Facebook applications at risk from attack

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Read full story Related News: Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade Google Docs users are having problems printing, exporting and uploading certain files, the company acknowledged, as it is rolling out a set of upgrades to this hosted office productivity suite. What kind of cloud computing project would you build with $32 million? The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. DO NOT install patch KB974571 for OCS R2 As posted first this morning by Doug Deittrick and TomL, aka LCSKid, there is an issue with the patch associated with KB974571. The patch is supposed to resolve a security issue with the Windows CryptoAPI. However, it has the side effect of making OCS R2 think that it is only the eval version and is expired. 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