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+Google could be rolling out some form of copyright detection for YouTube as early as next month. The release timeline comes from one of Google's attorney's who is defending the company against Viacom's $1 billion [copyright infringement lawsuit][2] against YouTube.
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+In pretrial hearing Google's attorney told the judge that the company was working "very intensely" on a video recognition technology and hoped to release it sometime in September.
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+The AP [reports][1] that the technology in question has been described as a means of fingerprinting digital files, supposedly as "sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI."
+
+However Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has previously said that the copyright protection technology for YouTube would **not** be designed to filter out and block pirated content, rather it would "somewhat automate" the process by which content owners can flag illegally copied videos.
+
+So has Google changed its plans for the filtering service? At this point no one outside Google knows for sure, but it certainly sound like what the lawyer described would be capable of blocking uploads.
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+When asked for a comment, a Google spokesperson backed off the September release date saying, "we hope to have the testing completed and technology available by some time in the fall, but this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken, and as always with cutting-edge technologies, it's difficult to forecast specific launch dates."
+
+[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/Google-plans-YouTube-antipiracy-tool-for-September_1.html
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/the_morning_reb_5.html
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+Amid all the hype over the iPhone, the AppleTV hasn't generated much press lately, but that doesn't mean the hackers haven't been busy. AppleTVHacks finally published a patch over the weekend that allows AppleTV users to hook up an external drive for storage.
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+One of the chief complaints about the AppleTV was its lack of hard drive storage, originally the AppleTv shipped with a paltry 40 GB, though Apple has since added a built-to-order option with a 160 GB drive.
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+Still, before the AppleTV becomes a viable option for HD movies and other large media files, it's going to need external storage options, and that's exactly what [the USB patch does][1]. There are of course some caveats, for one thing the patch only seems to work with the original software, rather than the newer Apple TV software version 1.1.
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+To get things working you'll need:
+
+
+<ul>
+<li><em>An ssh-enabled Apple TV</em>.  If you don&#8217;t have that enabled yet, you can refer to this <a href="http://appletvhacks.net/2007/03/24/enable-ssh-and-afp-on-your-apple-tv/">post</a> to get it enabled.  For instructions on how to enable ssh without opening the case, refer to this <a href="http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_SSH_Without_Opening_the_Apple_TV">wiki page</a>.</li>
+<li><em>An Intel-Mac or Intel-based *nix</em>.  This is needed to run the script to patch the kernel on the Apple TV remotely.  It maybe possible to run the install script under Windows using <a href="http://cygwin.com">cygwin</a>.  However, we have not tried this.</li>
+<li><em>An installed version of Mac OS X 10.4 Intel</em>.  Or a full copy of the contents of the &#8220;/System/Library/Extensions&#8221; folder from one.</li>
+<li><em>An original, unmodified copy of the &#8216;mach_kernel.prelink&#8217; file from the Apple TV</em>.  If the kernel on your Apple TV has not been modified yet, you can just tell the script to get it from there.  Otherwise, you can obtain the file from Apple TV Software 1.1 update available <a href="http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg">here</a>.</li>
+<li><em>An external USB drive formatted using &#8220;Journaled HFS+&#8221;.</em>  This is the format the Apple TV expects.</li>
+</ul>
+
+For complete step-by-step instructions head over to AppleTVHacks. And if you'd like to help adapt and modify the patch to work with Apple TV software 1.1, the folks behind AppleTVHacks would [appreciate the helping hand][2].
+
+[1]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/
+[2]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/29/usb-patch-2-days-later/
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+We mentioned it last week when it was initially released, but the "hello world" app for the iPhone is now available for mere mortals in GUI form. True, it still doesn't do anything more than announce "hello world," that the fact that it's wrapped up in a GUI means that other, actually useful apps will probably start popping up in the very near future.
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+Other GUI options for iPhone junkies include [iFuntastic][1], which allows you to install custom ringtones, rearrange the home menu and replace the AT&T logo with any 65 x 18 pixel PNG image.
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+Most of the rest of the hacks floating around the internet still require some command line input, though nearly all provide detailed instructions.
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+An interesting app/hack from Justin Schwalbe allows you to take any image from the web and [make it the iPhone wallpaper][2]. Yes, you can already do that, but it requires connecting to your computer, downloading and then syncing to include the downloaded images. Schwalbe's hack allows you to download and use any image as a wallpaper, from the actual iPhone.
+
+Check out the video below:
+
+[1]: http://www.iphonealley.com/forums/showthread.php?t=523&s=17555c58798ee56246a477ae06e398a4&
+[2]: http://finishtherace.net/b2/index.php?p=532&c=1&more=1
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+With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. 
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+In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds e-mailed the comp.os.minix Usenet group to say: "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready."
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+Kernel Trap recently had a [nice overview of Linus' early thoughts on the kernel][1] and its development, some of which become quite funny in light of the actual development of Linux.
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+Originally Linus didn't think the kernel would port from the original 32-bit i386 chip architecture. And while that is the way Linux 1.0 shipped, by the time 1.2 arrived just under a year later, it had already been ported to 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit SPARC, and the 64-bit Alpha.
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+Linus was also pretty adamant that Linux was nothing more than a hobby and probably wouldn't impress many people.
+
+Of course a quick push of the fast-forward button and you get to today where consumer-friendly distributions of Linux are shipping pre-installed on Dell machines. 
+
+A crazy condensed history to give you a little perspective on a monday morning.
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+[1]: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002
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+Microsoft released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 last week and to go along with it the company has unveiled a new downloading scheme that sounds a lot like bittorrent. The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD) as the new protocol is known, is what Microsoft describes as "a peer-assisted download manager."
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+Further details make the setup sound even more like bittorrent. From the [MSCD site][1]:
+
+>*	Each client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they’re interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from the server.
+	*	No matter how great the internet’s demand for the file, you will always be able to make progress downloading.
+	*	MSCD lets you download content quicker than is possible without peer assistance.
+	
+
+
+Unlike bittorrent though, these files are secure through an unspecified mechanism, but otherwise the system sounds like Microsoft has reinvented bittorrent as a means of downloading software. Or at least is testing the system.
+
+Here's where it gets interesting though:
+
+>Some MSCD clients may be connected to each other via peer connections, forming a ‘cloud’ of clients. Pieces of the file you are downloading are sent through these peer connections between clients, as well as through connections with the file server. As a member of the cloud, your computer both serves as a client and server to other members of the cloud. Data destined for the cloud may be routed through your computer and sent to other cloud members. The other cloud members connected to you will be able to access only pieces of the file you are downloading via MSCD – they have no access to any other data on your computer.
+
+Essentially your bandwidth and connection are being used to distribute Microsoft's software and it remains to be seen how consumers react to this idea. 
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+Is the potential speed boost and shortened download time enough to take the sting off the fact that you're essentially helping Microsoft cut down on their server costs? Or will consumers revolt as they did when Blizzard released a World of Warcraft [patch via bittorrent][2]?
+
+Let us know what you think in the comments below.
+
+[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a927cf6-16e4-4e21-9608-77f06d2156bb&displaylang=en
+[2]: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/wow/faq/bittorrent.shtml
+
+[Comic From [Penny Arcade][3]]
+[3]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/21
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+Chatting is the hot new venue for virus and malware authors. A new study says that malicious attacks over IM networks are up almost 80 percent compared to last year.
+
+Akonix, which just [released the statistics][1] over the weekend is in the business of developing IM "cleaning" services so you might want to take the numbers with a grain of salt, but still, according to Akonix's survey there have been 226 exploits for IM networks this year, which is just over one a day.
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+Compare that with last year's numbers and there's no doubt that IM is finally starting to attract the kind of attacks that other networks have suffered for years.
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+Akonix also says that older peer-to-peer networks, such as Kazaa and eDonkey, are increasing beset by malware. The company found 32 attacks just in the month of July.
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+With system admins spending so much time and effort clamping down large e-mail networks, it makes sense that hackers would move on to the thus-far soft underbellies of IM and P2P. 
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+As with everything else in the online world, make sure you trust your IM contacts before clicking a link or downloading any files sent over IM.
+
+[1]: http://www.akonix.com/press/releases-details.asp?id=138
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