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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

10 Ways IT Pros Can Reduce Stress at Work

  NSA backdoor fears create confidence crisis in U.S. high-tech | 6 cool new wireless technologies from MIT

 
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10 Ways IT Pros Can Reduce Stress at Work
These relaxation techniques will help even the most frantic tech workers combat stress in the office. Creating a daily routine can help bring your mind and body back in balance and help you reduce the tension of everyday life in a busy IT environment. Read More
 


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Gartner: Load Balancers are Dead
IT organizations that shift to modern ADCs will improve application performance and security, streamline data center operations, and offload common functions from application development to the ADC infrastructure. These changes will bring positive benefits to both IT operations and internal and external users. Read more now

NSA backdoor fears create confidence crisis in U.S. high-tech
Fears that the National Security Agency (NSA) has managed to convince U.S.-based suppliers of software, hardware and services to install backdoors for espionage purposes has created a crisis of confidence around the world. Read More
 

6 cool new wireless technologies from MIT
MIT grad students show off their research at Wireless Retreat Read More
 

CIOs rake in the big bucks
It pays to be CIO -- millions, in some cases. Take Filippo Passerini. He joined Procter & Gamble in 1981 as a systems analyst in Italy and rose through the techie ranks. Today Passerini is CIO and leads the company's global business services organization -- a dual role that netted him $5 million last year. Read More
 

Most costly cybercrime attacks: Denial-of-service, malicious insider and web-based
Among U.S. corporations, $11.56 million is the mean average cost of cybercrime, while for some it can range between $1.3 million and $58 million, according to the fourth annual Cost of Cyber Crime study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. That is up 78% from four years ago and a 26% increase from the average cost reported in 2012. Read More
 

Adobe's breach casts doubt on their SaaS business model
By now you should have heard about the latest massive breach over at Adobe. Besides the source code for Acrobat and Cold Fusion, something like 3 million accounts were breached as well. Read More
 

Three lessons from Netflix on how to live in the cloud
Netlfix is a big company, and a big cloud user. With 38 million members across 40 countries, it streams a billion hours of content per month. Read More
 

Why I'm excited for Linux Mint 16, even though I don't like Mint
Every six months, my world gets thrown into a state of pure, blissful chaos. New, major versions of the big Linux distributions tend to hit every half year - one batch in the spring, another in the fall. As a person for whom the "Linux Enthusiast" moniker certainly applies, I have grown accustomed to this bi-annual state of unrest. Case in point: Over the next six weeks, we will see big new releases... Read More
 

Chemistry Nobel Prize 'about taking chemical experiment to cyberspace'
  Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on computer modeling that complements traditional test tube experiments in solving mysteries of physical science. Read More
 

MIT powers up new wireless charging prototype
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Digital Distractions Can Turn Deadly
Our obsession with mobile devices leads us to text, surf and read when we should be paying attention to what's around us. Those distractions could cost you your cell phone -- or worse. Read More
 

Security automation research, with a human touch, could net nearly $50M grant
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Army Research Laboratory will join forces with those from a handful of universities in an effort to better automate cybersecurity decisions. The five-year project has attracted $23.2 million in funding from CMU's CyLab, and could be extended to $48.2 million over 10 years. Read More
 

Careers that are being automated into oblivion
You might think you're familiar with the steady march of automation. But the list of jobs that are being disrupted by technological change may surprise you. Read More
 

 

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