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Linux: MS Plans Low-Cost Windows for Brazil |
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timothy
on Tuesday April 12, @10:36PM
from the cut-rate-low-budget dept.
Atryn writes "According to this C|NET article, Microsoft is planning to release its XP Starter Edition in Brazil. Could the pressure of Brazil's overtures toward Linux be forcing Microsoft Brasil to compete?"
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Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication |
Posted by
timothy
on Tuesday April 12, @07:18PM
from the mislaid-claims dept.
ackthpt writes "Gordon Moore's famous prediction, labeled Moore's Law, was originally published in the April 19, 1965 issued of Electronics. Sometime since, he lent out his copy and it has never been returned. Intel would like an original copy of the now defunct magazine and is offering $10,000 for a copy, presumably in good condition. The story is carried on Reuters, and if you happen to have a copy (of your own, not stolen from a museum or library) you may contact Intel via eBay's WantItNow."
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Linux: New Linux Distros Insecure by Default? |
Posted by
timothy
on Tuesday April 12, @07:17PM
from the no-good-down-that-road dept.
An anonymous reader submits Two articles on Codefez and NewsForge review releases of Linspire 5.0 and Linare. Both these distributions let the user run as Root by default after installation, and don't prompt to set up a user ID. Is this a start of a new trend of 'dumbed down' Linux distributions that will damage the Linux reputation for security?"
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IBM Says its Future is in Services, Not Goods |
Posted by
Zonk
on Tuesday April 12, @03:56PM
from the shift-the-para-digum dept.
TFGeditor writes "An article at Technology Review quotes IBM exec Paul Horn saying that the company's business model is shifting from goods and products to software and services. From the article: 'Horn's challenge, then, has been to take a $6 billion research organization dedicated to work that advances technology products and get it to do work that benefits service businesses. IBM is thus in the process of answering an important question for all technology companies: can corporations perform useful research in the services arena?'"
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Posted by
Zonk
on Tuesday April 12, @01:16PM
from the when-it-rains dept.
Rollie Hawk writes "Worldwide law and news sifter LexisNexis has some bad news of its own this time. Actually, "bad" might sharply understate the situation.
More than a month after disclosing information on a database breach that led to 32,000 customer IDs being stolen, the results of an internal review showed that in fact the damage was nearly ten times worse than previously thought.
LexisNexis is already "offering free support services, including credit bureau reports, credit monitoring for one year and fraud insurance" to the nearly 300,000 additional victims it will soon be contacting, according to a Reed Elsevier statement to the Regulatory News Service. So far, no identity thefts have been reported by earlier victims, at least some of whom had private information such as addresses and Social Security numbers unwittingly divulged."
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Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday April 11, @09:49PM
from the slow-treacle dept.
TheBackBencher writes "Scientific American today has a very interesting article about "Stopping
Spam" by Joshua
Goodman, David
Hackerman and Robert Rounthwaite from Microsoft Research. They talk about different types of spam -- spam with emails, spam on IMs, spamlinks
on web pages and image based spam. They mention different techniques for
spam filtering mainly fingerprinting matching techniques, n grams model,
naive bayesian approach, optical character recognition, challenge/response systems and Human Interacted Proofs (HIP) in a very lucid style. They however do not mention fingerprinting approach of using Nilsimsa Hash to
tackle addition of random words by spammers in emails or hypertextus interruptus technique used
by spammers of splitting words using HTML comments, pairs of zero width tags,
or bogus tags. Also, Spam-Research is reporting the
SplitFit
Technique that Spammers are using to fool Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard."
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Posted by
timothy
on Monday April 11, @04:20PM
from the google-thyself dept.
Corey Nachreiner writes "Until recently, I considered myself a Google power-user; so much so that I often call Google my "second brain." Whenever I stumble upon a computing dilemma I can't solve, I submit an advanced query to my second brain, Google, and let it supply the answers. That's why I was So There when Johnny Long released his recent book, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers. I heard Johnny's lively, light-hearted presentation to a packed house at the BlackHat Briefings last summer in Las Vegas. It was the hit of the show, but in one hour he could only present a few of his startling findings about Google hacking. After reading Johnny's book, I've learned a ton more and realized I wasn't quite as Google-savvy as I thought. As with my real brain, I've only been using about ten percent of my Google-brain's capacity." Read on for the rest of Nachreiner's review.
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AOL and XM Joining Forces for Online Radio |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Monday April 11, @09:25AM
from the refresh-my-station dept.
Josh writes "BetaNews is reporting that AOL and XM are joining forces to make available 20 XM music channels plus 130 of its own available to anyone on the internet for free starting this summer. AOL members will have free broadband access to 70 XM channels, although apparently there are plans for a $5/month option for non-subscribers. The deal means AOL Music specials will make it onto XM's channels, and XM promos will be heard across AOL Music's properties."
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People are More Accepting of Spam |
Posted by
Zonk
on Monday April 11, @04:45AM
from the yuck dept.
twitter writes "Many news organizations are reflecting the opinion of Pew Internet and American Life Project staffer Deborah Fallows that '...email users say they are receiving slightly more spam in their inboxes than before, but they are minding it less.' I think that's an odd conclusion to draw. You would expect the number of people using email less because of spam to decrease to zero quickly when 25% of the population say they avoid email! To their credit, they point out that CAN-SPAM has done nothing to help." The Reuters blurb about this study has a syopsis of their findings.
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Posted by
Zonk
on Sunday April 10, @04:37AM
from the odd-thing-to-boast-about dept.
Ant writes "ZDNet UK reports that Russians who once hacked for fun are now teaming up to get rich through cybercrime, according to police. The Russian cybercrime division, known as Department K, has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world. From the article: 'Everyone knows that Russians are good at math...Our software writers are the best in the world, that's why our hackers are the best in the world.'"
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