pickens writes “The NY Times reports that security experts and privacy advocates have begun warning consumers about the potential dangers of geotags, which are embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones and digital cameras. By looking at geotags of uploaded photos, ‘you can easily find out where people live, what kind of things they have in their house and also when they are going to be away,’ says one security expert. Because (more…)

Regardless of what you make of the news that one of the 1970s’ most notorious grindhouse flicks has spawned an equally gruelling remake, you have to concede the fact that any viewer who sees the title of I Spit on Your Grave and still buys a ticket should have an inkling of what they’re in for.

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ywlke writes “A few hours ago, an internal Oracle memo was leaked to the osol-discuss mailing list at opensolaris.org. It details Oracle’s plans for Solaris and OpenSolaris; namely that OpenSolaris, the distribution, is dead. Solaris Express has come back from the grave, and source code will still be CDDL, but won’t be released to the public until some time after it is incorporated into a binary release. What happens to the community now is anybody’s (more…)

Three Florida children bought tickets with baby-sitting money and flew to Nashville, Tennessee on Southwest Airlines, unbeknownst to their parents.

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Google has written a defense of their joint Net Neutrality proposal with Verizon, responding to criticism like the EFF’s recent review. Google presents its arguments as a list of myths and facts, but too many of them look like this one: ‘MYTH: This proposal would eliminate network neutrality over wireless. FACT: It’s true that Google previously has advocated for certain openness safeguards to be applied (more…)

Technology has rewired our brains, altered our expectations, and, frankly, turned us all into cranks. How do you know if this has happened to you? Look for the following 21 warning signs.

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pq writes “In a paper published today (abstract) in Science, astronomers are reporting the discovery of a radio pulsar in data acquired at the world’s largest radio telescope and analyzed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers in 192 countries for the Einstein@Home project. This is the first scientific discovery by a distributed computing project, and specific credit is being given to Chris and Helen Colvin of Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt of Germany.” (more…)

For the next 30 days, believers will observe the holiest month in Islam by abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk.

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An anonymous reader writes “KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer (more…)

In this first installment of Leftlane’s “War on Cars,” Ronnie Schreiber takes a look at some disturbing comments made by U.S. transportation secretary Ray LaHood.

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