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Obama To Confront Chinese President On Hacking Of US Networks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-06-05 01:28
President Barack Obama will tell Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he must deal with cyber spying and hacking of US targets that originate inside his country when they meet for talks this week.
Recent official and commercial reports and studies alleging flagrant and sometimes state-sponsored theft of US military and commercial secrets have put cyber security at the top of the agenda of the talks on Friday and Saturday.
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Australia's de-facto Internet filter may block 250k sites
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-06-05 01:11
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), has told a hearing of the Australian Parliament's Senate Estimates committee that its attempt to block access to the IP address of one investment scam site could have blocked 250,000 sites in total.
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Why SoftLayer can't lift IBM into the clouds
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-06-05 01:07
There are only three major cloud companies, and try as it might, IBM isn't going to change that in the near-term with its acquisition of SoftLayer.
This is because the three major public clouds – Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, and Google Compute Engine – are each supported by a consumer internet giant.
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Singapore's online media rules spur protests, Malaysians brace themselves
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-06-04 00:57
THE slumbering merlion is stirring: The Singapore Government’s move last week to regulate online news, including the local edition of Yahoo News, has resulted in public protests while Malaysians are watching developments closely after one of their own ministers said the Malaysian Government might follow suit.
Last Tuesday, Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that from June 1 onwards, “online news sites that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and have significant reach among readers here will require an individual licence.”
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Zynga lays off 18 percent of workforce, shifts focus to mobile
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-06-04 00:35
Zynga, the social gaming services company, is laying off 18 percent of its employees in an effort to reduce its cost structure.
CEO Mark Pincus announced the layoffs Monday in a note to employees posted on the company's blog. Zynga, as of the end of last year, had more than 3,000 full-time employees, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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