This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

Here are the details of the Hacker Public Radio new year’s party.

This week’s security alerts are researcher owns network when victim simply opens email and new possible SHA1 weakness.

In this week’s news, Cambridge to open a center to study long term risks of AI, MIT’s latest re-configurable robot, kickstarting a more realistic movie about hackers, and a new tool for running Os X binaries on Linux.

Following up this week, six strikes regime delayed until next year and UK ISPs block and then unblock The Pirate Bay’s perfectly legal promo site.

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