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Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers

I'm Not There (1956) writes "Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources its Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they user Linux on their laptops. With these device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

How to Improve Your Financial IQ

Stop avoiding your numbers--there's nothing to be afraid of and everything to gain. Here is how to track and manage your business finances.

Watch Out Java, Here Comes JavaScript

Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees recent experiments enabling a resurgence for JavaScript on the server, one likely to dent Java's role in the data center. 'Today, projects such as CommonJS and Node.js are extending JavaScript even further, allowing it to take on Java's traditional role in the data center. In a fascinating role reversal, JavaScript is becoming the versatile, powerful, all-purpose language for the Web, while Java risks becoming a kind of modern-day Cobol," McAllister writes. And though such experiments have a ways to go, the benefits of JavaScript as a server-side language are clear and striking.

Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Apple changes app store rules, to become more transparent

New rules just set by Apple will seem to open the door for Adobe Flash, likely amid FTC investigation and mounting pressure

10 Things You Didn't Know About Bedbugs

With bedbug outbreaks so common they're hardly even newsworthy anymore, people are on high alert for the tiny insects. But with increased awareness comes an onslaught of rumors, myths and flat-out fallacies.

Unexpected Boob Grab Caught on Camera (Video)

A nearby cameraman tells you that you are about to get your five seconds of television fame. Now you must think of a way to make the most of it.

16 Things You Didn't Know About The NFL (Infograph)

With the the regular season starting tonight with Farve's Vikings taking on the NFL champ Saints in New Orleans this is bound to be an awesome season.

T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders

cgriffin21 writes "T-Mobile Thursday finally confirmed what it's been hinting at for a while: The HTC G2, T-Mobile's HSPA+ successor to the HTC G1, is on the way. It'll be an Android 2.2 phone and run on T-Mobile's HSPA+ data network, which while not a 4G network offers what T-Mobile is calling 4G-like speeds up to 21 Mbps. T-Mobile hasn't confirmed pricing or exact availability but said it would open the G2 to presales for existing customers at the end of September." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Gallery: Final Fantasy XIV Tons of New Screenshots

Square Enix released new screenshots todayfor Final Fantasy XIV Online. The next game in the Final Fantasy series is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that is developed and published by Square Enix. Final Fantasy XIV Online will be available for both the PS3 and the PC. The game is being released this month worldwide for the PC, Playstation 3 owners will have to wait until March 2011. You can check the rest of the screenshots in our gallery:

World's First Double Backflip on a Wheelchair (Video)

Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham landed the world's first double backflip on a wheelchair.

Need Math Help (PIC)

The ultimate "Catch-22"

BREAKING: BROADCOM OPEN SOURCES WIRELESS DRIVERS

Ahem. I just had to write that all-caps headline. Broadcom's wireless chips - used by just about everybody in this industry - have been a major pain in the bum for Linux users, because the company did not release open source drivers. Workarounds had to be created, lots of pain was had in the process, but now, Broadcom has finally seen the light: they have open sourced their wireless Linux drivers.

DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network

Tootech writes "In a case of "physician, heal thyself," the agency — which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD — failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep of US-CERT using the vulnerability scanner Nessus and turned up 1,085 instances of 202 high-risk security holes. "The majority of the high-risk vulnerabilities involved application and operating system and security software patches that had not been deployed on computer systems located in Virginia," reads the report from assistant inspector general Frank Deffer." Read more of this story at Slashdot.