Michael Larabel writes “With the Free Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) starting this day, where John Bridgman of AMD will be addressing the X.Org developers, AMD has this morning released their 3D programming documentation. This information covers not only the current R500 series, but goes back in detail to the R300/400 series. This is another one of AMD’s open source documentation offerings, which they had started doing at the X Developer Summit 2007 with releasing 900 pages of basic documentation. Phoronix has a detailed analysis of what is being offered with today’s information as well as information on sample code being released soon. This information will grant open source 3D/OpenGL work to get underway with ATI’s newer graphics cards.”

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An anonymous reader writes “According to the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, cyber criminals are populating the Internet with Web sites designed to exploit several recently-discovered security holes in a half-dozen widely used ActiveX plug-ins for IE 6 and 7, most notably the one offered by Facebook and MySpace to help users upload pics. The sites, advertised via links in email and instant message spam, also ‘probe for other vulnerable IE plug-ins, including two recently discovered from Yahoo! and one for QuickTime (this one attacks a vulnerability Apple patched just last month). The sites also throw in an exploit against a six-month-old IE flaw.’ The article notes that the SANS World wide web Storm Center has released a GUI tool to help users safely deactivate the vulnerable plug-ins in the Windows registry.”

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Communiversity is a new site which grants students of various colleges to post pictures and comments on their own school. Though thoughts on the site can vary greatly and maybe leave visitors more confused than informed, this new service is an interesting and creative way to find out a little more about your next potential college.

College.SparkNotes and Collegeboard are two other sites to visit if you’re researching new places to get those degrees. These sites are great sources of concrete information like tuition estimates, average SAT scores of attending students, majors offered, etc, and SparkNotes even conducts surveys on the general experience. But the sites still lack in information on the real student experience.

That’s why Communiversity exists. Each school’s page is managed entirely by students, so future undergrads get the info right from the horses mouthes. The site also allows students to upload pictures, so it’s likely visitors will see portions of the campus less advertised. Though the new site is still small relative to its potential, news of Communiversity is spreading fast.

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An anonymous reader writes “The Guardian has a two page spread on the background of some of the Wikileaks people, the Wikileaks scheme for “an open-source democratic intelligence agency” and the possible location of its secret servers — an abandoned US nuclear weapons base at Greenham Common and a radar station in Kent. “The Kent bunker is deep underground and supposed to survive 30 days after a nuclear strike.””

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cli_rules! writes “DailyTech has reported that Jack Thompson has been ordered to explain himself. ‘Therefore, it is ordered that you shall show cause on or before March 5, 2008, why this Court should not find that you’ve abused the legal system process and impose upon you a sanction for abusing the legal system, including, but not limited to directing the Clerk of this Court to reject for filing any future pleadings, petitions, motions, letters, documents, or other filings submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than yourself.’”

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onehitwonder writes “Bad CIOs are a blight on the IT profession, the organizations that employ them and the IT staff who toil under them (usually cleaning up their messes). Yet bad CIOs manage to migrate largely undetected — like the mythic Big Foot — from company to company. In the process, these bad CIOs lay waste to businesses and information systems, destroy staff morale, pillage budgets and imperil shareholder value. To help rid the world of this scourge, CIO.com has compiled a list of behaviors common among bad CIOs that recruiters, hiring managers and IT staff can use to identify them during the recruiting process.”

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tuxgeek writes “In the continuing saga of Yahoo resisting a Microsoft purchase out, Yahoo is now being sued by it’s shareholders. ‘Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit’s police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as ‘all other similarly situated public shareholders.’”

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Groklaw has analyzed that ‘new leaf’ Microsoft turned the other day. PJ has a lengthy analysis of Microsoft’s latest promises. To make a long story short, the promises are more of the same stuff and don’t help anyone but Microsoft. They only protect ‘noncommercial’ development and are set up to create a patented standards toll road so that Microsoft can charge competitors to compete. As PJ puts it, ‘This is a promise to remain incompatible with the GPL, as far as I have the ability to make out.’”

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