Open Systems Journal

Nvidia and Supermicro are showing a new 1U server that delivers 12 times the performance of a traditional quad-core CPU-based 1U server, say the companies.
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The good news is that Microsoft is writing extensions for Firefox. The bad news is, the Redmond giant is slipping the extension onto systems without notifying users and making it difficult to get rid of the extension. Even worse? It’s an extension that allows Web sites to install software onto…
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AP - On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You’ve got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don’t want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession.,As Web communication shrinks, so do links
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An anonymous reader sends in a story at CNN about how our predictions for the future tend to be somewhat accurate (whether or not we can do a thing) yet often too optimistic (whether or not it’s practical). Obvious example: jetpacks. Quoting: “Joseph Corn, co-author of ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future,’ found [...]

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South African rescue teams have managed to return 20 beached pilot whales to the water, but about 30 other could not be saved and were put down.
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Could this be the end of the Sarbannes-Oxley compliance that so many people go through? The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a legal challenge to this law. It’s a challenge based on the separation of powers between the board that oversees the US audit industry. I have no idea if this challenge has [...]

There has been growing concern with the security of embedded devices as they continue to proliferate in several industries. This is caused by a confluence of several issues that makes for a difficult problem to solve.
First, these devices more and more rely on commodity operating systems (which carry with them commodity vulnerabilities and exploits). [...]

There are a lot of Bluetooth headsets out there. The Plantronics Voyager is neither subtle nor attractive. It is, however, useful and even manages to trump the king of Bluetooth headsets, the Jawbone, in a couple of areas.

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Digital security is clearly an important matter to President Barack Obama and he will today announce that he will appoint a “cyber czar” to oversee the nation’s computer defenses.
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