On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for Tuesday. The announcement is intended as a heads-up for IT departments before Patch Tuesday. All four are considered critical, the most serious ranking offered by the software giant.
Among the critical patches, two affect Windows Media Player, one affects Windows, while the other affects
Microsoft Office. All could [...]
At this point, my battery was running low, so I decided to duck into the office and file a quick blog. I could charge the Zune in the office, but had no luck connecting it to Wi-Fi. CNET has a public Wi-Fi network, but it also has a browser interrupt requiring users to agree to [...]
Forget Shaquille O’Neal. If I’m going to get into celeb tweets, I’d rather read singer Lily Allen’s riff about sexual etiquette.
Pitchfork also makes a guess at whether the tweets were written by artists or by some functionary.
Some of the other artists tweeting are Ghostface Killah, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and Erykah Badu
Here’s a sample [...]
Washington politicians took time from bailouts and earmark-laden spending packages on Wednesday for what might seem like an unusual act: officially designating a National Pi Day.
The idea of improving math and science education is thoroughly bipartisan and backed by major tech companies including Microsoft and Intel. But how to achieve that goal has little consensus [...]
Bluetooth users should also be careful where they are using the technology. For instance, using it in a public wireless “hotspot” poses a greater risk that someone else can intercept the connection than using it in your home or
car, according to the advisory.
On Wednesday, the U.S. CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) decided the [...]
Change Congress, which he founded with Joe Trippi, the Web czar for Howard Dean’s ultimately unsuccessful but sea-changing presidential campaign, is “a kind of Google mash-up in the context of politics.” Pulling together and organizing grassroots anti-corruption and activism efforts from across the Web, the ambitious effort is a “bipartisan reform movement to leverage the [...]
“It’s essentially a race between the attackers and the protectors,” said Andrew Cushman, who runs the Microsoft Security Response Center. The program will “give a head start to software providers delivering security features to our mutual customers.”
The new Microsoft Active Protections Program, set to be announced at the Black Hat security conference on [...]
But these “digital release” announcements, where an artist that already has a decent fan base teams up with a digital music service, are growing more and more popular. R.E.M. debuted its most recent album, Accelerate, as an ad-supported stream on iLike in February; and in May, Imeem debuted Anywhere I Lay My Head, the album [...]
