Takanen thinks that VOIP should be higher on the list than most. Takanen spends much of his time finding ways to break the security on such networks and finds that it’s really way too easy. As he explains here, however, securing VOIP is not without hope.

In: eWeek

Rob Lybarger, from developer.com did an updated to some articles about Java Code Style. Worth the reading here.

“Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images.”

Even with the buzz the researchers want to create, it’s a good study to read!

In:  Princeton University

In this panel discussion from QCon San Francisco, several influential leaders of the software development community discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.

In: InfoQ

DNS root servers finally support IPv6.

Paul Twomey, president of Icann, said: “There’s pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6. We’re pushing this as a major issue.”

The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out.

“We’re down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4,” he said.

Some people say that is too late. The net’s current addressing scheme is expected to exhaust the pool of unallocated addresses by 2011.

In: BBC.co.uk

I’m not a GUI developer guy and I only used to think about it when I had some kind of trouble. However, after reading a lot about it, I start to give them the value they deserve.

Brent Simmons, NetNewsWire developer, wrote a great article about a “simple” two steps wizard.

Presentation by Joshua Bloch here.