Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums? 2012 saw a surge of sentiment in the press and blogosphere that we should think of programming as a vital ...
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Cyber extortionists shilling "ransomware" have upped the ante by pushing users' panic buttons with claims that their malware will wipe hard drives, a security firm said Monday. The claim is bogus, said Symantec, and is simply a ploy by ...
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Google on Friday said Chrome 25, now in development, automatically blocks browser add-ons installed on the sly by other software. The measure mimics what rival Mozilla did for Firefox over a year ago. Auto-blocking has already appeared ...
Linux operating system vendor Canonical has unveiled a mobile version of its Ubuntu operating system which, it says, will be available from 2014. Ubuntu for Phones is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Unity user interface that ...
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IDG News Service-Oracle researchers are"winding down"development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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IDG News Service-Continuing its push to virtualize all aspects of the data center,VMware is acquiring software-defined networking firm Nicira for$1.26 billion,the companies announced Monday. "I believe we have the same opportunity to do ...
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Computerworld-Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser,Firefox 18,touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution"Retina"displays. Firefox 18 is currently slated to ship in final ...
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Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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Network World-Canonical QA coordinator Nicholas Skaggs announced that the company's popular Linux-based operating system,Ubuntu,would be moving to a substantially different release schedule. MORE LINUX:Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the ...
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IDG News Service-Security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec have uncovered a piece of malware that uses Google Docs,which is now part of Google Drive,as a bridge when communicating with attackers in order to hide the malicious ...
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A group of hackers on Thursday published a list of over 453,000 log-in credentials on the Internet that were allegedly stolen from a database associated with an unnamed Yahoo service. The group of hackers calls itself "the D33Ds Company" ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from Australian security ...
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IDG News Service - AT&T has reversed its decision to allow Apple iPhone and iPad owners to use Apple's FaceTime videoconferencing application only on the carrier's most expensive data plans or if they are connected to Wi-Fi. AT&T on ...
The next version of Microsoft Office is complete and will start to reach enterprise customers next month, with general availability planned for early next year, Microsoft said Thursday. The Office engineering team marked the "release to ...
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Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
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