According to GreatFire.org, a service that monitors blocked websites and keywords by the Chinese government, the Great Firewall of China has censored Google.com and some other Google services during the 18th Party Congress. Read more here - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/403467/20121109/china-blocks-google-com-gmail-maps-docs.htm
If you are a user of Amazon's EC2 Spot Instances and feels confident that you have built a cool idea using spot instances then show off your talent and try your luck at Spotathon! You could win $25,000 in AWS Credit and celebrate Cyber Monday in a spot-instance style. You simply need to say what your application does, how it incorporates Spot Instances, how much money you have saved, the performance benefits you've measured, and the computational scale that you've been able to achieve. Read more here - http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/the-amazon-ec2-spotathon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29
A Facebook flaw has made some 1.32 million user accounts accessible without using a password. A message posted to a hacker news website published a list of links that gives access to user accounts while bypassing password protections! Read more here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20180229
Plan projects, collaborate with your team, and manage your code online from anywhere using any modern web browser with Microsoft's Team Foundation Service. Team Foundation Service works with all editions of Visual Studio 2012, as well as Eclipse and other tools. Get more info from here - http://tfs.visualstudio.com/
According to Peter G. Neumann, an 80-year-old computer scientist at SRI International, the increasing complexity of modern hardware and software has made it virtually impossible to identify the flaws and vulnerabilities in computer systems and ensure that they are secure. Peter's intuition is that complexity has become something that people don't want to hear about and the inclination is now towards quick and dirty solutions. At the age of 80, Peter is leading a team of researchers in an effort to completely rethink how to make computers and networks secure, in a five-year project financed by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Read more here - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html?_r=0