Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses

An anonymous reader writes “LACNIC, the regional Internet registry for Latin America and the Caribbean, considers its IPv4 address pool exhausted, because it is down to less than a quarter of an /8, roughly 4 million IPv4 addresses which are reserved for facilitating transitioning mechanisms. Half of those addresses will be assigned on a first come, first served basis, but no more than 1024 addresses per organization every 6 six months. Allocations from the last 2 million addresses will be a maximum of 1024 addresses total per organization. To maintain connectivity, it is now indispensable to make the switch to IPv6. LACNIC’s CEO expressed his concern that many operators and companies still haven’t taken the steps needed to duly address this circumstance. The RIRs for Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America have all imposed similar limitations on IPv4 assignments when they also crossed their local exhaustion thresholds. As of now, only AfriNIC is not in address exhaustion mode.” Joining North America, and Europe/the Middle East/Central Asia. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The NYPD’s Biggest Gang Raid Was Informed By 1 Million Facebook Posts

In the early hours of June 4th, the New York Police Department raided the General Ulysses S. Grant and Manhattanville housing projects in West Harlem. Its biggest gang raid ever, it saw 40 suspects arrested—and it was masterminded by mining over 1 million Facebook posts. Read more…

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Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released

Today Mozilla made Firefox 30 available, a relatively minor release after the massive redesign in version 29. According to the changelog, new features include VP9 video decoding, support for Opus in WebM, and horizontal volume control for HTML5 video and audio. Developers got support for multi-line flexboxes and hang reporting for background threads. There were also a number of security fixes. The Android version of Firefox received better support for native text selection, cutting, and copying, as well as predictive lookup for Awesomebar entries. The availability of Firefox 30 coincides with the launch of Firebug 2.0, which features an updated UI and a new debugging engine called JSD2. Significant new features include JavaScirpt syntax highlighting and de-minifying, improved code auto-complete, and the capability to hide or show individual Firebug panels. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions

Every ounce counts when you’re hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those ounces and seconds add up—and that’s why Virgin Atlantic spent $168 million on a transformative redesign of its meal trays. Read more…

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Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt

Trailrunner7 writes: As the uncertainty surrounding the end of TrueCrypt continues, members of the security community are working to preserve a known-good archive of the last version of the open source encryption software released before the developers inserted a warning about potential unfixed bugs in the software and ended development. The message that the TrueCrypt posted about the security of the software also was included in the release of version 7.2a. The OCAP team decided to focus on version 7.1a and created the verified repository by comparing the SHA2 hashes with files found in other TrueCrypt repositories. So the files are the same as the ones that were distributed as 7.1a. “These files were obtained last November in preparation for our audit, and match the hash reported by iSec in their official report from phase I of the audit, ” said Kenn White, part of the team involved in the TrueCrypt audit. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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GoDaddy Files For $100 Million IPO

mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that GoDaddy has filed to make an initial public offering “This is the second time GoDaddy has tried to go public. It went this route back in 2006, but then backed out when it didn’t get the pricing it wanted.” The SEC Filing indicates that they are not in the greatest financial condition. Quoting CNN: “GoDaddy hasn’t made a profit since 2009. The company lost $279 million in 2012. It bled another $200 million last year. This year doesn’t look much better, with another $51 million lost in the first quarter.” Founder Bob Parsons, currently executive chairman, will be stepping down but remaining on the board of directors. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Britain Gets National .uk Web Address

hypnosec (2231454) writes ‘Starting today businesses and individuals in the UK will be able to register a new national web address (“.uk”) and drop their existing “.co.uk” or “.com” suffix in favour of a shorter and snappier domain name. The entire process along with the transition is being overseen by private yet not-for-profit organisation Nominet, which has already started notifying existing customers with a “.co.uk” domain of their chance to adopt a “.uk” domain. Nominet will reserve all “.uk” domain names, which already have a “.co.uk” counterparts, for the next five years offering registrants the chance to adopt the new domain and to keep cyber squatters at bay.’ Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Tesla Makes Improvements To Model S

An anonymous reader writes “In a lull between product launches Tesla intends to keep making improvements to the Model S according to Elon Musk. Tesla will automatically push software to the Model S fleet that will help the car learn the driver’s habits and the navigation system will offer directions to avoid traffic jams. ‘This year, Tesla is offering only the single model, the Model S that is EPA rated at up to 265 miles on a single charge, the most of any electric car. The company’s next model won’t come until next year, when the delayed Model X crossover goes on sale. Musk says the holdup has centered on making sure its signature design element, gullwing doors to make it easier to get in the rear, works properly and is leak-proof. “Getting the door right is extremely difficult, ” he says.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Almost Half The U.S. Subscribes To Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus

It’s a good time to be a cord-cutter in the U.S. A new study says that 47% of all American households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime or a combination of these. And almost half the country has at least one internet-connected TV set. Read more…

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Turing Test Passed

schwit1 (797399) writes “Eugene Goostman, a computer program pretending to be a young Ukrainian boy, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test. The Turing Test which requires that computers are indistinguishable from humans — is considered a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence, but academics have warned that the technology could be used for cybercrime. Computing pioneer Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed the test, which requires that a computer dupes 30 per cent of human interrogators in five-minute text conversations.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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