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Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned ( SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 11:57 pm)

Business Continuity Planning Part 2: Key Business Process Identification (IT Toolbox SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 11:27 pm)

Nadine the Robot Receptionist Slashdotby samzenpus on robot at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 11:01 pm)

An anonymous reader writes: Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has unveiled an intelligent robot receptionist called Nadine. Modeled after and built by Nadia Thalmann, the director of the Institute for Media Innovation, Nadine can hold a conversation, remember a face, and even remember what she has spoken to a person about. A press release reads in part: "Unlike conventional robots, Nadine has her own personality, mood and emotions. She can be happy or sad, depending on the conversation. She also has a good memory, and can recognize the people she has met, and remembers what the person had said before. Nadine is the latest social robot developed by scientists at NTU. The doppelganger of its creator, Prof Nadia Thalmann, Nadine is powered by intelligent software similar to Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana. Nadine can be a personal assistant in offices and homes in future. And she can be used as social companions for the young and the elderly."

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Al Jazeera chief reflects on 2015 accomplishments AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:58 pm)

AJE's Managing Director Giles Trendle reviews 2015 wins and losses and highlights the challenges ahead for the Network.
Vulnerabilities in German POS systems could lead to MitM attacks (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:57 pm)

Using Certificates From Lets Encrypt (Reddit) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:27 pm)

The Top 10 Security Breaches Of 2015 (Forbes) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:27 pm)

Trustworthy x86 laptops? There is a way, says system-level security ace (The Registe SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:27 pm)

Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 Slashdotby samzenpus on ios at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 10:01 pm)

An anonymous reader writes: A $5 million lawsuit filed in New York federal court alleges that Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating software significantly slows down the iPhone 4S. According to the complaint: "The update significantly slowed down their iPhones and interfered with the normal usage of the device, leaving Plaintiff with a difficult choice: use a slow and buggy device that disrupts everyday life or spend hundreds of dollars to buy a new phone. Apple explicitly represented to the public that iOS 9 is compatible with and supports the iPhone 4S. And Apple failed to warn iPhone 4S owners that the update may or will interfere with the device's performance."

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PPIx-Regexp-0.045 search.cpan.orgby Tom Wyant at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 10:00 pm)

Parse regular expressions
IO-Compress-Brotli-0.001 search.cpan.orgby Marius Gavrilescu at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 10:00 pm)

Read Brotli buffers/streams
Text-Frundis-2.11 search.cpan.orgby Yon Fernandez de Retana at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 10:00 pm)

object interface for the frundis markup language
Text-Amuse-Compile-0.52 search.cpan.orgby Marco Pessotto at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at December 31, 2015, 10:00 pm)

Compiler for Text::Amuse
Why Facebook and Twitter won Scripting News(cached at December 31, 2015, 10:00 pm)

I wrote this as a comment on Mike Caulfield's post about Twitter and Facebook.

Mike, I think the key thing that Twitter and Facebook do well that RSS did not do well is subscription. Suppose I want to subscribe to the RSS feed for this site. Count the number of steps to do this.(I just did it, it took 6 steps.)

In Twitter if I want to follow someone, I just click on the Follow icon and it’s done. (It’s gotten a bit more complex over the years, but not much.)

We identified that problem before there were other RSS aggregators and came up with a proposal for everyone to follow to make it easy, but they all invented their own buttons. I’m sure you remember the crazy mess of icons on websites, for a period, until people gave up on it.

Also if you look at how the vendors supported RSS, they were creating their own namespaces with data in them that could have been represented just as easily using the common elements. Apple was the worst with their iTunes namespace. So writing an aggregator kept getting more complicated. Then there was the proliferation of RSS versions. And the flaming on the mail lists (if this goes on much longer, the flaming will show up here too).

Google Reader came much later, and it did it’s own number on RSS by first dominating, sucking in all the other readers to their runtime and then shutting down. They couldn’t have done more damage if they tried

Kindle fire 7 inch vs fire HD 8 inch (IT Toolbox Blogs) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at December 31, 2015, 9:28 pm)

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