Macworld 2008 Stevenote Highlights Leaked on Wikipedia
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A list of highlights for Tuesday's Stevenote were leaked on Wikipedia. Announcements include an official iPhone SDK unveiling, a 16-GB iPhone, a 13-inch, black and silver 0.8-inch thick redesigned MacBook and direct YouTube for Apple TV.
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Amyloo was digging around the NY Times code weblog and found this OPML file, weighing in at a monstrous 3.3MB that contains some mysterious but rich data about the NY Times and a guide to using the Times to cover special topics that I don't think anyone outside the Times knew existed, but there it is, in a public folder, so lets have a look.  1. There are 10522 top-level headlines. There's no structure to the OPML, it's absolutely flat. Here's an HTML rendering of the list: timestopics.html.  2. It's a subscription list. Each item has four attributes, type, title, htmlUrl and xmlUrl.  3. The htmlUrl for each element points to a page of stories for the topic. For example, here's a page of stories about table tennis. On that page is a link to an RSS 2.0 feed containing the same information.  4. The xmlUrl links for at least some of the elements are broken, the error appears to be very simple, if you replace the ampersand with a question mark, it works.  If you look around at the topics you'll see it's an incredibly rich set of data. Here are just some of the topics that begin with the letter T: Tableware, Taste, Tattoos, Tax Credits, Tax Evasion, Taxation, Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers, Tea, Teachers and School Employees, TED Conference News, Teflon, Telephones and Telecommunications, Television, Television Sets, Table Tennis, Terra Cotta, Terrorism, Tests and Testing, Textbooks, Thanksgiving Day.
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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Technology News, SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is suing anonymous people who leaked details about new products by posting information on the Internet, court documents showed on Friday.
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Wired News is blinded by the flash of this year's biggest imaging and photography show. Don't miss David Becker's exhaustive coverage from the floor in Las Vegas. In Gadget Lab.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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What to make of the Macworld keynote, where the line is between geeky interest and geeky obsession.... What are the things that tie us all together as geeks? Plus, a song! Enjoy!
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Mike Elgan details what we learned from an employee training book leak and Steve Jobs' Worldwide Developers Conference keynote speech.
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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Mac fans, brace for impact: The annual speculation about what Steve Jobs has up his sleeve is already at full throttle. At the top of the rumor mill's leaderboard? A very small subnotebook.
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Blog: Someone has uploaded the beta copy of Apple's Leopard Mac OS X handed out at WWDC to a file-sharing site. You're not supposed to do that.
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Also: New modular Hummer 'more animalistic,' 'eco-friendlier'. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Search headlines from around the web, December 29, 2004.
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(InfoWorld) - The beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that Apple handed out to developers June 11 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has leaked to the Internet and is being downloaded by users of PirateBay, the Swedish torrent tracker. Last Monday, CEO Steve Jobs spent most of this 90-minute WWDC keynote address touting the upcoming OS, which is set for release in October. Eight days later, the beta labeled build "9A466" was uploaded to PirateBay. The first upload on Tuesday didn't take -- there was only one "seeder," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file -- but the second yesterday is being downloaded and assembled, according to comments left by numerous users. As of late yesterday, only four seeders were available, with 181 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. By 3 p.m. today EDT, however, the numbers had climbed to 44 seeders and more than 1,500 leechers. The beta was also posted to the private, invitation-only torrent tracker Oink yesterday, according to CrunchGear, a tech blog. But when CrunchGear exposed the leak, Oink pulled the beta. That sent downloaders into a verbal rage during which they vented their collective spleens at the blogger who outed Oink. "Go [expletive deleted] yourself you [expletive deleted] rat," ranted one. Based on the PirateBay listing, the Leopard 9A466 beta weighs in at a bit more than 6GB. But the exact byte count worried a user tagged as "konelli." "It's definitely not my intention to spoil the party, but how do we know that this is the real thing? Last time I checked, the WWDC version was supposed to be 6.94GB (or 7,450,640,384 bytes). This is, well, less. Has anybody finished downloading who could confirm that this is genuine?" Apple was asked if it planned to pursue the person or persons who leaked the build to BitTorrent, or what actions it might take against PirateBay. It did not immediately respond with comment, however. The first question is especially important in light of past history. The last time an under-development version of Mac OS X ended up on BitTorrent, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker brought out its lawyers. In December 2004, Apple sued three men, as well as 25 others identified only as "Does," for releasing a developer preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, via the BitTorrent file-sharing network. All three were members of the company's own Developer Connection, Apple claimed, and had illegally leaked their copies of Tiger. But after several Apple notables, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, pleaded for leniency in blogs and other online postings, Apple backed off a bit. During a 10-month span from March to December 2005, Apple signed a settlement with the three named defendants: students Vivek Sambhara, David Schwartzstein, and David Steigerwald. Each promised to never again release information about the company or its products, while media accounts reported that Schwartzstein and Steigerwald also distributed repentant statements and paid damages to Apple. "We are pleased that Mr. Steigerwald has taken responsibility for his actions and that we can put this lawsuit behind us," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the Associated Press in March 2005 after the company settled with David Steigerwald, then a 22-year-old North Carolina college student.
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For the second year running, security researcher Kurt Grutzmacher has found a way to get a free &quot;Platinum&quot; pass to the MacWorld Conference &amp; Expo, being held in San Francisco this week.Thanks to a design flaw in the conference&#39;s Web site, he was able to figure out the special promotional code and award himself a 100 percent discount when purchasing the show&#39;s most expensive pass .The problem was that the site was downloading an encrypted version of the promotional codes to the browser so that it could check for discounts before passing data to MacWorld&#39;s Web server. Site developers may have done this to reduce the time it takes to process conference applications, but in doing so they introduced a serious security vulnerability, Grutzmacher said.Although the promotional codes were encrypted, Grutzmacher used a password-cracking tool called John the Ripper to break the encryption and see the discount codes. &quot;I was very surprised it worked,&quot; he said in an e-mail interview.That&#39;s because it was the same technique that yielded a Platinum pass for the 2007 show . At that time, the show&#39;s promoter, IDG World Expo, &quot;removed all the codes, fixed the site, and said thanks,&quot; Grutzmacher said in a Monday blog posting showing how he cracked the site. &quot;I gave them a few tips (don&#39;t trust user input, don&#39;t give your secret codes to everyone, encryption is not one-way, etc). Did they listen? Nope.&quot;Grutzmacher ran his test in the weeks prior to the show, and the code he obtained stopped working on Jan. 7, he said.Show representatives were not immediately available to comment.The security penetration tester went down to San Francisco&#39;s Moscone Center on Monday to print up his pass, just to see if his trick worked, but he didn&#39;t actually use it to visit the show. &quot;That would be very unethical,&quot; he said.Had he made use of the US$1,895 pass, however, Grutzmacher could have had a free lunch, access to sessions at the conference, entry into the MacWorld party and priority access to Steve Jobs&#39; keynote on Tuesday.&quot;Justin,&quot; a commentator on Grutzmacher&#39;s blog, said he reported a similar bug to IDG in 2003.Grutzmacher said that this is probably not the last we&#39;ll hear of this problem. &quot;I suspect we&#39;ll see this again in 2009,&quot; he said.The MacWorld Conference &amp; Expo is run by IDG Wold Expo, an IDG News Service affiliate.
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The 2008 Macworld Stevenote is less than 24-hours away. We'll be live-blogging every word that escapes from Steve Jobs' mouth, so bookmark this page now. Festivities begin at 9 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday.
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If youâre attending Macworld 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco less than two weeks from today, you may also want to participate in the seventh annual Macworld Final Cut Pro User Group Supermeet. Scheduled for Wednesday, January 16, it features presentations by Apple, Adobe, SONY, Blackmagic Design, and a variety of Bay Area filmmakers.