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Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Conscientious Risk Management and WMF  —  This past week there have been a lot of questions about the WMF vulnerability, what Microsoft is doing, and what the community should do to protect against it.  For many reasons, Microsoft's response to the problem is best left to those who do this for a living.
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isc.sans.org:
Handler's Diary  —  WMF FAQ (NEW)  —  Last Updated: 2006-01-02 03:18:03 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))  —  [a few users offered translations of this FAQ into various languages.  Obviously, we can not check the translation for accuracy, so use at your own risk.
Lora / What Is New:
CES: You are invited to Tablet PC Gathering #4, plus Blogger Meetup  —  Where: Cheese Burger at the Oasis  —  From the convention center, take the CES Shuttle Bus #4.  (Mid-day service from LVCC to hotels is every 30 minutes.)  Get off at Paris and walk to the Aladdin's Desert Passage.
Discussion: Scobleizer and jkOnTheRun
Peter Howe / Boston Globe:
Sides chosen in Logan WiFi battle  —  Wireless and airport lobbies join dispute  —  Logan International Airport officials' ongoing quest to ban airline lounges from offering passengers free WiFi Internet services is angering a growing array of powerful Capitol Hill lobbying groups …
Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
The New Deal  —  How TV executives will find digital dollars in the coming year  —  Last year, the TV industry discoverd a variety of new ways to deliver their shows - on iPods, on video phones, even online.  This year, they vow to figure out how to make money off of them.
May Wong / Associated Press:
Annual Gadget Show Is Biggest Ever  —  Do you want to catch "Saturday Night Live" on Sunday, or "Nightline" in the morning?  Would you like to watch the football game in a doctor's waiting room or 2,000 miles from home?  —  Or, what if you're suddenly in the mood for an old episode of "Dragnet" or one of last year's hit films?
Discussion: Om Malik on Broadband
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Data, Music, Video: Raising a Curtain on Future Gadgetry
Philoneist:
Wearable iPod Headset Displays Video  —  eMagin Corp, a company that makes video imaging technology for military and industrial uses, has adapted its expertise to create a first of its kind headset accessory for the 5G iPod which displays video in front of one eye.
Eobanb / applexnet.com:
KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets  —  The start of something bigger?  —  It's official; Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has stated in his journal that the upcoming KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets much in the same way that Mac OS X 10.4 can.  He writes:
Jo Twist / BBC:
The year of the digital citizen  —  2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves.  Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them.  —  Twelve months ago, it was clear the mass consumer …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet  —  Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or so goes the old saw.  For decades, the famous and the infamous alike largely followed this advice.  Even when subjects of news stories felt they had been misunderstood or badly treated …
Discussion: Blogspotting
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Provider of TV Movie Channels Looks to Expand to PC's and Video Players  —  Starz Entertainment Group is introducing a $9.95-a-month subscription service that will allow people to download movies from the Internet and watch them on their computers, portable video players and television sets.
Discussion: PaidContent.org and Mac Rumors
f-secure.com:
It's not a bug, it's a feature  —  What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability?  —  Turns out this is not really a bug, it's just bad design.  Design from another era.  —  When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain actual code.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the Internet  —  Terry Semel, the former movie studio chief who now leads Yahoo Inc., is back in show business.  His Web portal has filmed a pilot for a reality series called "Wow House" that will be broadcast online within the next few months.
microsoft.com:
Media Alert: Microsoft at 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show  —  Bill Gates to deliver keynote address at CES 2006.  —  REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 2, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. has planned the following press activities for 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), to be held in Las Vegas, Jan. 5-8.
Discussion: OpsanBlog
David Newberger / David Newberger's Blog:
10 Questions with Christopher (Rageboy) Locke on Blogging  —  For the first 10 Questions Segment of the New Year I thought I would start it off with a bang.  Today I am pleased to share with you the interview I did with Christoper (Rageboy) Locke.  This interview is extremely insightful and is a must read for all.

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