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Daily Dose - Your Passwords Need to be Longer

Due to the increasing performance unlocked by GPUs, password cracking software will soon be able to discover your 7-10 character password without a problem...

1 replies - 27566 views - 08/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Plans Licensing Server to Protect Android Apps

By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can...

0 replies - 12877 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apache Elects New Board

At today's annual ASF members meeting, the attendees voted for the next board of directors.  Returning board members include Doug Cutting, Roy T. Fielding,...

2 replies - 12994 views - 07/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Skills in Higher Demand than IT Security

According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills.  In previous surveys, security specialists were...

0 replies - 16896 views - 07/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks

A security breach exposed an exclusive email list of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers, which included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Diane Sawyer of...

0 replies - 15319 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Chrome OS Coming in the Fall

Sometime around November 2010, Google expects to release its lightweight Chrome Operating System.  According to Reuters, a top Google executive made the...

1 replies - 12746 views - 06/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Redis 2 Release Candidate

The first release candidate for the NoSQL data store, Redis, is now available with new features such as significant performance optimizations, a new test...

3 replies - 14234 views - 05/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Clang++ Gets a "Boost"

This week, Clang++, the C++ front-end compiler for the LLVM, had its first successful Boost regression test run.  Boost is a collection of open source,...

1 replies - 13451 views - 05/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GAE 1.3.4; Authentication Additions

The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps.  Applications will be able to authenticate with Open...

0 replies - 14733 views - 05/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Developers Fix Drupal Module and Save Whitehouse.gov

The Drupal Context module is a release candidate, but it is still in use on many sites including the White House website.  Earlier this week, a cross-site...

0 replies - 15962 views - 05/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Malware Infects Numerous WordPress Pages

A large number of WordPress sites have been compromised by cyberattacks on various web hosts.  The scripts that have infected the hacked WordPress pages with...

0 replies - 15220 views - 05/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week.  The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console,...

0 replies - 17001 views - 04/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. ...

1 replies - 13704 views - 04/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story.  All signs...

0 replies - 17818 views - 04/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 RC1

The first release candidate for the Scala 2.8 JVM language has been announced.  2.8 will be a major revision that will not be binary-compatible with the 2.7...

2 replies - 13706 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose