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Hackers plan global game of 'capture the flag'
News Online attackers will take on one another in a massive Internet exercise. Could it spill out into the real world?
Tags: Hacking
Intel, Microsoft plough US$20M into multicore research
News Chip giant and software titan are united by a need for better ways of allowing software to take advantage of machines with many processor cores.
Tags: Processors, R&D
Yahoo plans Web-broadcast finance show
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US Justice Dept: Google's book settlement needs rewrite
News Concerns about Google's settlement with book authors are valid, the Department of Justice said in a filing with the court overseeing the settlement. But things could change.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, antitrust, Computer & Communications Industry Association, copyright law, U.S. District Court, agreement
Another team joins race to advance chip software
News Stanford University joins race to advance chip software to increase performance per watt.
Tags: Processors, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Multi-core, Chip, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, processor, professor, Stanford University
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk
News Attackers access public health center Web site, then break into secured databases on the same server, stealing some 97,000 Social Security numbers.
Tags: Hacking, University, Database, health service, computer, Server, insurance, health insurance, Web Site, health care
Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News Automatically generated exploit code from reverse-engineered patches can be countered with centralized configuration management, says the Sans Institute.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Corp., software company, Patch, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, software, patch management
HP makes memory from a once theoretical circuit
News Several decades ago, a Berkeley professor said there should be a circuit that can remember what's happened to it. Now, HP is showing it actually exists.
Tags: Processors, Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Chip, Cloud Computing, Memory, intellectual property, Oxygen, hard drive, chip designer
Microsoft's Gazelle browser takes a radical path
News Helen Wang, researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle, discusses the effort to make the browser more like an operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Web sites, Web services, Web Browser, operating system, Web Application, computer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Redmond
Netbook sales keep Quanta competitive
News Netbook sales have kept Quanta afloat in the downturn. But the Taiwanese electronics maker is looking to cloud computing for new PC sales.
Tags: Cloud computing, Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Acer Inc., PC Company, Sales, Cloud computing, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Inventec, Laptop Computer
Legal advocates push for Google Books privacy
News American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and UC Berkeley Law Clinic ask Google to protect reader privacy with its Book Search project.
Tags: Digital media, Google Inc., Privacy, American Civil Liberties Union, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eric Schmidt, U.S.
More questions than answers on Google Books
News Google insists it has the best of intentions following its settlement with book rights holders, but there is a strong undercurrent of distrust in the publishing community.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, Settlement, Class Action, financial, knowledge, asset, University of California at Berkeley, director, Data Management
Google Book settlement faces legal assault
News The Google Books settlement has not only brought new attention to the issue of orphaned works. It's also brought a set of legal attempts to derail it.
Tags: Copyright, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Consumer Watchdog, Settlement, Work, Books, California, U.S. Congress, Copyright
Fiber cut hobbles SETI@home
News The servers used to coordinate the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence via members' PCs have been rendered inaccessible.
Visa deals with possible data breach
News Credit card giant says financial institutions have been asked to protect affected customers via fraud monitoring or by reissuing cards.
Tags: Data security, Security
