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Submission + - MSIE 7.0 now a high priority update

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02, 2006 @09:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: As of this morning, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.0 as a high priority update. Its interesting that this happened a week before the official patch-Tuesday. Over here are some stats on how IE 7 and FF 2 picked up. Looks like FF 2 is already out-numbering FF 1.5, while IE 7 is having a hard time to find followers. Will today's release as a high priority force-fed update fix this issue?

Submission + - defending against quantum attacks

Submitted by

user24

on Thursday November 02, 2006 @08:32AM

user24 writes: "Security Focus is running a story that may be a little ahead of it's time;

"In the weird world of quantum computing, the state of computer systems networked together is so fragile that a read access to a single quantum bit, or qubit, on one machine would require a network-wide reset."

"I want to maintain the quantum computer in a good state until, magically, the answers appear. Stray cosmic rays and things like that — if they interact with this stuff, then something changes and the computer crashes. The thought is that people could do that on purpose.""

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