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	Windows XP's retirement turns into major security project for Chinese firm Microsoft may have retired Windows XP, but one of China's leading security vendors is trying to keep the OS threat-free, and rolling out protection software to hundreds of millions of users in the nation. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More In this Issue Tor anonymity network to shrink as a result of Heartbleed flaw Why Americans are scared about the future of drones, robots, and wearables Will the Internet of Things Become the Internet of Broken Things? 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Read More Why Americans are scared about the future of drones, robots, and wearables Generally, most Americans are optimistic about the impact of technology on the future, specifically in regards to its impact on healthcare. A recent Pew Research report shows that 81% of responding Americans expect that patients in need of a transplant will be able to receive lab-grown organs within the next 50 years, for example. However, concerns over technology that is already controversial today... Read More Will the Internet of Things Become the Internet of Broken Things? Fifty billion devices will connect to the Internet in the next few years. It's up to vendors to make sure they do, in fact, connect to the Internet -- and provide reliable data, security and customer experience. Otherwise, analysts warn, the future may bring an Internet of Broken Things. 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Read More Beyond the usual suspects: 10 hot programming languages on the rise From Ceylon to Egison, these 10 languages tackle tough programming problems in unique and increasingly popular ways Read More How a cyber cop patrols the underworld of e-commerce Melissa Andrews, a resident of Canada, is a cyber security "cop" for Payza, an international e-commerce payment platform operating in 97 countries. Her job, described by the company's public relations firm as "the worst security job on the Internet," is to protect the public from illegal, and many times revolting, content, by shutting the sites down and alerting authorities about criminal activity. She spoke with CSO this week about her job and why she is proud of what she does. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® IDC Analyst Connection - Converged Systems: Key Requirements The following questions were posed by HP to Jed Scaramella, research director for IDC's Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends practice, on behalf of HP's customers. Learn More>> The IRS uses computers?! The horror! It's impossible to imagine the Internal Revenue Service or most other number-crunching agencies or companies working without computers. But when the IRS went to computers -- the Automatic Data Processing system --there was an uproar. The agency went so far as to produce a short film on the topic called Right On The Button, to convince the public computers were a good thing. Read More 13 pieces of classic software whose code is now accessible The source code behind proprietary software doesn't always remain hidden forever. Here are a baker's dozen examples where the code behind well-known applications has come to light Read More Think tank challenges Heartbleed handwringing A think tank opinion piece that claims the threat from the Heartbleed bug is overblown has sparked a debate among researchers over the seriousness of the OpenSSL flaw. Read More
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