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Massive Botnet 'indestructible,' Say Researchers
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is "practically indestructible," security researchers say. "TDL-4," the name for both the...
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'hadoop Alternative' to Be Open Sourced
LexisNexis will open source its HPCC Systems supercomputing platform and offer developers an alternative to the Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing...
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Justices Question Microsoft's Vision of Patent Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether they should side with Microsoft and weaken the legal standard needed to invalidate a patent, with some justices...
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Iranian General Accuses Siemens of Helping .s., Israel Build Stuxnet
An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his...
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Ibm's Watson Not As Smart As You Think
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...
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Multicore Coding Standards Aim to Ease Programming
The Multicore Association has established specifications for a programming model designed to make it easier to write software for multicore chips, particularly...
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Yahoo Working on Hadoop Mapreduce 2
The next generation of Apache Hadoop will likely be released this year, says Yahoo!'s Todd Papaioannou. Apache Hadoop enables batch processing of petabytes of...
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Big Data to Drive a Surveillance Society
As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits, and locations...
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The Clock Is Ticking on Encryption
Cracking encrypted messages can take a very long time using existing technology. However, researchers warn that quantum computers eventually could make cracking...
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Python 3.2 Tweaked For Parallel Development
Python's developers plan to offer greater support for writing multithreaded applications in the 3.2 version of the open source programming language. The pre-release...
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Google Wave May Become an Apache Project
Google Wave's developers have submitted the software to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), making it a candidate to become a Podling included in the Apache Incubator...
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Top Software Designer Promotes '21st Century' Techniques
At the recent QCon software development conference, ThoughtWorks chief scientist Martin Fowler hailed concepts such as domain specific languages, continuous integration...
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Tablet, Phone Software Developers Face Multicore Challenge
Industry experts at the recent Linley Tech Processor conference said that writing applications for mobile devices could become more challenging as central processing...
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Regulators Blame Computer Algorithm for Stock Market 'Flash Crash'
A new report calls the May 6 stock market flash crash the responsibility of an automated trade execution system that inundated the Chicago Exchange's e-trading...
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HTML5 May Help Web Pages Talk, Listen
A new World Wide Web Consortium project could lead to the incorporation of voice recognition and speech synthesis interfaces within Web pages.
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Ready for 2020? Advice for Every Career Stage
Information technology has always been a fast-changing field. But nothing compares to the expected sea changes in the next decade that will impact the career...
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Web Could Be Stylized By New W3c Font Platform
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the Web Open File Format (WOFF), compression technology that will provide a...
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Robots as the Next Big Industry?
Although a lot of artificial intelligence (AI) research has moved away from robotics and into creating algorithms for business intelligence, finance, the Web, and...
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Sony Says 535,000 Vaio Laptops at Risk of Overheating
More than half a million Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said. A bug in the...
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