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Jeremy A. Hansen writes 'NIST just announced their selections for algorithms going to the second round of the SHA-3 competition. Quoting: 'NIST received 64 SHA-3 candidate hash function submissions and accepted 51 first round candidates as meeting our minimum acceptance criteria. We have now selected 14 second round candidates to continue in the competition. Information about the second round candidate algorithms will be available here. We were pleased by the amount and quality of the cryptanalysis we received on the first round candidates, and more than a little amazed by the ingenuity of some of the attacks. ... In selecting this set of second round candidates we tried to include only algorithms that we thought had a chance of being selected as SHA-3. We were willing to extrapolate higher performance for conservative designs with apparently large safety factors, but comparatively unforgiving of aggressive designs that were broken, or nearly broken during the course of the review. We

Linux Magazine: 'The Scientific Linux enterprise platform is available in version 4.8. Next to those from the upstream, downloads can be single packages.'

LinuxLinks: 'To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 slick Linux screencasting tools. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license, with the exception of Wink which is a no-charge closed source application. One commercial application which is also worth a mention is DemoRecorder by Christian Linhart Software, as it has excellent features and export options.'

dasButcher writes 'Network Solutions, the domain registration and hosting service company, suffered a massive security breach that lasted three months and exposed tens of thousands of credit card numbers of its customers and of the businesses that use its hosting and online payment processing service. The company is just beginning the victim notification process. 'There is no information on how the code was planted on the sites. While examination of the code shows that it had the ability to ship data off to a third party, and network Solutions believes that it did just that, the exact code is not available for public review. There is also no public information as to where the data believed to be stolen was sent.'' of this story at Slashdot.

Iconology Inc. announced the launch of its Comics by comiXology App on the App Store on Friday. The Comics by comiXology App is a digital comic library and reader for the Apple iphone and iPod touch handsets that is launching with over 100 titles available from twenty popular comic publishers and many independent comic writers.

(Telecompaper) Garmin-Asus, a co-branded alliance between Garmin and AsusTek computer, will make its Nuvifone G60 available for sale from 27 July in Taiwan. The phone will further be introduced in Singapore and Malaysia by the end of August. Additionally, the Nuvifone M20 will go on sale in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia in August as well. The Nuvifone G60 focuses on location-based services, with basic functions such as SMS, e-mail, photos and social networking, all integrating location data. The quad-band phone offers HSDPA at up to 3.6 Mbps and Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as a web browser and 3 megapixel camera. In addition to the pre-loaded maps and points of interest, the handset can be upgraded with applications and data from the Connected Services portal offered by Garmin-Asus. The Nuvifone M20 is a Windows Mobile phone, with additional business user features such as push e-mail, Active Sync, up to 8GB storage and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps. The Nuvifone G60 and M20 come

Today Google announced a web based version of its Latitude application for the Apple iphone. Read the full story here.

BuzzSkyline writes 'It's possible to produce energy by simply mixing fresh and salty water. Although chemists and physicists have long known about the untapped energy available where fresh water rivers pour into salty oceans — it's equivalent to 'each river in the world ending at its mouth in a waterfall 225 meters [739 feet] high' — the technology for exploiting the effect has been lacking. An Italian physicist seems to have solved the problem with the experimental demonstration of a 'salination cell' that creates power given nothing more than input sources of salty and fresh water. The reearcher believes that this renewable, environmentally friendly energy source could be deployed in coastal areas and could provide another addition to the green-tech roster. A paper describing the technology is due to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.' of this story at Slashdot.

Based on ultra-low power AMD LX800 500 MHz processor, GOT-5571TL-621 features 5.7 in. high brightness (500 nits) VGA LCD with resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, and NEMA4/IP65 compliant front bezel. It has PC/104 slot, MiniPCI slot, and CompactFlash(TM) card for storage, and includes 2 COM ports, one Ethernet, one audio, and 2 USB 2.0 ports. Measuring only 208.5 x 59.5 x 167.3 mm, RoHS compliant unit can be panel or desktop mounted and has vibration resistance up to 2 Grms. This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Desktop Computers | Flat Panel Computers | Touchscreens

YouTube just launched a new features that makes viewing stats available for all videos on the site. YouTube Insight, which provides information about who's watching your video, used to...