25 years ago today (March 12 2014), Tim-Berners-Lee submitted “Information Management: A Proposal” for comments at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or European Organization for Nuclear Research).
To honour the event, the World Wide Web Consortium and the World Wide Web Foundation have launched http://www.webat25.org/ . Tim Berners-Lee has posted a video message at
asking persons to take action to protect and enhance the open Web in 2014.
From the ICANN blog :
“As previously reported, ICANN continues making headway in improving WHOIS. One aspect of this effort focuses on bringing visibility into how these improvements might be impacting overall accuracy rates. To do this, a new program is in development in which ICANN will conduct periodic WHOIS accuracy studies, publish the findings, and forward for follow-up WHOIS records that have been flagged as inaccurate to some degree.This begs the question— what is an inaccurate WHOIS record?“
Read the blog post at
Fascinating article on thedissolve.com on the significant challenges of the archiving of digital film. It sounds easy in theory to do, but harder to implement in practice.
“Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, thanks to an extremely critical vulnerability in a widely used cryptographic code library.
The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package.”
Read the rest of the Ars Technica article:
Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping | Ars Technica.
“Apple® today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone® in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri® without distraction. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp.”
Apple has a page up at http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/ and Volvo has shown a promo video showing how the Carplay could work
Apple has released security updates to Apple’s iOS and MacOS X since last week Friday and today a security update to QuickTime for Windows). These security updates are critical and should be done ASAP.
GigaOM runs through a security checklist for MacOS X and iOS. Read the article
GigaOM : It’s time for a Mac OS X and iOS security checkup.
Via FastCompany:
“Mike Parker–a legendary typographer, type designer, and historian who is perhaps best known for his work giving the world Helvetica–died Sunday night. He was 85.
Read rest of FastCompany article
Via Facebook’s press release :
“Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross-platform mobile messaging company, for a total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares. The agreement also provides for an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing.”
Flickr, the photo sharing site is also 10 years old (it was Facebook’s 10 year anniversary last week) on February 10 2014. The Flickr blog has noted the occasion with a video of various pictures from Flickr and a timeline of Flickr’s history.
Watch the #Flickr10 video at http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/12433794693/
and read the Flickr’s “Happy 10th Birthday, Flickr!” Blog Post
