Catastrophic loss for unencumbered standards
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Most IT Managers won&#39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.
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Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.
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Vulnerability, rated as highly critical, could enable an attacker to compromise a user's machine.
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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Revisiting the lessons of Garry Kasparov's historic loss to an IBM computer.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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The leading vendors in the data warehousing market are running scared of new entrants to the market that are offering data warehouse appliances (i.e. pre-integrated hardware, software, storage combinations) that can offer greatly superior performance at a significantly lower price.  In this white paper we will dispel the 'fog of war' that currently pervades the data warehousing landscape, dismissing those question marks that are irrelevant and gratuitous, but highlighting any genuine issues that need to be addressed.
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The federal government is holding a competition for a new cryptographic hash function that will become the national standard. Really, this is exciting stuff. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Falls just shy of the magic number -- is it too much yet?
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Capable of zapping data many times faster than the common home networking technology, ultrawideband is moving closer to commercial reality. Now there's just that pesky fight over standards to resolve.
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The crash is coming. Here's how to beat it.
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be arduous -- and expensive. Here's the right (and wrong) way to do it.
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Here's a closer look at the list of commonsense consumer protections we often avoid
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.