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By Kat Tanaka Okopnik

I don’t usually get this effusive about any book, but the authors of Blown to Bits have written a must-read handbook on the most important political questions we face regarding the present and future of technology. Whether you’re already familiar with these issues because you’re the go-to guy for all your less-techie friends, or you’re the bewildered by technology sort, Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis have laid out the background and the analysis with in-book citations as well as pointers to sources and references available on the World Wide Web.

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By Sujith H

This all started with a Slashdot article which described the amazing features of CHDK (Canon Hacking Development Kit). The article re-ignited my ambition to buy a camera and explore its full potential. I decided to go for the Canon A720IS, which supports CHDK. In this article I would like to share the work that I did to compile CHDK in GNU/Linux, install it, and explore its scripting capabilities.

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By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff

Contents:
News in General
Court upholds FOSS licences and community copyrights
Intel details Core i7 Architectures, Multi-core “Larrabee”
AMD: Ready to Compete
Progress on DNS Vulnerabilities, IANA test tool shows gaps
Mozilla’s Firefox Wins the “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol” Crown at LinuxWorld
Conferences and Events
Distro News
Debian “Lenny” Dev Tree Frozen
Freespire will go back to Debian
Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.2 released for i386 and x86_64
gOS 3 Gadgets announced
Software and Product News
Sun Launches openSSO Express
Sun Unveils AMP Stack for Solaris and Linux
New Javascript Interpreter to be Launched with Firefox 3.1

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