Study after study continues to reveal a fundamental truth about the shifting landscape of IT security today: The biggest threat to proprietary systems and information is not the traditional cyber-criminal writing malicious code in a virtual location, but rather trusted employees. Savvy administrators recognize that because end users are privy to an organization’s sensitive data, they represent a significant risk factor. However, mitigating this threat is something that security pros continue to struggle with.
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Normally we’d let run-of-the-mill PMPs like Pasen‘s F10 pass on by, but we just had to stop and call out the blatant use of both the iTunes and WMP icons here — even given Pasen’s history, that’s just a little much. Come on guys, the F10 looks like a solid little player — 2.6-inch 400 x 240 display, MP3 / AAC / FLAC / DivX / XviD / RMVB support, just 0.2 inches thick — why not actually try and let it compete, instead of saddling it with the trappings of irrelevant KIRFdom? Ugh, we have to go lie down.
[Via PMP Today]
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inghamb87 writes “Scientists have studied flocks of starlings and cracked the mystery behind the birds’ ability to fly in large formations, and regroup quickly after attacks, without getting confused and ramming into each other. While the information is cool, some scientists seem to think that the best use of this knowledge is not to aid our appreciation of nature, but to make more effective robot swarms. We’ve talked about swarming robots many times before, but usually researchers look to insects for inspiration.”
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IBM earlier this month opened its Jazz.net community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on the technology, which is intended to improve collaboration among software development teams. Carey Schwaber, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., said the move marks the first time IBM has committed to release any part of Jazz as open source. Opening Jazz.net “is a natural step-especially if they want to get a community built around this,” she said. “That is what makes or breaks an open source project.”
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Apple TV customers will have to wait a bit longer to be able to rent movies through the device. The company recently added movie rentals as a feature to its iTunes store. Consumers can now watch those movies on their iPods or computers, but in order for them to view them on Apple TV, they’re going to need to install a software upgrade. Apple had promised to have the free upgrade available by the end of this month, but the company announced today that customers will have to wait another week or two for it.
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