The Insider News

ReadWrite[^]:

Amazon wants apps for its Kindle Fire tablets and will give developers plenty of reason to build them.

Infoworld[^]:

Community strength is a huge factor is determining which JavaScript framework to adopt. Here's a close look at the activity swirling around AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Ember.js, and more

ZDNet[^]:

What is one Windows? "What it really means common user interface, common programming interface, common security architecture and user interface adaptability and common developer model and key services," said Ballmer.

ITWorld[^]:

They don't guide their companies towards transformative uses of digital technology, according to a study from MIT and Capgemini

Rocky Lhotka[^]:

The reality is that successful technologies take years, usually decades, perhaps longer, to fade away. Most people would be shocked at how much of the world runs on RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN, C, and C++ – all languages that became obsolete decades ago. Software written in these languages runs on mainframes and minicomputers (also obsolete decades ago) as well as more modern hardware in some cases. Of course in reality mainframes and minicomputers are still manufactured, so perhaps they aren’t technically “obsolete” except in our minds.

Gizmodo[^]:

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, have been conducting fusion experiments for some time. Using 192 beams from the world's most powerful laser, they heat and compress a small pellet of hydrogen fuel until nuclear fusion reactions take place. Usually, they have to dump more power in using the lasers than they manage to create from the fusion reaction.
The BBC is reporting, though, that during an experiment conducted in the facility during September the "amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel". If it's true, it's the first time any fusion experiment has managed such a feat—and it's a huge milestone in our quest for fusion power.

Laser Fiche[^]:

You have to think that this is a cheap way for companies to find (and maybe fix) bugs. I'm assuming that most of the security researchers that find these are "the good guys". So, you might as well pay them, as have one of the others find it, and exploit it. Plus, they get good press for working with the community.

News.com[^]:

In his final shareholder letter, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expresses enthusiasm for the company's future and reiterates its focus on being a "devices and services" business.

Juce[^]:

JUCE is an extensive, mature, cross-platform C++ toolkit

WPCentral[^]:

Windows Phone users have returned to square one with the 'updated' YouTube app today

BBC[^]:

More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet.

Computerworld[^]:

Security expert calls it a success -- enough bugs to fill one or two IE updates -- even though the dollar amount was about the same as Google's for the last iteration of Chrome

ZDNet[^]:

The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world.

Infoworld[^]:

If you've run a publicly visible server with open SSH access and looked through your auth logs once in a while, you'll have noted a large number of seemingly random login attempts. Unless you restrict SSH access to a list of specific source IP addresses, anyone on the Internet can attempt to log into the box, and large numbers of individuals running scripts will do just that. For the most part, smart security will reduce this threat to nothing more than a nuisance, but it's still relatively interesting to see what's going on with those attempts.