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Jennifer Lopez and her famous hips stopped by to serenade TBS’ Guy in Late-Night — George Lopez — with her best Marilyn Monroe impression and a special Happy Birthday song on Lopez Tonight Thursday.

Exposure and Nontarget Effects of Transgenic Bt Corn Debris in Streams
 
Abstract:
Corn (Zea mays L.) transformed with a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) comprises 49% of all corn in the United States. The input of senesced corn tissue expressing the Bt gene may impact stream-inhabiting invertebrates that process plant debris, especially trichopteran species related to the target group of lepidopteran pests. Our goal was to assess risk associated with transgenic corn debris entering streams. First, we show the input of corn tissue after harvest was extended over months in a stream. Second, using laboratory bioassays based on European corn borer [Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner)], we found no bioactivity of Cry1Ab protein in senesced corn tissue after 2 wk of exposure to terrestrial or aquatic environments.

Third, we show that Bt near-isolines modify growth and survivorship of some species of invertebrates. Of the four nontarget invertebrate species fed Bt near-isolines, growth of two closely related trichopterans was not negatively affected, whereas a tipulid crane fly exhibited reduced growth rates, and an isopod exhibited reduced growth and survivorship on the Cry1Ab near-isoline but not on the stacked Cry1Ab + Cry3Bb1 near-isoline. Because of lack of evidence of bioactivity of Bt after 2 wk and because of lack of nontarget effects on the stacked near-isoline, we suggest that tissue-mediated differences, and not the presence of the Cry1Ab protein, caused the different responses among the species. Overall, our results provide evidence that adverse effects to aquatic nontarget shredders involve complex interactions arising from plant genetics and environment that cannot be ascribed to the presence of Cry1Ab proteins.

Pundit’s response:

This report substantially challenges the interpretation of Rosi-Marshall et al 2007

For the overall context and further ecological analysis see Science versus politics in Germany.

The economic crisis and scandals in the corporate sector have prompted the nation’s business schools to take a more serious look at the study of ethics.

“I think some of the recent events — Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Toyota Corporation — have really highlighted the importance of ethics in leadership,” said Maryam Alavi, vice dean and professor of information strategy at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

B-schools around the country are renewing their focus on existing ethics programs as well as adding new ones. The lessons go beyond the obvious warnings against cheating and embrace responsibility to employees, customers, communities and the environment.

“Obviously, we can’t be parents,” said Mark Dillard, director of leadership programs at Goizueta. “Clearly, values are taught in the home. But we can address it from what actions you can take, what options are available to you if you are confronted with an ethical breach.”

“Principled leadership and ethical judgment have to exist at all times — good or bad,” Alavi said. The vice dean added that pushing these qualities aside for even minor decisions can create a slippery slope.

“I don’t believe many people wake up one day and say, ‘You know, today I’m going to do something bad or criminal or unethical.’ It’s poor judgments that add up and box these individual decision makers in a situation that becomes problematic,” Alavi said.

According to Dillard, the Emory program is less about debating broad ethical issues and more about what a manager should do when faced with an ethical breach, or an ethically ambiguous situation.

“If someone doesn’t take action when they see these things, it can snowball and you can end up in a situation like you have with Toyota,” Dillard said. “You’re gonna end up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.”

Peter Roberts, an associate professor of organization and management at Goizueta, tries to inspire his students with role models — entrepreneurs who make money while benefiting society.

“A real estate developer who wants to make his money in Nicaragua by developing sustainable coffee farms — and not just by buying land, cutting it up and selling it — will do better than his neighbors at the end of the day, and the country is better off for it,” he said.

Roberts also uses the example of GrayGhost Ventures, an Atlanta-based investment firm that finances emerging businesses and private schools in poor regions around the world.

While the current economic climate has pushed ethics to the front of people’s minds, some fear the trend will be temporary — or, at best, cyclical.

“When everything is booming and the economy is doing well, who’s thinking about ethics?” said Max Stetsefko, a first year MBA student at Emory. “It’s hard to really think about these things during those times. But I think in light of the recession and latest scandals, that kind of really brings the point home that this is very important.”

Professor Roberts hopes the continued teaching of ethics will curb, if not prevent, future disasters in the world of business and finance.

“I’m optimistic coming out of this place that what we’re going to see is enough individuals that are doing positive things that are going to end up, sadly not making these big events disappear, but I think put them in their proper context,” he said.

Harvard University recently played host to the 2010 NCAA Fencing Championships, held March 25-28 at the Gordon Indoor Track. Harvard’s Caroline Vloka ‘12 won the national title in women’s sabre, while her teammate Noam Mills ‘12 finished second in women’s épée. Vloka became Harvard’s first female NCAA champion since Emily Cross ‘08-09 won the women’s foil title in 2005. These are some images from that event.

Filed under: China, UK, Geely, Beijing Motor Show

As promised, Geely brought its Englon TXN to this year’s Beijing Motor Show. In the flesh, the intended successor to London’s black cab throne looks more than capable of hauling drunken tourists from place to place. The car appears to have stuck pretty close to the renderings we saw earlier this month, though we have to say the exterior looks quite a bit better under the show lights than it did photoshopped among England’s various landmarks.

The company also displayed its TX4 – a more spacious version also built just for taxi duty. Both cars are motivated by either a 2.4-liter gasoline engine mated to a five-speed automatic gearbox or a 2.5-liter diesel powerplant that can be had with a five-speed manual transmission. So far Geely hasn’t released any power numbers.

We do know that the cars will command a price tag that should fall in the $30,500 range at current exchange rates – not exactly cheap by anyone’s standards. Will British taxi companies will be willing to give up their old rides for these new, Chinese-built examples? Hard telling, but at least they look the part.

Beijing 2010: Geely’s London Taxi-aping Englon TXN originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With all the recent talk about Android growth and trying to sway developers to the platform, we thought we’d stroll by Androlib to get a feel for where the number of apps sits today.  Now, we know that Androlib is in no way the official word on actual figures.  We realize that until Google announces a figure, everything else is suspect.  However, we have always found Androlib helpful in looking at the overall picture and trends.  The charts they put together help us to see the bigger picture.

As of this writing, there are 47,517 total applications in the Android Market.  At the rate things have been going we can likely expect the unofficial number to eclipse 50,000 sometime in the coming week or two.  In terms of paid versus free apps, things haven’t changed much over the last few months.  Roughly 40 percent of the available titles are paid while the rest are offered at no upfront cost.  Surprisingly, the ratings for Android are rather favorable with only one in five apps rated at 1 star.  We’d like to think those are the soundboards and sexy wallpaper apps churned out a dozen at a time.  Be sure to check out Androlib for more information and pretty charts!

Prediction: Google officially announces the Android Market has 50,000 apps at next month’s Google I/O conference.

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“Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report” collects cybercrime and vulnerability data from across the globe and analyzes it to produce near-perfect cybercrime reports. The 100 page report generated from 2009 just came in and the most pressing issue according to it is that criminal activities over the Internet, termed as cybercrime has started moving to emerging countries.

Two countries in focus in these reports are Brazil and India. The Internet is a global entity and the lack of awareness has put India into that report. China, which was included in the last report has evolved and is now much more aware regarding the Internet.

Not only this, India is also a soft target in cybercrime. India serves as the best testing bed for hack attacks and more than 4/5th of hacks in India originated in other countries. There is a high broadband penetration but the awareness of safe usage is absolutely zero. People are still happy winning those lotteries and screensaver and are willingly giving away potential personal information.

India ranks #5 in cybercrime and serves 788 bots each day. Out of these, Mumbai, India’s largest city also claimed the largest bot activity of 50% in the country. Also, there are at least 62,623 bot infected computers in India.
(Via: PCMag)

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TechArt Porsche Panamera Entertainment and Comfort

Tuner TechArt has released a bunch of individualization modifications for the new Porsche Panamera sedan. In addition to the options already offered on the interior of the Panamera, TechArt is offering entertainment and comfort enhancements ranging from fold-away tables to a complete DVD entertainment system.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Porsche Panamera.

Known as the TechArt Entertainment Kit W2, the system includes two 7-inch monitors integrated into the design of the front seats. A 6 DVD changer attends to media playback, which is hidden in the trunk of the car. TechArt is also offering a roof mounted Entertainment Kit, available with a pivoting 10.2-inch monitor. The media console with DVD player and integrated USB host is trimmed in the finest leather or Alcantara. It is integrated into the roof liner of the Panamera. The system plays all popular media format and also offers a infrared remote control and stereo sound via wireless headphones.

The TechArt rear fold-away tables retract into the seat upholstery of the front seats. The tables have dual functionality as a mobile work station during travel and a relaxing area for longer trips with your Panamera.

TechArt Porsche Panamera Entertainment and Comfort:

– By: Kap Shah

Whether Fusion Garage is a fraudulent entity or not is something the courts will have to decide. Nevertheless, they have now proved that they are at the very least dumber than dirt.

Apparently, Fusion Garage wanted to gather feedback from their entire customer base. So, they fired off the following mail to their customers:

Dear Sir and Madam,
Thank you for supporting JooJoo.
We hope to get your feedback about the JooJoo Tablet.
Please revert back to us want you think of our product.
Please drop us a line on how your JooJoo is working.

Thank you.

JooJooSupportTeam

The trouble is that not only did their customer relations guy not know how to use a spell checker, but he was also oblivious to the purpose of the Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) field. You can very well guess what happened next.

JooJoo Support dispatched the email using the CC field and in the process revealed the e-mail id of its entire user base.

As if this guffaw alone wasn’t embarrassing enough, it also revealed that Fusion Garage has managed to sell a grand total of 64 units. Yes, JooJoo has managed to do the seemingly impossible. It is faring even poorer than the rock bottom market expectations.

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Capcom, through the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer, said that the game was brought on by a decade of demand. But was it? VG247 reports that that’s not entirely true, considering that the game has

The next-generation 3-series sharpens its shape, and will adopt turbo four-cylinder engines.

The BMW 3-series coupe and convertible were just face lifted, but the Bavarians already are busy readying the next-generation 3er sedan; it’s that body style that always leads off a new 3-series generation. And so we expect in late 2011 or early 2012 to get an official glimpse of the four-door, which should arrive at dealerships here in late 2012 as a ‘13 model. Until then, these renderings provide a good idea of what to expect.

We like what’s here: The next 3 keeps the concave body-side surfaces, and the front and rear of the new car will be sharpened. This is very clearly the little brother of the new 5-series, but far more compact and more aggressive in its detailing. The front end is dominated by the four LED rings around the headlights, which will form the basis of the BMW face going forward, and the lower air intakes will become more angular. The rear view will allow you to tell how much power a particular 3-series is packing, even if the owner goes for the badge-delete option, as split exhaust pipes will remain the domain of the most powerful diesel and petrol versions.

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Barnes & Noble released their first major software update (v1.3) for the Nook which added several exciting features for e-reader fans. Read in Store, a feature announced back at launch, is now available when inside a Barnes & Noble store. Users can read any section of any e-book for free (but only 1 hour per day).

The Nook also received its first Android apps. A new games section includes versions of sudoku and chess. Neither game was that impressive to me, but what do you expect on an e-ink display? At least B&N is developing some games and should expand the lineup in the future.

Finally a beta web browser was added which lets users visit their favorite sites and read email. The touch screen at the bottom of the Nook is used for scrolling and zooming, while the e-ink display shows a larger view of the site. Performance was a little sluggish and features were limited, but it’s a nice bonus for existing Nook owners.

Other enhancements included an overall performance boost, faster page turns, touch screen improvements, and easier navigation. The main UI received a refresh and shortcuts were added to the audio player and WiFi settings.

Overall, I was really impressed with the update. It took around five minutes to install and I’ve experienced no problems at all. Several of the new features are clearly marked beta, which is a good sign more updates are coming. I would really love to see B&N release a Nook SDK so the community can begin to build some apps and then think about an app store.

YouTuber weggingt uploaded a video walk-through of the new features.

Highlights of the software upgrade include:

• The breakthrough Read In Store experience, now in beta, which allows you to read complete eBooks in Barnes & Noble stores.
• Sudoku and Chess
• Wi-Fi® connectivity in more hotspots and a beta basic Web browser. Plus, additional reading and performance improvements, such as faster page turns and an enhanced home screen.

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A empresa de afinamento de carros ou tuning Wheelsandmore, resolveu apimentar ainda mais o Bentley Continental Supersports, a versão mais esportiva do cupê Continental que originalmente vem com um motor mais potente de 630 cavalos e com uma redução de 110 kg em seu peso final, acelerando de 0 a 100 km/h em apenas3,7 segundos.

Mesmo assim a Wheelsandmore não estava satisfeita com sua versão esportiva e apresentou a sua versão do Bentley Continental Supersports. O cupê recebeu um ajuste fino em vários equipamentos garantindo agora uma potencia de 702 cavalos e a possibilidade de atingir a velocidade máxima de 336 km/h contra 329 km/h do modelo original.

Isso foi possível com a reprogramação de sua central de injeção e um novo escapamento confeccionado em aço inoxidável. Pra garantir um melhor ajuste em sua condução, o Bentley Continental Supersports by Wheelsandmore conta com um modulo eletrônico de controle de altura em seu sistema de suspensão, podendo rebaixar ou levantar a altura do veiculo.

Seu visual também foi personalizado e em conjunto com seu novo jogo de rodas aro 21 pintada de preto fosco e com bordas vermelhas e com pneus Dunlop Sport Maxx dianteiro e traseiro impõem respeito, e com toda a razão. Confira abaixo a galeria de fotos do modelo.

Bentley Continental Supersports Wheelsandmore

Fonte: TopSpeed

U.S. Markets:

    * DJIA: Up 69.83, or 0.63%, to 11,204.12
    * NASDAQ: Up 11.08, or 0.44%, to 2530.15
    * S&P 500: Up 8.57, or 0.71%, to 1217.24

Commodities:

    * Oil: Up $1.42, or 1.70%, to $85.12.
    * Gold: Up 13.40, or 1.17%, to $1156.30.
    * Silver: Up 0.23, or 1.25%, to $16.27.

Now here’s what you need to know as you leave work today:

• In the latest sign that the economy is rebounding, New York’s economy has returned to growth for the first time since 2007. The growth is, however, expected to be “slow and fragile.”

• FDIC chief Sheila Bair has backed the banking sector, saying that conditions are improving and bank defaults should peak by year end. Bair also lent her voice to the chorus pushing for Sen. Dodd’s financial reform bill to pass.

• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to push her NATO counterparts to supply more troop training resources to Afghanistan as the coalition prepares for a 2011 departure from the country. 

• The G-20 were unable to come to a consensus of a bank tax plan during their 2 day Washington D.C. meetings. The U.S., Britain, France, and Germany were partially thwarted by Canadian opposition to the proposal. 

• Ford has recalled 33,256 cars due to safety concerns. This is the second recall the manufacturer has had to make this year.

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Oscar-winning child predator Roman Polanski has enlisted the help of the world’s most powerful man in a last ditch effort to battle extradition on his 33-year-old stautory rape charge: He’s written a letter to President Barack Obama, according to French tabloid L’Express.

How dare he drag Barry into this!

The Chinatown director is currently under house arrest in Switzerland as prosecutors in California attempt to force him back to the United States (rightfully so, might I add) to face sentencing for drugging and raping a 13-year-old aspiring model in 1977.

Several high-profile Hollywood figures have already spoken out in support of Polanski, now he’s hoping the US president will keep him out of jail. According to L’Express, President Nicolas Sarkozy – who is backing Polanski’s bid for freedom – “played the postman” and delivered Polanski’s handwritten note to Obama earlier this month.

“In an astonishing act of backroom diplomacy, Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivered a letter from Roman Polanski to Barack Obama last week on the sidelines of the anti-nuclear proliferation summit in Washington.”

Polanski fled to France in 1978 after pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful sex with a minor. He was arrested by Swiss officials last September after arriving in the country to attend a film festival in Zurich. This week, a California judge torpedoed an effort by the victim, now a mother in her forties, to have the case thrown out.

Almost no one disputes that the rating agencies played a major role in bringing on the financial crisis. To further investigate the mistakes they made, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing today where many rating agency representatives testified. There was also an enormous exhibits document (giant .pdf) referred to with facts and figures demonstrating the agencies’ epic fail, along with scores of e-mails showing their misdeeds. The lessons learned were mostly those we already knew, however: the agencies suffered from deep conflicts of interest and not enough competition.

To see just how poorly a job the agencies did in rating mortgage-related securities, you need look no further than this chart, from the exhibits provided:

You should read this chart as their percentage of failure. In the 2006 and 2007 vintages, that means their ratings ended up being generally incorrect at least 90% of the time. How could they be so wrong? Because they didn’t take into account that this could be a housing bubble (click on it for bigger image):

Amusingly, this exhibit appears to come from a Paulson & Co. presentation, the firm famous for betting against the housing market in 2007, and at the center of the Goldman-SEC case. What made the agencies ignore the historical trend line above and claim that the incredibly steep rise in prices was a new normal?

Bad Incentives

The investment banks and loan issuers were the clients of the rating agencies. If an agency decided to rate deals more conservatively, then they feared their business would flee elsewhere to find one of the other agencies that were happy to be more aggressive to get another paycheck. Numerous intra-agency e-mails in the exhibits demonstrated this point. There was incredible pressure to maintain lax standards to keep the dollars flowing.

This, however, could be easily remedied. One solution would be to revamp the system so that the agencies are no longer paid by banks and issuers. Instead, restructure things so that all agencies can rate deals and still get paid for their work. This could be done by building a fee into deals where investors pay a small fee for rated transactions. Then, divide up that fee between the agencies who choose to rate the transaction.

Not Enough Competition

The other problem stems from the fact that there’s an oligopoly of ratings firms — only three. With that little competition, it’s hard to get much diversity of opinion. If one agency decides to relax standards, the others feel pressured to follow.

The clearest solution to this would be to reduce the barriers of entry into the ratings market. Right now regulations make it very difficult to become certified as a rating agency. As long as that’s the case, the big three will continue to rule the market.

Instead the current framework should be completely dismantled. Financial firms and third-party research houses should get in the business of evaluating bonds, just like equity analysts do for stocks. In that case, there is often a diversity of views on whether to buy, hold or sell various companies’ equity. In much the same way, research arms could evaluate asset-backed securities instead of the market relying on the three agencies. This would also solve the pay problem, since these analysts would derive their income through their research services — paid by investors.

Unfortunately, the current financial reform effort in the Senate does not include any such solutions to the rating agency problem. It utterly fails to address the incentives issue and the lack of competition. Page 8 of the bill’s summary (.pdf) shows how little the legislation would do to fix these problems that clearly contributed to the financial crisis.

In short: no, it wouldn’t, according to Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning research foundation.

No one is going to be excited by a proposal that involves “finger printing the entire U.S. working population,” said Calabrese at a Cato Institute Capitol Hill briefing today. The proposed regulations are “costly, they’re ineffective, they’re bureaucratic. They’ll start with immigrants, but they’re a tool for social control.”

What Calabrese is referring to is a proposal for a national biometric ID card, laid out by Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in a Washington Post op-ed in mid-March as part of the comprehensive immigration reform bill they’re drafting. The two senators essentially plan on requiring “all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card,” they wrote.

But according to Calabrese and Harper, the nationally uniform ID would create a long list of problems — and it wouldn’t help solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Perhaps the most significant issue Calabrese addressed is that the problem targeted by the proposal won’t be affected at all. The card would require all U.S. citizens and permanent residents to get a card, but illegal immigrants who already ignore current laws can still just ignore the national ID. “You’re saying, ‘Let’s pass a law to target people who are already ignoring the existing law,’” Calabrese said. Employers could still hire people who do not have a card or have a falsified card, or they could simply pay their workers under the table.

This isn’t just an immigration issue, Harper noted. “We’re talking about native-born Americans” who would be affected by this.

Harper and Calabrese addressed some of issues with the national ID:

– Anyone could still present false documents, either by creating a manufactured identity or stealing an identity, to obtain a national ID.

– The actual ID could also be illegally reproduced.

– Biometrics are untested. There is no good standard for biometrics. Harper pointed out that, for example, some people who work in manual labor don’t have easily distinguishable fingerprints.

– The ID system could cost at least $100 billion, based on cost figures for a similar identification program, “the Real ID,” a voluntary state-issued national ID program implemented in 2005.

– The system would create privacy issues, including a possible government database of information that could be easily corrupted.

– It eliminates the choice of documents someone can use when applying for a job or for government benefits.

– A nationwide system could create long delays for correcting errors.

– It could encourage discrimination in the workforce, because employers might not want to deal with longer delays for immigrants (legal residents or naturalized citizens) who have more documents that need to be added into the system.

“These problems have never been addressed,” said Calabrese, “and the problems are going to fall on the backs of workers.” He said it would invert the relationship between citizens and the state and it would mean certain rights are conditional upon approval by the government. A national ID would be “sort of like the note you needed to get to go to the bathroom in school.” Calabrese said the Arizona immigration bill is a step in that direction.

The ACLU and more than 40 other organizations have publicly opposed the national ID proposal within Schumer and Graham’s immigration reform plan. But the entire proposal is still cloudy — the Post op-ed is the only concrete “plan” the senators have so far, and until the bill is actually introduced, no one really knows what to expect. It’s also unclear whether a national ID could face opposition from right-leaning anti-immigration groups.

Filed under: Concept Cars, Wagon, Mercedes-Benz, Beijing Motor Show

The shooting break (yes, it’s ‘break,’ not ‘brake’, according to M-B’s marketers) design isn’t something new – we’ve seen it before in smaller vehicles like the original BMW Z3 M Coupe. Today, though, Mercedes-Benz takes the shooting break concept one step further with the addition of two rear doors and a healthy dose of next-generation style. It’s the CLS Shooting Break Concept, folks. Think of this as the four-door coupe for the wagon segment.

The exterior design is awash with swoopy shapes that mimic both coupe and hatchback/wagon elements. Full LED headlamps and sharp 20-inch wheels round off the whole outside package, and if we’re honest, we really like it.

Under the hood lies a direct-injected 3.5-liter V6 capable of producing 306 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque (the exact same output as a Cadillac CTS, for what it’s worth). Mercedes-Benz hasn’t released estimates, but the automaker says that the concept car “sets new standards among the competition in terms of fuel consumption.”

Scroll through our gallery below to see live shots of the CLS Shooting Break Concept direct from the floor of the Beijing Motor Show.

Live photos by Sam Abuelsamid / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

Beijing 2010: Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break concept is the four-door coupe of wagons originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is Ubuntu’s week in FOSS and it is to stay this way till the launch of Ubuntu. Canonical has recently faced some problem relating to its flagship product Ubuntu which includes the next version. The version 10.04 of Ubuntu is around the corner and Ubuntu fans all over the world are gearing up for it.

News

• Ubuntu 10.04 RC Release

Canonical  has just released the RC of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This marks the release candidate indicating that the product is due in time. Ubuntu 10.04 RC has all the final features that the final version of Ubuntu 10.04 will have. Want to download the RC? Get it here.

• Memory Leak in X.Org on Ubuntu

This memory leak has resulted from a patch which was released to prevent GLX 1.4 crashes. Developers are unable to fix this and the GLX will possibly be rolled back to version 1.2. This problem is being considered urgent and is the top priority at Canonical right now. Read more at this post on Techie Buzz.

How To

• How to get a free Ubuntu 10.04 CD if you are from UK

Ubuntu shipit is open but apparently, it is not shipping out any CDs currently. Although, there is an alternative way to get free Ubuntu CDs if you are in the UK. OS Disks is giving out free Ubuntu CDs at their shop. Simply go to this page and order a free CD. It looks like a shopping portal but the CD is free to buy. Unfortunately, it works only for people in the UK. Read more at OmgUbuntu!.

We are nearing the Ubuntu release and will do a full coverage of its release, download and features. Stay tuned.

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