Les Russes ont remporté leur premier titre européen en battant les Glasgow Rangers (2-0), le 14 mai à Manchester. Une victoire méritée face à des Ecossais trop timorés pour espérer créer la surprise.

La cérémonie d'ouverture qui marque le lancement officiel de cette manifestation cinématographique s'est déroulée dans une atmosphère teintée d'émotion, mercredi 14 mai.

Le projet de loi, rejeté mardi à l'Assemblée, a finalement été approuvé par la commission mixte paritaire, mercredi. L'opposition a quitté la réunion, dénonçant "un simulacre de discussion".

Deux jours après le séisme qui a officiellement fait près de 15 000 morts, plusieurs dizaines de milliers de personnes sont toujours portées disparues ou coincées sous les décombres des bâtiments détruits.

Proches de DSK, fabiusiens, fidèles de François Hollande ou membres d'importantes fédérations départementales, ils visent le même objectif à six mois du congrès du Parti socialiste, qui se tiendra à Reims.

Malgré la démonstration de force du Hezbollah, la démission du gouvernement de Fouad Siniora est très peu probable, estime le politologue Joseph Bahout.

Ces boutiques qui permettent de se connecter à Internet disparaissent peu à peu. La généralisation de l'ordinateur à domicile ainsi que la démocratisation de la connexion WiFi sont à l'origine de ce déclin.

Proclamé le 14 mai 1948, l'Etat d'Israël s'est considérablement transformé en soixante ans. L'idéal de la "nouvelle frontière" a vécu.

Lors d'une conférence de presse, mercredi, la joueuse belge, très émue, a déclaré ne plus avoir la motivation nécessaire pour continuer.

Dans un chat sur Le Monde.fr, Hélène Périvier, économiste à l'OFCE, estime qu'un ensemble de politiques volontaristes doivent être menées pour mettre fin aux inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes sur le marché du travail.

Red Hat Magazine reviews KDE 4 as seen on Fedora 9. "Those who remember the days of KDE or GNOME 2.0 won't be disappointed at the current state. Today's new audience might have different expectations, and it is unlikely the majority has the patience to deal with a major rewrite like this one. Even the Linux kernel has moved towards incremental progress over major rewrites in a development branch. The KDE project has taken a big risk, hoping to jump-start innovation. I hope they get it right. Along with the interesting acquisition of Trolltech by Nokia, the future is exciting and uncertain... and that's just the way I like it."

CentOS has updated libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated gforge (temporary file vulnerability) and openssh (openssl vulnerability fallout).
Gentoo has updated cdf (buffer overflow) and libid3tag (denial of service).
Mandriva has sent out a general advisory warning Mandriva users to be on the lookout for weak keys originating from Debian-based systems.
Red Hat has updated libvorbis (RHEL2, RHEL3-5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated openvpn (openssl vulnerability fallout), ssl-cert (more openssl fallout), and openssh (you guessed it: openssl fallout).

While distributed source code management tools are now in widespread use, bug tracking remains a highly centralized task. This article looks at some projects which are trying to change that situation through the creation of distributed bug tracking systems. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.

InformationWeek reports on an increase in attacks against SSH servers. "The paper focuses on the vulnerability of Linux systems to brute- force SSH attacks... 'Linux systems face a unique threat of compromise from brute-force attacks against SSH servers that may be running without the knowledge of system owners/operators. Many Linux distributions install the SSH service by default, some without the benefit of an effective firewall.'"

Ivan Krstić has a strongly worded essay about OLPC, education, and free software. He has a great deal to say about the history and future of the project that could only come from an insider. "The whole 'we're investing into Sugar, it'll just run on Windows' gambit is sheer nonsense. Nicholas knows quite well that Sugar won't magically become better simply by virtue of running on Windows rather than Linux. In reality, Nicholas wants to ship plain XP desktops. He's told me so. That he might possibly fund a Sugar effort to the side and pay lip service to the notion of its 'availability' as an option to purchasing countries is at best a tepid effort to avert a PR disaster."

Late last week I had the pleasure of talking with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields. Our conversation covered a range of Fedora Project topics, including Fedora 9, the latest Fedora release. Click below, subscribers only, to get the FPL view of Fedora.

Computerworld talks with Ian Murdock at JavaOne. "What do you do at Sun? I see the OpenSolaris project seems to fall onto your plate. Initially, I was working on OpenSolaris and started Project Indiana, which culminated this week [with] the first version of the OpenSolaris binary distribution. These days, I am running the developer and community marketing organization, so I am responsible for marketing Sun's developer tools, the developer programs like Sun Developer Network and Tech Days Events, our open- source projects and communities. [Also, I do marketing for] StarOffice, OpenOffice, Network.com. So basically anything that relates to the developer community in some way, I run the marketing piece of that."

GNOME 2.22.1 is now available for Slackware 12.1, with the release of SlackBuild GNOME 2.22.1. "There have been a lot of improvements in this latest GSB release, including the move to PulseAudio, fewer package replacements, a GNOME-integrated Compiz-Fusion setup, the latest NetworkManager, Abiword 2.6, and OpenOffice2.4 built for GNOME, a richer Mono C# suite, as well as all the great features of GNOME 2.22."