Submission + - Social Networks Open Their APIs
An anonymous reader writes: Looks like social networks like Friendster, Facebook and others are looking at opening up their APIs. Here's the story from BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb 2007/tc20070213_172619.htm?chan=rss_topEmailedStor ies_ssi_5
Submission + - 70% of sites hackable? A grand says 'no way'
netbuzz writes: "A security vendor today is flogging a survey that claims 7 out 10 Web sites it checked have vulnerabilities that pose a medium- to high-level risk of a personal-data breach. Network World Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder says that percentage is "sensationalist nonsense" — and he's willing to back that judgment with $1,000.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1147 7"
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/114
Submission + - Making the transition to parallel
inverselimit writes: Intel today announces an 80-core chip consuming 62W. As Moore's law gives way to parallelism, do developers need to rethink their approach to software? Some progress has been made at places like Google, with their MapReduce framework, GFS, etc. Some claim that functional languages, or some other technology, will be the key to effectively utilizing parallelism. What new ideas, abstractions, or technologies do we need to use parallelism effectively?
