LinuxSecurity.com: The idea behind quantum crypto is that two people communicating using a quantum channel can be absolutely sure no one is eavesdropping. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle requires anyone measuring a quantum system to disturb it, and that disturbance alerts legitimate

LinuxSecurity.com: Some issues relating to thread cancellation have been discovered in the pulseaudio package shipped with Mandriva Linux 2009.0. These issues could result in the crash of an application acting as a pulseaudio client. This condition is greatly exacerbated when

LinuxSecurity.com: Support for Ajax and JavaScript takes the pain out of Web-form validation. Writing code to validate Web-form input can be even more of a chore than implementing form-processing logic. But help is at hand, thanks to the Struts 2

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, privilege escalation or a leak of sensitive data. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

LinuxSecurity.com: Dmitry E. Oboukhov found that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon created temporary files insecurely, which could lead to a local denial of service or arbitrary file overwrite via a symlink attack (CVE-2008-4477).

While we were sitting in the AAS Editorial Chat room yesterday, mulling over the last minute tweaks to Rafe's review of Comes With Music review (see here), Rafe started talking about setting up the referral fees. Turns out that this

I can't resist linking over to AAS regular Matt Radford's latest post over on All About iPhone, talking about why the release of the S60 5th Edition-powered Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is going to be good for the Apple iPhone. At

After a certain amount of hoo-ha in the E90 v300 firmware thread, it seems that Blackberry Connect has been upgraded after all to work with the new firmware. See here and select your region and operator and you should see

On monday it's time for the Evening with S60 London. However as things do not kick off until 7:30pm and as the AAS team are in town we thought we would hold an informal get together before the event in

S60.com are giving away (look under 'My exclusives') another of their periodic 'exclusive' themes. This time it's the rather dynamic 'Sporty' - one for your collection, at any rate!

Nokia Beta Labs brings us news of an update to Communication Center 2.0, with bug fixes and optimisations in all areas. Good stuff, though my previous comments about a fragmented PC-side software portfolio remain!

The much-awaited Nokia N85 is now available in Finland, and it also seems to have now gone on sale in France too. It's already been available in Italy for a short while now, and presumably should get a continent-wide rollout

The BBC iPlayer 's download function will soon be coming to Linux and Macs, thanks to a deal between Auntie and Adobe.

Google released a developer-oriented update to its Chrome web browser on Wednesday that fixes some crashes and video playback issues.

Some companies are planning to skip Windows Vista, and that's OK, according to Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft's CEO hopes those companies come back for Windows 7.

Version 1.9.10 is the latest test release of Elive, a Debian-based distribution with a heavily customised Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.10. This version doesn't include Exalt (a network

Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 4.7 "Server CD", a single-CD, server-only edition of CentOS based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7: "The single CD server install for CentOS 4.7 has now been released and is available from

The single CD server install for CentOS 4.7 / i386 has now been released and is available from all active mirrors.