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• Google discloses unpatched Windows vulnerability

  02-01-2015 22:40
  
  A Google researcher has disclosed an unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1 after Microsoft didn’t fix the problem within a 90-day window Google gave its competitor.The disclosure of the bug on Google’s security research website early this week stirred up a debate about whether outing the vulnerability was appropriate.The bug allows low-level Windows users to become administrators in some cases, but some posters on the Google site said the company should have kept its mouth shut. Google s
  
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• White House approves sanctions against North Korea for Sony hack

  02-01-2015 22:30
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized new economic sanctions against North Korea, in part for the country’s alleged hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in November, the White House said.Even though some security researchers have questioned whether North Korea was behind the Sony hack, the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday announced sanctions against 10 North Koreans and three organizations in the country.The FBI blamed the government of North Korea for the a
  
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• 'Agent Carter' Hits Quick Tease Clip - The Fandom Post

  02-01-2015 22:28
  
  'Agent Carter' Hits Quick Tease Clip
  The Fandom Post
  It's executive produced by Christopher Markus, Steve McFeely, Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas, Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Jeph Loeb. Series concept: It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the ...
  
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• Helping the ECB cross the Rubicon - Gulf Times

  02-01-2015 21:37
  
  Helping the ECB cross the Rubicon
  Gulf Times
  Eurozone monetary officials are expected to make history when they gather for the European Central Bank's next policy-setting meeting on January 22. Observers anticipate that ECB President Mario Draghi and his colleagues will finally cross the Rubicon ...
  
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• Remembering a CIO Who Was the Perfect Wingman

  02-01-2015 19:22
  
  The CIO community lost a leader, a mentor and an all-around good guy recently when Merv Tarde, CIO of Dallas-based Interstate Batteries, lost his battle with cancer. I first met Merv in February 2009 when I was just getting started as CIO's publisher.We were hosting our first CIO Perspectives Dallas event, and Merv was one of our CIO advisers. At each of our regional conferences, we hold a private dinner with about a dozen CIO speakers and guests. My job was to moderate the table discussion a
  
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• Expect Tech Trouble to Come in 2015

  02-01-2015 18:40
  
  The Sony breach was a huge wake-up call that there are a lot of things in email that could embarrass or even destroy a company.  But one of the limitations of discovery in litigation is the time it takes to go through massive amounts of email. With law firms moving to analytics engines that can be applied to discovery that shortcoming may be dropping into the past. It will also create a bit of an unfair advantage for large firms that can afford these discovery tools and small firms that can�
  
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• Yes, US workers do still need their email

  02-01-2015 17:30
  
  The end of email has been foretold many times, but despite these predictions of doom, U.S. workers can’t seem to get rid of it.About six in 10 Internet-using workers in the U.S. list email as “very important” to doing their jobs, topping the list of most important work tools, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.Email trumped the Internet as a whole, which 54 percent called very important, and ranked well above mobile or smartphones [24 percent] as well as social networking
  
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• It's Time for CIOs to Let Employees Play With Technology

  02-01-2015 14:23
  
  Back in the day, technology was deployed only after a thorough "requirements analysis." We got buy-in from business sponsors based on the size and specificity of the formal requirements documents--even if the real requirements were still hiding somewhere in poorly understood business processes.But we proceeded anyway. We all know how those kinds of projects turned out.Today, requirements are just as often discovered as they were defined yesterday. Companies buy or rent technology to test how
  
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• Not Getting Enough Restful Sleep? Try ResMed S+ Device and App

  02-01-2015 14:00
  
  Do you snore in your sleep? (Maybe that's a better question for your better half. Or maybe not.) How much REM sleep do you get each night? That's where ResMed's S+ Android and iOS apps, and its S+ sleep sensor device come in.S+ is a $150 gadget that sits on your bedside table. It monitors your movements and breathing, as well as your sleeping environment's temperature, light and noise. It then assigns you a "sleep score" based on this information, with 100 being perfect and 0 meaning you shou
  
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• The 15 PC Games We Can't Wait to Play in 2015

  02-01-2015 12:00
  Peek behind the curtainIt's a heck of a time to be a PC gamer. We've already looked back on 2014 with our 15 best games you might have missed and our 10 Best PC Games of 2014 features. Enough retrospect! Now it's time to peer into the future.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Sony hackers may still have access to computer systems - The Guardian

  02-01-2015 10:31
  
  The Guardian
  Sony hackers may still have access to computer systems
  The Guardian
  Sony Entertainment is unable to confirm that hackers have been eradicated from its computer systems more than a month after the film studio was hit by a debilitating cyber-attack, a report says. The chief executive, Michael Lynton, has described how ...
  
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• Sony tries to appease PlayStation users after Christmas outage

  02-01-2015 04:50
  
  If you got a PlayStation 4 for Christmas but network outages spoiled your fun, Sony wants to make it up to you.Sony Computer Entertainment America will offer 10 percent off PlayStation Store purchases including games, TV shows and movies as a gesture of thanks for users’ patience following an outage of several days caused by denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.In addition, PlayStation Plus members who had an active membership or free trial on Dec. 25 will receive a membership extension of five
  
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