Monday, October 29
TOP STORY
IBM did some early holiday shopping: Buying Red Hat for $34 billion in the largest open-source acquisition ever and per CNBC is “by far” IBM’s largest deal ever. Red Hat will continue to operate as an independent unit per the statement on Red Hat’s site.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Unsure if a response is being cached? If it has a Set-Cookie header, request it twice and see if the header disappears in the second response. - @albinowax
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
HolyVieR’s slides and paper for presentation at Northsec on prototype pollution attack.
Not your friendly neighborhood ISP: Research paper highlights China Telecom as repeat BGP hijack offender. Full paper available for download on scholar commons.
When the NSA calls after midnight. Entertaining read.
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There is evidence, both anecdotal and experimental, suggesting that the eSlate is not particularly usable.
Claudia Ziegler Acemyan, Philip Kortum on the eSlate voting machine UI
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