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	PlayThru aims to make CAPTCHA more secure and more fun Traditional CAPTCHA is steadily losing favor on the Internet, proving continually frustrating to well-intentioned users and easily exploitable to malicious hackers and spammers. A startup called Are You a Human has announced its own unique approach to fixing CAPTCHA: turning it into a game. Read More WEBCAST: HP How to overcome challenges with database solutions. Your business is growing. How is your IT handling increased business transactions, stringent SLAs and increasing budget pressures? Join Richard Winter, President at WinterCorp, and Ajaya Gummadi, HP NonStop WW Database Product Manager, as they discuss the challenges enterprises face with database solutions, and how to overcome them with HP. Learn more. In this Issue Processor wars: AMD's Trinity vs. Intel's Ivy Bridge 5 things CIOs should know about big data Cross-browser worm spreads via Facebook, security experts warn ICANN's gTLD application system back in action WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Processor wars: AMD's Trinity vs. Intel's Ivy Bridge AMD's next-generation A-Series processors, code-named Trinity, are the chip manufacturer's answer to Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors now appearing in the new Ultrabook laptops. Read More 5 things CIOs should know about big data These five tips set the foundation for any CIO's big data plans. No. 1: You will need to think about big dataBig data analysis got its start from the large Web service providers such as Google, Yahoo, and Twitter, which all needed to make the most of their user-generated data. But enterprises will big data analysis to stay competitive and relevant. Read More Cross-browser worm spreads via Facebook, security experts warn Malware writers have used Crossrider, a cross-browser extension development framework, to build a click-fraud worm that spreads on Facebook, security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday. Crossrider is a legitimate Javascript framework that implements a unified API (application programming interface) for building Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer extensions. Read More ICANN's gTLD application system back in action Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Monday that its application system for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has reopened, more than a month after it was brought down because of a software glitch. Registered applicants can now log in, review and submit their applications on the TLD Application System (TAS) which will stay open until 23:59 GMT on May 30, ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said in a statement. Two-hour maintenance windows have been scheduled on three days, he added. Read More
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