As reported this week in Florida was the summit Ubuntu Developer. In this project, Mark Shuttleworth (the leader of a project to develop Ubuntu Linux) roadmep presented several options for the popular open source operating system.

According to sources the company Canonical, who provided technical support Ubuntu, the main point in the presentation of Mark Shuttleworth became rashirenie boundaries Ubuntu.

Large-scale warming and the growth of technological progress have made extraction of underground resources in the Arctic more accessible. And given the rise in such minerals as oil, the development of prospective oil fields, located on the Arctic Ocean, is becoming more real.

Most of the oil corporations have already staked out places that are smaller and get accustomed to the deeper regions. At some sites have already begun test drilling. Scientists are trying to develop alternative solutions to oil in the Arctic, because oil production in the harsh conditions in the Arctic, where serious danger, as the icebergs and pack ice, can lead to enormous environmental catastrophe. Norwegian professor Ove Gudmestad (University of Stavagere), a specialist in maritime technology, put forward a proposal to make its way through the tunnels oil fields are located horizontally, rather than the usual way (via vertical wells).

The specialists at Stanford University offered to create computers without hard drives. All the information they offer to keep in DRAM-memory, refusing also to all the existing solutions for the storage of files.

The university has created a project DRAMCloud, offering to use the memory of the set of servers to accelerate the normal information processes. However, hard drives, the project is still present, but only for storing backups. Completely abandon them will not work, since DRAM-memory loses all recorded information after a power failure. Yet the majority of operations will be carried out entirely in DRAM.

Corporation Parametric Technology Corp. summed up the 2011 fiscal year. The company’s revenues in the global market for the year grew by 15.8%, the same marginality was 17.7%. In Russia and CIS corporate revenue growth outstrips the growth of RTAs is much the rest of the company, the year it exceeded 50%.

Total revenues in fiscal year 2011 amounted to 341.3 million, operating margin – 22.7%. Corporate income RTS last year exceeded the overall growth of the market almost doubled. Market management business-class platforms, PLM (software solutions to optimize processes, ranging from conceptual design and finishing of the product withdrawal from service), according to analysts, the agency CIMdata, grew by 9.1%.

The company NSS Labs recently worked on a scanner that can detect drivers under the name of worm viruses. And recently in the press reported that they were able to open source software for the scanner, which detects all the drivers used by dangerous virus Duqu.

Professionals from other companies say that the whole work was useless, as hackers can easily bypass these codes. According to the company, the new scanner has been built on the modern system of recognition of viruses and could well be the basis for other antivirusnikov who are struggling with Duqu. Experts in the field of viruses suggested that the most likely virus Duqu closely linked to industrial worm, which is used to sabotage any industrial facilities.

For several decades, Olympus has suffered heavy losses. But making out a contract to purchase the company’s products, the consultants added to the document suspicious payments, under the guise of “consulting payments, which are associated with the absorption of the company.”

It turns out that the Japanese manufacturer of household appliances, including cameras and various medical devices such payments were trying to compensate losses and to cover the actual financial loss. This was the company officially admitted the press. On this occasion, an independent commission conducted its study.

The massive virus attacks continue and the recent target of attacks were the largest providers in Brazil. From the beginning, someone posted a DNS-Cache, which led to attacks by malicious programs of all network users.

Interestingly, the virus began to have effect only if the user wanted to go to the sites of Google, Gmail and Hotmail. The action of the malicious program was intended to replace the system providers write some legitimate domain names and ip-addresses on the dummy. A user who enters a query on the transition to the site, for example, Google.com got a resource that was needed to fraudsters, and in the address bar is prescribed to google.com. The virus spread through holes in the operating system Windows. At the same time it extended in an interesting way and infect all the computers that were connected to the ISP.