A chaque fois, la même impression contradictoire. L'intérêt face au témoignage brut. La gêne face à la violence de l'intimité violée. L'instantanéité de la vie qui déboule dans l'univers codé, ritualisé, maîtrisé du procès d'assises. Au procès de Jacques Viguier, ces moments là rythment l'audience depuis que le président Jacques Richiardi - un grand, j'en reparlerai ...

Ce licenciement, annoncé par "Libération", intervient alors qu'un plan de restructuration, très mal accueilli parmi le personnel hospitalier, prévoit la suppression de 5 000 emplois dans les trois prochaines années.

Les ventes de tabac sont reparties à la hausse en 2009 tandis que les ventes de traitements pour arrêter de fumer ont baissé.

Le premier ministre a fait cette annonce lors d'un meeting de soutien à l'UMP à Nantes.

Depuis la révision à la hausse de son déficit public en novembre, le pays a perdu la confiance des marchés et ses partenaires se divisent quant aux solutions à apporter.

Deux mariages entre hommes avaient déjà été célébrés en Argentine, mais en vertu d'une décision de justice et non pas de la loi, qui précise que le mariage est contracté "entre un homme et une femme".

Quatre députés de la majorité de centre droit ont désobéi à la consigne de leurs partis et voté en faveur de la motion, permettant son adoption surprise.

Ces chercheurs auraient réussi à déterminer à quel événement spécifique passé des personnes pensaient en examinant l'activité de leur cerveau.

Le personnel des crèches, en grève jeudi, redoute "une dégradation des dispositifs existants, au détriment des besoins fondamentaux des enfants".

Plus de vingt civils ont été tués jeudi à Mogadiscio, au deuxième jour des combats entre forces gouvernementales et  insurgés islamistes shebab.

The H reports that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps, formerly Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors. "As a director, Phipps hopes to help the organisation change so that it becomes more member-oriented, more active in promoting open source in education, in policy development and possibly in organisational support for open source projects; "My goal as a Director will be to facilitate that change, a change that is already well under way following recent face to face discussions and the great work that Andrew Oliver and Danese Cooper have already put in"."

This year's Embedded Linux Conference, which will be held in San Francisco April 12-14, has announced that its program is now available. The keynote speakers will be Greg Kroah-Hartman ("Android: a Case Study of an Embedded Linux Project") and Matt Asay ("Embedded in 2010: an End to the Entropy?") along with a whole slate of over 50 presentations, tutorials, and BoFs.
"This is your chance to meet leading developers from the embedded Linux community, and learn about the latest changes in Linux.
Also, you can talk to engineers working on real products at some of the largest CE companies in the world, describing how they solved real issues in their own development projects." Click below for the full announcement.

Dave Phillips looks at arpeggiators for Linux. "An arpeggio is a musical technique whereby the notes of a chord are played in succession rather than all at once. The order of the chord notes in this succession may follow a strict set of rules or they may be played in purely random sequence. A device that acts upon a chord in this manner is known as an arpeggiator."

Debian has updated kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), dpkg (path traversal), and kernel (privilege escalation, denial of service).
Fedora has updated F12: samba (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated virtualbox (unspecified vulnerability) and squid (denial of service).
Slackware has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated apache (multiple vulnerabilities) and dpkg (path traversal).

Over at CNET, Stephen Shankland has a fairly lengthy interview with Canonical's new CEO Jane Silber. "But is there more urgency about profit now? Silber: There is a sense of great opportunity right now. When we started Ubuntu in year one, we didn't put a strong push on trying to sell Canonical services, not because we were not interested, but it's hard to build a business around selling services around an operating system that nobody is using. We knew we needed to gain a user base and momentum before we could sell services. That user base is now there. There is urgency and momentum around that at a level we hadn't necessarily seen in the first couple years."

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 11, 2010 is available.

The SCO case has long since dropped off the radar for most. It is worth noting, though, that the Novell "slander of title" trial is now underway in Utah. Groklaw has detailed coverage of the testimony thus far. "Why did Novell slander SCO's title? Because of Linux. Linux started as a hobbyist tool. It's open source; 'nobody can be completely sure where the code comes from'. Starting around 2000, IBM inserted into Linux stuff that belonged to SCO. SCO sued, and started their licensing program (SCOsource). Novell stated that SCO doesn't have the copyrights and can't sue IBM."

Debian has updated tdiary (cross-site scripting).
Fedora has updated samba (F11: filesystem access privilege escalation).
Mandriva has updated php (two safe_mode bypass vulnerabilities).