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Memorial service for former GM design boss Chuck Jordan is Friday

A memorial service for Chuck Jordan, design chief at General Motors from 1986 to 1992, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at the GM Heritage Center in suburban Detroit.

Court order BANS publication of VW’s Luxury car security codes

Bentley is just one of VW’s marques whose security has been compromised There have been plenty of stories around in recent years of car makers’ security systems being easily hacked by spotty boys with a laptop, and now a scientist at Birmingham University has cracked VW’s Megamos Crypto system that protects cars like Bentley and Porsche. Flavia Garcia has cracked the code that transmits between VW’s luxury cars – like Bentleys and Porsches – and the key fob, which potentially fatally compromises VW’s security. Garcia had planned to publish his paper on the fatal flaws in the Megamos Crypto system at the Usenix Security Symposium in Washington next month, but a judge has put the kybosh on that.

Subaru Impreza Cosworth – Cosworth Impreza STI CS400 – announced

This is as much as you're going to see of the Cosworth Impreza for now You always know that when a production car gets the Cosworth moniker added you should be able to count on a more than useful increase in performance. Just look what the Cosworth Sierras and Escorts could do in comparison to their more prosaic siblings, and you have an idea of what Cosworth should be able to do with an Impreza. But the Impreza already has some more than fettled performance versions you can stroll in to your Subaru dealers and walk away with, so just what will a Cossie Scooby offer that the Impreza doesn’t already deliver?