A company that has fallen on difficult times branches out into a new field: growing strawberries in the United Arab Emirates…….

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-16 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. Versions less than 29.0.1457.57 are affected…….

Two Norwegian artists create a giant glowing orb and take it on an ambitious road trip through regions that get little or no sunlight in winter…….

Accidentally killed the user? There’s an app for that……

Oracle figures it doesn’t make sense to offer its applications in the cloud and not provide infrastructure and a platform too. Will customers bite?……

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1284-01 – Puppet allows provisioning, patching, and configuration of clients to be managed and automated. A flaw was found in the way Puppet handled YAML content during Representational State Transfer API calls. An attacker could construct a request containing a crafted YAML payload that would cause the Puppet master to execute…

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-15 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ProFTPD, the worst of which leading to remote execution of arbitrary code. Versions less than 1.3.4d are affected…….

dryriver sends this news from the BBC: “Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones. It said that one of the Lockheed Martin F-16s made a first flight with an empty cockpit last week. Two U.S. Air Force pilots controlled the plane from the ground as it flew…

Mass exodus after King Database snubs attendees……

In its latest advert, Mercedes-Benz illustrates its new suspension technology by jiggling around a bunch of chickens…….