Mac News: 55″ Apple LCD TV for about $2,000 seen as matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if’
Recent information from component suppliers and comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook have further increased one analyst’s confidence that Apple will unveil a television set late this year and launch it in the first half of 2013.
Read full story => AppleInsider
Technology News: All your .lol are belong to Google
ICANN’s application window for top-level domains closed today, and Google wrote a blog post announcing they had applied for a couple choice TLDs. While the list of requested suffixes has not been published in full yet, Google gave hints about which dot-whatevers it hopes to purchase.
Read full story => ars technica
Programming News: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails (CVE-2012-2661) – Ruby on Rails: Security
There is a SQL injection vulnerability in Active Record, version 3.0 and later. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2012-2661.
Read full story => google groups
Other News: Andromeda galaxy to hit Milky Way in 4 billion years
Hubble space telescope observations suggest that the large Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way in about 4 billion years.
“The Milky Way has had a lot of small mergers, but this indeed will be unprecedented,”
says astronomer Rosemary Wyse of Johns Hopkins University, speaking at a NASA briefing.
Read full story => USAtoday