Are the Google attackers back?
Researchers on Monday clashed over whether recent attacks that exploit a bug in Adobe Reader are the work of the group that hacked Google and dozens of other major corporations late last year.
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Nvidia brings new tools for building GPU-accelerated applications
Nvidia on Tuesday will unveil upgrades to Parallel Nsight, a toolkit for building GPU-accelerated applications from within Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, and Cuda Toolkit, for leveraging massively parallel processing capabilities of GPUs (graphics processing units).
Nvidia Parallel Nsight 1.5 features support for the Visual Studio 2010 software development platform released in April.
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Mozilla starts dropping features from Firefox 4
Mozilla, which launched the latest beta of Firefox 4 last week, has started to drop features from the still-under-construction browser.
Firefox 4 Beta 5, which shipped Sept. 7, included support for a new audio API (application programming interface) that allows developers to tap raw audio data from within the browser, as well as support for HTTP Strict Transport Security, a Web security protocol that lets site designers force Firefox to automatically use a secure connection.
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Java garbage collection issue makes the rounds
Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the "universal problem" of Java garbage collection.
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Carbonite 4.0 boasts data restore upgrades, ease of use
Carbonite released a new version of its online backup service that includes several new tools and increased ability to search for and recover single files as well as control over the order in which data should be restored.
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Adobe sounds alarm on Flash zero-day attacks
Less than a week after warning users that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in its Reader PDF viewer, Adobe said on Monday that Flash, its other prominent program, was also under fire.
The company said it would patch Flash in two weeks, and Reader in three weeks.
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Judge dismisses IT staffing firms' H-1B lawsuit
IT staffing firms that hire H-1B workers and make them available to customers are located in office parks and buildings around the United States. But the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under pressure by Congress to improve enforcement of the H-1B program, issued a memo last January that said that these IT staffing firms weren't the real employers of foreign workers and, thus, couldn't use this visa.
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Microsoft previews Lync, overhaul of communication server
Microsoft has released a nearly completed preview version of its next-generation communications server and associated software, which the company has collectively renamed as Lync.
This release candidate will be the final developmental release before the full release of the finished product, expected by the end of the year.
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Google: Users' worries over Instant are unfounded
Google shook the search market last week with the launch of Instant, a new feature that lets the company's search engine refresh results on the fly as people type their queries.
Eager to speed up how people craft queries and choose site links and ads, Google said it developed Instant to be not "search as you type" but rather "search before you type." Instant combines Google's existing query suggestion feature with a new ability to refresh the result sets based on Google's predictions of the users' intended search terms.
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Shortage of Windows 7 migration experts expected
It's not a Y2K-style crisis, but there's only a four-year window until Microsoft ends support for Windows XP. The need to migrate from XP to Windows 7 "will create an extra budgetary and resource burden on companies from 2011 to 2012," according to recent report by Gartner.
The research firm estimates that large and midsize organizations worldwide will migrate about 250 million PCs to Windows 7 over the next few years.
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11 hot IT job skills for 2011
Christmas came in midsummer for Nicole Thompson, IS director of applications at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley.
Thanks to a federal mandate to implement electronic health records (EHR) systems, she has the funds in her 2011 budget to hire 11 new employees for projects ranging from database analysis and design to wireless device implementation.
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