There's a lot of buzz lately about the delivery of HD TV and Movie content over the Internet with shows like Lost being delivered by ABC.com and other video download services with XBox360 or iTunes.  I even have friends and colleagues telling me that BlueRay or HD-DVD won't make it because HD will simply be delivered over the Internet.  But there's one dirty little secret that people are forgetting or that they don't understand, IT'S NOT HD they're getting over the Internet.  Heck it's not even NTSC 480i (720x480 60 fields interlaced) DVD quality when you really look at the amount of video data you're getting! Oh sure they might call it HD because it happens to be 1280x720 resolution...

Red Hat announced the release of Fedora 7, its community-driven version of Linux, this morning. Fedora 7 merges two previously separate repositories -- Fedora Core and Fedora Extras -- into a single repository, includes completely new build tools...

The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web. This latest key can be used to decrypt all newly released (and future releases, for a while at least) HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.  This public release of the Processing Key comes shortly after Slysoft released an updated version of AnyDVD HD which could defeat the MKB v3 copy-protection used on the latest titles. I'm noticing a shift in how the hacker community is working now compared to a few months ago.  Back when they started cracking AACS the community was open and posting details of how they were getting hold of the keys...

AP - Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice.

Mozilla has released a new version of its flagship Firefox browser with fixes for five six security vulnerabilities, one carrying a "critical" rating. The most serious issue addressed in today's Firefox 2.0.0.4 update pertains to browser crashes with evidence of memory corruption. This fix (MFSA 2007-12) rolls up several bug fixes that, under certain conditions, could presumably lead to code execution attacks. The update also fixes a high-risk cross-site scripting flaw, an XUL pop-up spoofing bug, a vulnerability that could allow path abuse in cookies, a hole in APOP authentication and a persistent auto-complete denial-of-service flaw. So far this year, Mozilla has issued shipped fixes for 17 Firefox security issues. As expected, Mozilla also shipped the final Firefox 1.5 version...

AP - A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's top spammers was arrested Wednesday, a development that federal authorities said could lead to an immediate, perceptible decrease in the amount of junk e-mail winging its way across the Web.

I couldn't resist taking RSS Bling, and adding modern offline support to it (instead of HTA/Mozilla specific support from 2+ years ago). I tackled a very narrow problem. Instead of grabbing feed and post data directly from an online store, I changed the code to: Display the feeds and posts, pulling them from the local database (Using [...]

Blog: Google acquires Panoramio, a Spanish photo sharing site that maps photos on Google Earth

As we expected earlier today, eBay has confirmed an all cash $75 million acquisition of social discovery service StumbleUpon. eBay says StumbleUpon fits will with their “goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust” and helps them learn more about newly emerging community based businesses. Although you can imagine “StumbleUpon Shopping” [...]