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• MICROSOFT - Successfully Challenges FBI
  on May 23, 2014 in FBI government surveillance internet Microsoft
  "Microsoft Successfully Challenges FBI Order For User Info" by Amy Lee, Cruxial 5/23/2014Documents related to Microsoft's successful challenge of a governmental request for information about one of the company's customers have been unsealed.The order...
• NET NEUTRALITY - A Myth?
  on May 23, 2014 in Huffington Post internet net neutrality
  "Net Neutrality Fans Aren't Going To Like This Chart" by Gerry Smith, Huffington Post 5/22/2014When news broke in February that streaming giant Netflix would pay Comcast for direct access to the cable company's broadband network, some experts said it...
• SUPERCOMPUTERS - Canonical and China Collaboration in Cloud Computing
  on May 19, 2014 in China cloud computing linux software super computers ubuntu
  "NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer" by Canonical 5/4/2014China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT , developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical , the organization behind Ubuntu, today a...
• SECURITY - Comic Book With a Cybersecurity Theme as a Teaching Tool
  on May 14, 2014 in children comic book cybersecurity education PBS-Newshour
  "‘Cynja’ battles botnets and other cyber-scourges" by Larisa Epatko, PBS NewsHour 5/12/2014The PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan speaks to co-authors Chase Cunningham and Heather Dahl about their new comic book, “The Cynja”.Fictional charact...
• LINUX - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  on May 5, 2014 in laptop linux ubuntu
  The latest Linux Distribution of Ubuntu is 14.04 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).  Note LTS = Long Term Service, which means five years of security and maintenance updates, guaranteed.I upgraded (in place, via Ubuntu Software Update) from Ubuntu 13.10 with n...
• INTERNET - FCC Goes For Non-Neutrality
  on Apr 25, 2014 in FCC internet net neutrality New York Times PBS-Newshour
  Consumers, bend over and spread cheeks."F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic" by EDWARD WYATT, New York Times 4/23/2014ExcerptThe principle that all Internet content should be treated equally as it flows through cables and pipes to co...
• INTERNET - Comments as Venues For Rudeness or Insults
  on Apr 21, 2014 in internet PBS-Newshour privacy
  "Taming the ‘Wild West’ of online comments" PBS NewsHour 4/20/2014ExcerptSUMMARY:  More and more websites are including online commenting as a feature for their visitors.  But sometimes the comment boards become venues for rudeness and...
• SECURITY - Heartbleed Hacks SSL Security Servers
  on Apr 10, 2014 in cybersecurity data security hacking PBS-Newshour pc security SSL
  Heartbleed hacks into the SSL protocol that protects HTTPS sites."Security bug Heartbleed could have provided key that unlocks personal online data" PBS NewsHour 4/9/2014ExcerptGWEN IFILL (NewsHour):  You may have heard headlines today about a m...
• WINDOWS XP - The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)
  on Apr 9, 2014 in Microsoft Updates pc security win xp
  Now that SECURITY support for ordinary users of Windows XP is ended, here's an alternative way to protect WinXP.Note that Microsoft Updates (which you should be using instead of Windows Updates) will still update some Microsoft software, like the "Ma...
• on Mar 26, 2014 in Microsoft MS-DOS operating system
  "Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public" by Roy Levin (Microsoft Research), Official Microsoft Blog 3/25/2014On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows.  W...

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