The Insider News

Mental Floss[^]:

There are two things you can say for sure about human beings: our opposable thumbs make us great at using tools, and we are all big, fat liars. By age four, 90% of children have grasped the concept of lying, and it just gets worse from there.

ComputerWorld[^]:

A security researcher has found a potentially massive security hole in Windows 8 that would expose someone's contacts and other information from social networking services and email including Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, LinkedIn, and Twitter, among others. It sounds serious, but there may be less to the security hole than meets the eye.

The Next Web[^]:

In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon, accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process.

CNet[^]:

Redmond is cutting the name "Azure" out of the branding for its cloud services on its billing portal.

Martin Fowler[^]:

The charges against Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools can be summarized in that they are complex, and provide only a leaky abstraction over a relational data store. Their complexity implies a grueling learning curve and often systems using an ORM perform badly - often due to naive interactions with the underlying database. But as you can tell, I want to push back a bit against this ORM hate - because I think a lot of it is unwarranted.

Infoworld[^]:

So many recent exploits have used Java as their attack vector, you might conclude Java should be shown the exit.

MSDN Blogs[^]:

The purpose of this post is to provide you with an update on the changes we’ve made since beta. I’ve also included a brief summary of the beta feedback that we’ve leveraged in making these updates.