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.

Read Film preservation 2.0 / The Dissolve.

“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.

 

Via Apple’s press release:

“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 – CarPlay.

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

 

ArsTechnica explains why the idea of Microsoft/Nokia should fork Android is a poor one given that “with each new Android release, Google is making a forked [Android] operating system less and less viable”.

Read Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable. | Ars Technica.