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Microsoft to set record with next Patch Tuesday
14 patches, eight critical
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco 5th August 2010 18:43 GMT
Microsoft's security patch release scheduled for next week will include a record number of bulletins that fix dozens of vulnerabilities in several of its products, the company said on Thursday.
The next Patch Tuesday, scheduled for August 10, will include 14 bulletins, eight of which are rated critical, Microsoft's highest severity classification, generally reserved for bugs that can be exploited to remotely execute malware on vulnerable systems with little or no interaction on the part...

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Microsoft drops Win7 deadline for XP and Vista holdouts
Downgrade now, upgrade whenever
By Gavin Clarke in San FranciscoPosted 13th July 2010 04:45 GMT
Microsoft is giving users of Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional software extra time to put off their migration to Windows 7.
Before today, Microsoft said that after the release of the first Windows 7 Service Pack – which hit beta today and is due in the first half of 2011 – customers buying Windows 7 would no longer be able to downgrade to Vista and XP. But the company has now removed the deadline....

Well its that time of year again for the final Big Brother (unless someother channel picks it up)

Starts Wednesday June 9th
Big Brother bosses have confirmed that there will be between 80 and 90 hopeful housemates on launch night.

The opening twist will involve Big Brother revealing the final selection of contestants live in front of the nation next Wednesday. Creative director Phil Edgar Jones admitted that the producers are still in the process of selecting their final cast.

"We've got our shortlist of people coming down on launch night," he said. "There will probably be around 80 or 90 people. They are all coming down to join in this last carnival which is Big Brother.

Beware the gullible display driver
By Dan Goodin 18th May 2010 23:23 GMT
Microsoft on Tuesday warned users of a vulnerability in 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could expose users to malware attacks.
Exploitation of the bug in the Canonical Display Driver would most likely only cause vulnerable machines to reboot, Microsoft spokesman Jerry Bryant said in a blog post. But it could also be abused to silently install malware, although attackers would first have to bypass memory randomization protections baked in to the operating systems to prevent code execution attacks, he added.
The vulnerability...