DARPA robo-bug to start bugging once bugs are worked out
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Harvard droid prof's flies undone Harvard boffins have achieved a significant milestone in their quest to build robot flies which could be used by the government to really bug people.â¦
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An introduction to using refactoring, unit testing and ZenTest on existing code.
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Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1 billion contract to an industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to build three robotic reconnaissance aircraft and a computer operating system to help fly them for the Air ...
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It may eat flies and stink to high heaven, but if this robot works, it will be an important step towards making robots fully autonomous.
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A software glitch has delayed the deployment of the new solar arrays recently installed by Atlantis astronauts on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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Human GIs to be pawns in deadly man-vs-machine chess game The scientists and engineers of DARPA (The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Pentagon's gateway to the technological left field, have struck again. The bulgy-bonced battle boffins have decided to sink some cash into an effort to develop a super-intelligent battle computer system which will enable US soldiers to be invincible in the field.â¦
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Blog: Many of the patches address flaws within QuickTime for Java.
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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Seiko Epson Corp. is developing a flying robot that looks like a miniature helicopter and is about the size of a giant bug. The company hopes it&#39;ll prove handy for security, disaster rescue and space exploration.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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Robocode is a Java programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen. The motto of Robocode is: Build the best, destroy the rest!   o Bugfix:   -- Fixed security flaw with the Event Dispatch Thread, where robots could use the SwingUtilities.invokeLater() for running any code they should like to.   -- Thanks goes to John Cleland who reported  this security flaw and provided some very good examples of robot that could do some nasty cheats.
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(InfoWorld) - Fortify SoftwareÂ and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects run audits of their source code using Fortify's source code analysis software and the University of Maryland's FindBugs tool. With developers focusing on more secure software development practices, the Java community needs more advanced bug-finding tools like JOR, said Barmak Meftah, vice president of product and services, with Fortify. "Everybody understands that the cheapest and easiest point to find and fix security bugs is at the time of implementation," he said. Open-source developers will now get the benefit of Fortify's Source Code Analysis software, which is already used by commercial vendors such as Oracle and Adobe Systems. But the free JOR analysis is not as detailed as one done by Fortify's commercial product. Fortify Source Code Analysis can find more than 120 categories of software security problems, Meftah said. The JOR analysis will detail about 40 categories, covering "the most egregious types of security vulnerabilities and the types that developers tend to understand most readily," he said. The details of the free source code analysis will be made available only to project contributors so that JOR cannot be used as a hacking tool, Meftah added. JOR has been working with a handful of open-source projects over the past six weeks and has discovered hundreds of bugs in applications like Tomcat, Zimbra and Java Pet Store. On Monday, the service will be opened up to any Java open-source projects that want to use it, Meftah said. Sun Microsystems already uses FindBugs for its GlassFish open-source application server software, said Geoff Halliwell, a manager of application server quality engineering with Sun. Though Sun has no immediate plans to audit its application server code with JOR, Halliwell said he would "certainly look at it." "In my business, we're always looking to improve," he said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple Computer will soon be a member of the "month of bugs" club. On Jan. 1, two security researchers will begin publishing details of a flood of security vulnerabilities in Apple's products.Â Their planÂ is to disclose one bug per day for the entire month, they said Tuesday. The project is being launched by an independent security researcher, Kevin Finisterre, and a hacker known as LMH, who declined to reveal his identity. Some of the bugs "might represent a significant risk," LMH said in an e-mail interview. "Others have a lower impact on security. We are trying to develop working exploits for every issue we find." The two hackers plan to disclose bugs in the Mac OS X kernel as well as in software such as Safari, iTunes, iPhoto and QuickTime, LMH said. Some of the bugs will also affect versions of Apple's software designed to run on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, he added. LMH was one of the brains behind the recent Month of Kernel Bugs project, which exposed flaws at the core of several different operating systems. It was inspired by an earlier effort, called the Month of Browser Bugs, which was kicked off in July. This latest Apple project is being launched to raise awareness of security vulnerabilities in Apple's products and to "stomp smugness," Finisterre said via e-mail. While the Macintosh is generally considered to be more secure than the Windows PC, many security researchers believe that this reputation is not attributable to any superior security practices on the part of Apple. They say attackers have been deterred by the Mac OS X's more secure Unix kernel and the product's less widespread adoption. Apple enthusiasts and security researchers have been at odds since last August, when David Maynor and Jon Ellch claimed to have discovered a flaw that affected Apple's wireless device drivers. They played a video at the Black Hat conference demonstrating how this flaw could be used to run unauthorized code on a MacBook. However, their claims have been slammed because the demonstration used a third-party wireless card rather than the one that ships with the MacBook, and because the two hackers still have not published the code used in their attack. LMH said the Apple community's negative response to Maynor and Ellch's claims played a role in the decision to launch the Month of Apple bugs. "I was shocked with the reaction of some so-called 'Apple fans,'" he said. "I can't understand why some people react badly to disclosure of issues in their system of choice. ... That helps to improve its security." A similar effort to disclose flaws in Oracle's software had to be abandoned before it was ever launched last month. The man behind the Week of Oracle bugs, Cesar Cerrudo, of Argeniss Information Security, said he pulled the plug when it became clear that the project could damage the relationship between one of his customers and Oracle. "This customer realized that they could have had serious business problems, so they changed their mind and asked to cancel it," he said via instant message on Tuesday. LMH said he didn't expect any legal problems from Apple. "I keep talking to a guy from the Apple security team and I'm willing to help whenever necessary," he said. "I'm far away from any illegal activity." Apple, for its part, did not seem to be upset with the project. "WeÂ always welcome feedback on how to improve security on the Mac," said Anuj Nayar, an Apple spokesman. Â
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eEye Digital Security has alerted Microsoft's bug team about a remote code vulnerabilityin Office 2007. Microsoft confirmed that  it's looking into the report.
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Developer launches a Month of PHP Bugs project with 11 bugs in five days.
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How often have you thrown up your hands in disgust at the poor quality of documentation for an open source project?  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if someone put together a documentation coverage tool that worked like test coverage too ls?  Well, you&#8217;re in luck&#8212;dcov is here (at least for Ruby code).