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EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows 650

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 26, 2009 @11:57AM from the could-they-force-me-a-sandwich dept.

Barence writes "The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The most interesting situation outlined in the filing would see either Microsoft or computer manufacturers forced to install Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari by default alongside Internet Explorer on new Windows-based PCs."

New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill 178

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @01:43PM from the malice-evolves dept.

ancientribe writes "Security suites and online Web scanners detect only a little more than half of all rootkits, according to new tests conducted by independent test organization AV-Test.org. Many of today's products struggle to clean up the ones they find. AV-Test.org also found that a few big name AV scanners had serious problems finding and removing active rootkits, such as Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.6.2111.32 and McAfee VirusScan 2008 11.2.121."

Submission + - Student and professor build budget supercomputer (calvin.edu)

Submitted by Luke on Thursday August 30, 2007 @05:21PM

Luke writes: This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own. What would you do with a personal supercomputer?

Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability 238

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, 2007 @11:37AM from the over-to-the-dark-side dept.

AlexGr sends us to Todd Bishop's blog in the Seattle PI for news that Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its Director of Linux Interoperability and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab. "...his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community. In an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs."

Bridging the Gap Between Hackers and Academics 50

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 03, 2007 @01:11PM from the black-hats-in-gowns dept.

Tal Garfinkel writes "There has long been a disconnect between academic computer security and underground forums like Black Hat and Phrack. A new USENIX-sponsored workshop called WOOT (Workshop On Offensive Technologies) is looking to bridge that gap by providing a high-quality, peer-reviewed forum for attack papers, with top reviewers from the academic, open source, commercial IT, and information warfare communities. Got a great attack paper? See if it makes the cut at WOOT."

Comment Re:The US is falling behind? Give me a break. (Score 2, Informative) 1347

by Lariano on Tuesday August 23, 2005 @08:43PM (#13385151) Attached to: The Decline of Science and Technology in America

From the Wikipedia article on Stanford:
"The University has approximately 1,700 faculty members, including 17 Nobel laureates and 23 MacArthur fellows."

According to the article "Nobel Prize Laureates by Country" in Wikipedia, there have been 26 Nobel laureates from both Germany and Switzerland (granted, there is some overlap between the two). Sure, some of them are dead by now, but you write that "when any country in Europe has as many Nobel Lauriates as can be found at Stanford, [you]'ll start to worry," and make no requirements as to whether the country's laureates need still be alive.

So, better start worrying!

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