Apple Patches ‘Critical’ OS X Flaw; AirPort Express, AirTunes

  Submitted by Claudio macOS 15 Comments
Apple released a security patch that fixes what the company called the first "critical" Mac OS X flaw. Apple today also introduced AirPort Express, "the world's first 802.11g mobile base station that can be plugged directly into the wall for wireless Internet connections and USB printing, or thrown into a laptop bag to bring wireless freedom to hotel rooms with broadband connections." More here and here.
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Zeta to Get New Media Player and Native Codecs

  Submitted by jeanmarc Zeta 33 Comments
yellowTAB is currently revamping the media services in Zeta by adding new native CODECs to the Media Kit, and developing a brand new native media player application, code named Champion. This will add native support for common media formats that cannot be currently played in the BeOS platform, as well as high-performance video streaming capabilities to Zeta. Also, TuneTracker will include Zeta in its CD from now on. Elsewhere, a USB mass storage driver for BeOS 5 was released.
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Linux certificate puts kernel developers in impossible position

  Submitted by Matt Legal 14 Comments
A patent expert has attacked the Open Source Community's latest initiative to document the provenance of code contributed to the Linux kernel so that proving its origins will be quicker and easier in the face of litigation. The Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0 asserts that the developer submitting the code which it covers has either written or modified that code according to their rights to do so, or it is being submitted, unchanged, on behalf of someone else who asserts these rights.
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